NMSU Scholars


Name	Title	Department/Unit	Areas of Focus	Countries of Expertise
Richard Adkisson	Emeritus Professor	Economics	Economic development Economics of taxation Public Policy Institutional economics	Mexico Honduras Coasta Rica Argentina Uruguay Chile Peru Belgium Germany Italy
Rani Alexander	Department Head	Anthropology	Pre-Hispanic complex societies of Mesoamerica Historical archaeology of the Yucatán peninsula Maya ethnohistory	Mexico
Minea Armijo Romero	Assistant Professor	College of Health of Curriculum	Transnationalism Translingual Practices Border Theory Intercultural Education Bilingual Education in Indigenous Communities of Rural Mexico and New Mexico	Mexico
Ashley Page Atkins	Research Scientist	Water Resources Research Institute	Hydrology Transboundary Water Coupled human and natural systems Water resources management Systems science	United States Mexico Bulgaria Greece
Jesus Barquet	Emeritus Professor	Language and Linguistics	Hispanic Caribbean Literature Hispanic Literature in the US Poetry Translation Creative Writing (Poetry) Cuban Literature	Colombia Cuba Mexico Brazil Dominican Republic
Bruce Berman	Associate Professor	Journalism and Media	Photography focusing on the U.S. - Mexico Border	Mexico
Bertha A. Bermúdez Tapia	Assistant Professor	Sociology	International Migration Race and Ethnicity Violence U.S-Mexico Border Deportation Asylum and Refuge Ethnographic and Qualitative Methodology	Mexico
Christopher Brown	Professor	Geography	U.S.-Mexico border water resource policy U.S.-Canada border water resource policy Quality of life and human development issues in US-Mexico borderlands	United States Mexico Border Region
Charles Bruce	College Research Professor	Physics		Mexico Border Region United States
Carol Campbell	Department Head	Geography	Avian ecology biogeography and ecology GIS sustainability National Parks human relationships with the natural environment
Andrés Cibilis	Professor	Animal and Range Sciences	Grazing management Ecology	Argentina
Luis Cifuentes	Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School	College of Health, Education and Social Transformation
Ivan de la Rosa	Associate Professor	Social Work	Maternal and child health Substance abuse Domestic violence Development of family resilient capacities	Mexico
Hector Diaz	Director/Professor	Social Work	Socio-economic development Social welfare policy Cultural issues International social work education
Christopher Erickson	Interim Department Head & Professor	Economics	Macroeconomics Money and banking Latin America Economic Development	Mexico
Sam Fernald	Professor/Director	Water Resources Research Institute	Socio-hydrology Surface water-groundwater interactions Integrated human and natural systems Runoff and water quality processes Forest management effects on water yield and watershed health Ecohydrology of rangelands Regional water budgets Groundwater management institutions
Rolando Flores	Dean	College of ACES	Food science and technology Agricultural engineering Grain science
Hermán Garcia	Emeritus Professor	Curriculum and Instruction	Educacìon billingúe crítica /ESL /Literacy Critical and anti-racist pedagogy International Education Critical curriculum development and education of Latinos	Latin America
José Manuel Garcia	Emeritus Professor	Languages and Linguistics	Hispanic literature Mexican literature Micro-literature
Iñigo Garcia-Bryce	Associate Professor	History	Latin American History History of Revolutions in Latin America History of Peru and the Andes Oral History	Prague, Czech Republic Berlin and Munich, Germany Paris, France Colombo, Sri Lanka
Neil Harvey	Professor	Government	Comparative Politics Latin American Politics Mexican Politics US-Mexico Border Politics Migration, Borders and Human Rights Social Movements and Identity Politics Indigenous Peoples and Political Change	Mexico
Karen Kopera-Frye	Professor	Public Health Sciences	Alcoholism Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Cross-cultural Studies Ethnic Groups: African-American/Black American/African Ethnic Groups: Hispanic/Spanish and Native American Gerontology Health Promotion Intergenerational Relations: Intergenerational Programming Mental Health Dysfunction Successful Aging
Delano Lewis	Independent Consultant	Office of the Provost
Alejandro Lugo	Affiliated Faculty	Anthropology	Cultural Anthropology Anthropology	Mexico
Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza	Professor	Languages and Linguistics	Language Use and language Attitudes Language Policy Education of Linguistic Minorities First and Second Language Acquisition	Mexico Spain Brazil
Jill McDonald	Professor	Public Health Sciences	Health disparities in the US-Mexico border region and in the US Hispanic and Mexican populations
John Mexal	Emeritus Professor	Agronomy and Horticulture	Tree physiology Nursery production Reforestation Establishment of plants in harsh environments Mycorrhizal symbiosis Seed biology	Mexico Chile Guatemala India
Molly Molloy	Emerita Professor	Library	Latin America U.S.- Mexico Border Bibliography and online databases	Mexico Nicaragua Peru
Gabriela Moreno	Assistant Professor	Languages and Linguistics	Cultural and literary studies along the U.S. - Mexico border Performance studies Gender studies
C. Alison Newby	Associate Professor	Sociology	Latin American studies Mexican migration to the United States Cultural and religious uses of elemental mercury	Mexico Cuba
Nancy Oretskin	Emerita Professor	Finance	Business Law Real Estate Negotiation and conflict resolution	Mexico
David G. Ortiz	Associate Professor	Sociology	Social Movements Civic Engagement State Repression Time-Diffusion of social Processes Political Sociology Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs) Digital Media Peace and Conflict Studies Research Methodology	Latin America Mexico United States
Rebecca Palacios	Associate Professor	Public Health Sciences	Culturally relevant cancer education	U.S. - Mexico Border
James Peach	Emeritus Professor	Economics and International Business	U.S.-Mexico Economic Relations U.S. - Mexico Border Issues Demographic Trends and Projections The New Mexico Economy Regional Economics Sports Economics	Mexico Peru Bangladesh
Lisa Peterson	Assistant Professor, Ph.D. School Psychology Director	Counseling and Educational Psychology
Beth Pollack	Emerita Professor	Languages and Linguistics	Spanish American women Writers Latin American Jewish Literature and Cultural Identity Translation	Argentina Brazil Chile Perú Colombia Costa Rica México Spain
Sarah Ramos	Assistant Professor, Co-Director of Clinical Training, Clinic Training Director	Counseling and Educational Psychology	Centering the lived experiences of Latinas in higher education Bilingual clinical mental health training	United States
Lakshmi Reddi	Dean	College of Engineering	Civil Engineering
Neal Rosendorf	Associate Professor	Government	Modern U.S. foreign relations and international relations history and policy Public diplomacy National reputation management International public relations and "soft power" Globalization history and concepts
David Rutledge	Associate Professor	School of Teacher Preparation, Administration and Leadership	Learning technologies ESL/Bilingual education International comparative education
Yolanda Schroeder	College Assistant Professor	Languages and Linguistics	Spanish Composition Bilingual Education
Mary Alice Scott	Associate Professor	Anthropology	Medial Anthropology	Mexico
Rhonda Skaggs	Emerita Professor	Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business	Irrigation and water resources Natural Resources and economic impacts of changing agricultural structure Impermanence syndrome	Mexico Argentina
Manoj Shukla	Professor	Plant and Environmental Sciences	Assessment of physical, chemical and thermal properties of soil Chemical fate and transport in the soil
M. Lois Stanford	Associate Professor	Anthropology	Agricultural anthropology globalization Food studies Community development in Mexico and New Mexico	Mexico Phillipines
Caiti Steele	Assistant Professor	Jornada Experimental Range Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation	Improving estimates of snow-covered area for streamflow from snowmelt state-and-transition models for potential-based rangeland classification Physiology and reflectance characteristics of native and invasive grassland species Radiometric calibration of hyperspatial digital imagery
Kenny Stevens	Associate Professor	Civil Engineering Technology	Aggies Without Limits (AWL)
Joe Tomaka	Professor	Public Health	Challenge appraisal and self-esteem as predictors of health and well-being
Lucinda Vargas	College Professor	Business	Development economics Institutional economics International economics Mexican economy U.S. monetary policy U.S.-Mexico economic relations U.S.-Mexico border	Mexico United States
Daniel Villa	Emeritus Professor	Languages an Linguistics	Spanish
Frank Ward	Professor	Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business	Water Policy
Timothy Wright	Professor	Biology	Evolution of vocal learning and communication signals among birds	Costa Rica Uruguay Bolivia Panamá Nicaragua
Ryan McRoberts	Graduate Research Assistant, Graduate Student	Social Work	Asset-based Community Development (ABCD) strategies Programming Development Moniotring, Reporting and Evaluation (MRE) Child & Youth Development
Nicholas Natividad	Associate Professor	Criminal Justice	Human Rights Border Studies Immigration Peach & Conflict Studies Borderlands and Ethnic Studies Program
Glenn Fetzer	Professor, Department Head	Language & Linguistics	Contemporary French poetry Twentieth-Century French literature Literature of the "extrême contemporarin" Stylistics Pragmatics
Alexis Salas	Assistant Professor	Art	Globalization Neoliberalism in the Developing World Art Market Collectors and Collecting Design (Fashion, Architecture, Material Culture) History Film, particularly Third Cinema Collaboration and Collectivity ‘Zines and Artist Print Culture Curatorial Practice and Museums Copyright, Intellectual Property, Plagiarism Art Fairs, Biennials, Exhibitions	Mexico
Hector Inglesias Pascual	Assistant Professor	Languages and Linguistics	Contemporary Latin American Literature and Cultures Latin American Film Queer and Sexualities Studies Social Media Studies	Chile Argentina
Mark Waltermire	Associate Professor	Languages and Linguistics	Sociolinguistic variation Language contact, particularly regarding the linguistic results of Spanish in contact with Portuguese along the Uruguayan-Brazilian border and Spanish in contact with English in the United States Phonetics and Phonology	Argentina Brazil Cuba Dominican Republic Mexico Spain United States Uruguay
Rodrigo Figueroa Obregón	Assistant Professor	Languages and Linguistics	Geocriticism Poetry Disability Studies Post-humanism	Mexico
Kate Bove	Assistant Professor	Languages and Linguistics	Formal Semantics Syntax Pragmatics Language Contact Bilingualism Indigenous languages	Mexico U.S. Mexico Border
Efren Delgado	Associate Professor	Family and Consumer Sciences	Value-added and Food Processing Microencapsulation Basic & Applied Research Cereal Technology Extrusion Technology Meat processing Protein Isolation & Separation	USA Germany Mexico
Faruk Arslan	Assistant Professor	Information Systems	IS adoption, diffusion, and use Information privacy and security The business value of information systems Information systems and global diversity Business analytics	Mexico
Elba Serrano	Regents Professor	Biology	Neuroscience Genetics Neuroethics Space Exploration International Science STEM Research Education Diversity & Equity in Science Professional Development for Graduate Students and Faculty	Brasil Portugal Puerto Rico Singapore VietNam
Victor Pimentel	Assistant Professor	Management
Barry Brewer	Associate Professor	Supply Chain Management
Don Fuqua	Assistant Professor	Accounting and Information Systems
Karim Martinez	Associate Professor	Family Life & Child Development Specialist	Reaching Spanish-speaking audiences Culturally relevant outreach strategies Equity, inclusion, and diversity Social and emotional literacy Stress and resilience Mental health Adverse childhood experiences	U.S./Mexico Border
Stephanie Arnett	Assistant Professor	Sociology	Education Race & Ethnicity Research Methods Social Stratification
Carlo A. Mora-Monge	Professor, Department Head	Management	Technology adoption and use Supply chain management Data analytics Quality management Multicountry studies	Costa Rica

Updated on June 09, 2025

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