Belize

Richard Albert

Government, Law

Richard Albert's research interests are constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law, with specific focus on constitutional reform, constitution-making, and comparative constitutionalism.

Timothy Beach

Geography and the Environment, Environmental Science Institute, Latin American Studies

Tim Beach's research interests include geoarchaeology, soils, climate change, wetlands, climate history, geomorphology, and paleoenvironments of the Maya world and Mediterranean. He has conducted field research in the Corn Belt of the U.S., Belize, Colombia, Germany, Guatemala, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Syria, and Turkey.

Donna De Cesare

Journalism and Media, Latin American Studies

Donna De Cesare is an author, documentary photographer and educator known for covering the spread of U.S. gangs in Central America.

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima

Psychology, Medicine, Pharmacy

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima's lab focuses on the mission to prevent neurocognitive and emotional disorders, understand the underlying brain mechanisms, and advance innovative non-invasive treatments. Areas of research interest include transcranial infrared brain stimulation, near infrared spectroscopy, neurocognitive enhancement, mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase, dementia, bipolar disorder and neurotherapeutics.

Edmund Gordon

African and African Diaspora Studies

Edmund Gordon's teaching and research interests include culture and power in the African Diaspora, gender studies (particularly Black males), critical race theory, race education, and the racial economy of space and resources.

Kenneth Greene

Government

Kenneth Greene's research focuses on authoritarian regimes and political competition in new democracies, with a particular emphasis on Mexico.

Sheryl Luzzader-Beach

Geography and the Environment

Sheryl Luzzader-Beach specializes in physical geography, hydrology and geomorphology, water chemistry, geoarchaeology, geostatistics, and gender, science and human rights.

Astrid Runggaldier

Art and Art History

Astrid Runggaldier is a Mesoamericanist interested in Maya culture and in anthropological approaches to architecture, households, and built environments in the context of the ancient civilizations of the Americas.

Fred Valdez

Anthropology

Fred Valdez's research focuses on the history of archaeological investigations in Central America, cultural continuity and transition in Latin America and the American Southwest, and Mesoamerican prehistory. His interests include material culture such as ceramic and lithic technologies, settlement patterns and small site studies, and the early emergence of social and political complexity.

Abigail Weitzman

Sociology, Latin American Studies

Abigail Weitzman is a sociologist with a particular interest in gendered family dynamics and the social psychology of demographic processes. Weitzman studies diversity in young women's sexual and fertility desires, how and why such desires evolve during the transition to adulthood, and their influence on young women's reproductive behaviors. Her research explores how different types of sexual relationships emerge and progress among young adults.

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