MACLAS Executive Committee-currently updating to new committee members-under Construction

The MACLAS Constitution calls for an 11-member Executive Committee consisting of four officers (president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer); the immediately preceding ex-president; six at-large members and the Webmaster.  We are always looking for interested volunteers and new ideas, so please be in touch if you might be interested in serving.

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The 2024-2025 Executive Committee is constituted as follows:

Amanda Frantz-Mamani, President (2024-2025). Chair of the History, Politics, Languages, and Cultures Department at Edinboro University, her interests include Colonial and Modern Latin America, especially the use of imagery in popular culture, Women's Studies, Latinx Culture, and the relationships of Power and Identity.

Meghan McInnis-Domínguez, Vice-President (2024-2025). Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Delaware, Meghan’s research interests include medicine and literature in the early modern period, early modern Spanish novel, colonial Latin American historiography, Hispanic Transatlantic and Postcolonial Studies, and teaching with technology in the Hispanic Studies classroom. Aside from her research interests, she is very active as a director of study abroad programs at the University of Delaware, leading winter and summer programs to Argentina, Mexico, and Spain.

David Mongor-Lizarrabengoa, Secretary (2024-2027). Assistant professor of Spanish at Wor-Wic Community College in Salisbury, MD., David holds a BA & MA in Spanish from Montclair State University, two MA degrees in English and films studies from San Diego and a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Western University in London, Ontario. His research primarily focuses on contemporary Latin American and Lusophone literature and film. Currently, he is editing a volume titled Hispanic & Lusophone Voices of Africa which should be published in late 2021/early 2022. He has taught Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Basque language courses at Wor-Wic, Montclair State, and Western University. He has been a MACLAS member since 2011.

Michael J. Schroeder, Treasurer (2021-2023). Professor Emeritus of History and Adjunct Instructor in History at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA, Michael specializes in 20th century Nicaraguan history, especially the period of US military intervention in the 1920s & 30s, he teaches a wide range of courses focusing on the Atlantic world since the Age of Revolution.  A member of the Academia de Geografía e Historia de Nicaragua, he is author & administrator of the digital historical archive www.SandinoRebellion.com, co-author of a widely-used textbook on 20th century world history, and author of numerous articles & chapters in his areas of expertise (online vita here).   schroede@lvc.edu.

James A. Baer (2021-2024). Emeritus professor of history at the Alexandria Campus of Northern Virginia Community College. He received his Ph.D. in Latin American History from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Jim serves as the Board Chair of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) as it transitions after the death of its founder, Larry Birns. He is the author of several articles on Argentine social history and Cuban Protestants. His latest book, A Social History of Cuba’s Protestants: God and the Nation was published by Lexington Books in July 2019. Jim joined MACLAS in 1982 and has previously served on the Executive Committee, several prize committees and as MACLAS president.

Jason Bartles (2022-2025). Associate Professor at West Chester University, Jason received his PhD in Latin American literary and cultural studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests explore Latin American and Latinx fiction and film, with a focus on the politics and ethics of utopian thinking since the 1960s. He is the author of Arteletra: The Sixties in Latin America and the Politics of Going Unnoticed (Purdue UP, 2021), and he has articles in Revista Hispánica Moderna, Revista Iberoamericana, Aztlán, and CR: The New Centennial Review, among others. Currently, he is working on the circulation of utopian and dystopian discourses in representations of the Malvinas/Falkland Islands since 1833. He also writes and teaches courses on science fiction and fantasy.

Thomas Miller Klubock (2024-2027) is a historian of modern Latin America with research specialities in social and working-class history, environmental history, and the history of gender and sexuality.  His most recent book, Ránquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile (Yale University Press, 2022), a history of Chile’s most important peasant rebellion, examines issues of rural labor and land relations, political violence, law, and historical memory.   Ránquil was awarded the 2023 Whitaker book prize from the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Latin American Studies (MECLAS).  Klubock is also the author of La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile’s Frontier Territory (Duke University Press, 2014), a social and environmental history of conflicts between indigenous Mapuche communities, poor peasants, settlers, and estate owners over forest resources from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century in Chile's southern frontier territory.

Gloria B. Clark, MACLAS Webmaster is an Emerita Professor of Humanities and Spanish, Penn State University. gbc3@psu.edu

Maria Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles, Outreach & Communications Chair (Non-Executive Committee Position). maguilardornelle@fau.edu