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Marcelo BorgesAssociate Professor of History (1997).Denny Hall Room 111borges@dickinson.edu (717) 245-1186
Elise Bartosik-VélezAssociate Professor of Spanish; Director of the Dickinson Semester/Year Malaga Program, 2010-12 (2003).bartosie@dickinson.edu B.A., University of California at San Diego, 1987; Masters in Pacific International Affairs, University of California at San Diego, 1990; M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997; Ph.D., 2003.Professor Bartosik-Vélez received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Illinois. She teaches Latin American literature, and focuses in particular on the colonial period and the nineteenth century. Her research interests include: Christopher Columbus, the colonial and independence era in both Latin America and the United States, comparative colonizations and nationalisms, the intersections between history and literature, and the cultural encounter between the Americas and Europe.
Marcelo BorgesAssociate Professor of History (1997).Denny Hall Room 111(717) 245-1186 | borges@dickinson.edu | Visit Web SiteLicenciado en Historia, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 1988; Profesor en Historia, 1988; Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1997.He teaches Latin American, Iberian, and comparative history. His current research deals with transatlantic migration from Portugal to Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly to Argentina; and with migration, identity and community formation in the oil fields of Patagonia, Argentina.
Carolina CastellanosAssistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese (2010).Bosler Hall Room 12M(717) 245-1834 | castellc@dickinson.edu Literata, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, 2000; M.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004; M.A., Vanderbilt University, 2007; Ph.D., 2010.
Kjell I. EngeAssociate Professor of Anthropology (1984).Denny Hall Room 20(717) 245-1207 | enge@dickinson.edu | Visit Web SiteB.A., Northeastern University, 1964; Ph.D., Boston University, 1981.Prof. Enge's specialties include the design and use of monitoring systems to track the progress of education and health projects and the evaluation of projects, including formative, summative and the determination of sustainability into the future. His current work in education includes directing a three-year cross-national evaluation of the libraries donated to primary/secondary schools in Asia and Africa by Room to Read to determine the effects and attitudes toward reading and literacy involving both schools, parents and community leaders. The evaluation uses a multi-method combination of quantitative-qualitative methods and is being carried out in Laos, Nepal and Zambia. He is also in the process of completing a series of case studies in Rajasthan, India on private public partnerships (PPP) in education. These case studies involve CISCO, Educate Girls Globally, the Rajasthan ministry of Education, financed by USAID (under EQUIP1) and done in conjunction with the World Economic Forum. The objective is to determine what makes these partnerships successful and how access to and the quality of education can be improved. He uses examples from work in both education and health to show students the practical uses of the social sciences to address world problems.
Margaret G. FrohlichAssistant Professor of Spanish (2007).Bosler Hall Room 5M(717) 245-1155 | frohlicm@dickinson.edu B.A., University of Colorado-Denver, 2001; Ph.D., Stony Brook University, 2006.She specializes in 20th century and contemporary narrative with a focus on the construction of national and sexual identities. Her book, Framing the Margin: Nationality and Sexuality across Borders, won the international competition for the Victoria Urbano Monograph Prize of the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica.
Sinan KoontAssociate Professor of Economics (1986).Althouse Hall Room 112(717) 245-1841 | koont@dickinson.edu | Visit Web SiteB.A., Park College, 1963; M.S., University of Arkansas, 1966; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1972; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1987.His teaching interests include economic theory, econometrics, mathematical economics, economic development, and comparative economic systems. His current research interest is agrarian reform and macro economic policy in Central America and Caribbean.
Mariana Past (on leave 2011-12) Assistant Professor of Spanish (2006).pastm@dickinson.edu B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1994; M.A., Duke University, 2002; Ph.D., 2006.Twentieth-century Spanish and Francophone Caribbean literature is her area of concentration, and her current projects focus on Haitian-Dominican relations and representations of the Haitian Revolution in both literary and historical texts written in Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole. Her interests also include questions of migration/exile in Caribbean literature and influence vs. imitation in Latin American literature.
Jerry Philogene (on leave 2011-12) Assistant Professor of American Studies (2005).philogej@dickinson.edu B.A., New School University, 1989; M.A., New York University, 1993; Ph.D., 2009.Jerry Philogene specializes in 20th century African American and Afro Caribbean visual arts and cultural history. Her teaching interests include interdisciplinary American cultural history and black cultural and identity politics. Her research interests explore the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender as articulated in contemporary visual and popular culture.
Hector A. Reyes ZagaAssistant Professor of Spanish (2009).Bosler Hall Room 7M(717) 245-1158 | reyeszah@dickinson.edu Licenciatura en Derecho, Universidad Iberoamericana-Mexico, 1997; M.A., University of Minnesota, 2005; Ph.D., 2009.Hector earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures from the University of Minnesota. He also received a degree in Law from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. His research interests include Mexican literature, Latino/a studies, law and literature, immigration studies, and human rights. His current projects focus on the representation of immigrants in literature produced on the Mexican border through the framework of human rights.
Alberto J. RodríguezProfessor of Spanish (1990).Bosler Hall Room 220(717) 245-1278 | rodrigua@dickinson.edu B.A., Clark University, 1974; M.A., 1976; Ph.D., Brown University, 1987.His scholarship has focused on the Spanish novel of the Golden Age, particularly Cervantes. The subject of his research is the study of narrative discourse in Don Quixote. Besides his work on Cervantes, he has published on other authors of the Spanish Golden Age, and also on Cuban literature.
J. Mark RuhlGlenn E. and Mary L. Todd Professor of Political Science (1975).Denny Hall Room 207(717) 245-1501 | ruhl@dickinson.edu | Visit Web SiteB.A., Dickinson College, 1970; M.A., Syracuse University, 1972; Ph.D., 1975.Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1988-1989.He specializes in comparative politics. His research centers on the politics of democratization in contemporary Latin America with a special emphasis on civil-military relations.
Peter B. Sak (on leave 2011-12) Associate Professor of Earth Sciences (2004).sakp@dickinson.edu B.A., Whitman College, 1995; M.S., The Pennsylvania State University, 1999; Ph.D., 2002.He specializes in describing and quantifying temporal and spatial variations in near surface deformation and landscape evolution. To document variability in regional scale deformation he integrates structural, geomorphic, and petrographic data sets. His current research projects involve field work along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, in central Colorado, and Valley and Ridge of central PA.
Jorge R. SagastumeAssociate Professor of Spanish (2003).Bosler Hall Room 126(717) 245-1722 | sagastuj@dickinson.edu B.A., University of Utah, 1997; M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1998; Ph.D., 2002.Jorge teaches for both the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies. His main area of research is Translation Studies and Spanish American Contemporary Theatre and Narrative. He has taught courses on Spanish American Narrative, Modernismo y Vanguardia, Spanish American Culture and Civilization, Literary Theory, Semiotics of Theatre and on Philosophy of Language applied to literary criticism. Jorge is the author of Responsabilidad ética en la lectura del texto teatral (2007) and the following books in translation with scholarly studies: Michael Augustin's Un tal Koslowski y otras miniaturas surtidas (2005), Lyubomir Nikolov's Parábolas a medianoche (2006), Sujata Bhatt's En busca de mi lengua (2006), Günter Kunert's El viejo habla con el alma (annotated edition - 2009) and Pearse Hutchinson's Distorsiones (annotated edition - 2010.) Jorge has also published several studies on Jorge Luis Borges and on Federico Andahazi. His current research project focuses on Borges and Cantor's hypothesis of the continuum. He is also the founding editor of Sirena: Poetry, Art, and Criticism, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press for Dickinson College.
Patricia van Leeuwaarde MoonsammyAssistant Professor of Africana Studies, Distinguished Chair in Africana Studies (2009).Althouse Hall Room G20(717) 245-1894 | moonsamp@dickinson.edu B.A., San Francisco State University, 1986; M.A., University of Michigan, 2002; Ph.D., 2009.Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, and a B.S. in Business Administration from San Francisco State University. Her scholarly interests lie at the intersection of expressive culture, social activism, and the politics of representation and subjectivity in the post-colonial Caribbean. With funding from the National Science Foundation, she conducted fieldwork in Trinidad and Tobago, exploring the dynamic relationships that exist between people of African and South Asian Indian ancestry and documenting how these are expressed though performance. At Dickinson College, Dr. van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy teaches courses on the African Diaspora and the Caribbean, and continues to engage in research on performance, activism and identity politics in the Caribbean.