Nina Gerassi Navarro

Assistant Professor of Spanish, Ph.D. Columbia University, teaches Latin American Literature, with special emphasis on the colonial period and the nineteenth century. Her dissertation research analyzed the cultural, historical, and political meanings and uses of the figure of the "pirate" in nineteenth-century novels and their roles in the creation of four Spanish American nations. Her book, Pirating the Nation: Fictions of Outlaws in Spanish America is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Her current work focuses on Latin American Cinema. ngerassi@mtholyoke.edu

Lowell Gudmundson

Professor of Latin American Studies, Ph.D. University of Minnesota, teaches the introductions to the field, as well as topics courses dealing with Mexico and Central America from the perspective of social and economic history. He is author of Costa Rica Before Coffee, co-author of Central America, 1821-1871, and co-editor of Coffee, Society and Power in Latin America. lgudmund@mtholyoke.edu

Roberto Márquez

Kenan Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Ph.D. Harvard University, holds an endowed Chair with College-wide teaching responsibilities in the fields of literature and social theory. He offers a wide range of courses on the Caribbean, its cultural history and role in the construction of the West, as well as on the intellectual history of Spanish America. He founded the literary review Calibán, edited the classic collection in English translation of Latin American Revolutionary Poetry, and has published books, articles, and translations in Caribbean and Latin American letters. rmarquez@mtholyoke.edu

Lynn Morgan

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, teaches courses in sociocultural and medical anthropology. With fieldwork in Costa Rica she has published: Community Participation in Health: The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica; while more recently her work in Ecuador and the United States focuses on the social construction of personhood, or cross-cultural attitudes toward conception and the beginning of human life. lmmorgan@mtholyoke.edu

Eva Paus

Professor of Economics, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, teaches international and development economics. Her fieldwork in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru has led to the publication of a number of articles in scholarly journals. She is also the editor of Struggle Against Dependence: Non-Traditional Export Growth in Central America and the Caribbean, and the co-author of Modeling Population Growth. She currently studies the political economy of liberalization and restructuring in the developing world, particularly in Latin America, focusing on the implications for sustained economic growth and distribution.epaus@mtholyoke.edu

Alberto Sandoval

Professor of Spanish, Ph.D. University of Minnesota, specializes in Spanish theater in the seventeenth century, Latin American colonial discourse, and U.S. Latino theater. His current research involves Juan Ruíz de Alarcón's colonial discourse, Puerto Rican cultural representation of air migration and identity formation, and AIDS and Latino literature. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals in the U.S. and Latin America, as well as a book of poetry: Nueva York tras bastidores/New York Backstage (Chile:Cuarto Propio, 1993), and a play: Side Effects.asandova@mtholyoke.edu