He is currently on leave from Syracuse University Madrid DIPA program. He has lived and worked for three years in Madrid, Spain and he teaches courses focused on Race, Democracy and Human Rights in Afro-Latin America. His primary research is focused on understanding how race, racial discrimination and gender intersect to create particular forms of discrimination and marginalization that lead to human rights violations. He has recently finished writing a book entitled Human Rights for Research and Documentation forthcoming in the Fall of 2004. Brian Gollnick teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa. His research is focused on modern Latin American narrative, particularly from Mexico. He is currently working to complete a book project on the representation of indigenous peoples in the rain forest of southern Mexico.