Faculty

Department Chair

Name
Contact
Specialities
Amelia María de la Luz Montes
Professor
Chicano & Latino Studies
19 Scott Hall
612-624-6309
monte466@umn.edu
 

Core Faculty

Name
Contact
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
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
Gabriela Spears-Rico
Assistant Professor
Chicano & Latino Studies,
American Indian Studies
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
Jessica Lopez Lyman
Assistant Professor
Chicano & Latino Studies
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

Name
Contact
Specialities
Zobeida Bonilla
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health
104 Scott Hall
612-624-1818
zbonilla@umn.edu
Maternal children and health; Latino health; qualitative health research and program evaluation; global health (Caribbean region); health disparities
Assistant Professor
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
295A Humphrey School
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
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
Cindy Garcia
Associate Professor
Theatre and Dance
580 Rarig Center
612-626-6625
cgarcia@umn.edu
Dance and the practices of everyday life; ethnography of performance; Chicano and Latino politics, culture, and performance; migration, race, and performance studies
Assistant Professor
Geography, Environment & Society
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
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

Name
Contact 
Claudia Fuentes
Teaching Specialist
fuen0003@umn.edu
Vanessa R. Gonzalez
Lecturer 
ramos328@umn.edu
Alex Mendoza Covarrubias
Teaching Specialist
mend0121@umn.edu
Tlahtoki Xochimeh
Lecturer 
xochimeh@umn.edu

Graduate Student Teaching Assistants

Name
Roy Guzman
Daniel Hernandez
Natasha Hernandez Villar
David Ramos