People

Associate Faculty Members	Areas of Research & Specialization
Yildiz Atasoy Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Sociology and Anthropology	Political economy, globalization, political sociology, development studies, gender relations, cultural politics; Islamic politics, Turkey, Middle East, and comparative perspectives on Latin America.
Nicole Berry Faculty of Health Sciences	Social change through an examination of reproductive health in a globalizing world.
John Brohman Faculty of Environment Department of Geography	Theories and Strategies of Development, Rural/Regional Development, Nicaragua and Central America. Areas of supervision for LAS 498 (Capstone Course): community/local development; aboriginal affairs; decentralization and urban/regional planning; structural social transformation.
R. Alexander (Alex) Clapp Faculty of Environment Department of Geography	Economic geography, resource conservation, and forest policy.
Kitty Corbett Faculty of Health Sciences	Behavioural and organizational change, health communication, health promotion, intervention and evaluation research, and quality improvement, the prevention and control of tobacco use, STIs and HIV/AIDS, and antibiotic resistance.
Alexander (Alec) Dawson - Director of the Latin American Studies Program Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of History	Multiculturalism in Mexico and its relationship to larger international social and political movements. Areas of supervision for LAS 498 (Capstone Course): Latin American History; Race and Ethnicity in Latin America; Indigenous movements and self-determination; Drugs in Latin America.
June Francis Beedie School of Business, Marketing	International marketing, negotiations/cross-cultural negotiations, exporting, small business development and government policies with respect to exporting.
Jeremy Hall Beedie School of Business, Strategy	Sustainable development innovation, stakeholder ambiguity, radical technology development, entrepreneurial learning and inter-firm innovation dynamics.
Anil Hira Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Political Science	International political economy, economic integration, energy deregulation, participatory governance, and fair trade, and South America. Areas of supervision for LAS 498 (Capstone Course): LA economics; technology; energy; industry policy.
Ross Jamieson Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Archaeology	Historical archaeology, colonial Latin America, vernacular architecture, Andean prehistory and ethnohistory. Areas of supervision for LAS 498 (Capstone Course): heritage management in Latin America; museums and architectural conservation; Latin American prehistory; social memory and landscape history.
Duncan Knowler School of Resource and Environmental Management	Economics of natural resource management in developing countries, valuation of environmental resources and applied bioeconomic modeling. Areas of supervision for LAS 498 (Capstone Course): empirical studies of social capital and subjects as listed above.
Pablo Nepomnachy Faculty of Health Sciences	Human biology, Human Ecology and Health, Human Reproduction, Human Life History: Health and Disease across the Lifespan
Gerardo Otero Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Sociology and Anthropology	Political sociology, social movements, rural sociology, political economy of the world system, state-society relations in semiperipheral nations, neoliberal globalism and agricultural biotechnology in Latin America. Areas of supervision for LAS 498 (Capstone Course): comparative indigenous struggles in Latin America; comparative studies on food and agriculture; comparative studies on social movements and politics; comparative studies on migration and development.
Stacy Pigg Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Sociology and Anthropology	Medicine, science and transnational processes; Biomedicine and modernity; AIDS; sexuality; reproductive health; Discourses, ideologies and practices of international development; global cosmopolitanisms and the social production of commensurability.
Katherine Reilly School of Communication	Communications in developing countries, especially Latin America. Her dissertation research on ‘Open Networking in Central America’ studied the case of the Mesoamerican People’s Forum, the Central American emanation of the World Social Forum. She is also interested in exploring the politics of openness, cognitive justice, and notions of collective political subjectivity.
Juan Sosa Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Linguistics	Prosody and intonation, phonetics and phonology, language variability, Hispanic and Romance linguistics.
Jennifer Spear Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of History	Early North American history; gender and sexuality; comparative colonization, slavery, and race
Hannah Wittman Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Sociology and Anthropology	Environmental sociology, community resource management, social movements, agrarian reform and sustainable agriculture in Brazil and Guatemala. Areas of supervision for LAS 498 (Capstone Course): environment and development in Latin America; food and agricultural systems; citizenship and social movements.
Habiba Zaman Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies	Globalization, Migration and Women's Work; International Development and Women; Immigrant Women in Canada; South Asia

Professors Emeriti
Richard Boyer BA (Westmount), MA (Wash), PhD (Conn)
Marilyn Gates BA ( Sheffield), MA, PhD (UBC)
Jorge Garcia Prof Lit (Peru), MA (Alta), DoctCert (Madr)
Ron Newton (in memoriam) BA (Rutgers), MA, PhD (Flor)
Philip Wagner AB, MA, PhD (Calif)

Adjunct Professors

James M. Cypher, autonomous University of Zacatecas,.Mexico
Renato Rodrigues Da Silva, Vancouver
Raul Delgado-Wise, autonomous University of Zacatecas,.Mexico
Ambassador Sergio Florencio, Consulate General of Brazil, Vancouver
Guillermo Foladori, autonomous University of Zacatecas,.Mexico
Darcy Victor Tetreault
Edgar Zayago Lau, autonomous University of Zacatecas,.Mexico