Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Instructor Ramos has been in the US for over 40 years. He has lived in Upstate NY, Miami-Dade/Broward in Florida, and in North Carolina and Columbia South Carolina, where he currently resides since retiring.

He holds an Associate Degree in Arts from Miami Dade College, and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Florida International University, Miami, Florida. He has been teaching Spanish for over two years, and I also possesses a degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). He is currently pursuing a PhD in Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures examining issues of race, racism, and anti-racism in Latin America and also examining the histories of racism and the ways it has shaped and structured Latin American societies. He studies the legacies of race and anti-racism to  better understand how racism operates with other means of oppression like environmental racism, gendered practices and ideas, classism, and ableism among others.

He is a fan of the University of South Carolina Gamecocks football and basketball teams and also enjoys learning new languages, watching science fiction film and travelling. 

Dissertation Director: Prof. Jorge Camacho