Kenneth Roberts is the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government. Kenneth Roberts teaches comparative and Latin American politics, with an emphasis on the political economy of development and the politics of inequality.

Irina Troconis’s areas of specialization include: Memory Studies, Venezuelan Studies, Politics and Performance, Affect Theory, and Digital Humanities.

Matthew Velasco is an anthropological bioarchaeologist who studies ancient populations of the Peruvian Andes through the analysis of their skeletal remains.