Faculty

Stacy Aronson

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., University of Minnesota
• M.A., University of Kansas
• B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University

Areas of Expertise

• Spanish Language
• Brazilian Portuguese Language
• 16-17th Century Peninsular Spanish Literature, Particularly by Women Authors
• Literary Representations of Sexual Violence
• Muslim and Jewish Literature of Spain

Vicente Cabrera Funes

Professor

• Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
• M.A., University of Massachusetts
• B.A., Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito

• Morris Faculty Distinguished Research Award
  Author of five books of Literary Studies.
  Author of five novels.

Areas of Expertise

• Spanish Language
• Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Novel
• Contemporary Hispanic Cinema

Donna Chollett

Associate Professor
LAAS Coordinator

• Ph.D., Michigan State University
• M.A., Iowa State University
• B.S., Iowa State University

Areas of Expertise

• Political Economy of Agrarian Systems, Anthropology of Food
• Rural Communities and Sociocultural Change in Latin America
• Social Movements, Social Justice, Human Rights

Tom Genova

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz
• M.A., UC Santa Cruz
• D.E.A., Universidad de Salamanca
• B.A., Georgetown University

Areas of Expertise

• 19th and 20th-century Spanish American literature
• Hemispheric studies
• The historical novel
• Race in the Americas
• Afro-latinidades

Arne Kildegaard

Professor, Center for Small Towns Director

• Ph.D., University of Texas
• M.A., University of Chicago
• B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College

Areas of Expertise

• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
• Economics of Renewable Energy Systems
• Economic Development
• General aviation (small planes) pilot

Benjamin Narvaez

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
• M.A., University of Texas at Austin
• B.A., Grinnell College

Areas of Expertise

• Latin American History
• U.S.-Latin American Relations
• Race and Ethnicity
• Labor History
• Immigration History

Windy González Roberts

Teaching Specialist

• M.Ed., Concordia College
• B.S., Lesley University

• UMM César Chávez Award
• Faculty-Staff Community Service Award

Areas of Expertise

• Spanish language
• Methods of Teaching Foreign Language
• Instructional Technologies in Language Instruction and Methodology
• Latino community issues

James Wojtaszek

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., Rutgers University
• M.A., Kent State University
• B.A., Kent State University

Areas of Expertise

• Spanish Language
• 19th and Early 20th Century Spanish Peninsular Literature
• Role of Modernity in Spain’s “Generation of 1898”
• Anarchism
• Marxism and Utopianism in 19th Century Spain
• Spanish Romanticism
• The Practice and Theory of Translation