Deputy Provost Richard Holder announced that Susan Tiano, professor of sociology, has been appointed director of the University of New Mexico Latin American & Iberian Institute effective immediately. Tiano has been serving as interim director of LAII since January 2008, and was selected as director through an internal search chaired by Holder, and Brenda Claiborne, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.
Photo: Susan Tiano, director, Latin American & Iberian Institute
“I’m delighted and honored to be selected for this position. I look forward to working with faculty and students to make the LAII become the best it can be,” Tiano said.
Tiano’s areas of interest and expertise include women in Latin America, the maquila industry, and the effects of economic crises on women and households.
Tiano earned all her degrees in sociology, receiving her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1979, and her master’s and bachelor’s from Colorado State.
“Much of Susan’s teaching, research and scholarship are grounded in Latin America. Together with her institutional strengths and experience, she will provide strong leadership for the Latin American and Iberian Institute,” Holder said.
Tiano served as associate director of academic programs at the LAII, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, chair of sociology, and acting director of UNM’s Women Studies Program.
She served as co-chair of Gov. Richardson’s task force on poverty reduction.
Tiano has received the Regents’ Lecturer and President’s Lecturer awards as well as the Alumni Association’s Faculty Teaching Award.
Among her publications, Tiano wrote, “Patriarchy on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Ideology in the Mexican Maquila Industry,” and “Women on the United States-Mexico Border: Responses to Change.”
Tiano has served as a member of the International Committee of Sociologists for Women in Society; and several committees and councils for the American Sociological Association, including committee on international sociology; section on political economy of the world-system; and the section on world conflicts.
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