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Davis Experts by Subject
Agriculture
Agriculture
Cantwell de Trejo, Marita
Cooperative Extension Specialist
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
Agriculture
Hird, David
Professor
Area of Expertise: Veterinary epidemiology, veterinary medicine
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-7675
dwhird@ucdavis.edu
Agriculture
Laca, Emilio
Assistant Professor
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
Agriculture
Martin, Philip
Professor-Agricultural\Resource Economics
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: Spanish/English
Phone: 530-752-1530
Fax:
plmartin@ucdavis.edu
Agriculture
Medrano, Juan
Associate Professor
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
Agriculture
Piedrahita, Raul
Associate Professor
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
Agriculture
Sainz, Roberto
Assistant Professor
Area of Expertise: Animal nutrition; beef production
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-0526
rdsainz@ucdavis.edu
Agriculture
Snyder, Richard L.
Cooperative Extension Bioclimatologist
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
Agriculture
Stock, Tim
Cooperative Extension Pesticide Educator
Area of Expertise: Pesticide safety education, training of trainers,
Spanish language materials
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-6841
twstock@ucdavis.edu
Agriculture
Temple, Steven R.
Cooperative Extension Specialist
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
Agriculture
Weber, Jennifer
Cooperative Extension Pesticide educator
Area of Expertise: Pesticide safety education, training of trainers,
Spanish language materials. Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-5930
jlweber@ucdavis.edu
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Anthropology
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Architecture
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Art
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Biology
Biology
Medrano, Juan
Associate Professor
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
Biology
Temple, Steven R.
Cooperative Extension Specialist
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
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Chemistry
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Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Chicano/Ethnic Studies
de la Mora, Sergio
Assistant Professor of Chicano/a Studies
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
Fax:
sedelamora@ucdavis.edu
Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Feenstra, Robert
Professor - Economics
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
Fax:
svarese@ucdavis.edu
Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Hernández-Avila, Inés
Professor
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
Fax:
ighernandez@ucdavis.edu
Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Ridell, Ada Sosa
Senior Lecturer Emerita - Chicana/o Studies Program
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
Fax:
asosarid@aol.com
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Climate
Climate
Snyder, Richard L.
Cooperative Extension Bioclimatologist
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
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Computer Science
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Earthquakes/Volcanoes
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Economics
Economics
Cook, Roberta
Cooperative Extension Economist
Area of Expertise: Food distribution; fruit and vegetable marketing;
consumer demand, cooperatives
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-1531
rlcook@ucdavis.edu
Economics
Feenstra, Robert
Professor - Economics
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
Fax:
svarese@ucdavis.edu
Economics
Lindert, Peter
Professor of Economics
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: Spanish/English
Phone: 530-752-1983
Fax:
phlindert@ucdavis.edu.
Economics
Martin, Philip
Professor-Agricultural\Resource Economics
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: Spanish/English
Phone: 530-752-1530
Fax:
plmartin@ucdavis.edu
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Education
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Engineering
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Environment
Envirnonment
Piedrahita, Raul
Associate Professor
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
Environment
Sainz, Roberto
Assistant Professor
Area of Expertise: Animal nutrition; beef production
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-0526
rdsainz@ucdavis.edu
Environment
Stock, Tim
Cooperative Extension Pesticide Educator
Area of Expertise: Pesticide safety education, training of trainers, Spanish
language materials
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-6841
twstock@ucdavis.edu
Environment
Weber, Jennifer
Cooperative Extension Pesticide educator
Area of Expertise: Pesticide safety education, training of trainers, Spanish
language materials. Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-5930
jlweber@ucdavis.edu
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Film and Television
Film and Television
de la Mora, Sergio
Assistant Professor of Chicano/a Studies
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
Fax:
sedelamora@ucdavis.edu
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History/U.S./Latin America/World
History/U.S./Latin America/World
Hernández-Avila, Inés
Professor
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
Fax:
ighernandez@ucdavis.edu
History/U.S./Latin America/World
Montejo, Victor
Professor of Native American Studies
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
Fax:
vmontejo@ucdavis.edu
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Housing
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Immigration
Immigration
Feenstra, Robert
Professor - Economics
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
Fax:
svarese@ucdavis.edu
Immigration
Grieshop, James
Specialist, Cooperative Extension and Lecturer
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
Immigration
Guarnizo, Luis
Associate Professor-Human and Community Development
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
Fax:
leguarnizo@ucdavis.edu
Immigration
Johnson, Kevin
Professor of Law
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
Fax:
krjohnson@ucdavis.edu
Immigration
Kyle, David
Assistant Professor - Sociology
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
Fax:
sgrockwell@ucdavis.edu
Immigration
Ono, Kent
Professor of American Studies
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
Fax:
kaono@ucdavis.edu
Immigration
Smith, Michael P.
Professor Human and Community Development
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
Fax:
mpsmith@ucdavis.edu
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Journalism
Journalism
Egan, Linda
Assistant Professor - Spanish
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
Fax:
ldegan@ucdavis.edu
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Law
Law
Johnson, Kevin
Professor of Law
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
Fax:
krjohnson@ucdavis.edu
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Linguistics
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Literature
Literature
Alarcón, Francisco X.
Spanish Lecturer
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
Fax:
fjalarcon@ucdavis.edu
Literature
Egan, Linda
Assistant Professor - Spanish
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
Fax:
ldegan@ucdavis.edu
Literature
Montejo, Victor
Professor of Native American Studies
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
Fax:
vmontejo@ucdavis.edu
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Medicine
Medicine
Hird, David
Professor
Area of Expertise: Veterinary epidemiology, veterinary medicine
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-7675
dwhird@ucdavis.edu
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Music/Dance
Music/Dance
Hernández-Avila, Inés
Professor
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
Fax:
ighernandez@ucdavis.edu
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Nutrition
Nutrition
Brown, Kenneth
Professor
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
Nutrition
Cantwell de Trejo, Marita
Cooperative Extension Specialist
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
Nutrition
Cook, Roberta
Cooperative Extension Economist
Area of Expertise: Food distribution; fruit and vegetable marketing; consumer
demand, cooperatives
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-1531
rlcook@ucdavis.edu
Nutrition
Medrano, Juan
Associate Professor
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
Nutrition
Kaiser, Lucía
Community Nutrition Specialist
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
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Politics/Political Science
Politics/Political Science
Guarnizo, Luis
Associate Professor-Human and Community Development
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
Fax:
leguarnizo@ucdavis.edu
Politics/Political Science
Johnson, Kevin
Professor of Law
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
Fax:
krjohnson@ucdavis.edu
Politics/Political Science
Lindert, Peter
Professor of Economics
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: Spanish/English
Phone: 530-752-1983
Fax:
phlindert@ucdavis.edu.
Politics/Political Science
Ono, Kent
Professor of American Studies
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
Fax:
kaono@ucdavis.edu
Politics/Political Science
Ridell, Ada Sosa
Senior Lecturer Emerita - Chicana/o Studies Program
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
Fax:
asosarid@aol.com
Politics/Political Science
Smith, Michael P.
Professor Human and Community Development
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
Fax:
mpsmith@ucdavis.edu
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Psychology/Psychiatry
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Public Health
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Race and Gender
Race and Gender
Alarcón, Francisco X.
Spanish Lecturer
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
Fax:
fjalarcon@ucdavis.edu
Race and Gender
Lindert, Peter
Professor of Economics
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
Fax:
phlindert@ucdavis.edu.
Race and Gender
Ridell, Ada Sosa
Senior Lecturer Emerita - Chicana/o Studies Program
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
Fax:
asosarid@aol.com
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Religion
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Social Welfare/Children
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Sociology
Sociology
Grieshop, James
Specialist, Cooperative Extension and Lecturer
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
Sociology
Guarnizo, Luis
Associate Professor-Human and Community Development
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
Fax:
leguarnizo@ucdavis.edu
Sociology
Kyle, David
Assistant Professor - Sociology
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
Fax:
sgrockwell@ucdavis.edu
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Statistics
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Urban Development
Urban Development
Smith, Michael P.
Professor Human and Community Development
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.
Langauges: English
Phone: 530-752-2243
Fax:
mpsmith@ucdavis.edu
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