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Faculty Bill Donovan Professor Donovan studies the Atlantic-system established by Portugal during the sixteenth-century and fortified during the colonial era. He is also interested in the social role the military and Guerrillas play in Latin America as well as the Jesuit presence in the Luso-Hispanic world. Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno Professor Rosas-Moreno's field of expertise is international communication especially with regard to Brazil. She has conducted additional research on news reports of the Southeast Asia Tsunami, Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, military massacres in El Salvador and Vietnam, and military print and photo coverage of Iraq. She is especially engaged with social justice issues such as feminism and education. Margarita Jácome Professor Jácome is interested in twentieth-century Columbia and how violence as expressed in the novel and in testimonio affects social structures in that country. She also conducts research on and teaches testimonial literature as well as the early twentieth-century avant-garde movement in Hispanic America. Marie Murphy Professor Murphy’s teaching interests include the contemporary novel in Latin America and especially the Boom authors of the sixties and seventies as well as works authored by women. Michael Unger Professor Unger specializes in Business in the Latin American arena as well in the global context including Africa and especially in regional trading blocks, regional integration and emerging market financial systems. He leads International Business Study Tours to Chile, Argentina, and/or Brazil. Thomas Ward Professor Ward is concerned with understanding social alterity in Latin America (Peru, Argentina, and Mexico) as governed by ethnicity, culture, gender, class, as articulated in traditional and non-traditional prose forms. | |||
