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The Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences has its own designated full-time faculty. This faculty, consisting of members from various disciplines, has a particular expertise in the Study of the Americas:

Carlos Aguasaco - Professor | Chair, Department of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Gail Buffalo - Assistant Professor | E.C.E. Program Director
Marlene Clark - Associate Professor, English
Elizabeth Matthews -  Assistant Professor, Psychology
Kathlene McDonald - Professor, English
Joan Robinson - Assistant Professor, Social Science & Law
Susanna Rosenbaum - Associate Professor, Anthropology | M.A. Program Director
Susanna Schaller - Associate Professor, Public Administration & Urban Studies
Martin Woessner - Professor, History & Society
Danielle Zach - Assistant Professor, Political Science
Rafia Zafar - Assistant Professor, Economics

Faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the ����Ӱҵ main campus, CUNY, and other expert professionals are also invited to teach courses in their areas of specialization. Recent guest faculty include:

: “Wild Animals of the Americas” (Spring 2012)
: "Magical Realism in the Americas" (Spring 2025) | “Bachata for a Diaspora: Dominican Fiction & Film of the 21st Century” (Spring 2022) | “Slavery and Its Historical Legacy in the Film and Fiction of the Americas" (Spring 2014)
Campbell Dalglish: "Transitions: Contemporary Ethnographic Film" (Spring 2024) | “Indigenous Visions” (Spring 2023, Spring 2019)
: "Indigenous People and Human Rights" (Fall 2015)
: "Microfinance in the Americas" (Fall 2014)     
: "Critical Childhood and Youth Studies across the Americas" (Spring 2015)
: “Labor Strategies in the Americas" (Fall 2013)
: "Slavery, Gender & Colonial Legacies" (Spring 2025) | "Postcolonial Caribbean Thought and Aesthetics" (Spring 2023) | “Slavery, Gender and Resistance in Hispaniola” (Fall 2020)
"Political Violence and Justice in Latin America" (Fall 2025)
Pedro José Ortega Espinal: "The Dominican People in the US: From Migrants to Rooted People" (Spring 2023)
: "Hurricanes and Rising Sea Levels: Climate Change in Caribbean Art and Literature" (Spring 2023) | “Literature & Art in the Contemporary Caribbean” (Spring 2020)
: “Music of the Americas” (Fall 2012)
: “Dreams, Ethics, and Society in the Americas” (Fall 2017)
: “Black Atlantic Cultures” (Spring 2018)
Vanessa K. Valdés: “Haiti and the Americas, from the Revolution to Today” (Spring 2021)