People
Teachers and researchers with expertise in Latin America
Dawn Ades,
(part-time) Department of Art History and
Theory, an
expert in European and Latin American art,
who has curated numerous exhibitions
including Art from Latin America at
the Hayward Gallery in 1989.
Robin Blackburn, Department of
Sociology,
has
broad-ranging interests in historical
sociology, critical social theory, modern
capitalism and the third world. His
publications include studies of the Cuban
Revolution and the history of slavery.
Steffen Böhm, Essex Business School, studies the political economy of globalization and theories and practices of social movements. He has research interests in Brazil and Argentina.
Rebecca Breen,
School of Philosophy and Art History,
specializes in contemporary art from Latin
America.
Andrew Canessa, Department of Sociology,
an anthropologist specialising in the Aymara-speaking
peoples of Bolivia, their oral traditions
and their relations with the nation state.
John Cant teaches Film
Studies in the Department of
Literature, Film and Theatre Studies.
He runs a weekly screening programme for the
Centre for Film Studies. He has an interest
in the cinema of Latin America in general
and that of Argentina in particular.
Sarah Demelo, Essex Collection of Art from Latin America, is responsible for the care of the collection, as well as coordinating events and exhibitions relating to art from Latin America.
Valerie Fraser, Department of Art
History and Theory,
a specialist in
the art and architecture of Latin America.
She is currently directing a major AHRC
research project investigating artistic
exchanges between Europe and Latin America
during the period 1950-1978.
Maria Cristina Fumagalli,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre
Studies, specialises in Caribbean
literature and cinema.
Gladis Garcia-Soza,
Department of Language and Linguistics
teaches
Spanish language and culture and is an
expert in course design and information
technology in language learning.
Brian Hamnett, Department of History,
researches Mexican and Spanish 18th and 19th
century history.
Joanne Harwood, Essex Collection of Art from Latin America,
Assistant Director, graduate of the Essex
Latin American Studies degree. She
co-ordinates exhibitions and events, and
also oversees student volunteers working
with the collection.
Jane Hindley, Latin American Studies, Visiting Fellow. She has an interdisciplinary background in politics, sociology and literature, and has researched race, ethnicity and nationalism, particularly in relation to indigenous peoples in Latin America. She is currently completing a book on nationalism.
Peter Hulme,
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre
Studies, is a
specialist in the literature, history and
anthropology of Native and Latin America and
the Caribbean.
Todd Landman, Department of Government,
specialist in Latin American human
rights and the politics of development.
Marco Larizza, Latin American Studies,
Visiting Fellow, is an expert in comparative
democratization and Latin American politics.
His research interests include political
regimes, human rights, and political
developments in Venezuela.
Cynthia Machado Campos, Latin American Studies, Visiting Fellow, CISH, researches writings about young people in Brazilian and British history.
Sabine Michalowski, Department of Law,
researches
human rights and issues of debt and is
particularly interested in Argentina.
Sandra
Moog,
Department of Sociology,
specialises in transnational social
movements, environment, and development with
reference to the Amazon Basin countries of
Latin America.
Peter L Patrick, Dept. of Language and Linguistics, is a sociolinguist specializing in Caribbean English-based Creole languages, esp. Jamaican (indeed, in all things Jamaican), as well as other Caribbean languages, language rights, and the African diaspora in the Americas.
Beatriz Paiva,
Department of Language and Linguistics,
teaches
Brazilian Portuguese and Brazilian and
Portuguese culture. She also teaches
and researches Intercultural Pragmatics.
Sarah Pilgrim, Department of Biological
Sciences, is working with a
Brazilian NGO investigating ecological
knowledge among marginal fisher communities.
Jules Pretty, Department of Biological
Sciences, is an expert in
sustainable agriculture and green issues.
He has worked in Central America and has
close links with organisations in Brazil.
Matthias Röhrig Assuncão, Department of
History, is a capoeira expert and
researches the history of slavery, peasant
rebellions and popular culture, particularly
in Brazil.
Clara Sandoval, Department of Law,
is an expert in international human rights
law and in particular the OAS's system for
human rights protection and redress.
Nina Schneider, Department of History,
works on mid-20th century Brazilian history
Teresa Torres, Department of Language
and Linguistics, teaches Spanish
language and culture.
Lesley Wylie, Department of Literature,
Film, and Theatre Studies, is a
specialist in Latin American literature,
with a particular interest in the literature
of the Amazon region.