Meet the Team
See the members of our International Advisory Board
, Professor of Sociology at University College London (UCL)
Maxine was born in Pakistan and grew up in India and Latin America. She is Professor of Sociology and was Director of the UCL Institute of the Americas until April 2014. She supervises doctoral students on Latin American development policy, gender and politics, social policy, memory and migration.
Lecturer in Human Geography at University of Birmingham
Pat Noxolo鈥檚 research is at the confluence of international development, culture and in/security, and uses postcolonial, discursive and literary approaches to explore the spatialities of a range of Caribbean and British cultural practices. Recent work has focused on theorizations of space in the novels of Wilson Harris, Maryse Cond茅 and Earl Lovelace; on Caribbean laughter and materialities; on African-Caribbean dance as embodied mapping; and on securitisation in British development and immigration/asylum discourses.
Head of the team at National Museums Liverpool
Richard heads the International Slavery Museum at National Museums Liverpool where he is responsible for the strategic development of the Museum, including its forthcoming education and resource centre, partnerships, research and collection policies. He is also the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery, a partnership with the University of Liverpool.
Clare Dixon,
PUC-Rio Institute for International Relations
Our Postgraduate students
- Ursula Balderson, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- Hector Bezares Buenrostro, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- Jorge Altamirano Flores, School of Agriculture Food and Rural Development
- , School of Modern Languages
- Erika Do Amaral Valerio, School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development
- Charlie Dryden, School of Marine Science and Technology
- , School of Modern Languages
- , Media, Culture and Heritage
- , School of Modern Languages
- Ayshah Johnston, School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- Anja Libert, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- , School of Modern Languages
- Hannah Lyons, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- , School of Modern Languages
- Cinzia Monti, School of Modern Languages
- Diana Morales Arcila, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- Selina Patel, School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- Laura Pinzon, Architecture, Planning and Landscape
- Stefan Rzedzian, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- Katie Salmon, School of Modern Languages
- Hanna Sliashynskaya, School of Education, Communication and Language Science
- Alex Scott, School of Marine Science and Technology
- Alexandra Seedhouse, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- , Durham University, Department of Geography
- Antony Stewart, School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- Kerry Thomas, School of Marine Science and Technology
- William Whitehead, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- Andrea Wilkinson, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
- , School of Modern Languages
Our visiting staff
Dr Yanko Gonzalez
Universidad Austral de Chile
YANKO GONZ脕LEZ CANGAS has a PhD in social and cultural anthropology by the Universidad Aut贸noma de Barcelona. He is professor of social anthropology at the Institute of History and Social Sciences at the Universidad Austral de Chile. He has published articles on critics, ethnographic representation, and anthropology and history of youth. Furthermore he has published among other books: 鈥淗茅roes Civiles y Santos Laicos鈥� (interviews with 13 Chilean writers, 1999); 鈥淛ovens na Am茅rica Latina鈥� (Caccia-Bava, Feixa & Gonz谩lez, 2004) and 鈥淏ohemios, Rockanroleros y Revolucionarios. La construcci贸n hist贸rica de la juventud en Am茅rica Latina鈥� (Gonz谩lez & Feixa, 2013). He was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of his University between 2011 to 2017 and currently he is Director of the Universidad Austral麓s publishing house.
Professor Karen Sands O鈥機onnor
Buffalo State University, Part of the State University of New York
Was at 缅北禁地 for a whole academic year as Leverhulme Visiting Professor, hosted by the School of English. She is a specialist in children鈥檚 literature and in literature about and from the Caribbean.
Valent铆n D铆az
Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina
He is lecturer in Comparative literature and literary theory. His research is grounded on theories of the baroque in Latin America, using among other theorists, Walter Benjamin.
Professor Hugo Capella
Universidad de Concepci贸n, Chile
Joined us through the Santander Grants scheme. He worked with Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes from the Schoof of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. Hugo is a cultural geographer with a particular interest in urban space.
Alonso Quinteros
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
A lecturer in visual anthropology, his current research studies the post-conflict provincial cinema, particularly from Ayacucho. He has also worked on the history of Peruvian documentary film. He was in 缅北禁地 as part of the Cultural Narratives of Crisis and Renewal (CRIC) project.
Dr Alejandro Gasel
Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Argentina
Joined us as a University Research Committee Visiting Fellow. He worked with Matthew Benwell in Geography. Dr Gasel has a particular interest in Patagonia and its representation in Latin American literature.
Jos茅 Arturo Figuero
Lecturer in media, television and film production
School of journalism, Universidad Austral de Chile
He visited the Universidad de Valencia, another partner of the CRIC (Cultural Narratives of Crisis and Renewal) project, and stayed in 缅北禁地 for a week to present his work on home-made videos and memory in Chile.
Professor Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado
Universidade de S茫o Paulo, Brazil
Was a Santander Visiting Fellow. Maria Helena is a historian of slavery in Brazil and also has a longstanding interest in photography. She worked with Diana Paton on their 鈥楳othering Slaves鈥� project, funded by the AHRC.
Professor Andr茅s Iroum茅
Universidad Austral de Chile at Valdivia
Was a University Visiting Professor in spring-summer 2016 to continue a long-term collaboration with Dr James Bathurst, (Civil Engineering and Geosciences). Professor Iroum茅 is one of the leading forest hydrology specialists in South America. The primary visit research topic was evaporation as a function of tree species in Chile, investigating the use of latitude as an analogue for climate change.
Professor Sara Kindon
University of Wellington, Victoria
Was a University Visiting Fellow. Sara is a geographer with an interest in refugee resettlement. She has worked with communities in Costa Rica as well as in Aotearoa New Zealand and in Indonesia. She worked with Nina Laurie.