LAS Committee of the Whole—By Department
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Anthropology
Phone:
422-3822
E-mail:
john_clark@byu.edu
Office:
950 swkt
Discipline:
Origins of rank society in lowland Mesoamerica, cultural theory, ethno-archaeology, ancient technology, and craft specialization; Dir. Of BYU's World Archaeological Foundation, (Chiapas, Mexico)
Region:
N/A
Phone:
422-3488
E-mail:
donald_forsyth@byu.edu
Office:
956 SWKT
Discipline:
Mesoamerican region, particularly the Maya area, on the origin of complex society in that region, and on ceramic analysis; research interest in the ethnohistory of the native Americans of Brazil in the 16th and 17th c.
Region:
Mesoamerica
Communications
Phone:
422-1696
E-mail:
eliza.tanner@byu.edu
Office:
F-347 hfac
Discipline:
Latin Am. media, democracy and communication, Internet development
Region:
Chile, Mexico, Venezuela
Educational Leadership and Foundations
Phone:
422-4804
E-mail:
scott_ferrin@byu.edu
Office:
306h mckb
Discipline:
Educ. law, political aspects of educ., int'l language policy in educ., language laws and policies, language acquisition, indigenous educ.
Region:
South Am., particularly Peru and Bolivia; Mexico, and Latino pop. in the U.S.
Geography
Phone:
422-7751
E-mail:
samuel_otterstrom@byu.edu
Office:
690f swkt
Discipline:
Population, settlement, and urban geography
Region:
Central Am., especially Costa Rica
History
Phone:
422-6285
E-mail:
kendall_brown@byu.edu
Office:
316 kmb
Discipline:
Colonial Spanish Am. history
Region:
Peru, Bolivia
Phone:
422-4387
E-mail:
ignacio_garcia@byu.edu
Office:
307 kmb
Discipline:
Chicano political his./ Cold War in Latin Am./U.S.-Mexico border
Region:
Latin Am., U.S.-Mexico Border
Phone:
422-3425
E-mail:
shawn_miller@byu.edu
Office:
311 kmb
Discipline:
Environmental history
Region:
Latin Am., Brazil
Phone:
422-8943
E-mail:
jshumway@byu.edu
Office:
304 kmb
Discipline:
19th century social and cultural history; gender; family
Region:
Argentina, Southern Cone
Humanities
Phone:
422-5848
E-mail:
allen_christenson@byu.edu
Office:
2163 JKHB
Discipline:
Maya (Precolumbian-Modern) and post-conquest
Region:
Mesoamerica (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras)
Phone:
422-7151
E-mail:
george_handley@byu.edu
Office:
216 HRCB
Discipline:
Literature of the Americas, Eco-criticism
Region:
Caribbean
Lee Library
Phone:
422-2473
E-mail:
mark_grover@byu.edu
Office:
4522 HBLL
Discipline:
History, religion
Region:
Brazil, Argentina
Music
Phone:
422-3157
E-mail:
jahopkin@byugate.byu.edu
Office:
E-454 HFAC
Discipline:
Music of South and Central Am.
Region:
Central and South Am.
Political Science
Phone:
422-5526
E-mail:
dhawkins@byu.edu
Office:
764 SWKT
Discipline:
Human rights, int'l relations
Region:
Southern Cone, Cuba
Phone:
422-1362
E-mail:
kirk_hawkins@byu.edu
Office:
787 SWKT
Discipline:
Comparative politics, populism, political parties, economic development, and social movements
Region:
Latin Am., especially Mexico, Chile, Venezuela
Phone:
422-3417
E-mail:
daniel_nielson@byu.edu
Office:
745 SWKT
Discipline:
Pol. science, emphasizing pol. Institutions and the pol. economy of development
Region:
Brazil, Mexico
Sociology
Phone:
422-3115
E-mail:
lynn_england@byu.edu
Office:
820 SWKT
Discipline:
Change and development in Latin Am.; communities and poverty in Latin Am.
Region:
Mexico, the Andes
Phone:
422-3146
E-mail:
renata_forste@byu.edu
Office:
852 SWKT
Discipline:
Demography; family interaction and child health
Region:
Bolivia, Ecuador
Phone:
422-3280
E-mail:
tim_heaton@byu.edu
Office:
380C SWKT
Discipline:
Research focus on family interaction and children's well-being
Region:
Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico
Spanish and Portuguese
Phone:
422-1726
E-mail:
russell_cluff@byu.edu
Office:
4048A jkhb
Discipline:
Narrative of Mexico, Central Am. and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the short story of Argentina and Uruguay
Region:
Mexico, Central Am.
Phone:
422-3106
E-mail:
mara_garcia@byu.edu
Office:
4046 jkhb
Discipline:
Latin Am. female writers,
Region:
Mexico, Peru, Argentina
Phone:
422-3807
E-mail:
david_laraway@byu.edu
Office:
4036 JKHB
Discipline:
Hispanic poetry, Hispanic short story, philosophy and literature, film
Region:
Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Ecuador
Phone:
422-1759
E-mail:
christopher_lund@byu.edu
Office:
4021 JKHB
Discipline:
Poetry and prose (travel literature, essay, novel, moral treatises)
Region:
Colonial Brazil
Phone:
422-9134
E-mail:
ted_lyon@byu.edu
Office:
211 HRCB
Discipline:
N/A
Region:
N/A
Phone:
422-3453
E-mail:
howard_quackenbush@byu.edu
Office:
3072 jkhb
Discipline:
Latin American theater and poetry, Chicano literature and culture, Mexican-American and Fronterizo literature
Region:
Primary: Mexico, Caribbean, Southern Cone; Also Central Am., Northern South Am.
Phone:
422-2636
E-mail:
rob_smead@byu.edu
Office:
4033 jkhb
Discipline:
Language contact and bilingualism, and Spanish in the U.S.
Region:
N/A
Phone:
422-7019
E-mail:
jeffrey_turley@byu.edu
Office:
4028 JKHB
Discipline:
Linguistics, folklore
Region:
Mexico, the Caribbean
Phone:
422-4941
E-mail:
douglas_weatherford@byu.edu
Office:
4038 JKHB
Discipline:
Specialization: Contemporary Latin Am. narrative; Other areas: Colonial literature, Hispanic film, and the historical novel
Region:
Mexico; also the Caribbean,
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