Board

The Hemispheric Institute Board is comprised by one member from each of our member institutions as well as an NYU Steering Committee comprised of New York University Faculty.


Lourdes Arizpe

Director
Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias (CRIM)

Ulla Berg

Assistant Professor
Departments of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Anthropology
Program on Immigration and Diplomacy
Rutgers University 

Kathleen Buddle-Crowe

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Manitoba 

Gisela Cánepa-Koch

Associate Professor
Director of Program in Visual Anthropology
Department of Social Sciences
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Charlotte Canning

Professor
Department of Theatre and Dance
University of Texas at Austin

Sue-Ellen Case

Professor and Chair, Critical Studies
Department of Theater
School of Theater, Film and Television
University of California at Los Angeles

Anabelle Contreras-Castro

Professor
School of Scenic Arts
Coordinator, Interdiscipliary Doctorate Program in Arts and Sciences of Central America
Universidad de Costa Rica

Roewan Crowe

Assistant Professor
Women's and Gender Studies Department
Co-Director, The Institute for Women's and Gender Studies
University of Winnipeg

Rosa-Linda Fregoso

Professor
Latin American & Latino Studies
University of California at Santa Cruz

Susanna Friedmann

Associate Professor
Institute of Aesthetic Research
Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Esther Gabara

Associate Professor
Departments of Romance Studies and
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Duke University

Maruja García Padilla

Associate Professor
Department of Humanities
Women and Gender Studies Program
School of General Studies
Universidad de Puerto Rico - Río Piedras

Macarena Gomez Barris

Associate Professor
Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity
University of Southern California

Judith Hamera

Professor and Head
Department of Performance Studies
Texas A&M University

Paola Hernández

Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jorge Hernández Esguep

Director
School of Visual Arts
Universidad Austral de Chile

Marianne Hirsch

Professor
Departments of English and Comparative Literature
Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Columbia University

Susan Kellogg

Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Houston

David Korish

Professor and Director
School of Scenic Arts
Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

Peter Kulchyski

Professor
Department of Native Studies
University of Manitoba

Jill Lane

Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Editor, E-misférica
New York University

Zeca Ligiéro

Professor
Center of Arts and Literature
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Teatro
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Elisabeth Silva Lopes

Graduate Studies in Art
Department of Theater Arts
School of Art and Communications
Universidade de São Paulo

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Chicago

Alejandro L. Madrid

Assistant Professor
Latin American and Latino Studies Program
University of Illinois at Chicago

Lillian Manzor

Associate Professor
Modern Languages and Literatures
University of Miami

Leda Martins

Professor
Department of Literature
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Frances Negron Muntaner

Associate Professor, Department of English
Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Columbia University

Lorie Novak

Professor
Department of Photography and Imaging
New York University

Francisca Oseguera-Cruz

President
Fortaleza de La Mujer Maya (FOMMA)

Luis Peirano

Professor
School of Arts and Sciences
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Antonio Prieto-Stambaugh

Professor
Department of Theater
Universidad Veracruzana

Joe Randel

Director
ArtesAméricas
University of Texas at Austin 

Milla C. Riggio

Professor
Department of English
Trinity College

Ramón Rivera-Servera

Assistant Professor
Department of Performance Studies
School of Communication
Northwestern University

Javier Serna

Professor and Researcher
Department of Theater
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

Doris Sommer

Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Harvard University

Silvia Spitta

Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Dartmouth College

Camilla Stevens

Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Rutgers University

Diana Taylor

University Professor
Departments of Performance Studies and Spanish and Portuguese
Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
New York University

Antonio Tillis

Associate Professor and Chair
Department of African and African-American Studies
Dartmouth College

Gina Athena Ulysse

Associate Professor
Anthropology and African American Studies
Wesleyan University

Tamara Underiner

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Schools of Theater and Film
Arizona State University

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
American University

Brenda Werth

Assistant Professor
Department of Language and Foreign Studies
American University

Patricia Ybarra

Associate Professor
Department of Theatre, Speech & Dance
Brown University

Lois Zamora

Professor of English, History and Art
University of Houston