Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

Major Research Areas

Latin America & Latino/a Studies

Related Faculty

Kirk S. Bowman

International Affairs
Associate Professor
Dr. Kirk Bowman joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1998 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004. He directs study abroad programs in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica and Cuba and is the director of the Georgia Tech International House. (continues)

Vicki B. Galloway

Modern Languages
Professor - Spanish
Vicki Galloway is Professor of Spanish and Associate Chair for Research and Assessment in the School of Modern Languages. She received her PhD from the University of South Carolina. She serves as Director of the LBAT-Mexico summer immersion program in Spanish for Business and Technology and the Peru Study Abroad program in Sustainable Development and teaches a wide variety of courses in language, literature, business, and culture studies. (continues)

Carla Gerona

History, Technology, and Society
Assistant Professor
Dr. Carla Gerona is an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society, and her areas of interest include Early American, Atlantic, and Borderlands history. She received a BA from Columbia University, an MA from the University of California, Irvine, and an MA and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University. (continues)

Angela Labarca

Modern Languages
Professor - Spanish
Dr. Angela Labarca came to GT in 1991 as a Professor in the School of Modern Languages to create the Spanish LBAT program. At present, she directs the Madrid portion of LBAT and the Health Care Spanish programs in Madrid and Cádiz, Spain. Dr. Labarca is GT's only Hispanic female Full Professor. (continues)

Cecilia Montes-Alcala

Modern Languages
Associate Professor - Spanish
Dr. Cecilia Montes-Alcalá received her PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 2004 as an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the School of Modern Languages. A specialist in sociolinguistics, bilingualism and languages in contact, she has published several articles and book chapters including “Las keys vs. (continues)

Vinicius Navarro

LCC
Assistant Professor
Vinicius Navarro, whose interests span the fields of cinema and performance studies, earned his PhD in cinema studies from New York University. He has written on documentary and experimental film and is the co-author (with Louise Spence) of Crafting Truth: Documentary Form and Meaning (Rutgers University Press, 2011). (continues)

Juan Carlos Rodriguez

Modern Languages
Assistant Professor - Spanish
Juan Carlos Rodriguez received a PhD in literature from Duke University. He has taught Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras and at Rice University, where he coordinated the Transnational Caribbean Cultures conference series. His research and teaching areas are cinema, documentary, urban culture, and literature from Latin America and the Hispanic Caribbean. (continues)

Juan Rogers

Public Policy
Associate Professor
Dr. Juan D. Rogers is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Research Value Mapping Program at the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology. He teaches courses on science and technology policy, information management and policy, knowledge management, logic of policy inquiry, and bureaucracy and policy implementation. (continues)
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