Latin America
Faculty with Regional Expertise
Leslie Armijo
Adjunct Professor, School for International Studies
Latin America and South Asia, international relations and financial development of large emerging powers
Gabriela Aceves-Sepulveda
Associate Professor, School of Interactive Arts and Technology
Latin American Art and its Diasporas, Media Art History, Feminist Art and Epistemologies, Art and Activism, Digital Humanities
Yildiz Atasoy
Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Global political economy; political sociology; state restructuring; social change and development; political economy of agrifood systems; neoliberal urbanism; genealogies of citizenship; gender relations; Islamic politics; Turkey; comparative perspectives on Latin America.
Nicole Berry
Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences
Global health, gender & reproductive health, maternal/child health, participatory methods
Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor
Assistant Professor, School of Resource & Environmental Management
Ocean and coastal social-ecological systems in México
Evelyn Encalada Grez
Assistant Professor, Labour Studies
Latin American/Latinx Studies; Labour Migration; Work, Gender, and Sexuality; Race, Immigration, and Citizenship
June Francis
Professor, Department of Political Science
Race and Racism, Market inequality, Cross sector Collaborations, Black Lives Matter, Geographical Indications, Intellectual Property law, Traditional knowledge
Christopher Gibson
Associate Professor, School for International Studies
Development, Inequality, Political Sociology and Social Movements in Brazil, India and Indonesia
Anil Hira
Professor, Department of Political Science
Latin America, Political Economy, Economic Development, Energy Policy, Technology and Innovation Policy, Industrial Policy
Ross Jamieson
Associate Professor, Department of Archeology
South America, Colonialism, material culture, domestic and vernacular architecture, the role of gender, status and ethnicity in colonial situations
Kathleen Millar
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Latin American studies, research methods, social theory, contemporary ethnography, labour and capitalism
Pablo Nepomnaschy
Professor, MSFHR Scholar, Faculty of Health Science
Human biology, anthropology, human ecology & health, stress & reproductive health in Guatemala
Gerardo Otero
Professor, School for International Studies
Sociology of economic change and development, Canada, Mexico, United States, Emerging Economies; agriculture, food security, health and ecology; development of a Neoliberal-Diet Risk (NDR) index
Stacy Pigg
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Anthropology of science and medicine; post-colonial science studies; ethnography as method, representation, and genre; anthropology of the body, reproduction, and sexuality; social spaces of global health; critical studies of international development and humanitarianism.
Katherine Reilly
Associate Professor, School of Communication
Latin America, communal data assets, personal identities, cultural patrimony
Tim Takaro
Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Health Science
Occupational & environmental health, toxicology, asthma, community-based interventions, health impacts of climate change, planetary health
Habiba Zaman
Professor, Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
Global South and Social Movements, Transnational Migration, Labour Mobility, Immigrants and Settlement in Canada, Race, Gender and Class, South Asia