CLASPO

Faculty Associates

Anthropology

Edmund Gordon
(Ph.D., Stanford University 1981)
Associate Professor & Director, Center for African and African-American Studies. African-American anthropology, economic anthropology, maritime anthropology, ethnicity and social stratification; Caribbean and Central America.

Charles Hale
(Ph.D., Stanford University 1989)
Associate Professor
Race/ethnicity, identity politics, consciousness and resistance, activist anthropology; Latin America, the Caribbean

Laura Lein
(Ph.D., Harvard University)
Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist
Families in poverty, families on the Texas-Mexico border, social welfare policies and programs, child care policies and programs, gender, race and ethnicity; Texas-Mexico border.

Martha Menchaca
(Ph.D., Stanford University 1987)
Associate Professor
Social anthropology, ethnicity, gender, oral history, Chicano studies: US/Mexican culture, Latin America

James A. Neely
(Ph.D., Arizona 1974)
Professor
Archaeology, cultural ecology, village life and the development of urbanism, irrigation/water control systems, ceramic technology; U.S. Southwest, Mexico, and Iran

Henry Selby
(Ph.D., Stanford University 1966)
Professor
Social organization, economic anthropology, development studies; Mesoamerica, Latin America, and Canada

João H. Costa Vargas
(Ph.D., UC-San Diego 1999)
Associate Professor
Race, politics, and social inequality, cultural studies, social theory; U.S., Brazil, African diaspora

Sheila Walker
(Ph.D., Chicago 1976)
Professor
Religion, education and social change; Africa, and Afro-America.

Government

Henry Dietz
(Ph.D., Stanford University)
University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Professor of Government
Comparative politics, political behavior, political economy.

Larry Graham
(Ph.D., the University of Florida.)
Professor
Associate Vice President for International Programs
Comparative politics, public policy, political economy

Wendy Hunter
(Ph.D., U.C., Berkeley 1992)
Associate Professor
Comparative politics, Latin American politics, civil military relations, social policy, education, decentralization.

Raul Madrid
(Ph.D., Stanford University 1999)
Assistant Professor
Comparative politics, political economy, social policy, pension reform.

Kurt Weyland
(Ph.D., Stanford University 1991)
Associate Professor
Comparative politics, political economy, public policy

Latin American Studies

Virginia Garrard-Burnett
(Ph.D., History, Tulane University, 1984)
Professor
Central American history; indigenous history in Mesoamerica in Central America, religion in Latin America.

Law School

Gerald Torres
(LLM 1980, University of Michigan; JD, Yale 1977)
H. O. Head Centennial Professor In Real Property Law
Agricultural and environmental law.

LBJ School of Public Affairs

Leigh Boske
(Ph.D, economics, University of Pittsburgh)
Professor
Associate Dean
National and international transportation policies and programs, state multi-modal transportation planning, cost efficiency in the airline and railroad industries, and port finance.

David Eaton
(Ph.D., environmental engineering and geography, Johns Hopkins University)
Bess Harris Jones Centennial Professor in Natural Resource Policy Studies
Environmental engineering, health, agriculture and international affairs.

Kenneth Flamm
(Ph.D., economics, M.I.T. 1979)
Dean Rusk Chair in International Affairs
International trade; investments and markets; technology policy.

Victoria Rodríguez
(Ph.D., political science, U.C., Berkeley)
Associate Professor
Vice Provost
Decentralization, state and local government, opposition governments, and women in contemporary politics

Chandler Stolp
(Ph.D., social and decision sciences and public affairs, Carnegie Mellon University)
Associate Professor
Director, Center for Inter-American Policy Studies
Research methods, policy decision-making, regional development, U.S.-Latin American relations, western hemispheric economic integration, regional economics, and public sector productivity.

Peter Ward
(Ph.D., geography, University of Liverpool)
Professor
C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in US-Mexico Relations,
Director, Mexican Center
Editor in Chief, LARR
Latin American urbanization, contemporary Mexican politics, housing policy and planning, Mexico City, and colonia-type housing in the United States.

David Warner
(Ph.D., economics, Syracuse University)
Professor
Health insurance coverage, the integration of the U.S. and Mexican health care systems, diabetes policy, public health funding, and U.S.-Mexico border health.

Robert Wilson
(Ph.D., city and regional planning, University of Pennsylvania.)
Mike Hogg Professor in Urban Policy
Director, Urban Issues Program
Director, Brazil Center.
Participation of community groups in the public policy process, local and state economic development policy, urban policy, and public policy in Brazil.

Sociology

Ronald Angel
(Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1981)
Professor
Race, ethnicity, minority relations, demography.

Joseph Potter
(Ph.D., Princeton)
Professor
Demography, medical sociology, development, migration.

Bryan Roberts
(Ph.D., Chicago)
Professor
CB. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relation
Director, Center for Latin American Social Policy (CLASPO)
Development, modernization, urban sociology, stratification, mobility, sociology of work.

Social Work

Yolanda Padilla
(Ph.D., University of Michigan)
Associate Professor
Poverty, immigration, social stratification, social inequality in the Latino population social welfare policy.

Dennis Poole
(Ph.D., Brandeis University)
Community Planning and development, Mexico-US Partnerships in Policy and Research, community partnerships, program evaluation, international social welfare, homelessness and public health.