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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
Area of Expertise: Commercial strawberry production in California, Mexico and Latin America; strawberry breeding; environmental factors regulating growth and development of strawberries; pesticide use and safety; methyl bromide; soil fumigation; global strawberry market
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (949) 857-0136
kdlarson@ucdavis.edu

Lewin, Linda
Professor
History/U.S./Latin America/World
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Brazil. Family history. Inheritance.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-2932, 642-1971
history@socrates.berkeley.edu

Lindert, Peter
Professor of Economics
Economics, Race and Gender
Davis
Areas of Expertise: Historical trends in the inequality of income, wealth and living standards in the United States since the 18th century, as well as social programs and the welfare state. The director of the Agricultural History Center at UC Davis, he is co-author of "American Inequality: A Macroeconomic History," which introduced improved measures of the quality-of-life changes associated with industrialization. President of the Economic History Association for 2001-02, he is writing a book on safety nets and economic growth since Adam Smith.
Languages: English
Phone:530-752-1983
phlindert@ucdavis.edu.

Linger, Daniel T.
Associate Professor - Anthropology
Anthropology
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Sociocultural theory, politics, cultural models, cities, violence, transnational experience, Brazil, Japan.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4684, 459-3366
touro@cats.ucsc.edu

Lippincott, Ann
Coordinator - Bilingual Teacher Education
Education
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Bilingual Education
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-3711, 805-893-2084
annl@education.ucsb.edu

Loaiciga, Hugo
Professor
Urban Development
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Planning, design and analysis of water resources systems, and theory and computational aspects of surface and ground water hydrology.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-8053
hugo@geog.ucsb.edu

Lobo, Ramiro
Farm Advisor, San Diego County
Area of Expertise: Farm management, marketing, agricultural economics, agricultural tourism, small farms, new/specialty crops
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (858) 694-3666
relobo@ucdavis.edu

Lomelí, Francisco
Professor
Literature, History/U.S./Latin America/World
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: American Studies and Literature, Cultural Theory, Border Studies, and Literary History.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-5546
lomeli@chicst.ucsb.edu

Lopez, David
Associate Professor - Sociology
Sociology
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Current Latin America issues.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-1416
dlopez@soc.ucla.edu

Lopez, Gerald
Professor - Law
Law
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise:
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-7285
lopez@law.ucla.edu

Lopez, Ian Haney
Professor
Law, Race and Gender, Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Law and race in America. Critical race theory. Legal history of the Los Angeles Chicano Power Movement.
Languages: English
Phone:510-643-2669
ian.haneylopez@law.berkeley.edu

López, Martha L.
Nutrition, Family & Consumer Science Advisor, Ventura County
Area of Expertise: Migrant farmworker families; nutrition; child nutrition; cultural approaches in nutrition; lead poisoning; money management; dietary guidelines; food habits of Latino families
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (805) 645-1461
mllopez@ucdavis.edu

Loza, Steven
Professor, Ethnomusicology
Music/Dance
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Traditional and contemporary music from the Caribbean, Cuba, Mexico and Latin America and Mexican American music.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-1082
sloza@ucla.edu

Lubeck, Paul M.
Professor - Sociology
Sociology, Religion
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Political sociology, political economy of development, globalization, labor and work, logics of methodology, religion and social movements, Islamic society and identities.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-2906, 459-3516
lubeck@cats.ucsc.edu

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Macias, Reynaldo
Professor - Chicano/a Studies; Chair - Cesar Chavez Center: Interdisciplinary
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Education
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Bilingual education, teacher supply and demand, Chicanos and schooling, adult literacy, language choice and population projections.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-4573
reynaldo@csrc.ucla.edu

Manetta, Alberto
Professor OB/GYN
Medicine, Public Health
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Manetta has a special interest in gynecologic malignancies and complex pelvic surgeries.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:714-456-8019
amanetta@uci.edu

Manoleas, Peter
Lecturer/Field Work Consultant
Medicine, Public Health
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Substance abuse. Mental health. Cross-cultural practice. Latino mental health
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-0929 642-4341
pgm@socrates.berkeley.edu

Manz, Beatriz
Associate Professor
Sociology, Immigration
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Latin America Peasantry. Migrations. Social Movements. Human rights. Political conflict.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-5765, 2-3903
bmanz@socrates.berkeley.edu

Marez, Curtis
Assistant Professor - American Studies
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Literature, Race and Gender
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Chicano studies, cultural theory, popular culture, theories of race and representation, modernism and postmodernism, modern U.S. literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-5223
cfmarez@cats.ucsc.edu

Mariscal, Jorge (George)
Associate Professor - Literature; Director - Chicano/a~Latino/a Arts and Humanities Program
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Literature, Race and Gender, History
San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Chicano/Mexican cultures in the United States, history and role of Latinos in the U.S. military, Spanish and Latin American concepts of "race," U.S. social movements.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: 858 - 534-3210
Web blog: http://jorgemariscal.blogspot.com/
gmariscal@ucsd.edu

Martin, Philip
Professor-Agricultural\Resource Economics
Agriculture, Economics
Davis
Areas of Expertise: Professor Martin is an authority on migration and labor issues, particularly agricultural labor. He can discuss labor and migration as they affect U.S. and Mexico relations. He has published extensively on labor, migration, economic development and immigration policy issues and has testified before Congress and state and local agencies on those issues. He recently co-authored a report urging California policy-makers to develop strategies that will encourage and hasten the integration of immigrants into the state's economy and society.
Languages: English
Phone:530-752-1530
plmartin@ucdavis.edu

Martínez, Eliud
Assistant Professor
Literature, History/U.S./Latin America/World, Race and Gender
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Literature and history: mainstream, minority, ethnic.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:

Martínez-Echazábal, Lourdes
Associate Professor
Literature, Race and Gender
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Latin American and Caribbean literatures, comparative Afro-Latin American literatures, Brazilian literature and cultures, found[n]ational narratives, literatures of the Cuban diaspora, Latin American women writers, critical race theory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-2701
lourdes@cats.ucsc.edu

Masiello, Francine
Professor
Literature
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Spanish American literature. Prose and poetry in Argentina. Literary theory
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-4389, 642-0471, 642-1202
frm@uclink.berkeley.edu

Marzolla, Michael
4-H Youth Advisor, Santa Barbara County
Area of Expertise: Youth development; informal education, environmental education, diversity training, community development and educational material development
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (805) 692-1730
ammarzolla@ucdavis.edu

McKayle, Donald
Professor
Music/Dance
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Choreography of Dance, Modern Dance
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-6798
dmckayle@uci.edu

Mechoso, Carlos R.
Professor, Atmospheric Sciences
Climate
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Large-scale dynamics, numerical weather prediction, El Niño.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-3057
mechoso@atmos.ucla.edu

Medrano, Juan
Associate Professor, UC Davis
Area of Expertise: Animal genomics, molecular genetics; animal growth; milk
composition, milk genomics; gene expression; functional genomics
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-6786
jfmedrano@ucdavis.edu

Mendez, Cecilia
Professor
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Race and Gender
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Latin America--- the national period; the Andean region, Peru, Ayacucho, state formation and the peasantry; nationalism, "ethnic" identities; historiography.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-3974
mendez@history.ucsb.edu

Milton, Katharine
Professor
Environment, Agriculture
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Tropical ecology of humans and non-human primates. Diet. Parasite-host interactions
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-8607
kmilton@socrates.berkeley.edu

Molinar, Richard H.
CE Advisor, Fresno County
Area of Expertise: Small farms; vegetable crops; organic farming; insect/weed management; specialty crops; sugar peas; strawberries; eggplant; squash; Asian
vegetables
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (559) 456-7555
rhmolinar@ucdavis.edu

Monleon, José
Professor - Spanish/Portuguese
Literature
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Spanish
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-6939
monleon@humnet.ucla.edu

Montejo, Victor
Professor of Native American Studies
Literature, History/U.S./Latin America/World, Race and Gender
Davis
Areas of Expertise: Writing bilingual children's stories based on oral folktales and myths. A former teacher in Guatemala before getting his anthropology doctorate in Mayan culture, Montejo has collected Mayan folktales as well as created his own stories. He is the author of "El Q'anil" ("Man of Lightning"), a story about the legend of the Mayan hero Jacaltenango written in Spanish, English and Popb'al, a Mayan dialect. He also wrote the children's book "The Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables."
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-754-6129
vmontejo@ucdavis.edu

Morales, Alejandro
Professor - Spanish/Portuguese
Literature, Art, Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Chicano art and culture
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-6901
amorales@uci.edu

Morales, Armando
Adjunct Professor - Psychiatry\Biobehavioral Sciences
Psychology/Psychiatry, Public Health, Medicine
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Child homicide, gang violence and Hispanic mental health.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-0466

Moran, Rachel
Professor
Law, Education, Race and Gender
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Multilingualism. Bilingual education. Interracial intimacy.
Languages: English
Phone:510-643-6351
moran@law.berkeley.edu

Moratorio, Mario
CE Advisor, Solano County
Area of Expertise: Small farms; urban horticulture; Master Gardener program
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (707) 421-6793
msmoratorio@ucdavis.edu

Morrill, Calvin
Professor
Law, Public Health, Race and Gender, Sociology
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Law and Society; Organizational Change, Conflict, Decision Making; Youth Conflict and Culture; Ethnography; Collective Action and Social Movements in Organizations; Social Networks in Public Health Contexts; Alternative Dispute Resolution
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824- 9322
calvin@uci.edu

Morris, María
Lecturer
Literature, Education
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Language learning styles and strategies, culture and technology in language training.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-5172, 459-2855
mcmorris@cats.ucsc.edu

Morton, Carlos
Professor
Film and Television, Literature
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Carlos Morton is a professor and an internationally-recognized playwright who has worked with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Denver Center Theatre, and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre. He is the author of The Many Deaths of Danny Rosales and Other Plays, Johnny Tenorio and Other Plays, Rancho Hollywood, y otras obras del teatro (spanish) and The Fickle Finger of Lady Death and other plays.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3871
carlos.morton@ucr.edu

Mota-Bravo, Luis
Director - Bio Sci Outreach Programs
n/a
Irvine
Areas of Expertise:
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-5680
lmota@uci.edu

Moya, Jose
Associate Professor - History
History/U.S./Latin America/World
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Argentina
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-9607, 825-4601, 206-1643
moya@history.ucla.edu

Muñoz, Carlos
Emeritus Professor
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Race and Gender
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Ethnic and racial politics. Multiculturalism. Diversity, immigration, and affirmative action
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-9134, 643-0796
cmjr@uclink.berkeley.edu

Muñoz, PhD, Ricardo
Director - Latino Mental Health Program - SFGH Medical Center
Psychology/Psychiatry, Public Health, Medicine
San Francisco
Areas of Expertise: Bilingual Stop Smoking Program on the Internet
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:415-206-5214
munoz@itsa.ucsf.edu

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Nader, Laura
Professor
Anthropology, Law, Sociology
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Comparative ethnography of law and dispute resolution. Conflict. Controlling processes. Comparative family organizations. Professional mind-sets
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-1218, 642-3391

Nájera-Ramírez, Olga
Associate Professor - Anthropology
Anthropology, History/U.S./Latin America/World
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Folklore theory, ritual, festival, dance, greater Mexican culture, history and folklore, transnationalism, identity; expressive culture, ethnomusicology, bilingual communication, gender, history and culture of Latin America, U.S., Mexico.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4677
olga@cats.ucsc.edu

Navajas, Gonzalo
Professor
Film and Television
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Spanish and European Film, Modern Spanish Literature, Intellectual History within a European Context, Contemporary Aesthetic Theory
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-8228
gnavajas@uci.edu

Navarrete, Ignacio
Professor
Literature
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Spanish Golden Age Literature, especially poetry, poetics, and historiography; Literary Theory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642.2108
ignacio@socrates.berkeley.edu

Navarro, Armando
Professor\Chair
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Race and Gender
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Chicano politics, social change/community organizing.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-4577 x1826
armando.navarro@ucr.edu

Navarro, Marta
Lecturer
Literature, Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Latin American literature, Mexican/Chicano culture, Latina/Chicana issues.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3538
martan@cats.ucsc.edu

Norgaard, Richard
Professor
Environment, Economics
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Environment and development. Economics of technological change and petroleum scarcity. Economic and ecological systems in the Brazilian Amazon.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-3465, 642-1640, 642-3345
norgaard@socrates.berkeley.edu

Noriega, Chon
Professor - Film/Television
Film and Television
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Portrayal of Latinos in film and television.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-7061
cnoriega@tft.ucla.edu

Novak, Maximillian
Professor - English
Literature
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: 17th and 18th-century studies, novel restoration and 18th century literature, Jewish-American literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-1975
novak@humnet.ucla.edu

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Ochoa, John
Assistant Professor - Spanish
Literature, History/U.S./Latin America/World
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Interested in the relationship of failure to literature and to the formation of Latin American national identity. His current work, an extension of his doctoral research, examines the work of writers central to Mexican national identity including Bernal Diaz del Castillo, J.J. Fernández Lizardi, Alexander von Humboldt, José Vasconcelos, and Carlos Fuentes. His teaching and research interests include Mexican intellectual and cultural history, European travel literature of the nineteenth-century, colonial Latin American literature, and the continuities of Spanish Golden Age literature within Latin American literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3746 x1959

Ogbu, John
Professor
Anthropology, Education, Sociology
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Psychological Anthropology. Urban Anthropology. Social Structure and organization. Education and culture.Africa. Contemporary American society. Cross-cultural human development.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-1182, 642-3391
ogbu@sscl.berkeley.edu

Ono, Kent
Professor of American Studies
Immigration
Davis
Areas of Expertise: Anti-immigrant sentiment. When people debated California's Proposition 187 in 1994, the dominant message - even from those against the proposed law - was anti-immigrant, says UC Davis American studies scholar Kent Ono. "Even more pointedly, the messages were anti-Mexican, anti-Latino and anti-Chicano," says the co-author of "Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration and California's Propostion 187," published in 2002.
Languages: English
Phone:530-757-1026
kaono@ucdavis.edu

Organista, Kurt
Associate Professor
Psychology/Psychiatry, Public Health, Medicine
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Chicano/Latino psychosocial problems. Acculturation and adjustment of ethnic minorities to American society. Minority mental health. Cognitive-behavioral therapy. Depression in Latinos. HIV prevention with Mexican migrant laborers/Latinos
Languages: English
Phone:510-643-6671, 642-4341
drkco@uclink.berkeley.edu

Organista, Kurt
Associate Professor
Social Welfare/Children
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Chicano/Latino psychosocial problems. Acculturation and adjustment of ethnic minorities to American society. Minority mental health. Cognitive-behavioral therapy. Depression in Latinos. HIV prevention with Mexican migrant laborers/Latinos
Languages: English
Phone:510-643-6671 642-4341
drkco@uclink.berkeley.edu

Orloff, Steve B.
Farm Advisor, Siskiyou County
Area of Expertise: Alfalfa, small grains, potatoes, and irrigated pasture, with emphasis on variety adaptation, pest management, irrigation, and general production practices
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 842-2711
sborloff@ucdavis.edu

Ortega-Roselló, Irma
Lecturer
Literature, Education
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Spanish language acquisition and teaching methodology, Latin American colonial literature, Caribbean literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4282
iortega@cats.ucsc.edu

Ortiz, Flora Ida
Professor - Education
Education, Race and Gender
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Research-Organizational Factors in education. Women and minorities in Public School Administration. Planning and Designing Educational Facilities. Hispanic Female Superintendents. Hispanic student access to higher education.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-5236
flora.ortiz@ucr.edu

Ortiz, Vilma
Associate Professor - Sociology
Sociology, Race and Gender
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Co-director of a 30-year longitudinal and two-generational study examining socio-economic mobility and ethnic identity among Mexican Americans in Los Angeles and San Antonio; race, ethnic minorities, sex and gender.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-5218
vilma@soc.ucla.edu

Oyarzún, Kemy

Literature, Race and Gender
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Literature and culture studies. Latin American. Feminist criticism.
Languages: Spanish/English
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Padilla, Genaro
Associate Professor
Literature, Race and Gender
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: American literature. Minority literature. Chicano literature. Ethnic autobiography
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-6726, 642-3193, 642-3467
gpadilla@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Palerm, Juan Vicente
Sociocultural Professor
Sociology, Agriculture
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Agribusiness and the formation of Chicano/Mexican enclaves in rural California, 1960-present. This is a study about the intensification of farming and the expansion of agricultural labor markets, immigration and rural poverty.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-8449
Palerm@ucrac1.ucr.edu

Passos, José Luiz
Associate Professor
Literature, Film and Television
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Brazilian literature. Cinema and social thought. Modern Spanish American literature. Portuguese literature. Sociology of literature
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-4078, 642-0471
jpassos@socrates.berkeley.edu

Pastor, Jr., Manuel
Professor - Latin American/Latino Studies
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Economics
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Macroeconomic stabilization in Latin America; distribution, democracy, and growth in the developing world; Cuban economic reform; Mexican economic reform; urban poverty and regional development; Latinos in the urban U.S.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-5919
mpastor@cats.ucsc.edu

Patton, James
Emeritus Professor
Biology, Research
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Mammalogy. Evolutionary biology
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-3567 642-3281
patton@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Peccei, Roberto
Vice Chancellor, Research
Computer Science, Research
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Nanosystems, varied research, physics
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-7943
rpeccei@conet.ucla.edu

Pérez, Laura
Associate Professor
Immigration, Sociology
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: U.S. Latina and Latin American women's writing Chicana/o literature and visual arts. Contemporary cultural theory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-1584, 643-0796
leperez@uclink.berkeley.edu

Phillips, Phil
Farm Advisor, Ventura County
Area of expertise: IPM information and adoption of IPM through demonstration and adaptive local research; in citrus, avocados, grapes, strawberries and vegetables
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (805) 645-1457
paphillips@ucdavis.edu

Pianca, Marina
Professor - Spanish
Film and Television
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Professor Pianca is a specialist in Latin American Theater, film and cultural studies. She is a recognized authority on new directions of Latin American Theater and has been particularly involved with Argentine theater in her teaching and research. She has served as editor of an annual journal on theater, Diógenes.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3746 x1476
marina.pianca@ucr.edu

Piedrahita, Raúl
Associate Professor, UC Davis
Area of Expertise: Aquacultural engineering with emphasis on water quality; aquaculture recirculation systems; water treatment unit operations; water quality monitoring equipment and techniques; computer modeling
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-2780
rhpiedrahita@ucdavis.edu

Pion-Berlin, David
Professor - Political Science
Politics/Political Science
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Political repression and human rights, military rule, military political thought, and civil-military relations, most notably in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru).
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-4606
pion@wizard.ucr.edu

Poblete, Juan
Assistant Professor - Literature
Literature, History/U.S./Latin America/World
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Latin/a/o American literature, cultural studies, and critical theory; history of literature and literary pedagogy as institutions; 19th- century studies, postmodernism and globalization in Latin America; history of reading practices.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-5734
jpoblete@cats.ucsc.edu

Ponce, LLB, Julian
Associate Dean, School of Dentistry
Medicine, Public Health
San Francisco
Areas of Expertise: Fiscal planning, point person for website for S/D; legal issues; state and federal organizations; administration.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:415-476-1323
poncej@dentistry.ucsf.edu

Ponce, Walter
Professor, Music
Music/Dance
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Piano, performance
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-2312
wponce@juno.com

Portillo RN, PhD, Carmen
School of Nursing
Medicine, Public Health
San Francisco
Areas of Expertise:
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:415-476-1630
cjport@itsa.ucsf.edu

Preloran, Jorge
Professor Emeritus - Theater/Film/Television
Film and Television
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Film production in Central and South America, documentary filmmaking and international filmmaking.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-6852

Protzen, Jean Pierre
Professor
Architecture, Urban Development
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Inca architecture. Logics of design. Design Planning. Construction principles of ancient civilizations.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-4796, 642-4942
protzen@socrates.berkeley.edu

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Rabasa, José
Professor
Literature, Race and Gender
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Subaltern studies. Aesthetics of violence. Orality and literacy Colonial/post-colonial studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2105, 642-0471
jrabasa@socrates.berkeley.edu

Ramírez, Frank A. Paco
Lecturer
Literature, Education
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Second-language acquisition, bilingual education, Siglo de Oro Theater, Peninsular medieval literature, Spanish-language film and theater for linguistic and cultural acquisition.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4442, 459-2657
paco@cats.ucsc.edu

Ramos, Julio
Professor
Literature, Film and Television
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: 19th and 20th century Latin American literature. Cultural theory. Latin American film.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2112, 642-0471
ramosj@socrates.berkeley.edu

Ramos-Gomez, DDS, Francisco

Medicine, Public Health, Social Welfare/Children
San Francisco
Areas of Expertise: Pediatric dentistry serving underserved communities; clinical and research on early childhood caries (baby bottle tooth decay); dental surgeon and health educator
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:415-476-6826
ramos@itsa.ucsf.edu

Reiter, Jerry
Professor
Statistics
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Statistics
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-4760, 805-893-2129

Ricote, Ph.D., Merceder
Assistant Research Molecular Medicine
Biology, Medicine, Public Health
San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Molecular Biology. Studies the mechanisms by which nuclear receptors regulate macrophage development and function.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:858-822-5664
mricote@ucsd.edu

Ridell, Ada Sosa
Senior Lecturer Emerita - Chicana/o Studies Program
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Race and Gender
Davis
Areas of Expertise: Professor Sosa Ridell has expertise in California Chicana/o politicians, the U.S.-Mexican border, female political elites in Mexico and the United States and Mexico's political system. She has served on committees of the Western Political Science Association and the American Political Science Association, and is founder and lifetime member of the National Association for Chicano Studies, where she currently chairs its editorial board. She is a founding member and past chair of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (Active Women in Academia and Social Change), and founder and organizer of the 1995 Chicana/Latina Summer Research Institute.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:916-361-0125
asosarid@aol.com

Robinson, Bill
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: macro and comparative sociology; globalization; political economy; development; social change; political sociology; Latin America and the Third World.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-3314
wirobins@soc.ucsb.edu

Rocco, Raymond
Associate Professor - Political Science
Politics/Political Science
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Political Science
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-9282
rocco@polisci.ucla.edu

Rodriguez, Celia
Chicano Studies
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Art
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Mexico. Chicano art history
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-0957
chr@uclink.berkeley.edu

Rodriguez, Jaime
Professor of history
History/U.S./Latin America/World
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Nation-building in the Spanish Americas.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-7204
jerodrig@uci.edu

Rotkin, Michael
Lecturer - Community Studies
Politics/Political Science, Economics
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Marxist theory, capitalist system, community organizing, electoral politics, media, government programs, community power structure, institutional analysis, affirmative action programs.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4601, 459-3516
openup@cats.ucsc.edu

Rudesill, Carollyn
Lecturer
Literature, Education
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Second-language acquisition, content-based language pedagogy, Hispanic culture, Italian language.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4265
crudesil@cats.ucsc.edu

Ruiz, Vicki
Professor - History/Chicano/Latina Studies
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: 20th century U.S. history specializing in Chicana/o studies, oral narratives, gender studies, labor, as well as California and the West.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-2865
vruiz@uci.edu

Rumbaut, Ruben
Professor - Sociology
Sociology, Immigration, Social Welfare
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Immigration, Children of Immigrants, Ethnic Mobility, Citizenship and National Membership, Population Research.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-2495
rrumbaut@uci.edu

Ruyter, Nancy Lee
Professor - Art-Dance/Director of UCI Spanish Dance Ensemble
Art, Music/Dance
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Dance History, particularly American Delsartism and American Modern Dance; Balkan Social and Folk Dance; Mexican Contemporary Concert Dance; Ritual Dance Forms in Mexican and Mexican-American Culture; Flamenco and other Traditional Dance Forms from Spain.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-7285
nlruyter@uci.edu

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Sadoulet, Elisabeth
Professor
Agriculture, Economics, Environment
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Economic development. Macroeconomic and agricultural policies. Quantitative analysis and economic models. Contract theory. Household and community behavior.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-7225, 642-3345
sadoulet@are.berkeley.edu

Sainz, Roberto
Assistant Professor, UC Davis
Area of Expertise: Animal nutrition; beef production
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-0526
rdsainz@ucdavis.edu

Saldívar, José
Professor
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Literature, History/U.S./Latin America/World
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: English
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-5000, 643-0796
saldivar@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Saldivar-Hull, Sonia
Associate Professor - English
n/a
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: English
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4173
ssaldiva@ucla.edu

Sanchez-Jankowski, Martín
Professor
Urban Development, Race and Gender, Sociology
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Urban sociology. Political sociology. Poverty. Race and ethnicity. Youth culture. Survey research
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-8779, 642-4766
sanjan@socrates.berkeley.edu

Sánchez-Rodriguez, Roberto A.
Associate Professor - Environmental Studies
Environment, Urban Development
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Urban ecology, environment and development in Latin America, urban and regional development, human dimensions of global environmental change, border studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-5784

Sanders, Jerry
Professor
Immigration
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Immigration and border issues. Diaspora communities. Mexico. Columbia
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-8650
jsanders@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Sandholtz, Wayne
Professor - Political Science/Director of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies
Politics, Economics
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: International Relations, Political Corruption, European Union.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-5726
wsandhol@uci.edu

Saragoza, Alex
Associate Professor
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Economics, Immigration
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Concentration of wealth and power in Mexico. Mexican migration Transnational ideology and representation
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2519, 643-0796
alexsara@uclink.berkeley.edu

Sawyer, Mark
Assistant Professor - Political Science
Politics/Political Science, Race and Gender
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Race, politics, African diaspora, Cuba Recently organized a conference about the African presence in Latin America.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-6629
msawyer@polisci.ucla.edu

Schechter, John M.
Associate Professor - Music
Music/Dance
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Ethnomusicology; music theory; South American traditional and contemporary musics; Quechua music-culture; music and ritual; organology; Stravinsky; Founder-Director, UCSC Latin American Ensembles.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-2019, 459-2246, 452-2804
jschech@cats.ucsc.edu

Schepner-Hughes, Nancy
Professor
Anthropology, Psychology/Psychiatry, Social Welfare/Children
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Critical Medical Anthropology. Anthropology of violence. Madness and culture. Inequality and marginality. Childhood and the family.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-8431 642-3391
nsh@sscl.berkeley.edu

Scherson, Issac D.
Professor - Information and Computer Science
Computer Science
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Computer Architecture, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Interconnection Networks, Resource Management/ Planning, Algorithms, Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, Unix)
Languages: Spanish/French/Hebrew/English
Phone:949-824-8144
issac@ics.uci.edu

Schreiber, Katharina
Professor - Archaeology
Anthropology
Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: Schreiber's research is focused on prehistoric imperialism in Andean South America. Her recently published book is entitled Wari Imperialism in Middle Horizon Peru
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-4291
kschreiber@anth.ucsb.edu

Sefami, Jacobo
Associate Professor
Literature
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Latin American Poetry, Latin American Jewish Writers
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-7244
jsefami@uci.edu

Segundo, Jose P.
Professor Emeritus, Neurobiology
Medicine, Public Health
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Nervous system.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-9582
segundo@ucla.edu

Sereseres, Caesar D.
Associate Professor - Political Science/Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies
Politics/Political Science, History
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S.-Latin American Relations, Mexican-American Politics, National Security Issues, Coercive Diplomacy and Political Violence.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-6334
cdserese@uci.edu

Shaiken, Harley
Professor - Geography
Education
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Skill formation. Training. Work Organization. Global Production. Work technology. Education
Languages: English
Phone:510-643-5363, 642-7127, 642-9678
hshaiken@socrates.berkeley.edu

Shapiro, Helen
Associate Professor - Sociology
Sociology, Politics/Political Science, Economics
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Political economy, Latin American economic history and development (with an emphasis on Brazil), industrial policy, the auto industry, the state and transnational corporations.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3432
hshapiro@cats.ucsc.edu

Shugart, Matthew
Professor - Political Science
Politics/Political Science, Economics
San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Shugart is an authority on issues of constitutional design and electoral rules.His current research focuses on the interrelations between political and economic reform and how political institutions affect the propensity of governments to provide "public goods." This interest has grown out of his role as an adviser to several constitutional or electoral-law drafting committees, including those in Albania, Argentina, Bulgaria, Eritrea, Estonia and Fiji.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:858-534-5016
mshugart@ucsd.edu

Silva, Raquel Rodriguez
Lecturer - Portuguese
Literature
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise:
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643.2687
eusebio@uclink.berkeley.edu

Slater, Candace
Professor
Literature
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Brazilian literature and culture. Latin American folk and popular traditions
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2114, 642-0471
cslater@socrates.berkeley.edu

Small, Stephen
Associate Professor
History/U.S./Latin America/World, Race and Gender
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Slavery. Mixed race people in the U.S. and Caribbean
Languages: English
Phone:510-643-8211, 642-7084
small@socrates.berkeley.edu

Smith, Michael P.
Professor Human and Community Development
Immigration, Urban Development, Politics/Political Science
Davis
Areas of Expertise: professor of human and community development at UC Davis and a faculty associate of the California Studies Center at UC Berkeley. Expertise: Professor Smith has researched and written extensively on the political economy of urbanization, racial and ethnic formation, immigration, globalization and transnationalism. During the past decade, he has been studying the impact of transnational economic, socio-cultural and political practices of people and networks that link cities and regions in California to other communities and regions across the globe. These sites for research include San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton, Napa, the Silicon Valley and Los Angeles.
Languages: English
Phone:530-752-2243
mpsmith@ucdavis.edu

Smith, Richard F.
Farm Advisor, Monterey County
Area of Expertise: Vegetable crops, weed science
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (831) 759-7350
rifsmith@ucdavis.edu

Snyder, Richard L.
CE Bioclimatologist, UC Davis
Area of Expertise: Biometeorology; climatology; irrigation scheduling; freeze & frost protection; plant-climate mapping; evapotranspiration modeling; effective rainfall; climatic risk analysis
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-4628
rlsnyder@ucdavis.edu

Solorzano, Daniel
Associate Professor - Social Sciences/Comparative Education
Education, Race and Gender, Social Welfare/Children
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Race and ethnic relations, social mobility. He oversees the Boyle Heights Education Institute project.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-7855, 310-825-2624
solorzano@gseis.ucla.edu

Spiller, Pablo
Professor
Economics, Politics/Political Science
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Industrial organization. Political economy. Economy of Regulation and Antitrust. Regulatory issues in development countries.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-1502
spiller@haas.berkeley.edu

Stapleton, James J.
CE Specialist, Plant Pathologist, Kearney Ag. Center
Area of Expertise: Integrated pest management; non-chemical pest control strategies; soil-plant ecology; diseases of grapes and vegetable crops; establishment of permanent crops; methyl bromide and soil fumigation alternatives
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (559) 646-6536
jim@uckac.edu

Starr, MD, Philip
Medicine, Public Health
San Francisco
Areas of Expertise: Neurosurgery at UCSF/VA Medical Center.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:415-719-8997
starrp@itsa.ucsf.edu

Stock, Tim
CE Pesticide Educator, UC Davis
Area of Expertise: Pesticide safety education, training of trainers, Spanish language materials
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-6841
twstock@ucdavis.edu

Sweet, David G.
Emeritus
Film and Television, Race and Gender
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Imaginative and fiction writing, film, AIDS, human sexuality, belief systems of indigenous communities, Mexico
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:
dgsweet@cats.ucsc.edu

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Tapia, Wanda
Nutrition Educator, Sonoma County
Area of expertise: general nutrition, Gateway to a Better Life (welfare reform)
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (707) 565-2621
wctapia@ucdavis.edu

Tarica, Estelle
Assistant Professor
Film and Television, Race and Gender
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: 20th century Latin American literature and culture. Mexico and the Andes French Caribbean literature post-colonial theories
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-5164
etarica@socrates.berkeley.edu

Tate, Katherine
Associate professor - Political Science
Anthropology, Sociology, Social Welfare/Children
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Research has focused on the electoral behavior of African Americans as well as the politics of race, women, and minority groups. She teaches courses in these fields as well as in American government and urban politics.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-1869
ktate@uci.edu

Taylor, William
Professor
History/U.S./Latin America/World
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Mexican history. Native Americans and the conquest. Colonial Mexican. villages
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-3159, 642-1971
wtaylor@socrates.berkeley.edu

Telles, Cynthia
Assistant Professor - Director - Spanish Speaking Psycho-Social Clinic
Psychology/Psychiatry, Public Health, Social Welfare/Children
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Latino health issues
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4568, 310-825-6501
ctelles@mednet.ucla.edu

Telles, Edward
Assistant Professor - Sociology
Sociology, Immigration
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Undocumented immigrants.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-2918, 310-825-1313
telles@soc.ucla.edu

Tellez, Kip
Associate Professor - Education
Education
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Teacher preparation for urban schools, teacher research, second-language acquisition among Latino students.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-2208, 459-3249
ktellez@cats.ucsc.edu

Temple, Steven R.
CE Specialist, UC Davis
Area of Expertise: Agronomy and host plant resistance breeding of grain legumes, sustainable farming systems
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-8216
srtemple@ucdavis.edu

Thomas, Paul
Professor
Politics/Political Science, Film and Television
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Marx.. Rousseau. Cinema.. Scientific socialism.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-4386, 642-5026
pt@socrates.berkeley.edu

Thompson, Leslie
Assistant Professor - Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Psychiatry/Psychology, Public Health
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Huntington's disease, Achondroplasia.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-6756
lmthomps@uci.edu

Tinker, Irene
Emeritus Professor
Agriculture, Urban Development, Economics
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Urban agriculture. Urban food and employment in developing countries. Women and development.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-1868, 642-3256, 642-2767
tinker@socrates.berkeley.edu

Tobriner, Stephen
Professor
Architecture, Earthquakes/Volcanoes
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Mesoamerican cities. Baroque architecture and cities in Italy. History of engineering. Reconstruction after earthquakes.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-4098, 642-4942
tobriner@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Torres, Carlos Alberto
Professor - Social Sciences/Comparative Education
Education
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Latin America education
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-5791, 310-825-4571
torres@gseis.ucla.edu

Torres-Gil, Fernando
Professor - Social Welfare; Associate Dean - Academic Affairs/Public Policy
Social Welfare/Children, Public Health, Medicine
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Gerontology, the politics of aging, long-term care and services to the elderly, social policy, health care, social security and welfare reform
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-1994, 310-794-9305
torres@sppsr.ucla.edu

Trujillo, Larry
Lecturer - Community Studies
Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Music/Dance
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Chicana/o studies, ethnic studies, grassroots community organizations, prison-industrial complex, student development, Chicano music Karen Tei Yamashita, Assistant Professor in Literature/Creative Writing History and anthropology of Japanese immigration to Brazil, Asian American literature, modern fiction, playwriting.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-45 9-5608
larryt@cats.ucsc.edu

Trumbore, Susan E.
Professor
Environment, Climate
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Global environmental change (such as greenhouse warming, the Kyoto Protocol and the carbon cycle, tropical deforestation and its consequences, and in general the role played by land in climate and atmospheric chemistry)
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-6142
setrumbo@uci.edu

Tuazón, Ernesto

Climate, Research
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Atmosphere, photochemical reactions. Atmospheric gas-phase chemical processes. The elucidation of products and mechanisms of gas-phase reactions of organic compounds released into the atmosphere from biogenic and anthropogenic sources.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-5140
ectuazon@ucrac1.ucr.edu

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Urquidi, Ph.D., Virginia
Assistant Research Scientist - Department of Pathology
Medicine, Public Health
San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Molecular Oncology Mechanisms of metastatic spread of cancer; identification of targets or pathways of potential therapeutic interest; translation of scientific discoveries to the clinical practice via new methods of prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:858-822-2082
vurquidi@ucsd.edu

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Vaca, Federico
Assistant Clinical Professor
Medicine, Public Health, Social Welfare/Children
Irvine
Areas of Expertise: Adult and childhood injury prevention, sports injuries and traffic safety. Also deals with child seats, seatbelts and crash tests.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:714-456-5239
fevaca@uci.edu

Valdez, Isela
4-H Youth Advisor, Sutter-Yuba counties
Area of expertise: Youth development programs
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 822-7515
ixvaldez@ucdavis.edu

Valencia, Jesús
Farm Advisor, Fresno County
Area of Expertise: Processed and fresh market tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, garlic, onions, watermelons; practical research in plant pathology, irrigation and plant nutrition
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (559) 456-7553
jgvalencia@ucdavis.edu

Valenzuela, Abel
Associate Professor-Urban Planning/Associate Director-The Study of Urban Poverty
Housing, Urban Development, Social Welfare/Children
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Immigration and housing (especially pertaining to Latinos), population demographics, labor studies, environmental policy, community and economic development international migration; immigrants in the urban economy; urban poverty; welfare reform; social policy; race, ethnicity and social inequality.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-8224
abel@ucla.edu

Valenzuela, Jose Luis
Professor - Theater/Film/Television
Film and Television
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Latino theater issues, directing, performing
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-7291
jlvalenzuela@tft.ucla.edu

Varela, Lucía
Farm Advisor, Sonoma County
Area of Expertise: Apples; pears; wine grapes; integrated pest management
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (707) 565-2621
lgvarela@ucdavis.edu

Vargas, Jorge
Associate Professor, Pediatrics/Gastroenterology
Medicine, Public Health
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Parasitic infections, pediatrics and surgery
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-6134
jvargas@mednet.ucla.edu

Velez-Ibañez, Carlos
Professor - Anthropology
Anthropology, Economics
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Work in urban Mexico, in the Southwestern United States, and in Puerto Rico. The development of cultural "funds of knowledge" at different levels: household, community, region, and in non-physical localities. Questions of adaptation, the distribution of sadness, the emergence of social networks and language change, economic and technical shifts within the structure of households, and the migration of human populations.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-5018
carlos.velez@ucr.edu

Vigil, James Diego
Professor - Anthropology/Director - Center for the Study of Urban Poverty
Anthropology, Social Welfare/Children, Psychology/Psychiatry
Los Angeles
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:310-825-4997
vigil@ucla.edu

Villela, MD, Teresa
Assistant chair - Family/Community Medicine - SFGH Medical Center
Medicine, Public Health, Social Welfare/Children
San Francisco
Areas of Expertise: Educator, primary care physician and expert on medical care with attention to cultural awareness and needs
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:415-206-6881
terevil@itsa.ucsf.edu

Vinuela, Fernando
Professor, Radiological Sciences
Medicine
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Therapeutic neuroradiology.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-6576
fvinuela@mednet.ucla.edu

Viteri, Fernando
Professor
Nutrition, Medicine, Social Welfare/Children
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Iron deficiency, prevention, and correction. Whole-body micronutrient metabolism and interactions. Iron, zinc, copper, folate, vitamin E.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-6900, 642-6490
viteri@nature.berkeley.edu

Viveros, Mario
Farm Advisor, Kern County
Area of Expertise: Deciduous tree, fruits, nuts
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (661) 868-6211
maviveros@ucdavis.edu

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Wake, David
Professor
Biology, Research
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Herpetology. Evolutionary biology
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-3567, 642-3281
wakelab@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Wake, Marvalee
Professor
Biology, Research
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Vertebrate evolutionary morphology. Reproductive Biology
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-4743 642-6227
mhwake@socrates.berkeley.edu

Wall, Catherine
Assistant Professor - Spanish
Literature
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Spanish American lit and Hispanic poetry. Hispanic culture through art, literature and music. Latino art and Literature.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3746 x1481
cwall@mail.ucr.edu

Watts, Michael
Professor
Politics/Political Science, Religion
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Political economy and ecology. Africa and South Asia. Development. Peasant societies. Social and cultural theory. U.S. agriculture. Islam and social movements
Languages: English
Phone:
mwatts@socrates.berkeley.edu

Weber, Jennifer
CE Pesticide educator, UC Davis
Area of Expertise: Pesticide safety education, training of trainers, Spanish language materials. Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-5930
jlweber@ucdavis.edu

Werner, Stephen D.
Professor - French
Literature
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: 18th century
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-794-8919
werner@humnet.ucla.edu

Wiemels, Ph.D., Joseph
Researcher
Biology, Statistics, Public Health
San Francisco
Areas of Expertise: Epidemiology and biostatistics.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:415-504-0577
jwiemels@epi.ucsf.edu

Williams, Raymond
Professor - Spanish
Literature
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Specialist in Latin American narrative and Colombian literature. He is a scholar of the Colombian novel and the writings of Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Much of his teaching and research deals with trends in Latin American narrative since the 1960s, including postmodern and feminist fiction.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3746 x1394
raymond.williams@ucr.edu

Wilson, Carter
Professor - Community Studies
Film and Television
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Imaginative and fiction writing, film, AIDS, human sexuality, belief systems of indigenous communities, Mexico
Languages: Spanish/English
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Wohl, Robert A.
Professor - History
History/U.S./Latin America/World
Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: 19th/20th century European history, Italy, France, popular culture, literature and theater, psychoanalysis and history.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-3568, 310-825-4601
rwohl@ucla.edu

Woodruff, Christopher
Assistant Professor - Graduate School - International Relations/Pacific Studies (IR/PS)
Economics, Politics/Political Science
San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Woodruff's primary research focuses on the challenges faced by small and medium sized firms in developing and transition economies. Woodruff studies how dysfunctional legal systems make formal contracting impossible, how inadequate financial systems limit access to financial capital, and how corruption makes retention of profits difficult. Geographically, his research spans a broad area of the developing world - Mexico, Vietnam and Eastern Europe.In one current project, Woodruff examines the sources of financial capital for small firms in Mexico.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:858-534-0590
cwoodruff@ucsd.edu

Woodward-Lopez, Gail
Associate Director
Nutrition, Public Health, Social Welfare/Children
Berkeley
Areas of Expertise: Areas of expertise include maternal and child health, curriculum development, training, education and evaluation. She is bilingual and has worked extensively with the Latino community in California and Latin America. Dr. Woodward-Lopez can speak on nutrition, breastfeeding, overweight children, among other health-related topics. She's familiar with Mexican-American eating habits.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2915
gwlopez@nature.berkeley.edu

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Zaera, Francisco
Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
Riverside
Areas of Expertise: Chemistry
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-5498 787-5736
francisco.zaera@ucr.edu

Zavella, Patricia
Professor - Latin American/Latino Studies
Immigration, Chicano/Ethnic Studies, Race and Gender
Santa Cruz
Areas of Expertise: Gender, work, and family; race-ethnicity; Chicana/o studies; U.S.-Mexico transnational migration, poverty, sexuality.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4182, 459-2855
zavella@cats.ucsc.edu