Berkeley
Berkeley
Chowning, Margaret
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Modern Mexico. Socio-economics.
Languages: Spanish/English/English/English
Phone:510-642-2415
chowning@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Chavez, Lydia
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Journalism. Cuba, Mexico, and the U.S./Mexico
border
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:510-642-9235
lcha@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Craddock, Jerry
Professor
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/English
Phone:510-642-8069
jerryc@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Clark, Vé Vé
Associate Professor - Department of African American Studies
Areas of Expertise: Francophone and Anglophone. Literature of Africa
and the Caribbean African American women writers
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-2699, 642-7084
Berkeley
Dougherty, Dru
Professor and Chair
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/English
Phone:510-642-4854
jfarmer@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Guibault, Jocelyne
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Caribbean music. Popular music. Ethnomusicology.
Diaspora studies
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-2678
jguilbau@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Karras, Alan
Professor
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
Berkeley
Laguerre, Michel
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary social theory. Transnational citizenship.
Multiculturalism. Globalization.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-3573, 642-7084
mlaguerr@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Lewin, Linda
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Brazil. Family history. Inheritance.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-2932, 642-1971
history@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Saldívar, José
Professor
Areas of Expertise: English
Languages: Spanish/English/English/English
Phone:510-643-5000, 643-0796
saldivar@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Taylor, William
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Mexican history. Native Americans and the conquest.
Colonial Mexican. villages
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:510-643-3159, 642-1971
wtaylor@socrates.berkeley.edu
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Davis
Davis
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/English
Phone:530-752-4394
ighernandez@ucdavis.edu
Davis
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/English
Phone:530-754-6129
vmontejo@ucdavis.edu
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Irvine
Irvine
de Alba, Alicia Gaspar
Associate Professor - English/American Studies in the Cesar Chavez
Center
Areas of Expertise: Associate Professor, English and American Studies
in the Cesar Chavez Center Expertise: Chicano popular history, border
consciousness, popular culture, gender and sexuality, writing.
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:310-206-3491
agdealba@ucla.edu
Irvine
Rodriguez, Jaime
Professor of history
Areas of Expertise: Nation-building in the Spanish Americas.
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:949-824-7204
jerodrig@uci.edu
Irvine
Ruiz, Vicki
Professor - History/Chicano/Latina Studies
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/English
Phone:949-824-2865
vruiz@uci.edu
Irvine
Sereseres, Caesar D.
Associate Professor - Political Science/Associate Dean of Undergraduate
Studies
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
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Avila, Eric
Assistant Professor - Chicano Studies
Areas of Expertise: Chicano history and history of Los Angeles Fluency:
fair. Couldn't give an extensive interview in Spanish.
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:310-825-9106
eavila@ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Baca, Judith
Professor-World Arts/Cultures, Artistic Director - Social/Public
Art Resource Center
Areas of Expertise: Studio art, muralism, art history and arts management.
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:310-822-9560
judybaca@ucla.edu
Los Angeles
de Alba, Alicia Gaspar
Associate Professor - English/American Studies - Cesar Chavez Center
Areas of Expertise: Chicano popular history, border consciousness,
popular culture, gender and sexuality, writing.
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:310-206-3491
agdealba@ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Ehret, Christopher
Professor - History/Associate Director - James S. Coleman African
Studies Center
Areas of Expertise: East Africa, African linguistics, anthropology,
Swahili
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:310-825-4093, 310-825-4601
ehret@history.ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Gomez-Quinones, Juan
Professor - History
Areas of Expertise: American history, Chicano history, social and
labor, Mexican history
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:310-825-4362, 310-825-4601
Los Angeles
Klein, Cecelia F.
Professor - Art History
Areas of Expertise: Pre-Colombian Latin America, Oceanic and Native
North American Art, gender and warfare in Aztec visual ideology.
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:310-825-8233, 310-206-6905
cklein@humnet.ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Kunzle, David M.
Professor - Art History
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/English
Phone:310-825-8232, 310-206-6905
kunzle@humnet.ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Moya, Jose
Associate Professor - History
Areas of Expertise: Argentina
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:310-206-9607, 825-4601, 206-1643
moya@history.ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Wohl, Robert A.
Professor - History
Areas of Expertise: 19th/20th century European history, Italy, France,
popular culture, literature and theater, psychoanalysis and history.
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:310-825-3568, 310-825-4601
rwohl@ucla.edu
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Merced
(Campus to open in Fall 2004)
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Riverside
Riverside
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/English
Phone:909-787-3746 x1959
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San Diego
San Diego
Mariscal, Jorge (George)
Associate Professor - Literature; Director - Chicano/a~Latino/a
Arts and Humanities Program
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
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San Francisco
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Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara
Barvosa-Carter, Edwina
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary, Social and Political Theory, Intellectual
History, and Chicana/o Studies.
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:805-893-5546
barvosa@chicst.ucsb.edu
Santa Barbara
Lomelí, Francisco
Professor
Areas of Expertise: American Studies and Literature, Cultural Theory,
Border Studies, and Literary History.
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:805-893-5546
lomeli@chicst.ucsb.edu
Santa Barbara
Mendez, Cecilia
Professor
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/English
Phone:805-893-3974
mendez@history.ucsb.edu
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Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Arredondo, Gabriela
Assistant Professor - Latin American/Latino Studies
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/English
Phone:831-459-5319
gfarredo@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Calierno, Carlos
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Latin American culture, history, literature,
cinema, music, art, economics, and politics.
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:831-459-3463
calierno@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Castillo, Pedro G.
Associate Professor - History
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/English
Phone:831-459-2738, 459-2855
pcastle@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Dean, Carolyn S.
Associate Professor - Art History
Areas of Expertise: Cultural histories of the native Americas, colonial
Latin America, and Africa.
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:831-459-3119, 459-2951
csdean@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Delgado, Guillermo
Lecturer - Latin American/Latino Studies
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/English
Phone:831-459-3449, 459-4284
guiller@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Diaz, Maria Elena
Associate Professor - History
Areas of Expertise: Colonial Caribbean and Latin America; social
and cultural history; ethnohistory; slavery, race, gender.
Languages: Spanish/English/English
Phone:831-459-2227, 459-2855
mediaz@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Fregoso, Rosa Linda
Professor - Latin American/Latino Studies
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/English
Phone:
Santa Cruz
Haas, M. Lisbeth
Associate Professor - History
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/English
Phone:831-459-2304, 459-2855
lhaas@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Nájera-Ramírez, Olga
Associate Professor - Anthropology
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/English
Phone:831-459-4677
olga@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Poblete, Juan
Assistant Professor - Literature
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/English
Phone:831-459-5734
jpoblete@cats.ucsc.edu
