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Experts on Mexico

E. Charles Adams

Charles Adams

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
Curator Emeritus, Archaeology, Arizona State Museum
  • U.S. Southwest
  • Effects of aggregation and migration on prehistoric and protohistoric agricultural societies in the U.S. Southwest
  • Social and ritual organization of Pueblo groups in the U.S. Southwest
520-621-2093
ecadams@email.arizona.edu
Dr. Maribel Alvarez

Maribel Alvarez

Associate Research Social Scientist and Associate Research Professor
The Southwest Center
  • Anthorpology, Folklore, Culture Organizations
  • The U.S. - Mexico Border
  • U.S. Southwest & Northwest Mexico
520-626-6694
alvarezm@arizona.edu
Dr. Diane Austin

Diane Austin

Director, School of Anthropology
Professor, School of Anthropology
Research Anthropologist (BARA)
  • Applied environmental anthropology
  • community dynamics amid large-scale industrial activity and environmental change; alternative technologies and education to increase environmental, social, and community justice; and community-based,
  • collaborative research and outreach
520-621-6298
daustin@arizona.edu

Estevan Azcona

Assistant Research Social Scientist
  • Chicano/Latino arts and culture
  • Ethnomusicology and Mexican American Studies
  • Ethnic Mexican music-making representing processes of cultural and political change and exchange.
estevanazcona@arizona.edu

Laurel Bellante

Associate Professor of Practice, School of Geography, Development & Environment
Assistant Director, Center for Regional Food Studies
Director, Undergraduate Studies
  • Human-environment geography, food justice, global environmental change, sustainable food systems, agriculture
  • United States and Mexico
520-626-0355
bellante@arizona.edu

Stefano Bloch

Associate Professor, School of Geography, Development & Environment
Graduate Program in Social, Cultural & Critical Theory
Trial Expert: gangs, graffiti, crime
  • Cultural Geography
  • Cultural and Urban Geography
  • Gangs, Graffiti, Crime, Criminality/Criminalization, Policing, Prisons, and Identity
520-621-3311
blochs@arizona.edu

Kendal Blust

Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Journalism
  • Arizona-Sonora borderlands
  • Northern Mexico
  • Cross-border business and trade, immigration, education, women's movements, and the environment.
ktblust@arizona.edu
Dr. Jessica Braithwaite

Jessica Braithwaite

Associate Professor, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona
  • Conflict & Security
  • Democracy & Dictatorship, International Relations
  • Mexico and Latin America
jbraith@arizona.edu
Dr. Michael Brescia

Michael Brescia

Curator of Ethnohistory (Continuing), Arizona State Museum
Affiliated Professor, History, Latin American Studies, and James E. Rogers College of Law
Research Associate, Southwest Center
  • Living legacies of Spanish and Mexican water law, property rights, and natural resources in the North American West.
  • Colonial Mexico
  • Mexico, Latin America, and North America
520-621-4895
brescia@email.arizona.edu
Dr. Susan Briante

Susan Briante

Associate Professor, Creative Writing and Literature
  • Poetry and poetics, cross-genre writing
  • Experiment autobiography, documentary studies, affect theory, and translation
  • US-Mexico Border
sbriante@arizona.edu
Dr. Michael Burgoyne

Michael Burgoyne

Assistant Professor of Practice, International Security Studies M.A Program, School of Government and Public Policy
  • Security in the Western Hemisphere,
  • Insurgency, transnational organized crime, alliances, and defense policy.
  • Mexico
burgoyneml@arizona.edu
Dr. Maritza Cardenas

Maritza Cardenas

Associate Professor, English
  • Latinx cultural productions,
  • Marginalized identities and subjectivities, disability studies, and transnational community formations
  • US Central Americans, Global Studies
520-621-1836
mcardena@arizona.edu
Dr. Luis E. Coronado Guel

Luis E. Coronado Guel

Director, SBS Mexico Initiatives
Adjunct Professor, Department of History
Adjunct Professor, Mexican American Studies Department
Affiliate Faculty, Binational Migration Institute
Research Associate, Southwest Center
Affiliate, Public History Collaborative
  • Intellectual History, Cultural History, Public History
  • Mexico, North America, U.S.- Mexico Border, Latin America,
  • Mexican Studies, North American Studies, Latin American Studies, Latinx Studies, Chicano/a Studies, Cultural Heritage Studies
520-621-9479
luisguel@email.arizona.edu
Pronouns:
he, him, his
Dr. Daniel E. Martínez

Daniel E. Martínez

Professor, Distinguished Scholar Sociology & Mexican American Studies Department
Co-Director, Binational Migration Institute
Human Rights Cluster Coordinator, UA-UNAM Binational Reserach Consortium on Migration, Human Rights, and Human Security
  • Latina/o/x panethnicity
  • The relationship between so-called “sanctuary” policies and public safety
  • The ecological correlates of officer-involved shootings and violent crime.
520-621-3506
mada0102@arizona.edu
Dr. Oscar Martinez

Oscar Martinez

Regents Professor Emeritus, History Department
  • Economic History, Mexican History, Mexican American Studies
  • Mexico and the U.S. Relations
  • US-Mexico Border, Mexican Immigration to the U.S.
martineo@arizona.edu
Dr. Barbara Mills

Barbara Mills

Regents' Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum
Professor, American Indian Studies
  • Ceramic analysis, archaeologies of inequality, migration, colonialism, memory and materiality
  • Heritage preservation
  • Southwest archaeology, social network analysis in archaeology
520-621-9671
bmills@arizona.edu
Dr. Anna Ochoa O'Leary

Anna O'Leary

Associate Professor & Head, Mexican American Studies
Co-Director, Binational Migration Institute
Migration Cluster Coordinator, UA-UNAM Binational Reserach Consortium on Migration, Human Rights, and Human Security
  • Undocumented immigration to the U.S.
  • Education, culture and urban politics of Mexican/U.S.
  • Mexican populations, the political economy of the U.S.-Mexico border, and gender issues
(520) 621-1775
olearya@arizona.edu
Dr. Javier Osorio

Javier Osorio

Assistant Professor, School of Government and Public Policy
Human Security Cluster Coordinator, UA-UNAM Binational Reserach Consortium on Migration, Human Rights, and Human Security
josorio1@arizona.edu

Emma Pérez

Research Social Scientist, The Southwest Center
  • Chicana/Chicano Studies
  • LGBT Chicanx/Mexicanx in the borderlands
  • Gender and Women's Studies
emmaperez@arizona.edu
Christopher A. Scott

Christopher Scott

Former Director, Udall Center-Studies in Public Policy
Professor Emeritus, Geography & Development
  • Resilience of coupled natural-human systems
  • Adaptation to climate change
  • Water security, & the water-energy-food security nexus
520-626-8473
cascott@email.arizona.edu
Gemma Smith

Gemma Smith

Assistant Professor, School of Government and Public Policy
Assistant Research Professor, Udall Center for Studies of Public Policy
  • Environmental Governance, Policy and Justice, Water Governance, Global and Transboundary Institutions
  • Local Government, Institutional Analysis, Collaborative Governance
  • Climate Change Adaptation, Environmental Impact Assessment
gemmasmith@arizona.edu
Pronouns:
she, her, hers
Dr. Elizabeth Tellman

Elizabeth Tellman

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Analysis Techniques Computational models, algorithms
  • Decision making under uncertainty, Remote sensing Climate Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling Climate
  • Modelling Hydrologic interactions with climate Environmental Hydrology Biogeochemical cycles, processes, Modeling Urban systems Human, Water Interactions Sociohydrology, Water governance, Water security Surface, Water Hydrology Modern- and Paleo-floods
beth.tellman@wisc.edu

Daniela Triadan

Fred A. Riecker Distinguished Professor of Anthropology
  • Sociopolitical Development
  • American Southwest and Mesoamerica
  • East-central Arizona, Casas Grandes region in Chihuahua, Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize
520-626-0077
dtriadan@arizona.edu