WILLIAMS, Philip J. Year of Appointment: 1989 Title/Department: Director, Center for Latin American Studies; Professor, Political Science Tenure Status: Tenured Education: BA, University of California, Los Angeles, Political Science, 1981; MPhil, University of Oxford, Latin American Studies, 1984; DPhil, University of Oxford, Politics, 1986 Number of Theses Supervised During Past 5 Years: 31 Languages: Spanish (S-5), Portuguese (S-2) Research/Teaching Interests: Religion and politics; Social movements; Democratization; Transnational migration; Civil-military relations in Latin America Courses: Immigration, Religion, and Politics in Latin America; Latin American Immigration to the US; Latin American Politics Overseas Experience: Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru Selected Publications: 2009 A Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida‘s New Destinations (with T. Steigenga and M. Vásquez, eds.). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2009 Introduction: Understanding Transnationalism, Collective Mobilization, and Lived Religion in New Immigrant Destinations (with T. Steigenga and M. Vásquez). In P.J. Williams, T. Steigenga and M. Vásquez, eds., A Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida‘s New Destinations. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press 2009 Solidarities among Mexican Immigrants in Immokalee (with P. Fortuny and M. Solís). In P.J. Williams, T. Steigenga and M. Vásquez eds., A Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida‘s New Destinations. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press. 2009 Transnationalism and Collective Action among Guatemalan and Mexican Immigrants in Two Florida Communities (with T. Steigenga). In P.J. Williams, T. Steigenga and M. Vásquez, eds., A Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida‘s New Destinations. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2009 Looking for Lived Religion in Immokalee (with P. Fortuny). In P.J. Williams, T. Steigenga and M. Vásquez, eds., A Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida‘s New Destinations. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2009 A Place to Be: New and Old Geographies of Latin American Migration in Florida and Beyond (with T. Steigenga and M. Vásquez). In P.J. Williams, T. Steigenga and M. Vásquez, eds., A Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida‘s New Destinations. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2009 The Nicaraguan Constitutional Experience: Process, Conflict, Contradictions, and Change (with L. Walker). In L. Miller and L. Aucoin, eds., Framing the State in Times of Transition: A Comparative Study of Constitution Making Processes. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace. 2008 Iglesias y espacios públicos: Lugares de identidad de mexicanos en Metro Atlanta (with P. Fortuny). Trayectorias: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 10(26). 2008 Identidad Colectiva y Movilización Política de los Inmigrantes Latinos en Florida (with T. Steigenga). Studia Politicae, 13. 2007 Más allá de Miami: Religión y migración en Florida (with T. Steigenga). In A. Panfichi, ed., Migraciones Internacionales. Lima, Peru: PUCP Fondo Editorial. 2007 Protestantism and Child Mortality in Northeast Brazil, 2000 (with C. Wood and K. Chijiwa). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 46(3): 405-416. 2007 Religion and Social Capital among Mexican Immigrants in Southwest Florida (with P. Fortuny). Latino Studies, 5(2): 233–253. 2005 Introduction: The Power of Religious Identities in the Americas (with M. Vásquez). Latin American Perspectives, 32 (1): 5-26. Percentage of time devoted to LAS: 100% Distinctions: University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship, 2009-12; National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant for research in Brazil, 2009; Ford Foundation grants in 2005, 2007, and 2010 for research on Latin American immigrants in the U.S. South C1 AARON, Jessica Elana Year of Appointment: 2006 Title, Department: Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Studies Tenure Status: Tenure-track Education: BA, Stanford University, Political Science/Spanish, 1999; MA, Stanford University, Latin American Studies, 2000; MA, University of New Mexico, Anthropology, 2002; PhD, University of New Mexico, Spanish NS Portuguese, 2006 Number of Theses Supervised During Past 5 Years: 12 Languages: Spanish (S-5), Portuguese (S-3), French (S-3) Research/Teaching Interests: Spanish sociolinguistics; Usage-based models of language, Grammaticalization; Language variation and change; Language attitudes and policy in the US and Spanish-speaking world Courses: Formation of Spanish Grammar; Language and Gender in Spanish; Language Policy of Spanish; Spanish Language Use and Change; Sociolinguistics of the Spanish-Speaking World Overseas Experience: Mexico Selected Publications: 2009 Coming Back to Life: From Indicator to Stereotype and a Strange Story of Frequency. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 13(4): 1-27. 2007 Quantitative Evidence for Contact-Induced Accommodation: Shifts in /s/ Reduction Patterns in Salvadoran Spanish in Houston (with J.E. Hernández). In K. Potowski and R. Cameron, eds, Spanish in Contact: Policy, Social and Linguistic Inquiries. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, pp. 327-341. 2007 Quantitative Measures of Subjectification: A Variationist Study of Spanish salir(se) (with R. Torres Cacoullos). Cognitive Linguistics, 16(4): 607-634. Percentage of time devoted to LAS: 100% ALTMAN, Ida Year of Appointment: 2006 Title/Department: Professor, History Tenure Status: Tenured Education: BA, University of Michigan, Latin American Studies, 1971; MA, University of Texas, Latin American Studies, 1972; MA, The John Hopkins University, History, 1978; PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, History, 1982 Number of Theses Supervised During Past 5 Years: 8 Languages: Spanish (S-4) Research/Teaching Interests: Mexican history; Early Caribbean history; Early modern Spain and Spanish empire; Iberian urban history Courses: Colonial Latin America; History of Mexico; Iberian Atlantic World; Introduction to Latin American History; Rebellion and Revolution in Mexico; Seminar on Colonial Spanish America Overseas Experience: Mexico Selected Publications: 2007 The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America. The Americas, 63(4): 587-614. 2007 Conquest, Coercion and Collaboration: Indian Allies and the Campaigns in Nueva Galicia. In L.E. Matthew and M.R. Oudjik, eds., Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 145-174. Percentage of time devoted to LAS: 100% Distinctions: Norman Wilensky Graduate Teaching Award, UF Department of History, 2009; Best Article Prize of the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association, 2008, for ―The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America,‖ The Americas C2 ANDERSON, Leslie E. Year of Appointment: 1988 Title/Department: Professor, Political Science Tenure Status: Tenured Education: BA, Bowdoin College, Government, 1979; MPH, University of Michigan, Population Planning, 1984; PhD, University of Michigan, Political Science, 1987 Number of theses supervised during past 5 years: 14 Languages: Spanish (S-5), French (S-4) Research/Teaching Interests: Democratization, Peasant studies; Comparative politics; Latin American politics Courses: Argentina and the Politics of Memory; Comparative Politics; Introduction to Comparative Policy Analysis; Modern Mexico Overseas Experience: Argentina, Nicaragua Selected Publications 2010 Social Capital in Developing Democracies: Argentina and Nicaragua Compared. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 2009 Simultaneous Democratization and De-Democratization in Nicaragua, the 2008 Municipal Elections in Perspective (with L.C. Dodd). Journal of Democracy, 20(3). 2006 The Authoritarian Executive? Horizontal and Vertical Accountability in a New Democracy: A Nicaraguan Perspective. Latin American Politics and Society, 48(2): 141-169. 2005 Learning Democracy: Citizen Engagement and Electoral Choice in Nicaragua, 1990-2001 (with L.C. Dodd). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2005 Graduate Education in a Pluralist Context: The Metaphor of a Tool Box. In K.R. Monroe, ed., Perestroika! The Raucous Revolution in Political Science. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Percentage of time devoted to LAS: 100% Distinctions: UF Research Foundation Professor, 2006-9; Fulbright Fellowship, Argentina, 2008 ANKERSEN, Thomas T. Year of Appointment: 1993 Title/Department: Lecturer; Director, Conservation Clinic and UF/University of Costa Rica Program in Environmental Law, College of Law Tenure Status: Non-tenure track Education: BA, University of South Florida, English and History, 1977; MA, University of South Florida, History, 1980; JD, University of Florida, College of Law, 1986 Number of theses supervised during past 5 years: 4 Languages: Spanish (S-4) Research/Teaching Interests: International law; Sustainable development law and policy; Latin American property law; History of Latin American law Courses: Conservation Clinic, Land Tenure and Administration Overseas Experience: Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico Selected Publications: 2008 O desenvolvimento do direito de posse comunal de terra nas comunidades afro-latinas (with G. Barnes and K. Painter). Amazonia Legal: Revista de Estudos Socio-Juridicos-Ambientais, 2(4): 13-40. 2007 Defending the Polygon: The Emerging Human