Global Studies & World Languages Faculty

Michael Bowler
Associate Professor

Minné 124
507.457.2231

Education

  • PhD: Social Science (Development Studies) | Maxwell School, Syracuse University
  • MA: International Relations | Maxwell School, Syracuse University
  • MSc: Counseling (Multicultural) | Syracuse University
  • BA: Government & International Studies | University of Notre Dame

Teaching & Research Interests

  • Global Poverty & Sustainable Development
  • Refugees and Migration
  • Cultures of South and Southeast Asia
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Linda D’Amico
Professor

Minné 129
507.457.5403

Education

  • PhD: Cultural Anthropology | Indiana University-Bloomington
  • MA: Cultural Anthropology | Indiana University-Bloomington
  • BS: Bilingual Education, Latin American Studies | Indiana University-Bloomington

Teaching & Research Interests

  • Environmental Anthropology and Political Ecology
  • Gender, Development and Collaborative Methodologies
  • Social Movements in Latin America
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Vanessa Fernandez-Greene
Professor

Minné 126
507.457.2393

Education

  • PhD: Hispanic Language and Literatures | Boston University
  • MA: Spanish | Middlebury College
  • BA: Spanish and International Studies | Kalamazoo College

Teaching & Research Interests

  • Argentine literature and culture of the 20th century
  • Latin American culture and literature
  • Experiential education abroad
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Juan Fernandez-Iglesias
Associate Professor

Minné 138
507.457.5379

Education

  • PhD: Spanish | University of Kansas
  • MA: Spanish | University of Kansas
  • BS: Germanic Philology | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Teaching & Research Interests

  • Spanish Language
  • Spanish Contemporary Narrative
  • Spanish and European Culture
  • Study Abroad and Faculty-led Programs
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Armando Gonzalez
Professor

Minné 137
507.457.5412

Education

  • PhD: Spanish Literature | University of Iowa
  • MA: Spanish Literature | University of Iowa
  • BA: Spanish | University of Iowa

Teaching & Research Interests

  • Latin American Literature
  • Peninsular Literature
  • Spanish Language
  • Language and Technology
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Yogesh Grover
Professor

Minné 122
507.457.5415

Education

  • PhD: Political Science | University of Missouri-Columbia
  • MA: Political Science | Delhi University, India
  • BA: Political Science | Delhi University, India

Teaching & Research Interests

  • International Relations
  • Comparative Politics
  • Human Rights, Democratization
  • Global Studies
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Amy Hornby Uribe
Professor, Department Chair

Minné 139
507.457.5488

Education

  • PhD: Foreign Language Education | University of Texas-Austin
  • MA: Spanish Linguistics | University of Texas-Austin
  • BS: Secondary Education and Spanish | University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Teaching & Research Interests

  • Language Teaching Methodology
  • Spanish Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Approaches to teaching second language grammar with a focus on form, guided inductive learning and top-down approaches
  • Latinos in the United States
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Mary Hudgens Henderson
Associate Professor

Minné 131
507.457.5422

Education

  • PhD: Hispanic Linguistics | University of New Mexico
  • MA: Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language | Colorado State University
  • MA: Spanish Language, Literatures and Cultures | Colorado State University
  • BA: English and Spanish | Florida Atlantic University

Teaching & Research Interests

  • Bilingual Education
  • Spanish dialectology
  • Heritage language education
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language variation and linguistic diversity in education

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Ronald Mazur
Professor

Somsen 110

507.457.5166

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Miho Nagai
Associate Professor

Minne 134
507.457.2829

Education 

  • PhD: Linguistics | Graduate Center, City University of New York
  • MA: Linguistics | Syracuse University
  • MA: Applied Linguistics (with TESOL) | University of Pittsburgh
  • BA: English | Kobe Shoin Women’s University, Japan

Teaching & Research Interests

  • Syntax (Japanese and Turkish)
  • Syntax-Prosody & Pragmatics-syntax interface
  • Japanese linguistics
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Weidong Zhang
Professor

Minné 114
507.474.5790

Education

  • PhD: Mass Communication (Cultural Studies) | University of Iowa
  • MA: Asian Studies/Asian Civilizations | University of Iowa
  • BA: Chinese/Journalism | Nanjing University | P.R. China

Teaching & Research Interests

  • Chinese language & pedagogy
  • Cultural studies (media, culture & Chinese society)
  • Ethnicity & Identity in China
  • Discourse analysis
  • Small-town America
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