Program Tracks
Names of Program Committee members are provided for information only. Direct your correspondence to the LASA Secretariat ONLY.
AFR / Afro-Latin/Indigenous Peoples
Manuela Picq - Amherst College and Universidad de San Francisco, Ecuador
Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar - Universidad de Lleida
AGR / Agrarian and Rural Life
Rick Lopez - Amherst College
Caroline Yezer - College of the Holy Cross
Clifford Andrew Welch - Universidade Estadual Paulista
BIO / Biodiversity, Natural Resources and Environment
Carlos García - Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela and Harvard University
Brian Farrell - Harvard University
CHI / Children, Youth and Cultures
Bianca Premo - Florida International University
CIT / Cities, Planning, and Social Services
Al Montero - Carleton College
Paul Dosh - Macalester College
CRJ / Citizenship, Rights and Justice
Ariel Armony - Colby College
CSS / Civil Society and Social Movements
Carlos de la Torre - FLACSO, Ecuador
César Montúfar - Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
CUL / Culture, Power, and Political Subjectivities
Michelle Bigenho - Hampshire College
Valentina Napolitano - University of Toronto
Mark Harris - University of St Andrews
DEF / Defense, Violence and (In)security
Mark Peceny - University of New Mexico
William Stanley - University of New Mexico
DEM / Democratization
Kurt Weyland - University of Texas, Austin
ECO / Economics and Development
Nora Lustig - Tulane University
Jaime Ros - University of Notre Dame
EDU / Education, Pedagogy, and Educational Policies
Daniel Schugurensky - University of Toronto
Jill Pinkney Pastrana - University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
FIL / Film Studies
Beatriz Urraca - Widener University
Laura Podalsky - Ohio State University
GEN / Gender Studies
Mala Htun - New School for Social Research
Elizabeth Friedman - University of San Francisco
HEA / Health, Medicine, and Body Politics
Richard Parker - Columbia University
Jennifer Hirsch - Columbia University
HIS / History and Historiographies/Historical Processes
Michiel Baud - CEDLA
HUM / Human Rights and Memories
Catalina Smulovitz - Universidad Di Tella, Argentina
Alison Brysk - University of California/Irvine
INT / International Relations
Carlos Romero - Universidad Central de Venezuela
David Mares - University of California/San Diego
LAB / Labor Studies and Class Relations
Mark Anner - Penn State University
Graciela Bensusan - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
LAT / Latino(as) in the United States and Canada
Michael Innis-Jiménez - University of Alabama
Mérida M. Rúa - Williams College
LAW / Law, Jurisprudence and Society
Kif Augustine Adams - Brigham Young University
Silvia Inclán Oseguera - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
LIN / Linguistics and Linguistic Pluralism
Guiomar Ciapuscio - Universidad de Buenos Aires
Maura Velazquez-Castillo - Colorado State University
LCN / Literary Studies: Colonial and 19th Century
Eyda Meredith - University of Maryland
Laura Demaria - University of Maryland
LST / Literary Studies: Contemporary
Ignacio Corona - Ohio State University
Fernando Rosenberg - Brandeis University
LTC / Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Lucía Suárez - Amherst College
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes - University of Michigan
MAS / Mass Media and Popular Culture
Carolina Rocha - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Anne Rubenstein - York University
MLD / Migration and Latin American Diasporas
Maxine Margolis - University of Florida
Cecilia Menjivar - Arizona State University
PER / Performance, Art and Architecture/Critical and Historical Perspectives
Michael Schreffler - Virginia Commonwealth University Pontificia Universidad Católica de Peru
PIP / Political Institutions and Processes
Kent Eaton - University of California/Santa Cruz
William Barndt - University of California/Riverside
PPP / Politics and Public Policy
Peter Kingstone - University of Connecticut
REL / Religion and Spirituality
Ana María Bidegain - Florida International University
Catalina Romero - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
SLS / Sexualities and LGBT Studies
Mario Pecheny - Universidad de Buenos Aires
STA / States and Markets
Ben Ross Schneider - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sebastián Etchemendy - Universidad Torcuato di Tella
TEC / Technology and Learning
Julie Sykes - University of New Mexico
TRA / Transnationalism and Globalization
Joe Tulchin - Woodrow Wilson Center
Cristina Eguizabal - Florida International University