Our Group

Meet the members of the Cuir/Queer Americas Working Group.

Gabriela Arguedas 

Universidad de Costa Rica, Facultad de Letras

Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Pascha Bueno-Hansen

Gender and Women’s Studies, Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware

Fernando Blanco

Director Latin American Studies Program, Bucknell University

Santiago Castellanos

Decano del Colegio de Comunicación y Artes Contemporáneas, Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé

Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Latin American and Latinx Studies, Fordham University

Carlos Ulises Decena

Acting Director, Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, Rutgers University

Diego Falconí-Trávez

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departamento de Filología Española

Licia Fiol-Matta 

Center for the Humanities, City University of New York

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

University of Michigan, Department of American Culture

Amy C. Lind

University of Cincinnati, School of Public and International Affairs

Mariano G. Lopez Seoane

New York University, College of Arts & Science

Montserrat Sagot

Centro de Investigación en Estudios de la Mujer, Universidad de Costa Rica

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel

University of Miami, College of Arts and Sciences

Juliana Martínez

American University, Department of World Languages and Cultures

Lourdes Martínez-Echazabal

University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Latin American & Latino Studies

Marcia Ochoa 

University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Performance, Play and Design

Mario Pecheny

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales

Joseph M. Pierce

Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Stony Brook University

Suyapa Portillo Villeda

Pitzer College, Chicanx-Latinx Studies

Rubén Ríos-Ávila

New York University, College of Arts & Sciences

Cole Rizki

Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Virginia

Claudia Sálazar Jiménez

Cal Poly Pomona, Department of English and Modern Languages

Marcelo Spitzner

Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia

Susana Vargas Cervantes

Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication

Salvador Vidal Ortiz

American University, Department of Sociology

Maria Amelia Viteri

University of Maryland, Department of Anthropology