Visiting Faculty

Iria Puyosa- Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies

Researcher in political communication and civil society. Current research interests: Networked social movements, information disorders, and civil resistance under authoritarian regimes. Ph.D. in Higher Education Public Policy from the University of Michigan, as well as graduate training in survey-based research and strategic communication. Use both quantitative and qualitative research methods. She has taught postgraduate courses in ICTs & Political Processes, Public Opinion & Social Media, Media & Politics, Research Methods in Digital Spaces, Political Communication, Radical Communication, and Social Networks Analysis in universities in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia. Currently, serving as chair in the Section on Venezuelan Studies of the Latin American Studies Association.

Maria Cabrera Arus- Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies

María A. Cabrera Arús, Ph.D. (Sociology, New School for Social Research), studies the impact of fashion and domestic material culture on regime stability and legitimation, with a geographical focus on the Caribbean region during the Cold War. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Theory & Society,Contexts, and Cuban Studies, and book anthologies, including The Revolution from Within and the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures. 

Cabrera Arús is also the author of the New Challenge Award for Social Innovation winning project Cuba Material, an archive of Cuban material culture from the Cold War era, and co-curator of the exhibitions Pioneros: Building Cuba’s Socialist Childhood in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design (September 17 – October 1, 2015) and Cuban Finotype and Its Materiality, at Cabinet magazine (October 21, 2015).

Estevão Rafael Fernandes-  Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies

Professor Fernandes is an anthropologist and holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies on the Americas from the University of Brasilia. He is the author of dozens of articles published in academic journals in Brazil, Colombia, Poland, the United States, Venezuela and Portugal (available here: https://independent.academia.edu/estevaofernandes). As a coordinator of the Amazonian Laboratory of Studies in Latin America at the University of Rondonia in the Brazilian Amazon, he develops research on topics such as indigenous peoples, postcolonialism, coloniality and queer studies. He is currently working on the effects of colonization on indigenous sexualities in Brazil and Latin America. On this subject he is the author of two books: Existe índio gay? (Prismas, 2017) and Gay Indians in Brazil (Springer, 2017). He is now working on two other books about native queerness in Latin America.

María Esperanza Casullo - Universidad Nacional de Río Negro (Argentina)