College of Arts and Sciences

Education:

• PhD, Spanish & Portuguese Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2017
• MA, Spanish & Portuguese Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
• MA, English, Temple University, 2007
• BA, English, Colgate University, 2004

Research Interests:

• Latin American diaspora and climate change
• Politics and poetics of translation
• Early modern cultural production
• History and sociology of science

Bio:

Steve Vásquez Dolph, PhD, is an assistant teaching professor of Spanish in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages. His research and teaching examine the relationship between global diaspora and climate change, with a special focus on Spanish-speaking immigrant communities in Philadelphia. At Drexel, he has taught courses on sanctuary cities, food sovereignty and cultural translation. He is the coordinator of Elementary Spanish for the Modern Languages program, and a Teaching Faculty Fellow at the Lindy Center for Civic Engagement, where he leads a working group on Community-Based Global Learning (CBGL).