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Experts by Last Name
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Adelson, Marvin
Professor Emeritus, Architecture/Urban Design
Architecture, Urban Development
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Theory evaluation, psychology and communication
decision theory; futurist
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-7932
madelson@ucla.edu
Aggarwal, Vinod
Professor
Politics/Political Science
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Comparative regionalism in Europe, North America,
and Asia. International systems. Multinational corporations
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-2817, 642-6323, 643-1071
Aguiar, José
Farm Advisor, Riverside County
Area of Expertise: Vegetable crops and small farms
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (760) 863-7949
jlaguiar@ucdavis.edu
Aguilera, Renato
Assistant Professor - Molecular/Cellular/Developmental Biology
Biology, Research
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: n/a
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-3724
renato@ucla.edu
Aguirre, Adalberto
Professor of Sociology
Sociology, Race and Gender, Law
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Sociolinguistics, Critical Race Theory, Sociology
of Education. His teaching interests are in social inequality, the
sociology of education, formal organizations, critical race theory
and sociolinguistics. Workplace issues for women and minority faculty,
the relationship between race and death sentencing, the role of
the master narrative in the social sciences, and the association
between bilingual proficiency and grammatical knowledge
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-5507
adalberto.aguirre@ucr.edu
Alarcón, Francisco X.
Spanish Lecturer
Literature, Race and Gender
Davis
Areas of Expertise: A national award-winning bilingual poet, Alarcon
can talk about gay and lesbian Latino poetry and bilingual children's
poetry. He is compiling an anthology titled Boca a Boca / Mouth
to Mouth: A Gay Latino Poetry Anthology to be published by the University
of California Press. Alarcón is the author of 10 volumes of poetry,
including Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation (San Francisco: Chronicle
Books, 1992), De amor oscuro / Of Dark Love (Santa Cruz: Moving
Parts Press, 1991 and 2001), Body in Flames / Cuerpo en llamas (Chronicle
Books, l990).
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-752-1022
fjalarcon@ucdavis.edu
Alarcón, Norma
Professor
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Race and Gender
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Comparative ethnic studies. Feminist critical
theory. Cultural criticism. Studies of Chicanas/Latinas and women
of color. (also affiliated with Department of Spanish and Portuguese
and Department of Women's Studies)
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-0708, 643-0796
nalarcon@uclink.berkeley.edu
Aldenderfer, Mark
Archaeology Professor
Anthropology
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Aldenderfer's research interests are at present
focused upon the study of the emergence of complex foraging and
pastoral societies in the highlands of the south-central Andes and
the Titicaca basin.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-8604
aldender@sscf.ucsb.edu
Altieri, Miguel
Associate Professor
Agriculture, Biology
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Biological Control. Agro-ecology
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-9802, 642-3327
agroeco3@nature.berkeley.edu
Alvarez, Margie
Nutrition Educator, Orange County
Area of Expertise: Child nutrition; general nutrition, home economics,
consumer education
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (714) 708-1614
malvarez@ucdavis.edu
Alvarez, Rodolfo
Professor - Sociology
Sociology, Race and Gender
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Societal organization, race, gender and class
discrimination
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-1472
alvarez@soc.ucla.edu
Alvarez, Sonia E.
Associate Professor - Politics
Politics/Political Science, Race and Gender
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Latin American politics, the politics of gender,
comparative political development, feminist theory, social movements,
democratization, contemporary democratic theory, civil society.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-2567, 459-2855
soniaa@cats.ucsc.edu
Ana, Otto Santa
Assistant Professor - Cesar Chavez Center - Chicana/Chicano Studies
Anthropology, Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Education
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Anthropologist, social linguist, dialects, the
interface of language and social structure, language acquisition
and development, ethnic dialect formation, languages and language
policy issues.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-8225
otto@ucla.edu
Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph
Assistant Professor
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Race and Gender
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Globalization, Labor, Social Movements, Racism,
and Latin American Studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-5709
ralpharm@hotmail.com
Arora, Shirley
Professor Emerita - Spanish/Portuguese
Literature
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Globalization, Labor, Social Movements, Racism,
and Latin American Studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-4757
arora@humnet.ucla.edu
Arredondo, Gabriela
Assistant Professor - Latin American/Latino Studies
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Race and
Gender
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: U.S. social and cultural history; Chicana/o
history; critical race and ethnicity theories; im/migration history;
Latina/os in the U.S.; Chicana feminisms; "borderlands" studies,
particularly intersections with gender and race.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-5319
gfarredo@cats.ucsc.edu
Arrizon, Alicia
Associate Professor
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Literature
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Latin American/Chicano literature and culture.
Languages: English
Phone:909-787-4577
alicia@ucrac1.ucr.edu
Arteaga, Alfred
Associate Professor
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Literature, Race and Gender
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Chicano poetics. Nation, ethnicity, and linguistics.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-0796
arteaga@socrates.berkeley.edu
Artiles, Alfredo J.
Assistant Professor - Educational Psychology
Education, Psychology/Psychiatry
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Teaching of handicapped children and urban education
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:
Aswani, Shankar
Assistant Professor - Sociocultural
Anthropology
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Research interests are focused on the foraging
strategies of horticultural-fisher peoples, property rights and
common property resources, and marine ethnoicthyology in the Solomon
Islands and Melanesia at large.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-5285
aswani@sscf.ucsb.edu
Avila, Eric
Assistant Professor - Chicano Studies
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, History/U.S./Latin America/World
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Chicano history and history of Los Angeles Fluency:
fair. Couldn't give an extensive interview in Spanish.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-9106
eavila@ucla.edu
Ayala, Francisco
Professor
Biology, Research, Religion
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Evolutionary Genetics, Philosophy and Ethics
of Science. Professor Ayala also deals with stem cell and cloning
research issues as well as the intersection of Science and Religion.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-8293
fjayala@uci.edu
Azevedo, Milton
Professor of Spanish
Literature, Research
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Synchronic Hispanic linguistics, applied linguistics,
and literary linguistics. His recent research focuses on the representation
of speech in literary texts.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2116
mazevedo@socrates.berkeley.edu
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Baca, Judith
Professor-World Arts/Cultures, Artistic Director - Social/Public
Art Resource Center
Art, History/U.S./Latin America/World
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Studio art, muralism, art history and arts management.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-822-9560
judybaca@ucla.edu
Baldi, Pierre
Professor/Director - Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics
Medicine, Computer Science, Research
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Genomics and Bioinformatics, Combining Medical
Research with Information Technology, Cutting-edge Technologies
-- such as Telescience and Informatics -- to Empower Physicians
in their Daily Practices, Cal-(IT)2
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-5809
pfbaldi@ics.uci.edu
Baquedano-López, Patricia
Assistant Professor
Education
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Language, learning, and literacy practices.
Urban schools, after-school programs, and home and work communities.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-0746
pbl@uclink.berkeley.edu
Barba, M.D., David
Associate Clinical Professor - Department of Surgery
Medicine
San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Neurosurgery
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:681-543-5540
dbarba@ucsd.edu
Barceló, Brenda
Lecturer
Literature
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Latin American culture, bilingual studies, Romance
languages, Spanish/English and English/Spanish translation, Hispanic
linguistics.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-5642
bbarcelo@cats.ucsc.edu
Barilli, Amelia
Lecturer
Literature
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Post-1700 Spanish literature
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-1236
Barrera, Mario
Emeritus Professor
Film and Television, Race and Gender, Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: American ethnic film. Ethnicity and film. Screenwriting
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-9134, 643-0796
mythos@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Barrio, Jorge
Professor - Radiological Sciences
Medicine
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Nuclear medicine and radiology.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4167
jbarrio@mednet.ucla.edu
Barvosa-Carter, Edwina
Assistant Professor
Politics/Political Science, History/U.S./Latin America/World, Chicano/Ethnic
Studies
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary, Social and Political Theory, Intellectual
History, and Chicana/o Studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-5546
barvosa@chicst.ucsb.edu
Battany, Mark
Farm Advisor, San Luis Obispo County
Area of Expertise: viticulture, wine grapes, agricultural water
and soils management
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (805) 781-5948
mcbattany@ucdavis.edu
Bean, Frank
Director-Center for Research on Immigration, Population, Public
Policy
Immigration, Social Welfare/Children
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: He is former Director of the Center for U.S/Mexico
Border and Migration Research at the University of Texas, Austin.
Dr. Bean's current research examines four areas: the intersection
of race/ethnicity in the United States, immigration and U.S. welfare
patterns, migration within and from Mexico, and the effects of immigration
on labor markets.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-7497
fbean@uci.edu
Becerra, Rosina
Professor - Social Welfare/Director - Center for Child/Family Policy
Social Welfare/Children
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Social gerontology, child welfare, evaluation
of welfare reform, policy issues in health and mental health, relationship
between social work and ethnic communities.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-7975
rbecerra@ucla.edu
Becerra, Victor
Director - Community Outreach Partnership Center
n/a
Irvine
Areas of Expertise:
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949- 824-9337
vbecerra@uci.edu
Bedolla, Lisa Garcia
Assistant Professor
Politics/Political Science, Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: American Politics, Chicana/Latina Politics and
Policy
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-9298
lgarciab@uci.edu
Benitez, Ruben
Professor Emeritus - Spanish/Portuguese
Literature
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Spanish and Spanish-American literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-1358
rbenitez@humnet.ucla.edu
Bennett, Charles F.
Professor Emeritus - Geography
Environment
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Ecosystems, biogeography, conservation, Latin
America, Spanish.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-3525, 310-825-1071
chasben@ucla.edu
Bergmann, Emilie
Professor
Literature, Race and Gender
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Spanish and colonial Latin America . Castillian
and Catalan women writers of the 20th century. Representations of
gender and the female body in Sur Juana Inés de la Cruz. Feminist
theory
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2104, 642-0471
elb@socrates.berkeley.edu
Billikopf-Encina, Gregorio
Farm Advisor, Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Merced counties
Area of Expertise: Labor management in agriculture; employee selection;
pay &
Incentives; negotiation & conflict management; discipline &
termination; supervisory
skills training; interpersonal communications on the job
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (209) 525-6800
gebillikopf@ucdavis.edu
Blum, Carolyn Patty
Clinical Professor
Immigration, Race and Gender
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Refugee and asylum law. Central American and
Haitian refugees. Women refugees.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-5980
cpblum@law.berkeley.edu
Bonacich, Edna
Professor - Sociology\Ethnic Studies
Sociology, Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Race and Gender
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Race/ethnic relations, labor, immigration, social
change.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-4373
edna.bonacich@ucr.edu
Borrego, John G.
Professor - Latin American/Latino Studies
Urban Development, Politics/Political Science
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Global political economy, national development,
urban and regional planning, community organizing, social change,
ethnic minorities, Mexico and the Southwest.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-45 9-4430, 459-2855
borrego@cats.ucsc.edu
Brandes, Stanley H.
Social Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology, Race and Gender
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Psychological Anthropology. Ritual and Religion.
Folklore and the life course. Gender
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-6945
brandes@sscl.berkeley.edu
Brown, Kenneth
Professor, UC Davis
Area of Expertise: Nutrition problems of infants and young children
of low-income countries; relationships between infectious diseases
and nutritional status; deficiencies of zinc, vitamin A, and other
micronutrients
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-1992
khbrown@ucdavis.edu
Broyles-González, Yolanda
Professor
Housing, Race and Gender, Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Philosophy and Social Theory, Intellectual History,
and Chicano/a Studies
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-2073
broyles@chicst.ucsb.edu
Bruce-Novoa, Juan
Professor - Spanish/Portuguese
Literature, Film and Television
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Chicano Literature and Film. Cultural Production
of Hispanics in the U.S.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-4762
jbruceno@uci.edu
Burton-Carvajal, Julianne
Professor
Film and Television, Literature
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary Latin American visual media, particularly
film; post- and anticolonial cinemas and theories of postcoloniality;
changing paradigms of gender in film and literature; 20th-century
Latin American literature and culture; critical theory; cultural
contextualization and mediation.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4560
julianne@cats.ucsc.edu
Busby, Cathy
Professor
Earthquakes/Volcanoes, Research
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Basic research focuses on stratigraphy and tectonincs
of volcanoplutonic arcs, and controls of tectonics and eustacy on
sedimentation in active margin basins. The work integrates sedimentological,
volcanological, structural and geochronological data from Mesozoic
continental and island arc successions to better understand the
interaction between volcanism, tectonics, and sedimentation.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-40688 93-8188
cathy@geology.ucsb.edu
Byrne, Roger
Associate Professor
Biology, Research, Environment
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Pleistocene/Holocene change in California and
Mexico. Historical biogeography. Environmental vegetation change.
Prehistoric agriculture. Pollen analysis.
Languages: English
Phone:510-643-9170, 643-1834, 642-3903
abyrne@uclink4.berkeley.edu
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Cabezón, José
Professor
Religion, Race and Gender
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Tibetan Buddhism Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy
Buddhism and Popular Culture Sexuality and Gender Studies
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-3134
jcabezon@religion.ucsb.edu
Cabranes-Grant, Leo
Music/Dance
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise:
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:
Calderón, Hector
Professor - Spanish/Portuguese
Literature, Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Chicano and Latin American literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-2194
calderon@humnet.ucla.edu
Caldwell, Roy
Professor
Biology
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Invertebrate behavioral biology and ecology.
Biology and geomorphology of tropical flora.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-1391 643-5448
4roy@socrates.berkeley.edu
Calierno, Carlos
Lecturer
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Music/Dance, Film and Television
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Latin American culture, history, literature,
cinema, music, art, economics, and politics.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3463
calierno@cats.ucsc.edu
Campo, Juan
Professor
Religion
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Islam and Culture Comparative Study of Religions
Religious Landscapes and Architectures Modern Pilgrimages (Islamic,
Hindu, and Christian) Discourses on Death and the Afterlife Modern
Islamic Movements.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-3945
jcampo@humanitas.ucsb.edu
Canobio, RN, Mary
School of Nursing
Medicine
San Francisco
Areas of Expertise:
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:
Cantwell de Trejo, Marita
CE Specialist, UC Davis
Area of Expertise: Postharvest physiology; handling and storage
of vegetables, including specialty and fresh cut vegetables
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-7305
micantwell@ucdavis.edu
Cardenas, Alfonso
Professor, Computer Science
Computer Science, Research
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Data management systems, program languages and
software systems; systems analysis, management information systems.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-7550 310-825-2660
cardenas@cs.ucla.edu
Carr, Claudia
Associate Professor
Agriculture, Environment
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: International and rural resource development
Languages: English
Phone:510-643-3964
cjcarr@nature.berkeley.edu
Carranza, Fermin
Professor Emeritus, Dentistry
Medicine, Research
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Periodontist, histologist.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-5543
Carrasquilla, Dennis
Community Health Educator, Stanislaus County
Area of expertise: general nutrition
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (209) 525-6800
dcarrasquilla@ucdavis.edu
Casas, J. Manuel
Professor
Education, Race and Gender
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Research Areas and Interests- Racial/ethnic
minority groups, cross-cultural counseling, and the family dynamics
of diverse populations.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-2590
casas@education.ucsb.edu
Cascardi, Anthony
Professor - Comparative Literature
Literature
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Cervantes and theatre; the Spanish Baroque;
the modern novel and theory of the novel; philosophy and literature;
Goya; literary theory; aesthetics.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-1205
ajc1@socrates.berkeley.edu
Castells, Manuel
Professor
Computer Science, Urban Development
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Social, economic, and spatial implications of
Internet. Urban and regional policies. Regional development.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-3195, 642-3256
em511995@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Castillo, Pedro G.
Associate Professor - History
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Immigration
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Chicano history and culture, Mexican and Central
American migration to the U.S., immigrants and racial minorities
in American cities.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-2738, 459-2855
pcastle@cats.ucsc.edu
Chabran, Richard
Director - Center for Visual Research
Research
Riverside
Areas of Expertise:
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3852
richard.chabran@ucr.edu
Chapela, Ignacio
Assistant Professor
Biology, Research
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Microbial ecology. Mycology
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-2452, 643-2952
ichapela@nature.berkeley.edu
Charlton, Suzanne
Lecturer
Education
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Language Development, Multicultural & Bilingual
Education, Foreign Language Instruction.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-3523
shcharlt@uci.edu
Chavez, Leo
Professor/Director - Chicano/Latino Studies Program
Immigration, Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Immigration, Labor Issues, Latino Issues
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-4054
lchavez@uci.edu
Chavez, Lydia
Associate Professor
Journalism, Immigration, History/U.S./Latin America/World
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Journalism. Cuba, Mexico, and the U.S./Mexico
border
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-9235
lcha@uclink.berkeley.edu
Chmelka, Brad
Professor
Chemistry
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Chemical engineering
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-3673
bradc@engineering.ucsb.edu
Chowning, Margaret
Associate Professor
History/U.S./Latin America/World
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Modern Mexico. Socio-economics.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2415
chowning@socrates.berkeley.edu
Clark, Vé Vé
Associate Professor - Department of African American Studies
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Literature
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Francophone and Anglophone. Literature of Africa
and the Caribbean African American women writers
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-2699, 642-7084
Cleveland, David
Associate Professor - Environmental Studies
Environment, Research
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Specific topics include local and scientific
epistemology and knowledge, plant breeding and biotechnology, conservation
of crop genetic resources, population dynamics and agricultural
change, small-scale farming and household gardens, and development
policy.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-7502, 893-2257, 893-2698
clevelan@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Collier, David
Professor
Politics/Political Science
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Comparative politics. Latin America. Methodology.
Conceptualization and measurement. Causal assessment and qualitative
research. Regime change and democratization.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-8168, 642-6323
dcollier@socrates.berkeley.edu
Collier, Ruth
Professor
Politics/Political Science
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Comparative politics. Latin America. Regime
change and democratization Mexican politics. Labor politics
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-8019, 642-6323
rcollier@socs.berkeley.edu
Cook, Roberta
CE Economist, UC Davis
Area of Expertise: Food distribution; fruit and vegetable marketing;
consumer demand, cooperatives
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-1531
rlcook@ucdavis.edu
Correa, Ana Maria
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Medicine
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Neuroscience
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-4072
nani@ucla.edu
Cortinez, Veronica
Associate Professor - Spanish and Portuguese
Literature
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Colonial and contemporary Latin American literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-3132
cortinez@humnet.ucla.edu
Craddock, Jerry
Professor
Literature, History/U.S./Latin America/World
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Spanish Philology and Literature of the Middle
Ages; Documents of the Spanish Southwest; Romance Philology: Philological
Study of the Hispanic Southwest.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-8069
jerryc@socrates.berkeley.edu
Crisosto, Carlos H.
Postharvest Physiologist, Kearney Agricultural Center
Area of Expertise: Postharvest biology and technology of fruits;
fruit quality and deterioration and handling systems
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (559) 646-6596
carlos@uckac.edu
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Davids, René
Associate Professor
Agriculture, Urban Development, Housing
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: South American architecture. Quality design.
Mutifamily and affordable housing. Urban design
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-1699
rdavids@uclink.berkeley.edu
de Alba, Alicia Gaspar
Associate Professor - English/American Studies - Cesar Chavez Center
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Race and Gender
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Chicano popular history, border consciousness,
popular culture, gender and sexuality, writing.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-3491
agdealba@ucla.edu
de Janvry, Alain
Professor
Economics, Agriculture, Urban Development
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Economic planning. Poverty. Agricultural and
rural development policy
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-3348, 642-3345
alain@are.berkeley.edu
de la Cruz, Marlene
Coordinator - Genetics and Plan Biology/Botany
Biology, Agriculture
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Genetics and Plan Biology/Botany (She coordinates
grad student and faculty cooperative partnerships between UC and
Mexico)
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-4744
Marlene.delacruz@ucr.edu
De la Fuente, Maria
Farm Advisor, Santa Clara County
Area of expertise: Mushrooms, cut flowers, nursery crops, specialty
vegetables, plant pathology and soil microbiology.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (408) 299-2635 x1001
medelafuente@ucdavis.edu
De La Maza, Luis M.
Professor
Medicine, Public Health
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Sexually transmitted diseases, Chlamydia, Herpes,
Infectious Diseases
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-7450
lmdelama@uci.edu
de la Mora, Sergio
Assistant Professor of Chicano/a Studies
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Film and Television
Davis
Areas of Expertise: de la Mora has been choosing Mexican and Latino
film and video for screening since 1995, working primarily through
Cine Accion, a San Francisco based nonprofit organization devoted
to the promotion of Latin American and Latino film. He is an established
authority in Mexican cinema, recognized both in Mexico and elsewhere.
He has written numerous articles on Mexican film that have appeared
in Jump Cut, Film Quarterly, and the Journal of Film and Video.
His current book project is titled "Virile Nationalism: Mexican
Cinema, the State, and the Formation of a National Consciousness."
He is also completing a study on the politics of programming for
U.S. Latino film festivals.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-754-8743
sedelamora@ucdavis.edu
de la Torre, Jose
Professor - Management
Economics, Research
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: International business. He is the director of
the Center for International Business Education and Research.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4507, 310-206-8518
jose.de.la.torre@anderson.ucla.edu
Dean, Carolyn S.
Associate Professor - Art History
Art, History/U.S./Latin America/World
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Cultural histories of the native Americas, colonial
Latin America, and Africa.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3119, 459-2951
csdean@cats.ucsc.edu
Delgado, Guillermo
Lecturer - Latin American/Latino Studies
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Religion, Race and Gender
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Latin America; comparative indigeniety; indigenous
property rights; religion, magic, and ritual; ecologies and peasantries;
Quechua/Andean linguistics, mining; alternative/electronic journalism;
anthropology in the developing world; interethnicity; urbanization;
social movements; culture theory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3449, 459-4284
guiller@cats.ucsc.edu
Diaz, Maria Elena
Associate Professor - History
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Race and Gender
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Colonial Caribbean and Latin America; social
and cultural history; ethnohistory; slavery, race, gender.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-2227, 459-2855
mediaz@cats.ucsc.edu
Dimitriou, Agnes
Lecturer/Director - Summer Session Program
Education
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Director of Summer Sessions Program.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-1236
agnesd@socrates.berkeley.edu
Dirksen, Ellen R.
Professor, Neurobiology
Medicine
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise:
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-9565
dirksen@mednet.ucla.edu
Dobrian, John Christopher
Associate Professor
Music/Dance, Computer Science
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: composer, music technology, computer music,
experimental music compositions
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-7288
dobrian@uci.edu
Donnan, Christopher B.
Professor - Anthropology
Anthropology
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Archaeology, cultural change, South America
and Spanish.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-9644, 825-1991
cdonnan@arts.ucla.edu
Dosamantes-Beaudry, Irma
Professor - World Arts and Culture
Music/Dance, Psychology/Psychiatry
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Dance therapy, interdisciplinary and cross cultural
arts studies, psychological and psychoanalysis.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-1333, 310-825-3951
irmad@arts.ucla.edu
Dougherty, Dru
Professor and Chair
Literature, History/U.S./Latin America/World
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Modern Spanish Literature. Spanish Theater 1900
to 1936 and Ramón María del Valle-Inclán. Professor Dougherty's
research is centered on the works of Ramon del Valle-Inclán and
the theater of Federico Garcia Lorca. He is co-director of the research
project "Historia del Teatro Madrileño entre 1900 y 1936: Texto
y Representación" that is uncovering the performance history of
Madrid's theater between 1918 and 1936. He regularly teaches courses
on theater, novel and poetry of the 20th century with special attention
given to Spain's avant-garde.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-4854
jfarmer@uclink.berkeley.edu
Duel, Barry
Assistant Professor
Medicine
UC Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Pediatric Urology including Urinary Incontinence
and Minimally Invasive Surgery; Urological problems in Children
with ADHD and Spina Bifida.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:714-456-2991
bduel@uci.edu
Duhl, Leonard
Professor
Medicine, Public Health
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Healthy cities and communities . Mental health
planning and policy. Informatics in community health systems. Latin
American community health and quality of life.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-1715
lenduhl@socrates.berkeley.edu
Dundes, Alan
Professor
Anthropology, Psychology/Psychiatry
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Folklore. Structural analysis. Symbolism. Cultural
Anthropology. Worldview Psychoanalysis.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-2092, 642-3391
Duran, Richard P.
Professor
Education
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Learning and instruction; assessment; construction
of culture through interaction; and bilingualism; cognitive science,
language interaction and social organization (LISO).
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-3555
duran@education.ucsb.edu
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Easter, M.D., David W.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Medicine, Public Health, Research
San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Easter is a general surgeon with special
interests in oncology, resident education, and laparoscopic surgery
techniques.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:858-657-8735
deaster@ucsd.edu
Edwards, Sebastian
Professor - Economics; Anderson Graduate School of Management
Economics
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: International development
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-6797, 310-825-2507
sebastian.edwards@anderson.ucla.edu
Egan, Linda
Assistant Professor - Spanish
Literature, Journalism
Davis
Areas of Expertise: Expert on Monsivais. UC Davis Spanish assistant
professor and former journalist Linda Egan says Monsiváis has become
Mexico's national conscience. He built a reputation through five
collections of lierary journalism chronicles, beginning with "Dias
de Guardar" in 1970. Mexicans are also familiar with Monsiváis through
a weekly newspaper column he published for decades in the capital's
most prestigious cultural supplements and dailies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-752-1035
ldegan@ucdavis.edu
Ehret, Christopher
Professor - History/Associate Director - James S. Coleman African
Studies Center
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Anthropology
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: East Africa, African linguistics, anthropology,
Swahili
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4093, 310-825-4601
ehret@history.ucla.edu
Enríquez, Laura
Associate Professor
Politics/Political Science, Immigration, Sociology
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Development in Latin America. Rural sociology.
Political sociology. Social movements.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2502 - 642-4766
enriquez@uclink.berkeley.edu
Ericson, Jonathon
Chair, Environmental Analysis and Design
Medicine, Environment, Public Health
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Principal research interests in environmental
health sciences, with emphasis on exposure assessment and development
of biomarkers. Research has been conducted on establishing the pre-Industrial
baseline levels of lead distribution and cadmium, lead in the urban
environment through environmental epidemiological survey, the durability
of natural glass for nuclear waste containment, and GIS/remote sensing.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-1000
jeericso@uci.edu
Espinoza-Hall, Gloria
Nutrition, Family & Consumer Science Advisor, Shasta County
Area of Expertise: general nutrition, gestational diabetes
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 224-4900
gbespinosahall@ucdavis.edu
Estrada, Leobardo
Associate Professor - Urban Planning
Urban Development, Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Survey methodology, Chicano studies, sociology,
demography, Geographic Information Systems
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-6574
leobard@ucla.edu
Evans, Peter
Professor
Sociology, Economics
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Development and globalization. Comparative political
economy. Latin America.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-5877, 642-4766
pevans@socrates.berkeley.edu
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Fagundo, Ana María
Literature
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Literature, contemporary Spanish, creative writing
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3746 x1468
ana.fagundo@ucr.edu
Fairris, David
Associate Professor - Economics
Environment
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Professor Fairris conducts research on shopfloor
labor-management relations and shopfloor conditions such as industrial
safety. He also conducts research on developing country labor markets
(Mexico in particular) and on the impact of diverse employee compensation
policies on both workers and the productive efficiency of firms.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-5037 x1578
dfairris@ucrac1.ucr.edu
Farfán-Ramírez, Lucrecia
CE Specialist, Alameda County
Area of Expertise: Community health and nutrition; youth nutrition
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (510) 639-1270
cdalameda@ucdavis.edu
Faulhaber, Charles
Professor
Literature, Research, Computer Science
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Medieval Spanish and Catalan Literature; Paleography
and Codicology; computer-assisted research techniques. James D.
Hart Director, The Bancroft Library.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-3781
cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu
Feenstra, Robert
Professor - Economics
Economics, Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Immigration
Davis
Areas of Expertise: His research interests focus on indigenous peoples,
economic and political development, indigenous transnational migration
to the U.S. and California, and critical theory of cultural pluralism
in Mexico and Latin America. Researcher for the National Institute
of Anthropology and History. Director of the Regional Unit of Popular
Cultures. In the late 1990s, under the sponsorship of the International
Fund for Agricultural Development, he co-authored with UC Berkeley's
professor Alain de Janvry a study on the impact of 1992 agricultural
reforms on peasants and indigenous peoples of Mexico.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-752-0357, 752-3237
svarese@ucdavis.edu
Feinberg, Richard E.
Professor - International Political Economy
Politics/Political Science, Economics
San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Feinberg is an authority on U.S. foreign policy,
multilateral institutions (IMF, World Bank, NAFTA) and summitry
(APEC, Summitry in the Americas, G-8). He is an expert on trade
and investment, globalization, democratization and non-governmental
organizations. Feinberg can comment on U.S. foreign policy matters,
notably with regard to Latin America and Asia, and business and
economic matters.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:858-534-7627
rfeinberg@ucsd.edu
Fernandez, Nohema
Professor, Associate Dean
Music/Dance, Art
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Music, piano, Latin American and Spanish music,
arts and technology
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-4339
fernandn@uci.edu
Ferreira, Ana Paula
Chair - Spanish/Portuguese
Literature, Race and Gender
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Professor Ferreira is Associate Professor of
Portuguese Studies (Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African
Literatures), Critical Theory and Women's Studies, and presently
Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University
of California Irvine, where she has been teaching since 1989.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-7265
apferrei@uci.edu
Fitten, L. Jaime
Adjunct Associate Professor, Geriatrics
Medicine, Public Health
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Geriatrics, aging, Alzheimer's disease, dementia
and depression.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:818-891-7711 x7097
jfitten@ucla.edu
Font, Jorge Aladro
Associate Professor
Literature
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Spanish mysticism, theory and historical developments
of imagery in the Middle Ages to the baroque period; Renaissance
and baroque Hispanic literature; Italian ideas in the Spanish Renaissance,
Cervantes.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3832
jaladro@cats.ucsc.edu
Fouche, Benny
Farm Advisor, San Joaquin County
Area of Expertise: Small farms operations and specialty crops
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (209) 468-2085
bfouche@ucdavis.edu
Fox, Jonathan
Professor/Chair - Latin American/Latino Studies
Politics/Political Science, Economics
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Latin American and Latino politics, democratization,
social movements; transnational civil society coalitions with an
emphasis on social and environmental policy issues in Mexico, Brazil,
Philippines, and Central America.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-5897
jafox@cats.ucsc.edu
Frankie, Gordon
Professor
Agriculture
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Urban entomology. Community organization of
solitary bee species in California and Costa Rica
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-0973, 643-2212, 642-3327
frankie@nature.berkeley.edu
Fregoso, Rosa Linda
Professor - Latin American/Latino Studies
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Race and
Gender
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Cultural Studies, Transnational Feminist Theories,
Chicana/o and Latina/o Cinema. Author of The Bronze Screen: Chicana
and Chicano Film Culture (1993); Co-editor of Miradas de Mujer (1998
with Norma Iglesias); Editor of Lourdes Portillo: The Devil Never
Sleeps and Other Films (2001).
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:
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Gans, Phillip
Associate Professor
Earthquakes/Volcanoes, Research
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Interests lie in the general fields of structural
geology and tectonics and are focused on deformational and thermal
processes within the continental lithosphere. Research is mainly
in the field of Extensional Tectonics and is focused on exactly
how continents rift and the relationship between extension and magmatism.
Projects generally involve detailed geologic mapping of critical
areas followed by appropriate laboratory measurements.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-2642, 893-4243
gans@geology.ucsb.edu
Garbelotto, Matteo
CE Forest Pathologist, UC Berkeley
Area of expertise: diseases of native California trees, sudden oak
death
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (510) 643-4282
matteo@nature.berkeley.edu
Garcia, Mario
Professor
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Race and Gender
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Chicano Studies and American race and ethnicity.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-8930-2471, 893-4074
garcia@history.ucsb.edu
García, Sergio
Farm Advisor, San Benito County
Area of Expertise: Livestock, range, natural resources and agronomic
crops
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (831) 637-5346
sgarcia@ucdavis.edu
Gaskell, Mark
Farm Advisor, Santa Barbara County
Area of expertise: Vegetables, specialty crops, small farms, sustainable
agriculture, marketing, small fruits
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (805) 934-6240
mlgaskell@ucdavis.edu
Gelles, Paul
Associate Professor - Anthropology
Anthropology, Race and Gender
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Central Andes, Latin America. Sociocultural
anthropology, ethnicity, water issues of Andean highland peoples.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-4366
paul.gelles@ucr.edu
Gersper, Paul
Associate Professor
Agriculture
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Soil-plant relationships. Land use. Sustainable
agriculture
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-3005, 642-7111
gersper@nature.berkeley.edu
Gispert, Carmen
Farm Advisor, Riverside County
Area of expertise: viticulture, table and wine grapes, integrated
pest management
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (760) 863-8293
cgispert@ucdavis.edu
Gliessman, Stephen R.
Professor - Environmental Studies
Environment, Agriculture
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Agroecology, sustainable agriculture, traditional
farming systems in Mesoamerica, agroforestry, natural history, tropical
land use and sustainable development, culture and environment in
farming communities, ethnobotany.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4051, 459-2178
gliess@zzyx.ucsc.edu
Goldfrank, Walter L.
Professor - Sociology
Sociology, Politics/Political Science
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Social change, historical sociology, world systems,
modern Mexico, Chile, social movements and revolution, development
theories, policies and outcomes.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4461, 459-3516
wally@cats.ucsc.edu
Gomez, Laura
Professor - Law
Law, Sociology, Race and Gender
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Sociology of law, race and ethnic relations,
deviance and social control
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4255
gomez@law.ucla.edu
Gómez-Pompa, Arturo
Professor - Botany
Biology, Environment, Agriculture
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Rain forest conservation and management. Ethnobotany,
management of natural resources, floristics, and biological conservation.
Has developed several collaborative projects with Mexican colleagues
and also a research station at the El Eden Ecological Reserve in
the state of Quintana Roo,Mexico.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-4686
floramex@ucrac1.ucr.edu
Gomez-Quinones, Juan
Professor - History
History/U.S./Latin America/World
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: American history, Chicano history, social and
labor, Mexican history
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4362, 310-825-4601
Gonzalez, Edward
Professor Emeritus - Political Science
Politics/Political Science
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Cuba
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4331
Gonzalez, Elma
Professor, Biology
Biology
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Plant cell biology
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-3922
gonzalez@biology.lifesci.ucla.edu
González, Refugio A.
CE Specialist, Imperial County
Area of Expertise: Farm marketing; personnel management
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (760) 352-9474
ragonzalez@ucdavis.edu
González-Pagani, María Victoria
Lecturer
Literature, Education, Race and Gender
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Language teaching methodology; Spanish syntax;
computer-assisted foreign language learning; Latin American cultural
studies, especially women's contributions.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4262, 459-2855
vgpagani@cats.ucsc.edu
González-Rivera, Gloria
Associate Professor - Economics
Economics
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Econometrics. Professor Gonzalez-Rivera's research
and teaching interests are in Econometrics, Time Series Analysis
(theoretical and applied), Applied Econometrics in Finance and Economic
Development.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-5037 x1590
ggonzale@galaxy.ucr.edu
Goodman, David
Professor - Environmental Studies
Environment, Politics/Political Science, Agriculture
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Political economy of international environmental
issues, global agri-food systems, technology, North-South relations
and sustainable development, Brazilian economy and society.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4561, 459-3517
hatters@cats.ucsc.edu
Granger, Orman
Professor
Climate, Environment
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Applied physical climatology. Water resources.
Micro/Bio meteorology. Environmental and economic impact of climatic
change. Geophysical hazards.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-3920, 642-3903
ogranger@socrates.berkeley.edu
Grieshop, James
Specialist, Cooperative Extension and Lecturer
Immigration, Sociology
Davis
Areas of Expertise: Research and educational experience with Mexican
immigrant communities in California. In the past 10 years he has
completed a number of collaborative projects with the Mixtec immigrant
community in the Central Valley of California and in Mixtec areas
of Mexico. A primary focus of his work has been on the incorporation
of Mixtec into local communities and schools as well as their ongoing
cross-border connections to home communities in Oaxaca. He has used
print and film media to document and communicate the stories of
Mixtec immigrant families in California.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-752-3008
jigrieshop@ucdavis.edu
Grijalva, Carlos
Professor - Psychology
Psychology/Psychiatry, Public Health, Research
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Research and teaching focus primarily on the
brain's role in psychosomatically related diseases, such as ulcers
and anorexia nervosa; recovery of functions after brain damage,
eating behavior and gastrointestinal functions.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-8277, 310-206-9552
grijalva@psych.ucla.edu
Grosfoguel, Ramón
Associate Professor
Immigration, Politics/Political Science
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Caribbean migration. Latinos in the U.S. Global
cities. Political economy of the Caribbean and Latin America
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-3037
grosfogu@uclink.berkeley.edu
Gruesz, Kirsten
Associate Professor - Literature
Literature, Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Comparative Americas studies, Chicano/Latino
literatures and cultures, 19th-century U.S. literature, poetry and
translation, genre theory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-2225
ksgruesz@cats.ucsc.edu
Guarnizo, Luis
Associate Professor-Human and Community Development
Immigration, Sociology
Davis
Areas of Expertise: studies the processes and effects of U.S.-bound
migration of people from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Colombia
and El Salvador. He has investigated the web of social networks
and power structures that transcend national territorial jurisdictions.
He also looks at how the countries of origin and destination try
to incorporate these migrants as dual citizens and naturalized citizens,
respectively. Guarnizo is co-editor of "Transnationalism From Below"
(1998) and of a special issue on transnational communities of the
journal Ethnic and Racial Studies (1999).
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-752-9805
leguarnizo@ucdavis.edu
Guendelman, Sylvia
Associate Professor
Public Health, Medicine, Race and Gender
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Reproductive health of immigrant women . Access
to health care for disadvantaged populations . Health along the
U.S.-Mexico border . Juvenile asthma.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2848 642-1512
sylviag@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Guerra-Cunningham, Lucia
Professor
Literature, Race and Gender
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Latin American women writers, the Latin American
novel, Feminist Theory, Imaginaries of the city in Latin America
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-5560
lcunning@uci.edu
Guerrero, Juan N.
Farm Advisor, Imperial County
Area of Expertise: Livestock; alfalfa and irrigated pasture; feedlot
cattle; waste management; biosolids
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (760) 352-9474
jguerrero@ucdavis.edu
Guibault, Jocelyne
Professor
Music/Dance, History/U.S./Latin America/World
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Caribbean music. Popular music. Ethnomusicology.
Diaspora studies
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-2678
jguilbau@socrates.berkeley.edu
Gutiérrez, Andrew
Professor & Entomologist, UC Berkeley
Area of Expertise: Biological control of insects, biotechnology
in crop protection, ecosystems analysis
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (510) 642-9186
carpdiem@nature.berkeley.edu
Gutierrez, Kris
Associate Professor
Education
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Language and literacy.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-7467
gutierrez@gseis.ucla.edu
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Haas, Ernst
Emeritus Professor
Politics/Political Science
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: International relations. Nationalism and international
organizations
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-4657, 642-6323
ehaas@socrates.berkeley.edu
Haas, M. Lisbeth
Associate Professor - History
History/U.S./Latin America/World
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: U.S. social and cultural history, the Southwest,
the colonial Americas, California; ethnic and women's history; history
and theory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-2304, 459-2855
lhaas@cats.ucsc.edu
Hamilton, Michelle
Assistant Professor
Literature, Race and Gender
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Medieval Span, including writers, poets and
philosophers of the Arabic and Hebrew Golden Age, contemporary Moroccan
culture including women's songs and weddings
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-9451
michellh@uci.edu
Hammond, Peter B.
Professor Emeritus - Anthropology
Anthropology, Race and Gender
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Ethnology, applied anthropology, ethnic stratification,
Africa, African diaspora, gay and lesbian studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-794-9165
phammond@ucla.edu
Hanks, William
Professor
Anthropology, Literature
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Maya culture. Language in culture. Discourse,
cognition, and communication. Shamanism. Logic in Anthropological
inquiry. Anthropology of literature
Languages: English
Phone:510-643-2651
wfhanks@sscl.berkeley.edu
Hanson, Gordon H.
Economics, Immigration
San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Hanson is an authority on international investment,
migration, and trade. Current Projects: Hanson's major research
areas are the impact of NAFTA on the U.S. and Mexican economies,
outsourcing in the global economy, and illegal immigration in the
United States.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:858-822-5087
gohanson@ucsd.edu
Hanson, Mark E.
Professor - Education
Education
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Professor Hanson's research program has involved
studying educational reforms in the United States as well as several
Hispanic nations and the Middle East. An important strand of this
research is to study the processes of democratization and decentralization
in educational systems that take place in a nation that has made
the transition from an autocratic to democratic government.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-4300
mark.hanson@ucr.edu
Harberger, Arnold C.
Professor - Economics
Economics, Urban Development
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Public finance, economic development, international
economics, problems of economic policy in developing countries,
analysis of efficiency and incidence effect of taxation, cost-benefit
analysis of investment projects, public policy research.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-7520, 310-825-1011
Hastorf, Cristine
Professor
Agriculture, Race and Gender, Anthropology
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Food and agriculture. Archeology. Political
complexity. Gender. Paleoethnobotany. Andes
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-5457, 643-1112
hastorf@sscl.berkeley.edu
Haviland, David
Farm Advisor, Kern County
Area of Expertise: Entomology, pest management, insect management
in agricultural and urban areas
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-6841
dhaviland@ucdavis.edu
Hayes-Bautista, David
Professor - Director The Center for the Study of Latino Health
Public Health, Medicine
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Medical sociology, social, health, economic
and political issues dealing with Latinos and Chicanos; AIDS, research
and demographics.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-794-0663 310-794-0664
dhayesb@ucla.edu
Hecht, Susanna B.
Professor - Urban Planning
Urban Development, Agriculture, Anthropology
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Agricultural economics, Amazonian ecosystems,
anthropology, geography, resource-based rural development, international
development studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4676
sbhecht@ucla.edu
Hernandez, Guillermo
Professor - Spanish/Portuguese; Director - Chicano Studies Research
Center
Literature, Music/Dance, Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Chicano/Mexican issues, Mexican Corridos
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-3903, 310-206-1314
gmo@csrc.ucla.edu
Hernández-Avila, Inés
Professor
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Music/Dance
Davis
Areas of Expertise: The professor's scholarship and creative work
focuses on cultural/intellectual connections between Chicanas, Native
American women and indigenous women of Mexico. The associate professor
of Native American studies is also known for her work on issues
of identity and representation in relation to indigenismo (being
indigenous) and mestizaje (being of mixed race) in the Chicana/o
community. Her current research/creative projects include a book
looking at the roots of "danza Azteca" in the U.S., on the Conchero
dance tradition of Mexico and a book on a national movement of writers
in indigenous languages in Mexico known as ELIAC (Escritores en
Lenguas Indigenas or Writers of Indigenous Languages).
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-752-4394
ighernandez@ucdavis.edu
Herrera, Rafael
Director - Admissions
Medicine, Public Health, Psychology/Psychiatry
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Community mental health. Crisis intervention.
Brief psychotherapy. Disaster mental health services.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-0766 642-4341
rafa@socrates.berkeley.edu
Herrera-Sobek, María
Professor
Literature, Race and Gender
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Literature, Gender, Cultural Studies, and Oral
Tradition. (Dept. Chair)
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-3601
sobek@chicst.ucsb.edu
Hinojosa-Ojeda, Raul
Professor - Urban Planning/Founding director of UCLA's North American
and Integration Center
Urban Development, Economics, Politics/Political Science
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Politics, political economy of regional integration
dynamics in various parts of the world, including debt, trade and
migration and relations between the U.S., Mexico and other Latin
American countries, NAFTA and the World Bank.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-8956, 310-206-4609, 310-206-4611
hinojosa@ucla.edu
Hintzen, Percy
Associate Professor - Political Sociology
Sociology, Politics/Political Science
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Social change
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-0393, 642-7084
phintzen@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Hird, David
Professor, UC Davis
Area of Expertise: Veterinary epidemiology, veterinary medicine
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-7675
dwhird@ucdavis.edu
Holland, MD, Martin Carlos
Acting Chair - SFGH Medical Center
Medicine, Public Health
San Francisco
Areas of Expertise: Neurosurgery. Spinal cord injuries, brain surgery
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:415-206-8300
hollandm@neurosurg.ucsf.edu
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Iarocci, Michael
Assistant Professor
Literature
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Spanish Literature
and Culture. Aesthetics and Ideology. Literary and Cultural Theory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-4817
miarocci@socrates.berkeley.edu
Ingram, Helen
Professor - Urban/Regional Planning
Urban Development, Environment
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Research interests include: (1) Transboundary
national resources, particularly on the US/Mexican border,(2) Water
resources and equity, (3) Public policy design and implementation,
(4) The impact of policy upon democracy and public participation.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-1434
hingram@uci.edu
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James, Anthony
Professor
Medicine, Public Health, Biology
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Urban anthropology, psychological anthropology,
sociocultural change, socialization and educational anthropology,
comparative ethnicity; Mexico and United States Southwest Ethnohistory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-5930
aajames@uci.edu
Jarquin-Valdivia, MD, Adrian Alberto
Medicine, Public Health
San Francisco
Areas of Expertise: Risk of strokes, neurovascular and neurocritical
care Surgical Intensive Care Unit at SFGH Medical Center
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:415-719-3470
Jimenez-Kerr, Herminia
Director - Lower Division
Literature
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise:
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642.2109
hermit@socrates.berkeley.edu
Johns, Michael
Associate Professor
Architecture, Film and Television, Urban Development
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Latin America. Development. Culture of cities.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-0276, 642-3903
johns@socrates.berkeley.edu
Johnson, Kevin
Professor of Law
Immigration, Law
Davis
Areas of Expertise: Immigration and civil rights. He is author of
"How Did You Get to Be Mexican?" and editor of the anthology of
readings "Mixed Race America: A Critical Reader." Professor of Chicana/o
studies, Johnson is also associate dean for academic affairs at
the law school, where he teaches and publishes on civil rights.
He is a member of the American Bar Association's Coordinating Committee
on Immigration, a director of the Legal Services of Northern California
and a member of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights for the
San Francisco Bay Area.
Languages: English
Phone:530-752-0243
krjohnson@ucdavis.edu
Johnson, Ned
Professor
Biology, Research
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Ornithology. Evolutionary Biology
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-3567 642-3281
neddo@socrates.berkeley.edu
Jonas, Susanne
Lecturer - Latin American/Latino Studies
Politics/Political Science
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Comparative Latin American politics, contemporary
Central America, Latin American immigration and Latino communities
in the U.S., Central American binational organizing, U.S.-Latin
American cross-border issues, U.S. foreign policy in Latin America,
the Left in Latin America, comparative peace processes in Central
America and world wide.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3232, 459-2855
sjonas@cats.ucsc.edu
Joyce, Rosemary
Professor
Anthropology
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Settlement patterns, symbolism, and social organization
in complex societies. Analysis of archeological ceramics
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-0975
rajoyce@uclink4.berkeley.edu
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Kaiser, Lucía
Community Nutrition Specialist, UC Davis
Area of Expertise: Acculturation and dietary changes; ethnic food
habits (particularly Latino); child feeding practices; evaluation
of nutrition education; food security; diabetes
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 754-9063
lgvarela@ucdavis.edu
Karras, Alan
Professor
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Race and Gender
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: World, Caribbean, and Atlantic history. Race
relations. State formation. Migration. Contraband trade.
Languages: English
Phone:510-643-3185
karras@socrates.berkeley.edu
Kaska, William
Professor
Chemistry
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Inorganic Chemistry
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-2515
wkaska@chem.ucsb.edu
Kearney, Michael
Professor - Anthropology
Anthropology, Immigration
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Professor Kearney's work with transnational
Zapotec and Mixtec communities takes him from cloud forests of Oaxaca,
to the deserts of Baja California, to colonias of border cities,
to fields, orchards, and labor camps in the San Juaquin Valley of
California, and to Latino barrios in Los Angeles and Riverside.
His main research foci are ethnicity, migration, and the theory
and ethnography of transnational communities and processes.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3346
michael.kearney@ucr.edu
Kennedy, Gail E.
Associate Professor - Anthropology
Anthropology
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Biological anthropology, hominid paleotology,
early Native Americans, Africa.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4860
kennedy@anthro.ucla.edu
Khoury, Sarkis Joseph
Professor - Finance/International Finance
Economics
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: He can answer questions on the effects of the
bombings on the US stock market and specifically on foreign exchange
markets. He has written extensively on international banking issues
and on international investing. He is fluent in Arabic, French and
Spanish, as well as English. He has consulted in the Middle East
and published in "The Middle East Business." He earned his Ph.D.
at the Wharton Graduate Division, University of Pennsylvania. He
also earned a degree with distinction at Centre Belge Beirut, Lebanon.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3750
sarkis.khoury@ucr.edu
King, Katherine C.
Associate Professor - Classics
Literature, Race and Gender
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Comparative literature, Greek and Latin epic,
Greek tragedy, French, German, Greek, medieval literature, women's
studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-5071, 825-1101
king@humnet.ucla.edu
Kirkpatrick, Gwen
Professor
Literature
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Modern Latin American literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2101, 642-0471
gwenk@socrates.berkeley.edu
Klahn, Norma
Professor
Literature, Politics/Political Science
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Latin American literary and cultural studies
(specialization: Mexico), Chicano/Latino literature and culture
from a cross-border perspective, popular culture and the novel,
poetics and politics, fiction and history, nation and narration,
cultural and feminist theories.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3452
nklahn@cats.ucsc.edu
Klein, Cecelia F.
Professor - Art History
Art, History/U.S./Latin America/World
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Pre-Colombian Latin America, Oceanic and Native
North American Art, gender and warfare in Aztec visual ideology.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-8233, 310-206-6905
cklein@humnet.ucla.edu
Kletzer, Kenneth
Professor - Economics
Economics
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: International economics, economic theory, economic
development.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3407
kkletzer@cats.ucsc.edu
Koike, Steven T.
Farm Advisor, Monterey County
Area of Expertise: Plant pathology; nematology research and education
for vegetable, fruit and ornamental crops
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (831) 759-7350
stkoike@ucdavis.edu
Kunzle, David M.
Professor - Art History
Art, History/U.S./Latin America/World
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: History of modern art, folk and popular Europe,
art of socialist Chile, 19th and 20th century American, European
and Latin American Art.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-8232, 310-206-6905
kunzle@humnet.ucla.edu
Kyle, David
Assistant Professor - Sociology
Immigration, Sociology
Davis
Areas of Expertise: Studies human smuggling across the world. In
December, he published "Transnational Peasants: Migrations, Networks
and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador." He also co-edited a book with
Rey Koslowski titled "Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives,"
which will be out in June. Building on his first book, "Global Human
Smuggling" is the first scholarly book to examine the practice in
various forms in multiple regions of the world, including Mexico-U.S.
smuggling. Recently, Kyle participated in an experts conference
on human smuggling in Bangkok at the invitation of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-752-9841
sgrockwell@ucdavis.edu
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Laca, Emilio
Assistant Professor UC Davis
Area of Expertise: Grazing ecology; grasslands; international livestock
development; foraging theory and behavior; range management, spatial
heterogenicity and geostatistical applications: agricultural ecology.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 754-4083
ealaca@ucdavis.edu
La France, Jefrrey
Professor
Agriculture, Politics/Political Science
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Food policy.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510- 643-5416
lafrance@are.berkeley.edu
Laguerre, Michel
Professor
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Race and Gender
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary social theory. Transnational citizenship.
Multiculturalism. Globalization.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-3573, 642-7084
mlaguerr@uclink.berkeley.edu
Lama, Ph.D., Juan
Assistant Research Scientist - Department of Medicine
Medicine, Public Health, Research
San Diego
Areas of Expertise: The molecular determinants of HIV pathogenesis;
understanding how HIV replicates, and how the virus takes advantage
of the cellular machinery to complete its life cycle, and in utilizing
HIV as a tool for gene therapy protocols. A member of the National
Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse, a nationwide organization
dedicated to fostering science among Hispanics and to increase the
involvement of Hispanic scientists in federally supported research.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:858-822-4211
jlama@ucsd.edu
Lara, Juan
Assistant Vice Chancellor - Enrollment Services
n/a
Irvine
Areas of Expertise:
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-6362, 824-5410
jflara@uci.edu
Larson, Kirk D.
CE Specialist, South Coast Research & Extension Center
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