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Maryland Faculty Experts Who Are Fluent in Spanish

The University of Maryland has a number of experts across campus who can speak fluent Spanish. Our experts are listed alphabetically. Please feel free to contact them directly.


Number of experts found: 48

 
Jorge Aguilar-Mora

Prof

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Expertise Key Words:
Latin American Literature, Nineteenth-Century, Literary Theory,Twentieth-Century Poetry, Contemporary Mexican Literature.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6446

jorgeam@umd.edu

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Jose H. Aranda-Espinoza

Assoc Prof, Lecturer, Affil Assoc Prof

Fischell Department of Bioengineering

Expertise Key Words:
Materials, Biotech

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8250

helim@umd.edu

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Carmen Benito-Vessels

Prof & Chair - Department of Spanish and Portuguese

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Expertise Key Words:
Spanish Literature, Medieval Literature and Historiography, Women and Ethnic Diversity in Medieval Spain, History of the Spanish Language.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6445

cbenito@umd.edu

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Roger R. Betancourt

Professor

Economics

Expertise Key Words:
Applied microeconomics and economic development. His main consultancies include international organizations as well as business firms. He is an expert on Cuba's Economy.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3479

betancou@econ.umd.edu

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Alberto D. Bolatto

Associate Professor

Astronomy

Expertise Key Words:
Evolution of galaxies, study of their properties and the processes involved in the formation of stars. Physics of the gas and dust in astrophysical environments. Instrumentation, particularly at radio and far-infrared wavelengths.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1521

bolatto@umd.edu

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Alberto F. Cabrera

Prof

Education Leadership, Higher Educ & Intnl Educ

Expertise Key Words:
Dr. Cabrera specializes in research methodologies, college choice, college students, classroom experiences, minorities in Higher Education and economics of education. Webcam. Skype.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2875

cabrera@umd.edu

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Virginia (Vicky) Carrasco

Coastal Communities Specialist

Maryland Cooperative Extension -Sea Grant Extension

Expertise Key Words:
Coastal development, sustainability, smart growth, growth management, Watershed Planning, Ecosystem Management, Eastern Shore, Chesapeake Bay, southern Florida

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5809

vcarrasco@arec.umd.edu

Address:
2200 Symons Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742-5535


 
Alejandro Cañeque

Assoc Prof

History

Expertise Key Words:
Colonial Latin America, Spain

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4265

acaneque@umd.edu

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Priscila Chaverri

Asst Prof

Plant Science & Landscape Architecture

Expertise Key Words:
fungi, mycology, biological control, systematics, taxonomy

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7041

pchaverr@umd.edu

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Sandra M. Cypess

Professor, Affiliate Professor

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Expertise Key Words:
Latin American Literature, Contemporary Theater and Performance Studies, Latin American Women Writers, Feminist Theory, Contemporary Mexican Literature & Cultural Studies. Halloween: Dia de los Muertos.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6445

smcypess@umd.edu

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Gniesha Y. Dinwiddie

Asst Prof

African American Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Sociology of Health and Illness, Social Epidemiology, Health Disparities, Educational Inequalities

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1158

gnieshad@umd.edu

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Bonnie J. Dorr

Professor and Associate Dean

Computer Science and UMIACS

Expertise Key Words:
Computational linguistics with an emphasis on automatic language understanding, summarization, and translation between multiple language pairs.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6768

bdorr@umd.edu

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Laurie A. Frederik Meer

Asst Prof

Performance Studies (Affiliate Faculty - Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Women's Studies)

Expertise Key Words:
Cuba, Caribbean, Latin America, African Diaspora, South Africa, politics and performance

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6682

fredmeer@umd.edu

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Judith N. Freidenberg

Associate Professor, Affilate Associate Professor; Director Anthropology of Immigrant Life Course

Anthropology

Expertise Key Words:
Medical anthropology and community development of a neighborhood; Anthropology of low-income urban enclaves with emphasis on aging in immigrant communities. Prof. Freidenberg is currently researching health care and employment needs of Latin American immigrant retirees in Langley Park, Maryland.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1420

jfreiden@umd.edu

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Lisa C. Gonzalez

Assoc Agent

UME-Family and Consumer Sciences

Expertise Key Words:
Nutrition education, gardening education, youth gardens, school gardens, child development, education, sensory education, gardening with senior citizens, biodynamic agriculture, waldorf education, ethnobotany.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

410 771 1761

lisacgo@umd.edu

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Dimitrios Goulias

Assoc Prof

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Expertise Key Words:
Highway Materials, Concrete, Asphalt,Composites, Condition Assessment, Destructive and Non Destructive Testing, Pavement Design, Pavement Management, Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Data Analysis

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301-4052624

dgoulias@umd.edu

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Leticia Goulias

Coordinator

Latin American Studies Center

Expertise Key Words:
Latin America - History and Culture

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8961

lgoulias@umd.edu

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Eric S. Haag

Assistant Professor

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
Evolutionary biology; sex determination; reproduction; nematodes; mutants; embryos animal development

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8534

ehaag@umd.edu

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William J. Hanna

Professor

Urban Studies & Planning Program

Expertise Key Words:
Langley Park Project; Immigrants; Immigration; Gangs; Neighborhoods; International Marginalization; Borderland; Two-Thirds World

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4005

bhanna@umd.edu

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Catherine W. Ingold

Director

National Foreign Language Center

Expertise Key Words:
E-learning materials for higher proficiency levels in critical languages; U.S. language policy, heritage language development (see Project REACH), education of translators and interpreters, and support of Language Access under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9844
301 405 9828

cingold@umd.edu
cwingold@nflc.org

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Eugenia E. Kalnay

Distinguished University Professor

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science

Expertise Key Words:
Numerical Weather Forecasting; Atmospheric Predictability and ensemble forecasting; Use of satellite observations; Data assimilation; Seasonal and Interannual prediction; Land-use change impact on climate change;

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5370

ekalnay@umd.edu
ekalnay@gmail.com

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Judith L. Klavans

Research Professor

CLiMB

Expertise Key Words:
Comnputational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Language and Culture, Information Technology, Digital Libraries, Metadata Management, Metadata Schema, Digital Government, Speech and Language

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1139

jklavans@umd.edu

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Steven J. Klees

Professor

Education Policy and Leadership

Expertise Key Words:
international education, development policy; economics of education and development

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2212

sklees@umd.edu

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Millicent I. Kushner

Asstant Professor

Curriculum & Instruction

Expertise Key Words:
ESOL; Oral and literacy development of English Language Learners with and without disabilities. What teachers need to know about first and second language acquisition, sequential and simultaneous bilingualism, the relationship between oral language proficiency and reading.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3148

millik@umd.edu

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Manel Lacorte

Assoc Prof

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Expertise Key Words:
Language classroom interaction and development, language use and identity, social and cultural issues in second language (L2) and heritage language (HL) teaching and learning, L2/HL teacher education, L2/HL methodology, and issues in Spanish applied linguistics.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8233

mlacorte@umd.edu

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Roberta Z. Lavine

Assoc Prof, Affil Assoc Prof, Lecturer

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Expertise Key Words:
Spanish language, Business Spanish, Cross-cultural Communication, and methodology; learner variables in language learning, especially learning disabilities, Language for Specific Purposes, and technology.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6443

rlavine@umd.edu

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Karen R. Lips

Associate Professor & Director, Graduate Program in Sustainable Development & Conservation Biology

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
biodiversity, tropical biology, amphibians, reptiles, extinction, amphibian population declines, ecology, conservation biology

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5030

klips@umd.edu

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Michael H. Long

Professor and Director

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Expertise Key Words:
Second language acquisition (SLA); foreign language learning and teaching in schools and universities; English as a second language (ESL); US foreign language needs; advanced L2 proficiency; Critical Period Hypothesis; theory and research on language learning; Task-Based Language Teaching

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6464

301-680-0001

240-432-8851

mlong5@umd.edu

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Rafael Lorente

Lecturer

Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Expertise Key Words:
U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba. Media coverage of national politics/presidential elections.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2425

301 864 0168

202 841 2375

rlorente@jmail.umd.edu

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Sean D. Luechtefeld

Grad Asst III

Communication

Expertise Key Words:
Communication, politics, rhetoric, political culture, rhetoric of economics, poverty, entrepreneurship, populism, social movements, asset building

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8976

sdl@umd.edu
seanluechtefeld@gmail.com

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Carlos A. Machado

Assoc Prof

Biology

Expertise Key Words:
Evolution Genomics

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9447

machado@umd.edu

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Eyda M. Merediz

Associate Professor, Lecturer

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Expertise Key Words:
Transatlantic Studies, Colonial Latin American Literature, Latin American Literature & Culture, Cuban Literature & Cinema.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6451

emerediz@umd.edu

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Edgar Moctezuma

Lecturer

Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics

Expertise Key Words:
plant biology, peanuts, peanut gynophore, plant science, gravitropism, plant growth, plant physiology, plant hormones, fruit development, tomato, genetic engineering, genetically modified organisms, plant gene expression, chicanos, latinos in science

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1638

emoctezu@umd.edu

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John E. Newhagen

Associate Professor

Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Expertise Key Words:
journalism mass media new technology politics communication terrorism catastrophe emotion polling public opinion internet effects content meaning cultural meaning interactivity persuasion latin america central america credibility trustworthness surveys

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2417

301 854 9097

newhagen@umd.edu

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Luis A. Orozco

Professor and Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute

Physics

Expertise Key Words:
Quantum Optics; Cavity QED; Precision tests of discrete symmetries; Francium Spectroscopy

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9740

lorozco@umd.edu

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Daniel R. Perez

Associate Professor

VA-MD Regional Col Veterinary Med

Expertise Key Words:
Avian influenza, swine influenza, interspecies virus transmission (such as animal to human or avian to swine, flu transmission); virology; plasmid-based reverse genetics; pandemic viruses.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 314 6811
301 314 6678

dperez1@umd.edu
danielpmd@comcast.net

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Miriam Phillips

Asst Prof Dance

School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Dance Ethnology/Anthropology. Concentrations in India, Spain, West Africa (Guinea); Nationalism, Colonialism; Dance/Movement as Embodied Culture; Intercultural Performance and Pedagogy; Flamenco Dance; Laban Movement Studies.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4691

mphill@umd.edu

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Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia

Professor

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Expertise Key Words:
Latin American and Caribbean Cultures and Literature; Philosophy and Literature, Theory and Cultural Practices

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301-405-6450

jcquinte@umd.edu

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Stella M. Rouse

Asst Prof

Government & Politics

Expertise Key Words:
Latino politics, minority politics, legislative and political behavior; how Latinos vote; how Latinos are represented; role of religion in politics; immigration

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4156

srouse@umd.edu

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Lourdes G. Salamanca-Riba

Prof

Materials Science & Engineering

Expertise Key Words:
Materials characterization using transmission electron microscopy. Self-assembled multiferroic materials of ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5220

riba@umd.edu

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David A. Sartorius

Asst Prof

History

Expertise Key Words:
Cuba, Caribbean, empire, colonialism, U.S.-Cuban relations, race and ethnicity, African diaspora, Latin America.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4287

das@umd.edu

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Frank Siewerdt

Assistant Professor

Animal & Avian Sciences

Expertise Key Words:
Quantitative Genetics, Biostatistics

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7721

siewerdt@umd.edu

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Santiago D. Solares

Asst Prof

Mechanical Engineering

Expertise Key Words:
Nanomechanics, nanorobotics, nanomanipulation, scanning probe microscopy, quantum mechanics, atomic force microscopy, molecular simulation, multi-scale simulation, nanotechnology

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5035

ssolares@umd.edu

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Alicia Solorzano Quijano

Res Asst Prof

Veterinary Medicine Program

Expertise Key Words:
Swine Flu, pandemics, vaccines

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 314 6812

asolor@umd.edu

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Saul Sosnowski

Associate Provost for International Affairs; Director

Office of International Programs

Expertise Key Words:
Latin American Fiction and Essay, Literary Criticism, Latin American-Jewish Literature and Cultures

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4772

sosnowsk@umd.edu

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Christopher S. Walsh

Professor

Natural Resource Sciences & Landscape Architecture

Expertise Key Words:
Food safety of fresh fruits and vegetables; Production and handling of fruit crops; Training international food producers

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4351

cswalsh@umd.edu

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David E. Wilt

Librarian III

Libraries

Expertise Key Words:
Film and History; Mexican Cinema and Popular Culture; World War II Motion Pictures; Animated Cartoons; Popular Culture and Society

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9209

dwilt@umd.edu

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Ruth E. Zambrana

Professor , Women's Studies and Director of Research, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity

Women's Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Racial/ethnic health and educational disparities by gender, socioeconomic status and age with a focus on U.S. Latinos; public health; health services research, public health policy.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 0451

rzambran@umd.edu

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