MACLAS Executive Committee-

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 (2021-2025). 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.

Ann Warner Ault (2024-2027). Ann Warner-Ault received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish from Columbia University with a focus on Latin American literature and culture. She has presented and published on a range of topics including avant-garde art and literature, community-engaged learning, digital humanities, and study abroad. Ann led the TCNJ semester in Spain in 2015 and a TCNJ study tour to Peru in 2018. In 2016-2017 she served as interim assistant dean for The School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Ann received a New Jersey Manufacturers grant for 2018-2019 to work with TCNJ students, Dr. Susan Ryan and Trenton’s Puerto Rican community to create short documentaries about the history of Puerto Ricans in Trenton. She is currently collaborating with Dr. Robert McGreevey, Isabel Kentengian and several community organizations in Trenton to implement a large-scale oral history project with Trenton’s Latinx community.

Carlos Mamani (2024-2027). Peruvian and Aymara by birth, Carlos Mamani has special interest in indigenous cultures, particularly in the Andes, as well as globalization, popular culture, and relationships of power. A Latin Americanist with a focus on the colonial and twenty and twenty-first centuries, Carlos completed his bachelor’s degree from Brown University and his master’s and Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati. His research also includes Latino cultures in the U.S. centered on issues of immigration, cultural representation, and marginalization. He has taught at Gannon University since 1991.

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.

David M. K. Sheinin (2024-2027) Professor of history at Trent University (Canada), serves as Académico Correspondiente of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República Argentina, and as a former MACLAS president. His first MACLAS conference presentations were as a doctoral student. David's most recent book, co-edited with C. Nathan Hatton, is Statues and Legacies of Combat Athletes in the Americas (Lexington, 2024).

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