Spanish theater in the seventeenth century, Latin American colonial discourse, U.S. Latino theater, and AIDS and Latino literature--these are only some of Alberto Sandoval's interests.

Want to make a baby? At least, in theory? Lynn Morgan's work in Ecuador and the United States focuses on the social construction of personhood and cross-cultural attitudes toward conception and the beginning of human life.

Roberto Márquez's prize-winning Puerto Rican Poetry: An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times--with its broad historical sweep and scope--is the first collection of its kind available in English.

Eva Paus's book Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization: Can Costa Rica Become Ireland? is among the many articles and books resulting from her fieldwork in Latin America.

Highly caffeinated research! Lowell W. Gudmundson is studying historical reasons for the relative success of Costa Rican democracy and that nation's agrarian policies and coffee growing industry.