Tricia Gabany-Guerrero, Ph.D.
(June 1999), Anthropology, The University at Albany, State University of New York. Title: Deciphering the Symbolic Heritage of the Tarascan Empire: Interpreting the Political Economy of the Pueblo-Hospital of Parangaricutiro, Michoacán, Mexico. Specialization: Mesoamerica, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, Political Economy, Ethnohistory of Colonial New Spain, Archaeology of Michoacán, México, Purépecha Colonial Studies, U.S.-Mexico Border, Mexican migration.
On January 1, 2007, Tricia Gabany-Guerrero became the interim director of the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies. Dr. Gabany-Guerrero, who is also an Assistant Professor in Residence, had been the Associate Director of the Center since October 2005. Her current research, “Highland Archaeology & Ethnohistory Studies in Parangaricutiro, Michoacán, México,” is funded by the National Geographic Committee for Research and Exploration. Dr. Gabany-Guerrero received her B.S. in Agronomy and Spanish from the Pennsylvania State University, her MA in Anthropology from the George Washington University, and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University at Albany, State University of New York. Before coming to UConn, she was an Adjunct Lecturer, Latin American & Border Studies at The University of Texas at El Paso.
