Faculty & Staff

Elliott Young

Associate Professor of History (sabbatical 2011-12)
Department of History
Phone:(503)768-7454
E-mail:eyoung@lclark.edu

Latin America, Borderlands, Mexico, Cuba and Transnational History.

Juan Carlos Toledano

Associate Professor
Director of Latin American Studies
Spanish Language & Literature
Box: 30
Phone: (503)768-7425
E-mail: toledano@lclark.edu

The fantastic in Latin America; Contemporary Cuban and Caribbean Studies, and Critical Theory. Juan Carlos is a native of Spain.

Matthieu P. Raillard

Associate Professor of Spanish, Spanish Section Head
Spanish Language and Literature
Box: 30
Phone:(503)768-7418
E-mail:raillard@lclark.edu

Spanish Enlightenment and Romanticism; Contemporary Spanish Literature; Literary theory; History of intellectual thought and epistemology; Theories of authorship and authority.

Freddy O. Vilches

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Spanish Language and Literature
Box: 30
Phone: (503)768-7431
E-mail: vilches@lclark.edu

Contemporary Spanish-American literature, poetry and song, Latin American Cultural Studies. Prof. Vilches is a native of Chile.

Wendy Woodrich

Senior Lecturer
Spanish Language & Literature
Box: 30
Phone: (503)768-7428
E-mail: woodrich@lclark.edu

Spanish language, Latin American literature and culture, Hispanics in the United States. Wendy is a native Oregonian.

Bruce Podobnik

Associate Professor
Sociology
Phone: (503)768-7664
E-mail: podobnik@lclark.edu

Revolutionary and insurgent movements, environmental impacts of capitalism, efforts to create sustainable and egalitarian futures in Latin America.

Franya Berkman

Assistant Professor of Music
Phone: (503)768-7417
E-mail:fberkman@lclark.edu

 

Dr. Berkman received her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University in 2003.  Her publications thus far focus on jazz and American culture.

 

Sarah D. Warren 

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Phone: 503/768-7667
Email:  swarren@lclark.edu

Race and Ethnicity - in general and in Latin America; Sociology of Gender; Qualitative Methods; Globalization; Transnational/Global Social Movements

 

 

Matthew Johnston

Assistant Professor of Art History/Modern Art
Phone: 503/768-7389
Email: mnj@lclark.edu

Matt Johnston ia an art historian, specializing in nineteenth-century American visual culture. He researches and writes on the development of uses for emerging media such as print and photography, as well as the role of visual representations in the study of native cultures in nineteenth-century ethnology and archaeology.

 

Blair Woodard

Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Phone:  503/768-7454
Email:  bwoodard@lclark.edu

Blair Woodard graduated with a Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of New Mexico in 2010.  His interests are the histories of Latin America, U.S. - Latin American relations, popular culture, and national identity.