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PROGRAM COMMITTEECarol Drogus, Ph.D., Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students for Off-Campus Study/International Student Advisor(cdrogus@hamilton.edu) Professor of Government Carol Ann Drogus (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) studies comparative politics with an emphasis on Latin America, particularly Brazil. She is the author of Activist Faith: Grassroots Women in Democratic Brazil and Chile (with Hannah Stewart-Gambino, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005) and Women, Religion, and Social Change in Brazil's Popular Church (University Press of Notre Dame Press, 1997). Her articles have appeared in Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Latin American Research Review, Comparative Politics, Southeastern Political Review, Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions (France), Der uberblick (Germany) and Tempo e Presenca (Brazil). Drogus as serves as Associate Dean of Students for Off-Campus Study/International Student Advisor. She has received Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Grants. She teaches courses on comparative politics, Latin American politics and gender and politics. Her other research and teaching interests include popular political movements, religion and politics, human rights and ethics. More about Carol Drogus ...
Dennis Gilbert, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology(dgilbert@hamilton.edu) Gilbert, who joined the Hamilton faculty in 1976, earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Cornell University. His primary research interests are Latin American and American class system. Gilbert is the author of The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality (Sage, 2008), Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era (University of Arizona Press, 2007), Sandinistas: the Party and the Revolution (Blackwell, 1988), and La Oligarquía Peruana: Historia de Tres familias (Horizonte, 1982). In 1990, he was research director to the successful congressional campaign of Bernard Sanders (Independent-VT) and later served as legislative assistant in Representative Sanders' congressional office. In collaboration with the polling firm Zogby International, Gilbert and his Hamilton students have conducted a series of widely reported national surveys, most examining the views of high school students, on such topics as gun control, gay rights, abortion, Muslims in America, and patriotism.
Cecilia Hwangpo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies(mhwangpo@hamilton.edu) Hwangpo joined the Hamilton faculty in 1998, after earning a Ph.D. from Yale University. Her main area of specialization is the discourses of national identity in Argentina and Cuba in early 20th century. Her research interests are Latin American literature and culture, twentieth century theatre, el sainete criollo, and essay. Her published articles include "Indagación del choteo: un llamado para el cambio en el modo de ser cubano," "José Antonio Ramos y la identidad nacional cubana: sentido, lenguaje y espacio," and "Los inmigrantes: el otro en el teatro argentino de principios del siglo XX."
Santiago Tejerina-Canal, Ph.D., Professor of Hispanic Studies(stejerin@hamilton.edu) A member of the Hamilton faculty since 1984, Tejerina-Canal earned his "Licenciatura en Filosofía y letras" in modern history from the Universidad Central de Barcelona (Spain), and his master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Former president of ALDEEU (Spanish Professionals in America), he has organized national lectures and international symposia, participated in numerous conferences, published many articles in Spanish Peninsular and Latin American literature and culture, and is also author of a book on Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes La muerte de Artemio Cruz: Secreto generativo. His more recent work in print includes three articles on "La Super/Ficcion de G.T.B. (y la saga/fuga de J.B.)," "Entre Napoleón y Ortega: Gonzalo Torrente Ballester," and "A una y otra parte del cristal: Profesionales españoles en Estados Unidos," and also his edition of Del rascacielos a la catedral: Un regreso a las raíces, an interdisciplinary volume with articles written by American and Spanish intellectuals. A second edited book by Tejerina-Canal will appear soon, 2001: Una odisea del espacio . . . entre raíces, catedrales y rascacielos. He has been part of the Hamilton College Academic Year in Spain since his arrival to the Hill and has served as its director seven times in Clinton and seven in Madrid. During his last directorship in Madrid (2002-04), Tejerina-Canal organized Hamilton's new Centro Universitario de Estudios Hispánicos. He is also co-founder of the Summer Institute of Hispanic Studies at the University of León, where he was Visiting International Studies Professor in 1995-96. He is department chair and HCAYSgeneral director.
Bonnie Urciuoli, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology(burciuol@hamilton.edu) Urciuoli came to Hamilton in 1988. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her areas of interests are linguistic and cultural anthropology, specializing in public discourses of race, class, and language, and particularly the discursive construction of "diversity" in U.S. higher education. Urciuoli's book, Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class, was published in 1996; it was awarded the 1997 Gustavus Myers Center Award for the study of human rights in North America. She has published in American Ethnologist, Language and Communication, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. Urciuoli is a member of the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Cultural Anthropology, the American Ethnological Society, and the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.
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