Jorge L. Chinea

Academic Director of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies

Jorge L. Chinea specializes in the social and economic history of colonial Latin America, with particular emphasis in European colonialism, commercial agriculture, forced labor regimes, and coerced and free immigration during the 18th and 19th centuries. He also has a secondary interest in Latino/a studies as it relates to Latin American immigration to — and the formation of Hispanic diasporic communities in — the United States