Steve Lownes is an Associate Professor of World Languages at the University of South Carolina-Union where he teaches Spanish, Portuguese, Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, South Carolina Studies and courses with a heavy emphasis on internships and service-learning.
Formerly, he was the Assistant Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute at the University of Georgia, administering $1.9 million for the Federal Department of Education’s Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies grants. He has lived, conducted research, and worked in Spain, Argentina, and Brazil. He is an American Translators Associate (ATA) certified translator. Lownes earned his PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from the Ohio State University in 2018, MA in Public Policy and Management in 2013, also from the Ohio State University, and a B.A. (2005) and MA (2007) in Spanish from the University of South Carolina. He lives with his wife and three children in South Carolina.