Faculty
Department Chair
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Name
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Contact
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Specialities
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|---|---|---|
| Amelia María de la Luz Montes Professor Chicano & Latino Studies |
Core Faculty
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Name
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Contact
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Specialities
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|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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Associate Professor
Chicano & Latino Studies |
210 Scott Hall 612-624-6005 jpatinoj@umn.edu |
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 |
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American Indian Studies
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612-624-4530
spearsrg@umn.edu |
Mexican indigenous communities, tourism, Days of the Dead, anthropology of consumption, performance theory, decolonial feminism, gendered violence, Mestizaje, Chicanx indigeneity
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| 19 Scott Hall lyma0025@umn.edu |
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
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Name
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Contact
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Specialities
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|---|---|---|
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Maternal children and health; Latino health; qualitative health research and program evaluation; global health (Caribbean region); health disparities
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Assistant Professor
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
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295A Humphrey School
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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
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| Bianet Castellanos Associate Professor American Studies |
206 Scott Hall
612-624-8031
mbc@umn.edu |
Indigenous communities and cultures; migration, anthropology of work; Chicano studies; Latin America; transnationalism; gender studies; consumption |
| Blanca Caldas Chumbes Assistant Professor Curriculum and Instruction |
104 Burton Hall 612-626-9252 bcaldasc@umn.edu |
Bilingual education, preservice bilingual/language teacher education, minoritized langage practices and pedagogies, critical narratives/testimonio, critical discourse analysis, participatory action research, critical (performance) ethnography |
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Dance and the practices of everyday life; ethnography of performance; Chicano and Latino politics, culture, and performance; migration, race, and performance studies
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Assistant Professor
Geography, Environment & Society
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481 Social Sciences Building 612-625-5578 mcahuas@umn.edu |
Latinx geographies, migrant identities, and citizenship, women of color feminisms, decolonial theory, urban politics, social movements |
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Osiris A Gomez
Assistant Professor Spanish & Portuguese Studies
|
214N Folwell Hall ogomezve@umn.edu |
Contemporary Mexican literature and culture, Indigenous literature, translation studies, linguistic rights. |
| Yalile Suriel Assistant Professor History |
ysuriel@umn.edu | Universities and Power, Carceral State, Higher Education, African American, Latinx, 20th Century United States |
| Ramon Vasquez Assistant Professor Curriculum and Instruction |
vasquezr@umn.edu | Teacher Education, Sociology of Knowledge, Relational Pedagogies, World-Centered Education, Critical Theories, Memory Work, Post-Qualitative Research, and Curriculum Theory. |
Teaching Specialists & Lecturers
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Name
|
Contact
|
|---|---|
| Sandra Del Rio Madrigal Lecturer |
delri029@umn.edu |
| Claudia Fuentes Teaching Specialist |
fuen0003@umn.edu |
| Vanessa R. Gonzalez Lecturer |
ramos328@umn.edu |
| Tlahtoki Xochimeh Lecturer |
xochimeh@umn.edu |
Graduate Student Teaching Assistants
| Name |
|---|
| Roy Guzman |
| Daniel Hernandez |
| Natasha Hernandez Villar |
| David Ramos |