Executive Board

The Hemispheric Institute has an Executive Board comprised by one member from each of our member institutions as well as an NYU Steering Committee comprised of New York University Faculty.


Lourdes Arizpe

Director
Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias (CRIM)

Gisela Cánepa-Koch

Associate Professor
Director of Program in Visual Anthropology
Department of Social Sciences
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Charlotte Canning

Professor
Department of Theatre and Dance

University of Texas at Austin

Sue-Ellen Case

Professor and Chair, Critical Studies
Department of Theater
School of Theater, Film and Television
University of California at Los Angeles

Rosa-Linda Fregoso

Professor
Latin American & Latino Studies
University of California at Santa Cruz 

Susanna Friedmann

Associate Professor
Institute of Aesthetic Research
Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Esther Gabara

Associate Professor
Departments of Romance Studies and
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Duke University

Macarena Gomez Barris
Associate Professor
Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity
University of Southern California

Paula Hernández

Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jorge Hernández Esguep

Director
School of Visual Arts
Universidad Austral de Chile

Marianne Hirsch

Professor
Departments of English and Comparative Literature
Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Columbia University


Susan Kellogg

Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Houston

Peter Kulchyski

Professor
Department of Native Studies
University of Manitoba

Jill Lane

Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Deputy Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
New York University

Zeca Ligiéro

Professor
Center of Arts and Literature
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Teatro
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Chicago

Alejandro L. Madrid

Assistant Professor
Latin American and Latino Studies Program
University of Illinois at Chicago

Leda Martins

Professor
Department of Literature
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Frances Negron Muntaner

Associate Professor, Department of English
Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Columbia University

Lorie Novak
Professor
Department of Photography and Imaging
New York University

Francisca Oseguera-Cruz

President
Fortaleza de La Mujer Maya (FOMMA)

Luis Peirano

Professor
School of Arts and Sciences
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Antonio Prieto-Stambaugh

Professor
Department of Theater
Universidad Veracruzana

Joe Randell

Director
ArtesAméricas
University of Texas at Austin 

Milla C. Riggio

Professor
Department of English
Trinity College

Javier Serna

Lecturer
School of Theater
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

Doris Sommer

Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Harvard University

Silvia Spitta

Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Dartmouth College

Camilla Stevens

Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Rutgers University

Diana Taylor

University Professor
Departments of Performance Studies and Spanish and Portuguese
Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
New York University

Tamara Underiner

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Schools of Theater and Film
Arizona State University

Patricia Ybarra

Assistant Professor
Department of Theatre, Speech & Dance
Brown University

Brenda Werth

Assistant Professor
Department of Language and Foreign Studies
American University

Lois Zamora

Professor of English, History and Art
University of Houston