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Affiliated Graduate Students

 

José Gabriel Alegría  Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of interest: Viceregal Andean art and the processes of evangelization and colonization that generated it. Encounters and disagreements between different religions and cosmovisions, their coincidences, and misunderstandings. How they generate, adopt, but also discard certain images as heterodox. I am a visual artist with a strong interest in Sanskrit philology. 

Email: josegabriel.alegria@stonybrook.edu 


Juan Pablo Arteaga Philosophy

Areas of interest: Political philosophy, ethics, French contemporary philosophy, and social movements.

Email: juan.arteaga@stonybrook.edu


Omar Badessi  Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of interest: Spain and Morocco in the early modern and contemporary period, colonialism, imperialism, race, nationalism, immigration and post-colonial theory. Cross-cultural relationship between Israel, US and Morocco.

Email: omarbadessi@gmail.com


José Manuel Baeza Zúñiga  History

Areas of interest: African diaspora and race relations in South America, Twentieth-century Chile, History of Popular Culture, Global Sixties.

Email: jose.baeza@stonybrook.edu


Nicolás Andrés Barrientos  History

Areas of interest: Modern Latin America; Right-Wing Movements, Twentieth-century Latin America, Global Sixties, Political Cultures and indentities.

Email: nicolas.barrientos@stonybrook.edu 


Giovanni Bello  History

Areas of Interest:  Cultural History, History of Ideas and Cultural Studies. Bolivian twentieth century, specifically the twenties and the sixties. In both cases I’m interested in seeing the interaction between literate and popular sensibilities. Some of the research topics that interest me most are contemporary literature, the avant-garde, cosmopolitanism, cultural industries, the counterculture and mass culture.

Email: giovanni.bello@stonybrook.edu


Zinnia Capó Valdivia  History

Interests: Mexican drug history, state formation, border and periphery studies.

Email: zinnia.capo-valdivia@stonybrook.edu


Martha Chávez Negrete  Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of interest: 19th-20th century Latin American Literature, space and place theories, childhood studies, material culture.

Email: marthamaria.chaveznegrete@stonybrook.edu


Galia Cozzi Berrondo  Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Areas of interest: Transnational feminisms, transfeminism, queer politics, migration and mobility in Latin America, de/coloniality, Latinx imaginaries, performance studies

Email: galia.cozziberrondo@stonybrook.edu 


Samuel Espíndola Hernández  Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of interest: Contemporary Latin American literatures, Art Theory, Archival Poetics, Film and Poetry.

Email: samuel.espindolahernandez@stonybrook.edu 


Anthony Gómez III  English

Areas of Interest: 19th and Early 20th Century Literature (American and Mexican), Energy Humanities, Infrastructure Studies, U.S. - Mexico borderlands, and California History Pre and Post-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Email: anthony.gomez@stonybrook.edu


José Leonardo Guevara Fino Sociology

Areas of Interest: Sociology of Education, Social Movements, and Historical Comparative Sociology.

Email: jose.guevarafino@stonybrook.edu 


Mario Henao  Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of Interest: Queer and sexual studies in contemporary  Latin American literature. Intersections between biology, humanities, social sciences, and literature.

Email: mario.henao@stonybrook.edu


Adrián Márquez  History

Areas of interest: History and historiography on drugs in Latin America, with a focus on the roots of today’s drug policy and politics.

Email: adrian.marquez@stonybrook.edu


Dana McIntyre  Sociology

Areas of Interest: African Diaspora, specifically in the Caribbean and Brazil. Coloniality and it’s legacies, resistance through culture and language practices, anti-blackness, impacts of globalization, and health disparities within the African Diaspora, specifically the Caribbean with some work in Latin America. I am also interested in Qualitative and decolonizing methodologies.

Email: dana.mcintyre@stonybrook.edu


María Medín Doce  Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of Interest: 19-20th Century Transatlantic Studies, migration and diasporas, discourses on space, gender and feminist studies/theories.

Email: medin-doce.maria@stonybrook.edu


José Miguel Munive Vargas  History

Areas of Interest: Andean history (particularly Peru); race, gender and nationalism; education, health and state formation; grassroots intellectuals; African American history and Black radicalism; migration, diaspora and transnational history; popular conservatism in Latin America and the U.S.

Email: josemiguel.munivevargas@stonybrook.edu


Valentina Pucci  Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of Interest: Decolonial Latin American studies and Decolonial Feminisms. Contemporary Latin American literature. Performative Arts.

Email: valentina.pucci@stonybrook.edu


Jeannette Rivera Negrón  Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of Interest: Decoloniality, Ecocriticism, Caribbean and Latin American Literatures, Gender Studies, Poetry and Autobiography.

Email: jeannette.rivera@stonybrook.edu 


Bea Solla Vilas  Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of Interest: Queer and cuir studies in contemporary Latin American literature; gender and sexuality studies; space and spatiality, translation studies. 

Email: beatriz.sollavilas@stonybrook.edu


Nicolás G. Wiggenhauser  Anthropology

Areas of interest: Evolutionary neuroscience, brain evolution, animal intelligence, primate cognition, mammal diversification and specialization, evolution of learning across primates.

Email: nicolasgabriel.wiggenhauser@stonybrook.edu