Leslie Scott

Leslie Scott

Associate Chair- Department of Theatre and Dance

Associate Professor
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty

Research

Philanthropy & Social Change, Contemporary Dance, Dance for Camera, Non-Profit Development, Community Engagement through International Collaboration

Degrees

  • MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Choreography, 2016
  • BFA, Texas Christian University, Modern Dance, 2004

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Director, Creative Industries Certificate Program, Tulane University, 2023-
  • Associate Chair & Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Dance, Tulane University, 2021-
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre & Dance, Tulane University, 2017- 2021
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Dance, California Institute of the Arts, 2014-2016

Distinctions

  • Faculty Training Advisor - Service-Learning Course Development, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Tenenbaum Fellow – College Scholars – Tulane University, 2021-2024
  • Learning x Giving, National Philanthropy Organization – Faculty Fellow, 2021-2024
  • Mellon Fellow for community-engaged scholarship, 2020-2022

Overseas Experience

  • Brazil

Selected Publications

  • "hymn + them" - Santiago OFF! Festival, Chile, Jan 2025
  • International Dance Festival New Orleans, 2023-
  • "hymn + them" - dance premiere, Valdivia & Valparaíso, Chile, Jan 2022
  • “If Dance Counted”, National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Conference Proceedings Oct 4-8 2018, San Diego, CA – Presenter, 2018.
  • “Quantifying Dance in a Capitalist Society,” Tafter Economic Journal, Italy N. 95 – LUGLIO AGOSTO, 2017

Watufani Poe

Watufani Poe

Assistant Professor of Activist Media- Department of Communication

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty

Courses

Cross Cultural Analysis, Special Topics: Theorizing the Black Queer Americas

Research

Activist Media, Afro-Latin America, Black Feminist Ethnography, Gender and Sexuality, Black LGBTQ+ identity in Brazil

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Brown University, Africana Studies, Designated Emphasis in Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, 2021
  • A.M., Brown University, Africana Studies, 2018
  • A.M., Brown University, History, 2018
  • B.A. Swarthmore College, Africana Studies, Latin American Studies (minor), 2013

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, 2022-2023
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Amherst College, 2021-2022

Distinctions

  • Center For Humanistic Inquiry Fellow at Amherst College, 2021-2022
  • US Fulbright Program Fellow (Brazil), 2018-2019
  • Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellow, 2019
  • Tinker Research Grantee (Brazil), 2016-2017

Languages

  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Brazil
  • Dominican Republic

Selected Publications

  • 2023. “Representação vs. Representatividade: Analyzing Black LGBTQ+ Identity Politics in Brazil,” Journal of Women Gender and Families of Color (Final Revisions Accepted 10/11/2022, Forthcoming Fall 2023)
  • 2023. “Black Gay Worldmaking of the Global 1980s: Brazil and the United States” Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Homocultura. https://periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/ojs/index.php/rebeh/article/view/14682/12262
  • 2023. “Homens Negros Amando Homens Negros: Militância Gay Negra dos Anos 1980 no Brasil e nos EUA” Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Homocultura. https://periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/ojs/index.php/rebeh/article/view/14682/12261
  • 2023. “Black Brazilian Media Producers and the Nomination of Marte Um,” Black Perspectives. https://www.aaihs.org/black-brazilian-media-producers-and-the-nomination-of-marte-um/

Martha Silva

Martha Silva

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of International Health and Sustainable Development

School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty

Research

Reproductive Justice

Degrees

  • Ph.D., 2005, Tulane University, International Health and Development
  • MPH, 2002, Tulane University, Health Information Systems
  • B.A., 1998, Macalester College, Psychology and French

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Master of Public Health Program Director, International Health and Sustainable Development, 2023-
  • Assistant Professor, Department of International Health and Sustainable Development, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, 2018-

Distinctions

  • Changemakers in Family Planning (Principal Investigator) $82,301
  • Tulane Newcomb Institute Faculty Grant – Advancing Reproductive Justice in Louisiana (Principal Investigator) - $3,000
  • Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant, Tulane University - Post-Roe Reproductive Justice Conversations and Policies in the USA and Mexico (Principal Investigator) - $7,000
  • Breakthrough RESEARCH, Population Council / USAID – Social and behavior change research in support of the Ouagadougou Partnership (Principal Investigator) – $615,420
  • Breakthrough RESEARCH, Population Council / USAID – Research and documentation in support of the USAID Zika Response In Latin America and the Caribbean (Principal Investigator) - $1,225,300

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Portuguese

Overseas Experience

  • Mexico
  • Guatemala
  • Uruguay
  • Honduras
  • Dominican Republic
  • El Salvador
  • New Zealand
  • Angola

Selected Publications

  • 2024. Adetunji A, Silva M, Jani N, Adediran M. “Like a broom tied together”: social cohesion and its role in community capacity strengthening. PLOS Global Public Health. 3(10): e0002508. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002508
  • 2024. Silva M, et al., Evaluating a youth-designed sexual and reproductive health mass and social media campaign in Côte d’Ivoire: triangulation of three independent evaluations. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. 31:1.
  • 2024. Silva M, et al., Gender-Based Violence Narratives in Internet-Based Conversations in Nigeria: Social Listening Study. J Med Internet Res 2023;25:e46814. DOI: 10.2196/46814
  • 2023. Silva M, et al., Results From a Multi-Method Exploratory Scale Development Process to Measure Authoritarian Provider Attitudes in Democratic Republic of Congo and Togo. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2023;11(Suppl 3):e2200421.
  • 2023. Silva, M, et al., Methods and measures to assess health provider behavioral outcomes related to reproductive, maternal and child health: A rapid review. Global Health: Science and Practice. July 2023. https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00407
  • 2023. Bellows N, Dougherty L, Nai D, Kassegne S, Nagbe R, Babogou L, Guede C, Silva M. Improving provider and client communication around family planning: Results from a cross-sectional survey. PLOS Global Public Health. 2023. 3(6): e0001923

Rachel Schoner

Rachel Schoner

Assistant Professor- Department of Political Science

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Research

Non-State Actors in International Relations, Human Rights, International Organizations, International Law and Courts, Political Violence

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of California-San Diego, Political Science, 2022
  • M.A., Emory, Political Science, 2015
  • B.A., Emory, Mathematics and Political Science, 2015

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2023-
  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, 2022-2023

Distinctions

  • Best Graduate Student Paper, Law and Courts Section American Political Science Association, 2022
  • University Association for Contemporary European Studies Scholarship, 2020
  • International Studies Association Travel Award, 2020
  • American Political Science Association Travel Award, 2019
  • Prestage-Cook Travel Award, 2018

Selected Publications

  • Forthcoming. “Naming and Shaming in UN Treaty Bodies: Individual Petitions’ Effect on Human Rights” Review of International Organizations
  • 2023. “Empowering Your Victims: Why Repressive Regimes Allow Individual Petitions in International - Organizations” Review of International Organizations
  • 2023. Review of Committed to Rights: UN Human Rights Treaties and Legal Paths for Commitment and Compliance by Andrey L. Comstock. Law and Politics Book Review 33 (5): 73-76.

María del Pilar Regueiro Suárez

María del Pilar Regueiro Suárez

Doris Stone Post-Doctoral Fellow

Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
MARI
People Classification
Postdoctoral Fellows
Region
  • Mesoamerica

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Mexico, Mesoamerican Studies, 2023
  • M.A., University of Mexico, Mesoamerican Studies, 2017
  • B.A., University of Mexico, History, 2013

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Professor, National School of Anthropology and History, 2020-2023
  • Professor, UNAM, 2020

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Mexico

Selected Publications

  • 2022. P. Regueiro Suárez, coord. La Conquista de Tenochtitlan y las otras conquistas. Edición conmemorativa, 500 años, San Antonio, Texas, UNAM San Antonio, Seminario Historia de Texas, Coordinación de Relaciones y Asuntos Internacionales...
  • 2022. Baltazar Brito Guadarrama, Itzel González Pérez, Rosalba Sánchez Flores, Pilar Regueiro Suárez, and Juan Manuel Pérez Zevallos, El Lienzo de Tlaxcala, México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
  • 2022. "Una guerra de larga duración. La conquista de la península de Yucatán (1527-1547)”: pp. 467-487 in La Conquista de Tenochtitlán y las otras conquistas. Edición conmemorativa, 500 años...UNAM San Antonio, Seminario Historia de Texas...
  • 2021. "Las danzas del poder: estrategia y legitimación política en Yaxchilán durante el Clásico Tardío..."México, UNAM, Universidad Anáhuac.
  • 2021. "La participación de las mujeres indígenas y españolas en la Conquista”: with Margarita Cossich Vielman pp. 259-291 in Conquistas. Actores, escenarios y reflexiones. Nueva España (1519-1550)...
  • 2021. "Músicos y danzantes mayas. Una aproximación a sus contextos y funciones durante el periodo Clásico”: pp. 97-120 in Revista de Arqueología Americana, 39. ISSN: 0188-363

Zorimar Rivera Montes

Zorimar Rivera Montes

Assistant Professor- Department of English

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
  • Caribbean

Research

Puerto Rican, Carribbean, and Latinx Literatures and Cultures

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Northwestern University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 2022
  • M.A., University of Puerto Rico, English Literature, 2013
  • B.A., University of Puerto Rico, History of the Americas, 2009

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2023-
  • Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies, Washington University in St. Louis, July 2022-2023
  • Instructor of Record, Northwestern University, September 2018-June 2020
  • Adjunct Instructor, English, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, June 2015- May 2016

Distinctions

  • Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention - 2020
  • Graduate Assistantship- Latina and Latino Studies Program September 2019-June 2020
  • Puerto Rican Studies Association Graduate Student Workshop Fellow - October 2019
  • The Sexualities Project at Northwestern Summer Research Grant - Summer 2019
  • Latin America and Caribbean Studies Cluster at Northwestern Summer Research Grant - Summer 2019

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Puerto Rico

Selected Publications

  • 2020. “For Opacity: Queerness and Latinidad in Justin Torres’ We the Animals” Latino Studies 18 pp. 218-234
  • 2020. “Review: Queer Decolonial Resistance in Raquel Salas Rivera’s The Tertiary/Lo terciario” in Sargasso 2019- 20 pp.155-158.
  • 2018. "Puertorriqueños en los Estados Unidos: Nacionalismo en una nación cambiante" in "Estados Unidos latinos" of Istor: Revista de Historia Internacional, Mexico, Jan 2018 pp. 51-66
  • 2015. “Review: In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam by Urayoán Noel” in Sargasso 2015-16 pp. 189-191.

Alberto Rivera-Padilla

Alberto Rivera-Padilla

Assistant Professor- Department of Economics

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Associated Faculty

Research

Macroeconomics, Development, Spatial Economics, Agricultural Productivity, Internal Migration, Spatial Inequality, and Human Capital

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Economics, Arizona State University, 2019
  • M.S. Economics, Arizona State University, 2016
  • B.A., Economics, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, 2012
  • B.A., Political Science, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, 2012

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Assistant Professor of Economics, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Assistant Professor of Economics, California State University Fullerton, 2019-2024

Distinctions

  • Faculty Fellowship for Outstanding Performance, CSUF, 2023
  • Award for Continued Excellence in Publications, CSUF, 2022
  • Recognition For Excellence In Scholarly And Creative Activity, CSUF, 2021
  • Rondthaler Award (Most Deserving Graduate Student), ASU, 2019

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Mexico

Selected Publications

  • 2023. “Market Power, Output, and Productivity” Economics Letters, 232, November 2023
  • 2021. “Slums, Allocation of Talent, and Barriers to Urbanization” European Economic Review, 140, November 2021
  • 2020. “Crop Choice, Trade Costs, and Agricultural Productivity” Journal of Development Economics, 146, September 2020

Clare Gucwa

Clare Gucwa

Student

Ph.D. Student - Joint with Art History
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Students
Tulane Affiliation
Graduate Student

Biography

Clare Gucwa (she/her) is a writer, educator, museum professional, and a PhD student in the Art History and Latin American Studies program at Tulane University. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art at Ohio University and her Master of Arts degree in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism, and Theory at the State University of New York, Purchase College. Clare has held curatorial roles in art, history, and science museums where she completed projects that increased access to art historical research on the construction of public art and public space within institutions. Her research interests include Latin American art of the twentieth century, Indigenous art, performance studies, and public practice. Her current research explores public art and performance in El Salvador and questions how collective spaces shape ideas and categories of art and artifact. 

Degrees

  • B.F.A. in Studio Art, Ohio University
  • M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism, and Theory, State University of New York, Purchase College

Jessica Tueller

Jessica Tueller

Forrester Fellow, Tulane Law School

School of Law
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Postdoctoral Fellows
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
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Biography

Jessica Tueller is a Forrester Fellow at Tulane Law School. Her research focuses on tensions between and among progressive ideologies and movements, especially in the areas of feminism and international law. She investigates the origins and extent of these tensions, and in so doing often develops new approaches that further intersectional and coalitional work on gender equality and human rights.

Before joining Tulane, Tueller worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Wesleyan University and as a clinical supervisor at the University Network for Human Rights. She also completed a Robina Fellowship at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, where she worked across the Rapporteurship on the Rights of LGBTI Persons and the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Women.

Tueller earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was an Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism and a student director of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. She graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in History and Literature.

Courses

Legal Research & Writing

Research

International Law; Human Rights; Family Law; Health Law; Gender, Sexuality, and Law  

Degrees

  • J.D., Yale Law School, 2021
  • B.A., Harvard University, 2018

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Forrester Fellow, Tulane Law School, 2023-
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyen University, 2023
  • Teaching Fellow, Yale University, 2021

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • French
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