Teresa E. Aguayo

Teresa is the 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. Prior to joining the Department of Sociology, Teresa was Assistant Director in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race—CSER, where she co-created the Summer Program in Indigenous Studies.  At CSER, Teresa also acted as Associate Curator for 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 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. 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.