Associate Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures
300 High Street 204
860-685-3109

Spanish Section Head

Associate Professor, Latin American Studies
860-685-3109

Director, Center for the Americas

rconn@wesleyan.edu

BA Dartmouth College
PHD Princeton University

SPAN226 - 01
Spanish American Lit & Civil

SPAN288 - 01
Latin American Novels

SPAN226 - 01
Spanish American Lit & Civil

Office Hours:

F12 Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:15-3:15 pm

Research Interests:

Robert Conn is the author of The Politics of Philology: Alfonso Reyes and the Invention of the Latin American Literary Tradition (Bucknell University Press, 2002). At present, he is completing a book-length study of Simon Bolivar that focuses on the ways in which the liberator of South America has been used in different national contexts, with careful attention to the areas of politics, literature, and history. A section entitled "Vasconcelos as Screenwriter: Bolivar Remembered" was published as a book chapter in the collection Mexico Reading the United States (Vanderbilt University Press, 2009).

Scholarly Keywords:

Latin America, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela

BA National University of Cordoba
MA University Maryland College Pk
PHD University Maryland College Pk

Office Hours:
Fall 12: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Research Interests:
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Fernando Degiovanni specializes in issues of nationalism, cultural politics and canon formation in Argentina. By focusing on the first popular series of national "classic" authors in early 20th century, his research explores the way in which opposing intellectual projects attempted to build and impose contrasting versions of the Argentine cultural tradition in times of massive immigration and democratic institutionalization. His work has been published in major scholarly journals, including Revista Iberoamericana, Hispam?rica, and Revista de cr?tica literaria latinoamericana.

BA University Calif Berkeley
MA University of California LA
MFA University of Hawaii
PHD University of California LA

LAST250 - 01
Performing "Africa" in Brazil

AMST256 - 01
Staging Difference

Office Hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays 12-1pmCAMS 214

Scholarly Keywords:
Dance Studies, Latin American Studies, Critical Race Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Tourism Studies, Performance Studies

Assistant Professor of Economics
Public Affairs Center 222
860-685-2944

Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies

mkhamis@wesleyan.edu

BS London School Econ & Political
MS University of Warwick
PHD London School Econ & Political

ECON261 - 01
Latin American Economic Develo

ECON301 - 02
Microeconomic Analysis

Personal Homepage:
http://sites.google.com/site/khamismelanie/

Office Hours:

On Leave

Research Interests:

Labor Economics, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Latin America, Transition Countries

Academic Associations:

Research Fellow (IZA)

Professor of Government
Public Affairs Center 219
860-685-2487

Chair, Government
860-685-2487

Professor, Latin American Studies
860-685-2487

Tutor, College of Social Studies

jmcguire@wesleyan.edu

BA Swarthmore College
MA University Calif Berkeley
PHD University Calif Berkeley

GOVT302 - 01
Latin American Politics

GOVT271 - 01
Political Econ Developing Coun

Personal Homepage:
http://jmcguire.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:

Spring 2013: Tues. and Weds., 2:00-3:30 PM, Public Affairs Center 219.

Research Interests:

James McGuire specializes in comparative politics with a regional focus on Latin America and East Asia and a topical focus on democracy and public health. McGuire is the author of Peronism without Persn (Stanford, 1997) and of articles and chapters on Argentine politics and labor unions; Latin American social policies; transitions from authoritarianism; and economic growth, income inequality, and mortality decline, particularly in East Asia and Latin America. His recent book Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America (Cambridge, 2010) explores why some countries do better than others at raising life expectancy and reducing infant mortality. It was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2010 and won the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research (2011).

Scholarly Keywords:

Latin America, East and Southeast Asia, mortality decline, political economy, social (especially health) policy, labor unions, political parties, democracy and democratization

Publications:
http://jmcguire.faculty.wesleyan.edu/welcome/research-2/

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures
300 High Street 209
860-685-3105

Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies

mospina@wesleyan.edu

BA Brown University
MA Harvard University
PHD Harvard University

SPAN221 - 02
Introduction to Hispanic Lits.

SPAN282 - 01
Narratives of Crisis

Office Hours:

Wednesdays  3:00 pm - 4:00 pm ; Fridays 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Research Interests:

Violence, Drug trafficking and War in Latin America ; Contemporary topographies of jungle : Narratives of youth ; Neoliberalism and its critiques ; Psychoanalysis, sexuality and memory ; Latin American film and  visual culture

Scholarly Keywords:

Contemporary Latin American culture Colombian literature, film and cultural production Violence, history and cultural memory in contemporary Latin America Political economies of drug trafficking and cultural production Latin American film

BA Duke University
MAA Wesleyan University
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University

HIST296 - 01
Colonial Latin America

LAST300 - 01
Power & Resistance in Latin Am

HIST245 - 01
Latin American History

Office Hours:

Fall 2013:

Research Interests:

Professor of History Ann Wightman specializes in Latin American colonial history. Her award-winning Indigenous Migration and Social Change analyzes the impact of Spanish colonization on traditional Indian communities. She is continuing her research on Andean society in her current study of kinship ties within the Indian community of seventeenth-century Peru. In 1996, she won a university award for excellence in teaching.