Faculty & Staff

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Faculty

Mauro Botelho

  • Associate Professor of Music | Professor of Latin American Studies

mabotelho@davidson.edu

704-894-2355

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Patricio Boyer

  • E. Craig Wall, Jr., Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Humanities Program | Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
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Vanessa Castañeda

  • Assistant Professor of Afro-Latin American Studies

vacastaneda@davidson.edu

704-894-2886

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Vanessa Castañeda

Oscar Cornejo Casares

  • Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Immigration
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Law
  • Latinx Studies

oscornejocasares@davidson.edu

704-894-2115

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Oscar Cornejo Casares

Britta Crandall

  • Associate Professor of the Practice in Political Science

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • International Political Economy
  • Latin America
Britta Crandall

Russell Crandall

  • Professor of Latin American Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • U.S. war on drugs
  • Andean politics
  • Hemispheric politics, economics, and security
  • U.S.-Latin American relations, contemporary and historical
  • American Foreign Policy
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Melissa González

  • Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies | Core Faculty in Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Latin American Studies
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Magdalena Maiz-Pena

  • Professor of Hispanic Studies
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Jane Mangan

  • John and Ruth McGee Director of the Dean Rusk International Studies Program | Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History and Latin American Studies
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Luis Peña

  • Professor of Hispanic Studies
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Matt Samson

  • Professor of Anthropology | Chair of Latin American Studies
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Angela Willis

  • Assistant Dean for Educational Policy | Professor of Hispanic Studies and Latin American Studies
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Staff

Miriam Jacobson

  • Departmental Coordinator
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