Affiliate Faculty

Cisneros Affiliate Faculty are members of the GW faculty who are Latino/a/x and/or whose work focuses on issues related to Latinos in the United States. In addition to generating research, affiliate faculty serve as mentors and participants in the Institute’s leadership development programs.

Herman Aguinis

The GW School of Business

Paula Alonso

Elliott School of International Affairs; Columbian College

Lorena Barba

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Nicole Bartels

Columbian College of Arts & Sciences

Barbara Benitez-Curry

School of Media and Public Affairs

Carlos Bustamante

Columbian College of Arts & Sciences

Uriyoan Colon-Ramos

Milken Institute of Public Health

Manuel Cuellar

Columbian College of Arts & Sciences

Trey Johnston

Associate Director

Gema Kloppe-Santamaría

Columbian College of Arts & Sciences

Tony Lopez

Columbian College of Arts & Sciences

Tahina L. Montoya

Elliott School of International Affairs

Diana Pardo Pedraza

Columbian College of Arts & Sciences

Elaine Peña

Columbian College of Arts & Sciences

Fabiana Perera

Columbian College of Arts & Sciences

Marie Price

Columbian College of Arts & Sciences

Olga Price

Milken Institute of Public Health

Elvira Maria Restrepo

Elliott School of International Affairs

Kathleen Roche

Milken Institute of Public Health

Arturo Sotomayor

Elliott School of International Affairs

Dr. Elizabeth Vaquera

Executive Director, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy & Public Administration

Faculty Spotlight: Manuel Cuellar

Manuel Cuellar is a professor of Spanish and Latinoamerican Literatures and Cultures at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. We sat down with him to talk about undocumented essential workers, and the role they continue to play during a global pandemic.