Latin American Studies Affiliate Faculty

Robin Beck, Assistant Professor
Anthropology, DAHT, rm 521
Phone: (405) 325-4456, E-mail
Ph.D. from Northwestern University; Anthoropology



Peter Cahn, Associate Professor
Anthropology, DAHT, rm 521
Phone: (405) 325-4432, E-mail
Interests: Cross-cultural religious fundamentalisms, redefining area studies of Latin America, voluntary associations and direct sales, migration and transnationalism
on leave during the 2008-2009 academic year



James Cane-Carrasco, Assistant Professor
History/IAS, DAHT, rm 806
Phone: (405) 325-8974; E-mail
Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley; 20th Century Argentina; Argentine anti-Fascism of the 1930s; the Latin American Left in the wake of the collapse of the USSR; Peronist Argentine; Fluent in Spanish, Cane has lived and taught in both Argentina and Chile



Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Presidential Professor of English/Neustadt Professor of Comp. Lit.
World Literature Today, Monnet Hall, rm 110
Phone: (405) 325-4531; E-mail
Ph.D.; American studies, theory and Chicano and Latin American studies



Firat Demir, Assistant Professor
Economics, Hester Hall 324a
Phone: (405) 325-5844; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Notre Dame; international finance, and economic development



Sterling Evans, Professor and Louise Welsh Chair in History
History, Dale Hall Tower room 403a
Phone: (405) 325-7264; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Kansas; Modern Latin America, Colonial Latin America, the American West, Environmental History



Kevin Grier, Professor
Economics/IAS, Hester Hall, rm 325
Phone: 325-3748; E-mail
Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis; monetary economics, econometrics and political economy; has lived and taught in Mexico; is fluent in Spanish



Robin M Grier, Associate Professor
Economics, Hester Hall, rm 329
Phone: (405)-325-2861; E-mail
Ph.D. from George Mason University; Latin American economics, the political economy of Mexico, international finance, and development and growth.



Ana Paula da Silva Huback, Portuguese Lecturer
Department of Modern Languages, Kaufman Hall 335A
Phone: (405) 325-1280; E-mail
Ph.D. from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) and University of New Mexico



Charles Kenney, Associate Professor
Political Science, DAHT 205
Phone: (405) 325-; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Notre Dame; comparative politics, Latin American politics, politics in developing countries, democratization, democratic theory, executive-legislative relations, political parties, electoral systems, political violence



Misha Klein, Assistant Professor
Anthropology, DAHT 512
Phone: (405) 325-5411; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley; ethnicity, race, and identity; transnationalism & diaspora; urban anthropology; gender and sexuality; Brazil; Latin America; Jewish diaspora; medical anthropology; anthropology of work; anthropology of consumption; applied anthropology; qualitative methods



Robert Lauer, Professor
MLL& L, Kaufman Hall, rm 217
Phone: (405) 325-1551; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Michigan; Renaissance and Baroque drama, prose, and poetry; contemporary Latin American prose; cinema (Spanish, Italian, Mexican, German)



Ryan Long, Assistant Professor
MLL & L, Kaufman Hall, rm 206
Phone: (405) 325-6181; E-mail
Ph.D. from Duke University; 20th-century Mexican literature, culture, and social movements; 20th-century Latin American literature and culture; Spanish language, cultural theory and cultural studies; Latin American literature in translation; social and political theory



Maria C. Marchand, Instructor, Second year Spanish Coordinator
MLL&L, Kaufman Hall 206
Phone: (405) 325-9542; Email
MA from University of Oklahoma; Spanish



Michael Mares, Curator/Professor
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History/Zoology, SNOMNH
Phone: (405) 325-8978; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Texas; researches on the systematics, ecology, biogeography and conservation of the mammals of South America; has worked through the continent and conducted intesive surveys of the fauna of Argentina; interested in the study of mammal adaptations to and evolution in deserts, particularly in comparative research between deserts; other ongoing research projects include the development of field guides for diverse groups of South American mammals and analysis of extensive data gathered over a number of years on the population ecology of chipmunks



Amanda Minks, Assistant Professor
Anthropology, Honors College, Boren Hall
Phone: (405) 325-7415; E-mail
Ph.D. from Columbia University; Ethnomusicology; cultural approaches to language and music; socialization; gender and sexuality; revolution and social movements; indigenous media; intellectual property; ethnographic work with Miskitu people on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua since 2001.



Paul Minnis, Professor
Anthropology, DH, rm 26
Phone: (405) 325-2519; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Michigan; archaeology and ethnobotany of Mexico; 12 years of research in Chihuahua, Mexico



Karl Offen, Associate Professor
Geography, SEC, rm 646
Phone: (405) 325-9190; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Texas, Austin; environmental history, indigenous and African peoples, identity politics, natural resource management Latin America



Clemencia Rodriguez, Associate Professor
Communication, Burton Hall, rm 228
Phone: (405) 325-1570; E-mail
Ph.D. from Ohio University; media and globalization; citizen's media; gender and communication; race and media; postcolonial theory, and feminist scholarship



Circe Sturm, Associate Professor
Anthropology, Dale Hall Tower 521
Phone: (405) 325-7463; E-mail
Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Davis; Difference, Nationalism and Culture, Identity Politics, Nationalism and Citizenship, Dominance, Resistance and Subjectivity in Southern Europe, including Italy, Sicily, and the Mediterranean region.



Mary Jo Watson, Director, School of Art and Art History
Professor and Regents’ Professor
College of Fine Arts, Fred Jones Center, rm 413
Phone: (405) 325-4033; E-mail
Courses include Pre-Columbian Art from Mexico, Central and South American. Research in Puebla, Oaxaca, and Mexico City. Developed courses on Native American Art throughout the United States and Canada. Interests are arts of Native American women, Inuit art and the Mississippian cultural period.
Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma –dissertation on the arts of Native American women of Oklahoma.



Grady C. Wray, Grady C. Wray, Associate Professor of Spanish
South Central Modern Language Association, Cross Center A, Baker House B47
Phone: (405) 325-4198; E-mail
Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington; Spanish; Latin-American Colonial Literature; Latin American Prose Narrative; Hispanic Women Writers; Convent/Devotional Literature; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.