Faculty

Department Chair

Name
Amelia María de la Luz Montes Professor Chicano & Latino Studies

Core Faculty

Name	Specialities
Karen Mary Davalos Director of Undergraduate Studies Professor Chicano & Latino Studies	Chicana/o art and culture; Latina/o spirituality; museum studies; midwestern Latino ethnography; oral history and the archive; feminist theory and editorial praxis; community-based learning and decolonial methods; arts organizations and artist collectives
Jimmy Patiño Associate Professor Chicano & Latino Studies	Race, class, and gender; Chicano and Latino history; culture and politics; immigration and the USA-Mexico border; Latino civil rights and the Chicano movement; African American and Latino relations
Gabriela Spears-Rico Assistant Professor Chicano & Latino Studies, American Indian Studies	Mexican indigenous communities, tourism, Days of the Dead, anthropology of consumption, performance theory, decolonial feminism, gendered violence, Mestizaje, Chicanx indigeneity
Jessica Lopez Lyman Assistant Professor Chicano & Latino Studies	Midwest Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Studies; gentrification & Latina/o/x urbanisms; performance and visual art; feminist, queer, and decolonial social movements

Affiliate Faculty

Name	Specialities
Llana Barber Associate Professor History Director Immigration History Research Center	Caribbean diaspora; empire and colonial migration; anti-Black racism; Latine urban history
Zobeida Bonilla Assistant Professor School of Public Health	Maternal children and health; Latino health; qualitative health research and program evaluation; global health (Caribbean region); health disparities
Fernando Burga Assistant Professor Humphrey School of Public Affairs	Civic engagement and public participation; immigration and refugee services and policy; land use planning; race and diversity; race and ethnicity; sustainable development; urban and regional planning; urban design
Bianet Castellanos Professor of American Studies	Indigenous communities and cultures; migration, anthropology of work; Chicano studies; Latin America; transnationalism; gender studies; consumption
Blanca Caldas Chumbes Assistant Professor Curriculum and Instruction	Bilingual education, preservice bilingual/language teacher education, minoritized langage practices and pedagogies, critical narratives/testimonio, critical discourse analysis, participatory action research, critical (performance) ethnography
Cindy Garcia Associate Professor Theatre and Dance	Dance and the practices of everyday life; ethnography of performance; Chicano and Latino politics, culture, and performance; migration, race, and performance studies
Madelaine C. Cahuas Assistant Professor Geography, Environment & Society	Latinx geographies, migrant identities, and citizenship, women of color feminisms, decolonial theory, urban politics, social movements
Osiris A Gomez Assistant Professor Spanish & Portuguese Studies	Contemporary Mexican literature and culture, Indigenous literature, translation studies, linguistic rights.
Roberto Orozco Assistant Professor Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development	Jotería Studies, Chicana Latina/Feminist Studies, College Student Activism, College Student Development, Higher Education, Critical Qualitative Methodologies, Muxerista Studies
Yalile Suriel Assistant Professor History	Universities and Power, Carceral State, Higher Education, African American, Latinx, 20th Century United States
Ramon Vasquez Assistant Professor Curriculum and Instruction	Teacher Education, Sociology of Knowledge, Relational Pedagogies, World-Centered Education, Critical Theories, Memory Work, Post-Qualitative Research, and Curriculum Theory.

Teaching Specialists & Lecturers

Name
Claudia Fuentes Teaching Specialist
Vanessa R. Gonzalez Lecturer
Tlahtoki Xochimeh Lecturer

Graduate Student Teaching Assistants

Name
Roy Guzman
Daniel Hernandez
Natasha Hernandez Villar
David Ramos