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Barbara L. Carter
 James
D. Huck, Jr., rejoined the Center for Latin American Studies in January
of 2001. He earned a BS in Foreign Service with a Certificate in Latin
American Studies (1990) from Georgetown University, and both his MA
(1993) and his Ph.D. (1997) in Latin American Studies from Tulane.
Before rejoining the Center, he served as the founding Director of the
Johnson Center for Latin American Studies at Albright College in
Reading, PA (1998-2000). His responsibilities at the Stone Center
include teaching core undergraduate LAS courses, advising graduate
students, and monitoring and coordinating the LAS curriculum at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels. His research interests include
contemporary Mexican foreign policy and Interamerican Relations. He also
teaches for the Political Science Department.Suyapa
Ingles
Ana López
Valerie
McGinley Marshall
Natalia Porto
Thomas F. Reese
Edith
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Sue Inglés
has been with the University since 1981 and assumed the position of
Assistant Director at the Stone Center in 1991. She is responsible for
the administrative operations of the Stone Center including, financial
and human resource management, property, equipment and facilities
administration, information and technology management.
A
long-standing faculty member of the Stone Center, Ana M. López
became the director of the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute in
Fall 2000. She is also an Associate Professor in the Communication Department
and Associate Provost of the university. Her scholarship and publications
are focused on Latin American film, media, television, and popular culture.
She has also worked extensively with Latino cultural production in the
U.S. Her work has been widely published in film and Latin American studies
journals and she is the co-editor of the volumes Mediating Two Worlds
(BFI, 1993), The Ethnic Eye: Latino Media Arts (University of Minnesota,
1996), and the three-volume Encyclopedia of Latin American Culture (Routledge,
2000). As director of the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute, she
oversees the Summer in Cuba program, the Summer in the Dominican Republic
program, and academic and cultural programming aimed at promoting a
true Cuban and Caribbean presence on Tulane's campus. 
Valerie
McGinley Marshall has been with the Stone Center since 1995. Her responsibilities
include overall planning and supervision of outreach activities, media
and public relations including production of Center publications, and
coordination of all funding initiatives of the Stone Center including
major gift solicitation and institutional and foundation applications.
Previous to her current position she coordinated educational outreach
activities through the Latin American Resource Center. She holds a B.A.
in Spanish and a M.Ed. in Second Language Instruction, both from Tulane
University, and taught high school Spanish and adult ESL in the metro-New
Orleans area.
Thomas
Reese has been with the Stone Center since 1999 as Executive Director.
His scholarship and publications include studies of eighteenth-century
Spanish art and politics, culture contact in sixteenth-century Mexico,
devotional space in Colonial Andean society, and contemporary architectural
practice in Europe and America. His most recent research focuses on
images and identity in turn of the century Argentina and Mexico. Previous
to coming to Tulane, he served as Deputy Director of the Getty Research
Institute in Los Angeles and taught at the University of Texas at Austin.
As Executive Director, he is responsible for overseeing all academic
and administrative functions of the Stone Center for Latin American
Studies. In addition, he also teaches courses in art history in the
Art Department.
Edith A. G. Wolfe joined
the Stone Center in July 2005. Her responsibilities include advising
undergraduate students in the major and minor programs in Latin American
Studies as well as coordinating events with TULASO, facilitating undergraduate-faculty
communications, and teaching one section of the Introduction to Latin
America course each semester. Edie has a Ph.D. in Art History with a
specialization in twentieth-century Latin American modernism (UT Austin,
2005), an M.A. in Latin American Studies (UCLA, 1993), a B.A. in Art
History and a B.S. in Environmental Design (UC Davis, 1986). Before
coming to the Center, Edie taught in the Art History Department at Tulane
and co-curated the exhibition Re-Aligning Vision: Alternative Currents
in Latin American Drawing at UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art. Her
research interests include modernism in the context of underdevelopment;
national, transnational and diasporic cultures and identities; and postcolonialism,
settler colonialism and subaltern studies.
Denise earned her BA in Spanish from Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 2000. She moved back to New Orleans and taught ESL with The Hispanic Apostolate and the Jefferson Parish Adult Education program. In 2005, she earned her Masters in International Communication from American University in Washington, DC where she focused on international education and cross-cultural communication. Denise also worked at American University helping to develop and coordinate the International Communication graduate program at the School of International Studies. In 2006 Denise joined the Stone Center as Program Manager for the Latin American Resource Center where she will continue her interest in international education.
