Accessibility Options:
University of Miami Simple text logo for University of Miami
Give to UM
Miami Herbert Business School
School of Education & Human Development
Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science
Miller School of Medicine
Frost School of Music
School of Nursing & Health Studies
Division of Continuing & International Education
Cane Link
Search UM (Mobile)
News and Events Center
Canelink
The UMIA Team
Hemispheric University Consortium
Latin American Studies Program
Global Health Studies Program
Global Oncology and International Programs
Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
LAPS Journal
Gender and Social Development Series
2017 Faculty Leads
Hemispheric Caribbean Series
Social Justice in the Americas Series
MIA Initiatives
2017 MIA Initiatives
The initiatives at UMIA were led by the following faculty leads from various departments accross the university.
Merike Blofield
2017 Gender & Social Development Faculty Lead-UMIA
m.blofield@miami.edu
Log in to view address
Merike Blofield is professor of political science (Ph.D. at UNC-Chapel Hill, 2003). A native of Finland, she has lived in Canada, Chile, Brazil, Argentina and the United States. Blofield has published two-single-authored books (Care Work and Class: Domestic Workers' Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America, Pennsylvania State...
Sallie L Hughes
Assoc. Professor
Faculty Director and Senior Faculty Research Area Lead for Latin American Studies
shughes@miami.edu
Sallie Hughes, Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Management, earned her PhD in Latin American Studies from the Roger Thayer Stone Center at Tulane University. She is the Faculty Director and Senior Faculty Research Area Lead for Latin American Studies at UMIA. Hughes is author of Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism...
Kate Ramsey
2017 Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Faculty Lead-UMIA
kramsey@miami.edu
Kate Ramsey works on Caribbean history and culture. Her research and teaching interests include the politics of religion, law, and performance; medicine and healing in the Atlantic world; Caribbean intellectual history, artistic production, and social movements; and the connection between anthropology and history. Her first book, The...
Francisco Valdes
2017 Social Justice Faculty Lead-UMIA
f.valdes@miami.edu
Francisco Valdes, Professor of Law at the University of Miami, earned a B.A. in 1978 from the University of California at Berkeley, a J.D. with honors in 1984 from the University of Florida College of Law, and a J.S.M. in 1991 and a J.S.D. in 1994 from Stanford Law School. Between law school and graduate work, he practiced as a civil...
University of Miami Coral Gables, FL 33124 305-284-2211
Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas
1541 Brescia Ave
UM Network
Hurricane Sports
Copyright: 2021 University of Miami. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Statement & Legal Notices