Senior Lecturer of Spanish

Dr. David H. Uzzell Jr. is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Cultures. He has taught elementary, intermediate, advanced, and special topic courses in Spanish at UVM since 2007. He is an affiliated faculty member with the Latin American Studies Program (LACS), the Honors College, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES), and the World Language Scholars Program in the College of Arts and Science’s Liberal Arts Scholars Program (LASP). Before coming to UVM, he taught Spanish at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the University of Connecticut at Storrs. He holds an M.A. in Spanish from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and a Ph.D. in Spanish with a concentration in Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies from the State University of New York at Albany. The title of his dissertation is A Cultural Political Economy of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Case of C.I. Uniban S.A. and the Colombian Banana Industry in Urabá, 1987-2017. His research concentrates on extractivism, political ecology, energy, development, sustainability, and global capitalism in Latin America and Colombia in particular. His other interests revolve around the cultural political economy of money, the rise of Bitcoin, and financialization in Latin America; and language learning (most recently Hungarian, Turkish, and Russian).    

 

Associations and Affiliations

Latin American Studies Association (LASA):http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/

Asociación de Colombianistas: http://colombianistas.org/

New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS):http://neclas.org/

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL):https://www.actfl.org/

American Association of University Professors (AAUP):https://www.aaup.org/

 

David, close up in an airport setting

Areas of Expertise and/or Research

  • Spanish language instruction
  • Extractivism in Latin America, particularly Colombia
  • Global capitalism
  • Political ecology: green extractivism, energy, development, energy frontiers/transitions and sustainability
  • The cultural political economy of money and Bitcoin

Education

  • Ph.D. in Spanish, Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies, State University of New York at Albany
  • M.A. Spanish, University of Arkansas - Fayetteville
  • B.A. in Spanish, German, and European Studies, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Contact

Phone:
  • (802) 656-3757
Office Location:

501 Waterman

Courses Taught

SPAN 3120: Spanish Grammar
SPAN 3110: Latin America and Global Capitalism
SPAN 2200: Intermediate II
SPAN 2100: Intermediate I
SPAN 1210: Medical Spanish
SPAN 1200: Elementary II
SPAN 1100: Elementary I