Teresa E. Aguayo

Teresa E. Aguayo

Director of Academic Administration and Finance

Teresa is Director of Academic Administration and Finance in the Department of Sociology.  Her main roles include managing projects and grants, overseeing faculty affairs, advising students, and directing academic programming, curricular development and financial operations. She co-created the Summer Program on Indigenous Studies at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and coordinated the Nahuatl Program and the expansion of the native language consortium between Columbia, Yale and NYU, as well as the establishment of the O’Gorman Program for Mexican Scholars at the Institute of Latin American Studies. Recently, she has been involved in promoting the study of Mexican studies at Columbia University under the direction of  Prof. Claudio Lomnitz at the Center for Mexican Studies.  A part of this endeavor Teresa is working with students, faculty and the Office of Global Programs to solidify Columbia's study abroad program in Mexico City.   Prior to joining the Department of Sociology, Teresa was Assistant Director in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race--CSER for eight years, where she was also Associate Curator at the Gallery at the Center.  Before that, she was senior program coordinator in the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Center for Brazilian Studies at Columbia.   She also worked as a research associate in the Economics Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Teresa received her B.A. from NYU and her M.A. in Economics from the New School of Social Research.  She lives in Brooklyn with her two daughters.