
People
Program Administration
Erika Robb Larkins
Director
Office: AL-626
Phone: (619) 594-5028
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Erika Robb Larkins is the director of the Center for Brazilian Studies and associate professor of Anthropology and Sociology at SDSU. She received her doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and also holds a M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching focus on violence and inequality in urban settings. Her first book, The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil (U California Press 2015), explores the political economy of spectacular violence in one of Rio’s most famous favelas. Dr. Larkins is presently working on a second book examining the private security industry in Brazil.
Kristal Bivona
Assistant Director
Office: AL-626
Phone: (619) 594-4771
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Associated Faculty & Staff
Ryan Abman
Assistant Professor, Economics
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Stuart Aitken
Professor, Geography
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Cristina Alfaro
Professor, Dual Language and English Learner Education
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Adisa Alkebulan
Chair, Africana Studies
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Thaís da C. L. Alves
Chair, Construction Engineering and Management
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Cristian Aquino-Sterling
Associate Professor, School of Teacher Education (STE) and Associate Dean for Diversity
and International Affairs, College of Education
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Jessica Baham
International Programs Coordinator, College of Arts and Letters
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Mark Ballam
Managing Director, CIBER, College of Business
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Rebecca Bartel
Assistant Director, Center for Latin American Studies
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Pablo Ben
Associate Professor, History
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Trent Biggs
Professor, Geography
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Fernando J. Bosco
Professor, Geography
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Stephanie Brodine, M.D., Georgetown University
Professor, Public Health
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Amanda Bryant
Assistant Director, CIBER
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Grace Cheng
Director, Interdisciplinary Human Rights Initiative
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Cássia De Abreu
Lecturer, Portuguese
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Kevin Delgado
Associate Professor, Music
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Fernando De Sales
Assistant Professor, Geography
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Robert Edwards
Professor, Biology & Computer Science
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Salvador Espinosa
Associate Professor, Public Administration
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Gabriel Gonzalez
Assistant Professor, Marketing
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Allen Gontz
Professor and Chair, Geology
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Philip Greiner
Director, School of Nursing
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Lawrence Herzog
Professor, City Planning
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José Carmelo Interlando
Professor, Mathematics
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Zoe Jarocki
Undergraduate Instruction Librarian, Library & Information Access
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Susan Kiene
Professor, School of Public Health
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Matthew Lauer
Director, Sustainability Program
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Enrico Marcelli
Associate Professor, Sociology
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Madhavi McCall
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Letters
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Anta Merritt
Lecturer, Africana Studies
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Nadezda Novakovic
Program Specialist, LARC
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Thomas Novotny
Professor, School of Public Health
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Ramona Pérez
Director, Center for Latin American Studies
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John Putnam
Director, International Business Program
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Amy Schmitz Weiss
Professor, School of Journalism and Media Studies
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Kate Swanson
Associate Professor, Geography
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Charles Toombs
Professor, Africana Studies
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Milton Torikachvili
Professor, Physics
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Patricia van Damme
Advisor, College of Business
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Ricardo Vasconcelos
Professor, Portuguese
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Matthew Verbyla
Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering
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Roland Wolkowicz
Associate Professor, Biology
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María Luisa Zúñiga
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
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Intercollegiate Advisory Board Members (2019-2020 Term)
Ryan Abman
Stuart Aitken
Thaís da C. L. Alves
Cristian Aquino-Sterling
Mark Ballam
Fernando De Sales
Gabriel Gonzalez
Zoe Jarocki
Madhavi McCall
Milton Torikachvili
Ricardo Vasconcelos
Roland Wolkowicz
María Luisa Zúñiga
Visiting Scholars
Alexandra Almeida
Doctoral Student
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Denise De Alcântara
Visiting Scholar
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Salvador Gullo Neto
Visiting Scholar
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Tomas Salem
Doctoral Student
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