Administration

Ana María Reyes

Director, Center for Latin American Studies
Associate Professor, Latin American Art & Architecture

Email: amreyes@bu.edu

Ana María Reyes is an Associate Professor of Latin American Art History and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, BU Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. She is also Affiliated Researcher, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and founding member of the Symbolic Reparations Research Project. Her book The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2019) studies symbolic violence in the context of Cold War aesthetic and modernization discourses. She co-edited with Maureen Shanahan Simón Bolívar: Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon (University Press of Florida, 2016) on cultural bolivarianisms as a case for the arts and humanities in democratic thinking. She is currently working on a second monograph, To Weave and Repair: Symbolic Reparations in Colombia’s Peace Process.

Robert Trottier

Communications Assistant

Email: rt23@bu.edu

Robert Trottier [LinkedIn] joined the Center for Latin American Studies as Communications Assistant in February 2026. He is a first-year Master’s candidate in International Affairs at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, specializing in Diplomacy. Robert comes to this role with a strong academic foundation in global politics and policy analysis, as well as hands-on experience in international research and institutional engagement.

Before joining BU, Robert completed an undergraduate double honours degree in Politics & International Relations and Criminology at the University of Western Ontario. His research has taken him to Ethiopia, where he conducted fieldwork on global market access, trade, and development in collaboration with high-ranking officials from the African Union, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Canadian Embassy, and the European Union.

At the Center, Robert aims to help streamline collaborations between students and the Center’s leadership, while supporting the efficiency and academic initiatives that advance its mission.

Student Affairs and Services

Kaija Schilde
Associate Dean for Studies
kschilde@bu.edu

Katherine Taylor
Director of Student Affairs and Services
ketaylor@bu.edu

Holly Emery
Graduate Admissions Administrator
hnemery@bu.edu

For more information, please visit the Student Affairs and Services website.