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International journalism; foreign correspondence; Latin American studies; Brazilian studies; online journalism; communication; freedom of the press
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Latin American economic and labor history; the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions; Argentina; Fidel Castro
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Latin American politics: urban poverty and politics, civil-military relations, parties and party systems, Peru
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Queer Latin American Studies, Mexican representations of masculinity, gender violence at the US-Mexico border and criminal organizations in Mexico
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International human rights law; Latin America.
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Mexico; Economics--Trade Latin America Economic Integration Wage Inequalities High-technology clusters; Gender Issues--Women in business
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Economic development in Latin America; comparative economic systems;economics of the arts and cultural policy; international cultural relations
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Mexican political parties and elections, Latin American politics, research methods, voting behavior in Mexico and Latin America, social movements, and comparative democratization
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Cuba and African-Americans; African Diaspora in Latin American and the Caribbean; U.S. presence in Latin America; Afro-Diasporic Encounters between Cubans and U.S. Americans of African descent in the twentieth century; racialization in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, hemispheric cultural history, transnational history
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John Higley, Ph.D.
Professor of Government and Sociology
Departments of Government and Sociology
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-7236 (Govt.); 512-471-9607 (Aus. Studies)
E-mail: jhigley@mail.la.utexas.edu
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Comparative politics; Australia and New Zealand; Political elites; business, Political Sociology
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Reproductive health issues in Latin America, the US-Mexico border, and Texas; impact of contraceptive availability among Mexican origin women on the US-Mexico border; teen pregnancy in Texas; overuse of cesarean section in Brazil and Mexico
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Manuel Justiz, Ph.D.
Dean
College of Education
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-7255
E-mail: n/a
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Education and public policy; politics of education; equal access for minorities in education systems; Latin American programs
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Gregory Knapp, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and The Environment
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512.232.1588
E-mail: gwk@mail.utexas.edu
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Cultural and Political Ecology, Historical Geography, Latin America
(especially Andes)
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Gender and the Study of Latin American Literature, Latin American Jewish Studies, On-Line Scholarly Resources, Translation, Sociology of the Arts, Latin American narrative; Jewish studies.
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Studio art; painting; drawing; design; photography; research; ethnographic art of Amazon tribes; Venezuela; Shamanism; witchcraft; Pre-Columbian survival traits of Latin American Indians, Caribbean islands, Mexico, Central and South America. Rock and cave art in the Venezuelan Amazon Region; Director, The Organization for Tropical Research and Exploration. Biologist; tropical botany; ecology; field studies; photography for research publications; Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine editor, writer, photographer; outdoor products field testing, Arts & Humanities.
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Reproductive health, population and development, demographic estimation, Latin America and Texas. Evaluating impact of policies and funding for family planning in Texas.
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Politics in Mexico; decentralization in Latin America; women and politics in Mexico and Latin America; gender and public policy; US policy development; theory of public policy.
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Linguistic anthropology sociolinguistics; ethnography of speaking; speech, play, and verbal art; native american discourse, Arts & Humanities.
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Latin American public policy; economic integration; applied statistics
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Urban sociology and planning; low-income housing policy; development theory and social policy; contemporary Mexican politics; Latin America
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Latin American urbanization, contemporary Mexican politics, community development and housing policy in developing countries, planning in Mexico City, colonia-type housing in the United States, US-Mexico relations, Governance and politics and Latin America
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Trade; finance; Latin America; economic integration; business, economics & labor.
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Democratization, market reform, social policy and policy diffusion, and populism in Latin America, social and economic policy for Latin America, especially Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Venezuela
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Minorities and media; U.S. foreign coverage; U.S. crisis coverage of Latin America; newsroom diversity; history of U.S. press; feminism
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