Lorgia Garcia-Peña, Ph.D., American Culture, University of Michigan. Research and teaching interests: Latino and Latina Studies, Hispanic Caribbean literature and cultures, race and ethnicity theories.


Betina Kaplan, Ph.D., Spanish, Columbia University. Research and teaching interests: Contemporary Cultural Productions in Latin American Southern Cone, Gender and Violence in Cultural Productions, Literary and Cultural Studies, Service Learning.


Bethany Moreton, Ph.D., History, Yale University. Research and teaching interests: Business, labor, and economic history; transnational Christianity; American conservatism.


Pamela Voekel, Ph.D., History, University of Texas. Research and teaching interests:  History of Greater Mexico and of the Catholic Atlantic World, transnational history, and the origins of democracy in the Americas in the Age of Revolution.