
Faculty and Staff
Core Faculty
Seth Michelson
Associate Professor of Spanish; Program Head, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Tucker Hall 322
- Email: michelsons@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8818
Michelson teaches the poetry of the hemispheric Americas, as well as a diversity of courses on the literatures, cultures and languages of the region. His research focuses on poetry and state violence, and he is the author of numerous book chapters, articles and essays on the subject, among others.
Jeff Barnett
S. Blount Mason Jr. Professor of Spanish
- Tucker Hall 304
- Email: barnettj@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8950
Barnett teaches courses in Spanish language, translation, and Spanish-American literature and culture. His research deals with modern Latin American narrative and cultural studies as well as literary translation.
Mónica Botta
Professor of Spanish
- Tucker Hall 313
- Email: bottam@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8297
Botta teaches courses in Latin American Theater, literature and culture. She has researched Latin American culture with an emphasis on post-dictatorship periods.
Andrea Lepage
Pamela H. Simpson Professor of Art History and Department Head
- Wilson Hall 3014
- Email: lepagea@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8305
Andrea Lepage offers classes in the following areas: contemporary Chicana/o and U.S. Latina/o art, modern and colonial Latin American art, arts of Mesoamerica and the Andes, and Early Modern European art (Italian, Spanish, Dutch).
Ellen Mayock
Ernest Williams II Professor of Spanish
- Tucker Hall 305
- Email: mayocke@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8816
At Washington and Lee, Mayock has taught courses in Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on gender and its intersections in literature and film, feminist theories and practice, and representations of conflict and violence. Mayock also writes poetry and creative nonfiction.
Affiliate Faculty
Jonathan Eastwood
Department Head, Sociology and Anthropology; Professor of Sociology
- Newcomb Hall 104
- Email: eastwoodj@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8777
Professor Eastwood is a social theorist who also has a strong interest in quantitative methods. He teaches seminars on classical and contemporary theory as well as a series of courses that train students how to use quantitative and computational tools to answer sociological questions.
Romina Green
Assistant Professor of History
- Newcomb Hall 205
- Email: rgreen@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8094
Professor Green Rioja’s research interests include examining structural racism in modern Chilean history and identifying settler-colonial policies that displaced the Indigenous Mapuche.
James Kahn
Emeritus Faculty, John F. Hendon Professor of Economics and Professor of Environmental Studies
Kahn is a 1975 alumnus who teaches courses on the economics of the environment and development. He also teaches a Spring Term study abroad course in the Amazonas and researches environmental policy and resource economics.
Mohamed Kamara
Department Head and Professor of Romance Languages; Campus Muslim Student Advisor
- Tucker Hall 306
- Email: kamaram@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8475
Professor Kamara holds degrees in French, English and Secondary Education. He teaches French courses in the Department of Romance Languages and also teaches in the university’s Africana Studies Program. As faculty advisor to campus Muslim students and the W&L African Society, he is a member of the Religious Staff in the Office of Inclusion and Engagement.
Marcos Perez
Assistant Professor of Sociology
- Newcomb Hall 225
- Email: mperez@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8793
Perez teaches courses such as Revolutions and Revolutionaries and Poverty and Marginality in the Americas. His research interests include political sociology, urban studies, stratification and Latin American studies.
Staff