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