LLILAS Executive Committee
- Review LLILAS priorities and programs to ensure alignment with the institute's mission
- Review LLILAS budget and periodic financial reports, providing oversight to ensure fiscal transparency and responsibiity
- Generate new ideas for LLILAS programs, and, when appropriate, provide leadership for their implementation
- Receive, discuss, and make decisions to evaluate of specific LLILAS programs and overall LLILAS activities during each academic year
- Provide advice and consent on proposals for new programs and activities from the LLILAS director
Executive Committee members are elected every two years; all Faculty Associates are eligible to serve.
Committee Members, 2021–23 Term
Isabella Cunningham
Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations
Interests: Legal and ethical aspects of advertising and promotional communications; effect of political advertising on youths and minorities
Anthony Di Fiore
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Interests: Ecology; primates; tropical forest
Seth Garfield
Professor, Department of History
Interests: Brazilian history; race and ethnicity in Latin America; indigenous policy; comparative frontiers
Gloria Gonzalez Lopez
Professor, Department of Sociology
Interests: Sexuality, gender, and social inequality in Mexico
Laura Gutiérrez
Associate Professor, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
Interests: Latin American and Latina/o performance and visual culture studies; gender and sexuality studies; feminist theories; questions of race, including blackness in Mexican popular culture
Fernando Lara
Professor, LLILAS and School of Architecture
Interests: Latin American architecture; Latin American urbanism; favelas; sustainability
Raúl L. Madrid
Professor, Department of Government
Interests: Latin American politics; comparative ethnic politics; comparative social policy; democratization
Robin Moore
Professor, Butler School of Music
Interests: Music; expressive culture; race; hybridity; diaspora
Néstor P. Rodríguez
Professor, Department of Sociology
Interests: International migration and deportation issues; race and ethnic relations; urban sociology
Sergio Romero
Associate Professor, LLILAS and Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Interests: Language variation and change; language contact; new dialect formation; deixis, discourse and social hierarchies; linguistic anthropology, language and ritual, Mayan languages, Nahuatl
Fred Valdez, Jr.
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Interests: History of archaeological investigations in Central America; Mesoamerican prehistory