Curriculum Committee

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Ball, Molly

Associate Professor of History

Director, Latin American Studies Program (on leave for 2026/2027)

Office Location
449 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 276-7184
Web Address
Website

Interests: Brazilian History; Latin American History; Economic History; Immigration History

Vialcary Crisóstomo Tejada

Crisóstomo Tejada, Vialcary

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature

Office Location
412 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251

Interests: Twentieth and twentieth-first century Caribbean Literature and Cultures; Latin American and Latinx Studies; Decolonial Feminism and Praxis; Black Feminism; Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Afro-Caribbean Studies; Africana Philosophy; Literary Theory and Criticism

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Mondragon-Celis, Agnes

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Office Location
445A Lattimore Hall

Interests: Knowledge production and circulation; Drug warfare and organized crime; Political authority ; US imperialism in Latin America; Affect and performative politics; Militarization; Feminism in the Global South; Mexico

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Radlo-Dzur, Alanna Simone

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Assistant Professor of Art History

Office Location
518 Morey Hall

Interests: Native American and Indigenous studies; Histories and materialities of the book, printing, writing, and mark-making; Storytelling, performance, and ethnohistory; Mesoamerican art and cultural studies; The sensorium and phenomenology; Museum studies and critique

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Sierra Silva, Pablo M.

Associate Professor of History

Acting Director 2026/2027, Latin American Studies Program

Office Location
461 Rush Rhees Library

Interests: African Diaspora, Latin American, Caribbean and Atlantic History