2017 Faculty Leads
The initiatives at UMIA were led by the following faculty leads from various departments accross the university.

Merike Blofield

Professor
Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies
2017 Gender & Social Development Faculty Lead-UMIA

m.blofield@miami.edu

(305) 284-6116
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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...
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Sallie L Hughes

Assoc. Professor
Faculty Director and Senior Faculty Research Area Lead for Latin American Studies

shughes@miami.edu

(305) 284-8163
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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...
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Kate Ramsey

Assoc. Professor
2017 Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Faculty Lead-UMIA

kramsey@miami.edu

(305) 284-5581
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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...
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Francisco Valdes

Professor
2017 Social Justice Faculty Lead-UMIA

f.valdes@miami.edu

(305) 284-5432
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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...
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