Sue Inglés has been with the University since 1981 and assumed the position of Assistant Director at the Stone Center in 1991. She is responsible for the administrative operations of the Stone Center including, financial and human resource management, property, equipment and facilities administration, information and technology management.

Originally from South Texas, Gabi Hutchinson Gallo is a first year MA-Latin American Studies student here at Tulane. She graduated with a BA in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Utah in 2018 and worked as an immigration paralegal after college. Last year she was accepted as a Fulbright ETA to São Luis, Brazil but was unfortunately returned home early due to the pandemic. Gabi‘€™s academic interests are in immigration and diaspora studies and hopes to begin law school in the fall here at Tulane to become an immigration attorney. When Gabi isn‘€™t reading, she enjoys cooking and watching Colombian telenovelas, her guilty pleasure.

Martha K. Huggins, Charles and Leo Favrot Professor Emerita (Sociology, 2012), continues to be recognized for her research on torture in Brazil, on racial injustice, and on police abuse of power. She is a regular plenary lecturer in Brazil’s “Truth Commission” congresses, where she speaks on torture (recent lectures in Mato Grosso do Sul, 2009; Porto Alegre, 2010, 2011, 2012, and Fortaleza, 2011, Recent articles include, “Uma Aliança Notória de Tortura.” 2012. Revista Anestia: Politica e Justiça de Transiçao, Vol. 5; Pp. 194-209. Ministério da Justiça Comissão de Anistia, Brazilian Government; “State Torture: Interviewing Perpetrators, Discovering Facilitators, Theorizing Cross-nationally.” 2012. State Crime Journal, V. 1 (1). Huggins’ forthcoming article, “Tortura em Dez Lições,” will be published in Spring 2013, in O legado da tortura para a democracia, Sergio Adorno, Ed. Sao Paulo, SP. Núcleo de Estudos da Violência. Huggins is a regular “expert witness” for LGBT Brazilians seeking asylum in the U.S. under the international law against torture. Huggins is a “Friend” of the International State Crimes Initiative, University of London, King’s College, the University of Hull (UK), and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

James D. Huck, Jr., rejoined the Center for Latin American Studies in January of 2001. He earned a BS in Foreign Service with a Certificate in Latin American Studies (1990) from Georgetown University, and both his MA (1993) and his Ph.D. (1997) in Latin American Studies from Tulane. Before rejoining the Center, he served as the founding Director of the Johnson Center for Latin American Studies at Albright College in Reading, PA (1998-2000). His responsibilities at the Stone Center include teaching core undergraduate LAS courses, advising graduate students, and monitoring and coordinating the LAS curriculum at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research interests include contemporary Mexican foreign policy and Interamerican Relations, as well as questions of citizenship and public service in institutions of higher education in the Americas.