People

Staff

Dr James Annesley (English; North American literature; contemporary literature and culture)
Dr John Beck (English; North American literature; film; photography)
Dr Claire Brewster (History; Mexico; Spanish American independence; history of sport)
Dr Keith Brewster (History; twentieth-century Mexico; history of sport)
Dr Kate Davies (English; eighteenth and nineteenth century women's writing in Britain and Anglo-America)
Prof. José Esteban Castro (environmental sociology; sociology of development countries; Latin America; political ecology; the politics of water)
Dr Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla (Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies; Film Studies and Visual Culture, Feminist and Queer Film Theory, Psychoanalysis)
Prof. Jens Hentschke (Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies; history and politics of Latin America especially Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay; history of education)
Dr Ben Houston (History; US history, race, the Civil Rights Movement, oral history)
Prof. Rosaleen Howard (Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies; anthropology and sociolinguistics of the Andes, Quechua-Spanish language contact)
Dr Peter Kellet (Architecture; Latin American urban environments)
Prof. Nina Laurie (Geography; Latin American development; ethno-development; gender and development; water; The Andes)
Professor Richard Middleton (Music; popular musics)
Dr Monica Moreno Figuero (Sociology; Mexico; race and racism; the body and beauty)
Dr Nick Morgan (Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies; cultural studies; Colombia; nationalism, class, race and ethnicity, participatory democracy and the media)
Prof David Oldroyd (Newcastle Business School; accounting; slavery; the West Indies and US plantation societies)
Dr. Patricia Oliart (Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies; gender, ethnicity, cultural change, and education in urban and rural areas in the Andes and Amazonia)
Dr Diana Paton (History; Caribbean history, especially Jamaica; history of slavery and emancipation; gender history; comparative history of the Americas; history of religion)
Dr James Procter (English; postcolonialism; black British writing; Caribbean writing)
Dr Jane Webster (Archaeology; historical archaeology; slavery; the 'Middle Passage')

 


PhD students
MPhil students

Gisela Zapata
Josep Cru Talaveron
Silvia Espelt Bombin

Julián Pérez
Rosibel Viquez Abarca
Fernando Gonzalez Velarde
Ximena Córdova
Sarah Bennison
Elizabeth Pallister
Natalie Bown 

 

Visiting scholars

Dr Carlos Moreira, Newcastle University Santander Visiting Scholar, National University of Lanús, Argentina, and Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Paraguay (2010)

Dr Mario Monteiro, Sociology Visiting Fellow, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2010)

Carles Feixa (University of Leida, HASS Faculty Fellow, 2009)

Magdalena Barros (CIESAS, Mexico, 2008-2009)

Pedro Plaza (PROEIBANDES, Cochabamba, School of Modern Languages Fellow, 2008-09)

Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, HASS Faculty Fellow, 2007)

Elizabeth Acha (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, British Academy Visiting Fellow, 2006-07)