Newswise — University of Texas at El Paso faculty members are available to comment on the Mexican presidential election scheduled for Sunday, July 2.
Experts in a variety of academic areas include:
Political Science
Irasema Coronado, department chair and professor of political scienceCoronado received her bachelor's degree in political science and a certificate of Latin American Studies from the University of South Florida. She has an M.A. in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Arizona. She is currently the recipient of a Border Fulbright and is teaching and researching at the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez.
Tony Payan, professor of political sciencePayan received a dual bachelor's degree in philosophy and classics and an M.B.A. from the University of Dallas. He has a Ph.D. in Government and International Relations from Georgetown University. His recent research has focused on governance and attitudes in the Paso del Norte border region.
Center for Inter-American and Border Studies
Jon Amastae, center director and professor of linguisticsAmastae received his B.A. from the University of New Mexico and then served in the Peace Corps in Dominica, West Indies. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Oregon, specializing in phonology, Creole languages, and language variation and change. Among his research projects are ones focused on the demography of the El Paso/Cd. Juárez border region, and variation and change in the Spanish of the Northern Mexican and Border regions.
Economics
Tom Fullerton, professor of economicsFullerton received a bachelor's degree in economics and finance from the University of Texas at El Paso. He has master's degrees in economics from Iowa State and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Florida. The Wells Fargo Professor of economics is an expert in Latin American political economics.
Sociology
Howard Campbell, professor of anthropologyCampbell holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His areas of expertise include ethnicity and political economy, and he focuses much of his research on Mexico.
Communication
Eduardo Barrera, professor of communicationsBarrera received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His research has focused on political economic telecommunication and the analysis of discourse about the border. He is also an expert on Latin American communications.
Richard Pineda, professor of communicationsPineda holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Wayne State University. His research focuses on the rhetorical aspects of political communication toward Latinos in the United States by national political parties, media and external foreign governments. He has published research on the Internet as expressive space for Latinos as well as research on the efforts of the Mexican presidency to develop an online political presence.
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