Faculty, Staff and Advisory Board

Marysol Asencio, Asst. Prof. of Family Studies & Puerto Rican/Latino Studies
(860) 486-4177, asensio@uconnvm.uconn.edu, Faculty website
Ph.D. Columbia University. Joined the Institute's core faculty as Assistant Professor of Family Studies in Fall 1998. Areas of interest include gender; sexuality; migration; race/ethnicity; urban and community health; and social inequities/human rights. Recent publications include "Machos and Sluts: Gender, Sexuality and Violence Among a Cohort of Puerto Rican Adolescents" (Medical Anthropology Quarterly)

Jose Gaztambide, Asst. Prof. of Communication Sciences & Puerto Rican and Latino Studies [ON LEAVE]
Ph.D. Stanford University. Joined the Institute's core faculty as Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences in Fall 1997. Areas of interest include mass media and political communication with a special focus on island and stateside Puerto Ricans. He has experience in survey methodology. His writings include "Political Communication Behaviors in the 1992/1996 Elections in Puerto Rico" (submitted to Revista de Ciencias Sociales, UPR)

Xaé Alicia Reyes, Assoc. Prof. of Education & Puerto Rican and Latino Studies
(860) 486-0291, xreyes@uconnvm. uconn.edu, Faculty website
Ph.D. University of Colorado. Joined the Institute's core faculty as Associate Professor of Education in Fall 1999. Areas of interest include educational ethnography, teacher education, school reform, and migration and schooling. Recent publications include Puerto Rican Return Migrants in Sonia Nieto's forthcoming Puerto Rican Students in U.S. Schools (L. Erlbaum). She has also published in the Journal of Social and Behavioral Sciences and in the American Behavioral Scientist. She has taught at Rhode Island College, Brown University and at the University of Puerto Rico.

Diana Rios, Asst. Prof. of Communication Sciences & Puerto Rican and Latino Studies
(860) 486-3187, drios@uconn.edu, Faculty website
Ph.D. University of Texas. Joined the Institute's core faculty as Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences in Fall 1997. Areas of interest include mass communication and ethnic minority/gender studies. She is currently engaged in research with Puerto Ricans and other Latinos in Connecticut and selected U.S. cities. She has many articles in refereed journals and books, including "Latina/o Experiences Mediated Communication" Our Voices, 3rd ed., (Eds) by Gonzales, Houston and Chen. She is co-editor of the volume called Brown and Black Communication: Conflict and Convergence in Mass Media. CT: Greenwood.(br)

Lisa Sánchez Gonzalez, Asst. Professor, English Department and Inst. of Puerto Rican/Latino Studies
(860) 486-2751, lisa.m.sanchez@uconn.edu, Faculty website
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA. Joined the Institute's core faculty as Assistant Professor of English in Fall 2003. Recent publications include "Nicholasa Mohr," a chapter in Reading U.S. Latina Writers: Remapping American Literature and her forthcoming book, Pura Belpre: Her Life and Writings, to be published in the award-winning Recovery series at the University of Houston (Arte Publico) in 2004. Works in progress include articles on Latina feminist pedagogy and literature and a textbook anthology of Latina/o literature.

Anne Theriault, Administrative Assistant
(860) 486-3997, anne.theriault@uconn.edu

Advisory Board 2004

Blanca Silvestrini, Director, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, and Professor, Dept. of History
blanca.silvestrini@uconn.edu, Faculty website

Emma Amador, graduate student,
emma.amador@uconn.edu

Marysol Asencio, Asst. Professor, School of Family Studies & PRLS,
asensio@uconnvm.uconn.edu, Faculty website

Rosemary Diaz, graduate student,
rosediaz3@aol.com

Darlene Hull, Library Specialist, Babbidge Library,
Darlene.hull@uconn.edu

Jose Manautou, Asst. Professor, School of Pharmacy
manautou@uconnvm. uconn.edu, Faculty website

Maria D. Martinez, Director, Center for Academic Programs
maria.d.martinez@ uconn.edu, Faculty website

Samuel Martinez, Asst. Prof., Anthropology Dept.,
Samuel.martinez@ucon.edu

Lirio Negroni-Rodriguez, Asst. Professor, School of Social Work
(860-570-9172 Fax 860-570-9139)
LIRIO.NEGRONI-RODRIGUEZ@UConn.edu, Faculty website

Angel Oquendo, Professor of Law, UConn School of Law, angel.oquendo@uconn.edu

Mayte Perez-Franco, Director, Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center
mayte.perez-franco@uconn.edu, Faculty website

Alexender Vias, Asst. Professor, Geography Dept.,
Alexander.vias@uconn.edu