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Riverside Experts by Subject
Agriculture
Agriculture
de la Cruz, Marlene
Coordinator - Genetics and Plan Biology/Botany
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
Fax:909-787-3856
Marlene.delacruz@ucr.edu
Agriculture
Gómez-Pompa, Arturo
Professor - Botany
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
Fax:
floramex@ucrac1.ucr.edu
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Anthropology
Anthropology
Gelles, Paul
Associate Professor - Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Central Andes, Latin America. Sociocultural
anthropology, ethnicity, water issues of Andean highland peoples.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: 909-787-4366
Fax:909-787-5409
paul.gelles@ucr.edu
Anthropology
Kearney, Michael
Professor - Anthropology
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
Fax:909-787-5409
michael.kearney@ucr.edu
Anthropology
Velez-Ibañez, Carlos
Professor - Anthropology
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
Fax:909-787-5409
carlos.velez@ucr.edu
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Architecture
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Art
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Biology
Biology
de la Cruz, Marlene
Coordinator - Genetics and Plan Biology/Botany
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
Fax:909-787-3856
Marlene.delacruz@ucr.edu
Biology
Gómez-Pompa, Arturo
Professor - Botany
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
Fax:
floramex@ucrac1.ucr.edu
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Chemistry
Chemistry
Zaera, Francisco
Professor of Chemistry
Areas of Expertise: Chemistry
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: 909-787-5498 787-5736
Fax:909-787-3962
francisco.zaera@ucr.edu
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Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Arrizon, Alicia
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Latin American/Chicano literature and culture.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: 909-787-4577
Fax:
alicia@ucrac1.ucr.edu
Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Bonacich, Edna
Professor - Sociology\Ethnic Studies
Areas of Expertise: Race/ethnic relations, labor, immigration, social
change.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: 909-787-4373
Fax:909-787-3330
edna.bonacich@ucr.edu
Chicano/Ethnic Studies
Navarro, Armando
Professor\Chair
Areas of Expertise: Chicano politics, social change/community organizing.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: 909-787-4577 x1826
Fax:909-787-4341
armando.navarro@ucr.edu
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Climate
Climate
Tuazón, Ernesto
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
Fax:909-787-5004
ectuazon@ucrac1.ucr.edu
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Computer Science
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Earthquakes/Volcanoes
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Economics
Economics
González-Rivera, Gloria
Associate Professor - Economics
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
Fax:909-787-5685
ggonzale@galaxy.ucr.edu
Economics
Khoury, Sarkis Joseph
Professor - Finance/International Finance
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
Fax:
sarkis.khoury@ucr.edu
Economics
Velez-Ibañez, Carlos
Professor - Anthropology
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
Fax:909-787-5409
carlos.velez@ucr.edu
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Education
Education
Hanson, Mark E.
Professor - Education
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
Fax:909-787-5799
mark.hanson@ucr.edu
Education
Ortiz, Flora Ida
Professor - Education
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
Fax:909-787-5799
flora.ortiz@ucr.edu
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Engineering
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Environment
Environment
Fairris, David
Associate Professor - Economics
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
Fax:909-787-5685
dfairris@ucrac1.ucr.edu
Environment
Gómez-Pompa, Arturo
Professor - Botany
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
Fax:
floramex@ucrac1.ucr.edu
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Film and Television
Film and Television
Morton, Carlos
Professor
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
Fax:909-787-4651
carlos.morton@ucr.edu
Film and Television
Pianca, Marina
Professor - Spanish
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
Fax:909-787-2294
marina.pianca@ucr.edu
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History/U.S./Latin America/World
History/U.S./Latin America/World
Martínez, Eliud
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Literature and history: mainstream, minority,
ethnic.
Languages: Spanish/English
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History/U.S./Latin America/World
Ochoa, John
Assistant Professor - Spanish
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
Fax:909-787-2294
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Housing
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Immigration
Immigration
Kearney, Michael
Professor - Anthropology
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
Fax:909-787-5409
michael.kearney@ucr.edu
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Journalism
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Law
Law
Aguirre, Adalberto
Professor of Sociology
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
Fax:909-787-3330
adalberto.aguirre@ucr.edu
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Linguistics
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Literature
Literature
Arrizon, Alicia
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Latin American/Chicano literature and culture.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: 909-787-4577
Fax:
alicia@ucrac1.ucr.edu
Literature
Fagundo, Ana María
Areas of Expertise: Literature, contemporary Spanish, creative writing
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: 909-787-3746 x1468
Fax:909-787-2294
ana.fagundo@ucr.edu
Literature
Martínez, Eliud
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Literature and history: mainstream, minority,
ethnic.
Languages: Spanish/English
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Fax:
Literature
Morton, Carlos
Professor
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
Fax:909-787-4651
carlos.morton@ucr.edu
Literature
Ochoa, John
Assistant Professor - Spanish
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
Fax:909-787-2294
Literature
Oyarzún, Kemy
Areas of Expertise: Literature and culture studies. Latin American.
Feminist criticism.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:
Fax:
Literature
Wall, Catherine
Assistant Professor - Spanish
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
Fax:909-787-2294
cwall@mail.ucr.edu
Literature
Williams, Raymond
Professor - Spanish
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
Fax:909-781-8886
raymond.williams@ucr.edu
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Medicine
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Music/Dance
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Nutrition
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Politics/Political Science
Politics/Political Science
Pion-Berlin, David
Professor - Political Science
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
Fax:909-787-3933
pion@wizard.ucr.edu
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Psychology/Psychiatry
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Public Health
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Race and Gender
Race and Gender
Aguirre, Adalberto
Professor of Sociology
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
Fax:909-787-3330
adalberto.aguirre@ucr.edu
Race and Gender
Bonacich, Edna
Professor - Sociology\Ethnic Studies
Areas of Expertise: Race/ethnic relations, labor, immigration, social
change.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: 909-787-4373
Fax:909-787-3330
edna.bonacich@ucr.edu
Race and Gender
Gelles, Paul
Associate Professor - Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Central Andes, Latin America. Sociocultural
anthropology, ethnicity, water issues of Andean highland peoples.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: 909-787-4366
Fax:909-787-5409
paul.gelles@ucr.edu
Race and Gender
Martínez, Eliud
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Literature and history: mainstream, minority,
ethnic.
Langauges: Spanish/English
Phone:
Fax:
Race and Gender
Navarro, Armando
Professor\Chair
Areas of Expertise: Chicano politics, social change/community organizing.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: 909-787-4577 x1826
Fax:909-787-4341
armando.navarro@ucr.edu
Race and Gender
Ortiz, Flora Ida
Professor - Education
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
Fax:909-787-5799
flora.ortiz@ucr.edu
Race and Gender
Oyarzún, Kemy
Areas of Expertise: Literature and culture studies. Latin American.
Feminist criticism.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:
Fax:
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Religion
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Research
Research
Chabran, Richard
Director - Center for Visual Research
Areas of Expertise:
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: 909-787-3852
Fax:909-787-3888
richard.chabran@ucr.edu
Research
Tuazón, Ernesto
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
Fax:909-787-5004
ectuazon@ucrac1.ucr.edu
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Social Welfare/Children
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Sociology
Sociology
Aguirre, Adalberto
Professor of Sociology
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
Fax:909-787-3330
adalberto.aguirre@ucr.edu
Sociology
Bonacich, Edna
Professor - Sociology\Ethnic Studies
Areas of Expertise: Race/ethnic relations, labor, immigration, social
change.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: 909-787-4373
Fax:909-787-3330
edna.bonacich@ucr.edu
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Statistics
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Urban Development
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