New CLAS affiliated faculty:

Daniel Da Silva

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department: Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Gender, sexuality, race, performance and popular music in the Portuguese-speaking world

https://span-port.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/814-daniel-da-silva

Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello

PROFESSOR

Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology; SEBS

Microbiome development from birth, functions for the host, microbial transmission, microbiota, strategies for restoration, Westernization and environmental microbes and human exposures, urban studies and microbial ecology

https://dbm.rutgers.edu/personnel/maria-gloria-dominguez-bello.html

Priscilla Ferreira

Assistant Professor

Department of Geography/Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies

Afro-Latinx Geographies, Black solidarity economies, urban geography, Afro-Latina feminisms, and decolonial methodologies and pedagogical praxis

https://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/918-ferreira-priscilla

Tamara Lee

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, LABOR STUDIES AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS

Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations

Political and economic reform in Cuba U.S. labor and employment law

https://smlr.rutgers.edu/faculty-staff/tamara-lee

Pilar Rau

ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR

Department: Anthropology

Cultural anthropology; visual arts; media studies; sociolinguistics; religion; aesthetics, visual anthropology, and economic anthropology; Latin America; Peru;

https://www.anthro.rutgers.edu/fac/629-pilar-rau

Robert Ramos

NSTRUCTOR

Latino and Caribbean Studies

Music of the Caribbean; New York Latin Music; Caribbean and Latino Studies; Percussion

Jorge Reina Schement

Distinguished Professor

Department: School of Communication and Information

Inequality History Networks, Digital Inequality, Public Policymaking, Social Justice, Mexico, Tejas

https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/schement-jorge-reina

Kimberly Da Costa Holton

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Music, migration and politics; 20th century Portuguese and Brazilian literature, performance theory, urban festivity, urban ethnography, migration and memory studies, oral history, theories of globalism, nation, diaspora and space.

https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/kimberly-dacosta-holton

Isadora Grevan

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Department: Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Brazilian literature, Brazilian theater, performance studies, dramaturgy, Latin American theater, Latin American studies, Portuguese world, Lusophone African literature, Comparative Literature, gender studies, cinema

https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/isadora-grevan

Melissa Valle

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Sociology and Anthropology

Race & ethnicity ;Urban & spatial sociology; Cultural sociology Economic sociology; The African/Black Diaspora (with a focus on Afrolatinidad in the Americas); Ethnographic and visual method

https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/melissa-m-valle-phd

Carla Giaudrone

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

FASC - Foreign Languages

Post-colonial theory, Latin American Modernismo, feminist theory, and gender studiesPersonal\

https://foreignlanguages.camden.rutgers.edu/faculty/carla-giaudrone/

Juan Gonzalez

RICHARD D. HEFFNER PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC POLICY AND PROFESSOR OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE, JOURNALISM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Journalism & Media Studies, School of Communication and Information

Journalism; mass media history; federal mass communications policy; history of Latinos in the United States; Puerto Rico-U.S. relations; immigration, race and labor relations; the role of dissident movements in social change

https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/gonzalez-juan-d

Rafael Logroño

TEACHING INSTRUCTOR

Journalism & Media Studies, School of Communication and Information

Identity, media, and social justice, with an emphasis on Latinx communities

https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/logrono-rafael

Kevon Rhiney

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Geography

global change, rural agrarian livelihoods, biopolitics, political ecology, environmental justice, postcolonial thought, Caribbean region

https://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/471-rhiney-kevon

Hyacinth Miller

INSTRUCTOR AND ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR

Department: Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, New Brunswick; African American and African Studies, Newark; Political Science, Newark

Caribbean Studies, Caribbean immigrants in the Diaspora, immigrant women and women of color in elected leadership, immigrant political incorporation and comparative politics

https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/hyacinth-miller

Nicole Burrowes

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Department: Department of History

African Diaspora; Modern Caribbean and African American History

https://history.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/details/56-professors/1212-burrowes-nicole