LACS Faculty
Rudolf G. Arndt
Ph.D. (Cornell University),
Professor of Marine Science:
vertebrate zoology, ecology, the tropical rainforest.
Ines Arribas
Alfonso Corpus
M.F.A. (Indiana University),
Associate Professor of Art:
Art and Artists in Latin America, Art of Oxaca, Mexico .
Jack Devine (adjunct faculty)
Alfonso Gandica (adjunct faculty)
Sonia Gonsalves
Ph.D. (Temple University),
Associate Professor of Psychology:
Issues in the Caribbean, Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean.
Arleen Caballero Gonzalez
J.D. (Rutgers, The State University),
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice:
Puerto Rican History and Culture, Puerto Ricans on the Mainland.
Norma Grasso
Ph.D. (Indiana University),
Associate Professor of Spanish:
20th Century Latin American Novel and Short Story, Advanced Spanish Language,
Latin American Women Writers.
Ph.D. (Tulane University),
Associate Professor of Anthropology:
Early Civilizations, Ethnicity, Caribbean Cultures,
Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean,
Senior Seminar on Immigration, Indigenous cultures in Latin America.
Janice O. Joseph
Ph.D. (York University, Canada),
Professor of Criminal Justice:
Crime in the Caribbean, Religion in the Caribbean,
Caribbean Race Relations, the Caribbean Family.
Melaku Lakew
Ph.D. (University of California, Riverside),
Associate Professor of Economics:
Immigration and Immigrants, International Economic Development.
Roberto Madero
Ph.D. (Princeton University),
Assistant Professor of Spanish:
Latin American through film. Advanced and Conversational Spanish,
19th and 20th Century Latin American Literature and Culture.
Raymond Mueller
Ph.D. (University of Kansas),
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies:
Environment and Society in Mesoamerica, The Archaeology of Highland Mexico.
Patricia Reid-Merritt
D.S.W. (University of Pennsylvania),
Professor of Social Work:
African-American Dance, Ethnic and Minority Relations.
Jacqueline Pope
Ph.D. (Columbia University),
Associate Professor of Political Science:
Cuba Before and After Castro.
Carol Slocum
Ph.D. (University of the West Indies),
Associate Professor of Marine Biology:
natural history and ecology of the coral reef.
Alan Steinberg
Ph.D. (University of California at Berkeley),
Associate Professor of Physiology:
Neo-Tropical Field Biology, Costa Rica Field School.