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 directors
Executive Committee members are elected every two years; all Faculty Associates are eligible to serve.
Committee Members, 2019–21 Term
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History, Department of History
Interests: Early modern Atlantic history; history of science and colonialism; history of knowledge
Daniel Fridman
Associate Professor, LLILAS and Department of Sociology
Interests: Economy and culture; consumption; finances and popular culture; neoliberalism; globalization
Laura Gutiérrez
Associte 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
Harold C. and Alice T. Nowlin Regents Professorship in Liberal Arts, Department of Government
Interests: Latin American politics; comparative ethnic politics; comparative social policy; democratization
Martha Menchaca
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Interests: Social anthropology; ethnicity; gender; oral history and oral traditions; legal anthropology; immigration
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
Cesar Salgado
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Interests: Poetry in colonial and modern Latin America; comparative postcolonial studies and theory; modern literary and critical theory
Chandler Stolp
Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs
Interests: Social policy program evaluation statistics
Almeida Jaqueline Toribio
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Interests: Bilingualism and language contact; morphology; syntax; sociolinguistics; Caribbean studies; U.S. Latino and border studies
In addition to these members, the LLILAS Benson Director, the Director for Public Programs, the Director for Student Programs, the Director of the Benson Collection, the Executive Director, and one ILASSA student representative serve as ex-officio members.