The Faculty Advisory Board, representing diverse disciplines and departments across campus, advises the CLACS Chair on programmatic and research priorities.
Class of 1930 Chair, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Department of Film and Media Studies
Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media. Her work focuses on photography, film and contemporary art, critical theory and aesthetics of both Spanish America and Brazil. She is the author of two books on photography. The first, Fotografia e Império. Paisagens para um Brasil...Read more about Natalia Brizuela
Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic
Berkeley Law School
Roxanna Altholz ’99 is an international human rights lawyer and scholar with extensive experience in international and national fora. Altholz has won several ground-breaking judgments from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, provided expert testimony before UN human rights groups, and...Read more about Roxanna Altholz
Class of 1930 Chair, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Department of Film and Media Studies
Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media. Her work focuses on photography, film and contemporary art, critical theory and aesthetics of both Spanish America and Brazil. She is the author of two books on photography. The first, Fotografia e Império. Paisagens para um Brasil...Read more about Natalia Brizuela
Teresa Caldeira is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the College of Environmental Design, and an affiliate of the Department of Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies program. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences and Master of Arts in Political
Jeff Chambers is a Professor in the Geography Department, University of California, Berkeley, a Faculty Scientist in the Earth Sciences Division at LBNL, and Director of DOE’s Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE) Tropics.
Mara Loveman is a political and comparative-historical sociologist with broad interests in ethnoracial politics, nationalism, and the state. Her research interests also include the sociology of development, the demography of ethnoracial difference and inequality, and human rights, with a...Read more about Mara Loveman
Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Tianna Paschel is an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California – Berkeley. She is interested in the intersection of racial ideology, politics, and globalization in Latin America. Her work can be found in the American Journal of Sociology,...Read more about Tianna S. Paschel
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
