Allison E. Aiello, Ph.D., Columbia University, 2003. Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health. Research Interests: Influence of social determinants on infectious illnesses among elderly U.S. Hispanics; the relationship between latent viral infections and severe cognitive impairment or dementia; the socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural factors pertaining to access and use of antibiotics among elderly U.S. Hispanics. aielloa@umich.edu
Paulina Alberto, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2005. Assistant Professor of Spanish, Portuguese, and History. Research Interests: Modern Latin American history and historiography; Brazil; ideologies of race, nation, and citizenship; intellectual/cultural history; Afro-Latin American diaspora. palberto@umich.edu
Ruth Behar, Ph.D., Princeton, 1983. Professor, Anthropology and Women's Studies. Research Interests: Self-narratives, autobiographies and life histories of Latin American and Latina women; ethnicity and narrative in American personal ethnographies; Cuba and Cuban Americans; diaspora Jewish cultures; agrarian life; popular religion. rbehar@umich.edu
Rosario Ceballo, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1995. Assistant Professor, Psychology and Women's Studies. Research Interests: Effects of poverty and community violence on family relationships and children's psychological well-being, with special emphasis on African-American and Latino families; social networks and support systems; women's resiliency to stressful life events; coping with the effects of infertility among African-American couples, and Latinos' use of mental health services. rosarioc@umich.edu
Fernando Coronil, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1987. Associate Professor, Anthropology and History. Research Interests: Historical anthropology, modernity, post-coloniality, state formation, capitalism, popular culture, gender, Latin America. coronil@umich.edu
Héctor González, Ph.D., Assistant Research Scientist, School of Public Health (Epidemiology). Research Interests: Health disparities in ethnic populations, chronic disorders, dementia in the cultural and socioeconomic milieu of older Mexican-Americans. hmgonz@umich.edu
Lorraine Gutiérrez, Ph.D., Michigan, 1989. Professor, Social Work and Psychology. Research Interests: Community psychology; multicultural community participation and social action; empowerment processes on the individual and community levels; social welfare history; ethnic and gender identity; poverty; evaluations of gender and ethnically relevant AIDS prevention interventions. lorraing@umich.edu
David Méndez, M.S., Ph.D., Michigan State, 1995. Assistant Professor, Public Health (Health Management and Policy). Research Interests: Impact of product and service quality on demand, evaluation of residential radon policies and smoking cessation policies. dmendez@umich.edu
Lucila Nerenberg, M.D., Universidad of Buenos Aires Medical School, 1985. Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry; Lecturer, American Culture and Psychology. Research Interests: Intercultural health and farmworker issues; community physician; substance abuse treatment and medical care for farmworkers in Lenawee County. nerenber@umich.edu
Robert M. Ortega, Ph.D., Michigan, 1991. Associate Professor, School of Social Work. Research Interests: Areas of relationship development, treatment interventions, and service utilization, particularly in the realm of mental health, child welfare and juvenile justice, with a focus on race/ethnicity and gender issues. rmortega@umich.edu
Ivette Perfecto, Ph.D., Michigan, 1989. Associate Professor, Natural Resources and Environment. Research Interests: Agricultural ecology and tropical ecology in Latin America; natural resources and sustainability issues in the tropics; conservation of biodiversity; environmental justices; political ecology; agroforestry and ecosystem management. perfecto@umich.edu
Ian Robinson, Ph.D., Yale, 1990. Lecturer III, Sociology and Residential College; Associate Director, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations' ILIR labor and Global Change Program. Research Interests: The impact of neoliberal economic restructuring on the living standards of workers, and the power resources, strategies, and character of unions in North America; the impact of neoliberal structuring on the state in North America; the formation of social movement coalitions seeking to change the institutions and rules that govern international economic integration processes and factor flows so as to make economic globalization more compatible with the values of social justice and environmental sustainability. eian@umich.edu
Teresa Satterfield, Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1995. Associate Professor of Spanish. Research Interests: Theoretical linguistics, first language acquisition, bilingualism, generative Romance syntax, complex adaptive systems. tsatter@umich.edu
Luís Sfeir-Younis, Ph.D., Sociology. lsfeir@umich.edu
Alexandra Minna Stern, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1999. Associate Director, Center for the History of Medicine, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and American Culture. Research Interests: History of Medicine, reproductive politics, race and racial classification. amstern@umich.edu
John Vandermeer, Ph.D., Michigan. Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Research Interests: Ecology, theoretical ecology, tropical ecology, agroecology. jvander@umich.edu
Antonia Villarruel, Ph.D., FAAN, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Health Promotion, and MESA Center for Health Disaprities. Research Interests: HIV prevention among Latino and Mexican adolescents, care development and advancement of Latinos in health. avillarr@umich.edu
