Faculty & Staff:
LACSI has a large number of core and affiliate faculty from across the campus who devote their time to research and teaching in area studies as well as the languages spoken in the Latin American and Caribbean regions. Special depth exists Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Geography, History, Linguistics, Latin American and Caribbean Literature, Music, and Sociology. Courses incorporate diverse and dynamic areas of new research such as environmental studies and gender studies (3 core LACS members are also core members of Women's Studies.