Berkeley
Berkeley
Alarcón, Norma
Professor
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
Berkeley
Arteaga, Alfred
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Chicano poetics. Nation, ethnicity, and linguistics.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-0796
arteaga@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Barrera, Mario
Emeritus Professor
Areas of Expertise: American ethnic film. Ethnicity and film. Screenwriting
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-9134, 643-0796
mythos@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Bergmann, Emilie
Professor
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
Berkeley
Blum, Carolyn Patty
Clinical Professor
Areas of Expertise: Refugee and asylum law. Central American and
Haitian refugees. Women refugees.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-5980
cpblum@law.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Brandes, Stanley H.
Social Cultural Anthropology
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
Berkeley
Guendelman, Sylvia
Associate Professor
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
Berkeley
Hastorf, Cristine
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Food and agriculture. Archeology. Political
complexity. Gender. Paleoethnobotany. Andes
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-5457, 643-1112
hastorf@sscl.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
Lopez, Ian Haney
Professor
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
Berkeley
Moran, Rachel
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Multilingualism. Bilingual education. Interracial
intimacy.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-6351
moran@law.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Muñoz, Carlos
Emeritus Professor
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
Berkeley
Padilla, Genaro
Associate Professor
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
Berkeley
Rabasa, José
Professor
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
Berkeley
Sanchez-Jankowski, Martín
Professor
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
Berkeley
Tarica, Estelle
Assistant Professor
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.ed
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Davis
Davis
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
fjalarcon@ucdavis.edu
Davis
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
phlindert@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
Phone:530-754-6129
vmontejo@ucdavis.edu
Davis
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
asosarid@aol.com
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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
Phone:310-206-3491
agdealba@ucla.edu
Irvine
Ferreira, Ana Paula
Chair - Spanish/Portuguese
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
Irvine
Guerra-Cunningham, Lucia
Professor
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
Irvine
Hamilton, Michelle
Assistant Professor
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
Irvine
King, Katherine C.
Associate Professor - Classics
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
Irvine
Morrill, Calvin
Professor
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
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Los Angeles
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
Phone:310-206-3491
agdealba@ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Alvarez, Rodolfo
Professor - Sociology
Areas of Expertise: Societal organization, race, gender and class
discrimination
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-1472
alvarez@soc.ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Gomez, Laura
Professor - Law
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
Los Angeles
Hammond, Peter B.
Professor Emeritus - Anthropology
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
Los Angeles
Ortiz, Vilma
Associate Professor - Sociology
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
Los Angeles
Sawyer, Mark
Assistant Professor - Political Science
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
Los Angeles
Solorzano, Daniel
Associate Professor - Social Sciences/Comparative Education
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
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Merced
(Campus to open in Fall 2004)
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Riverside
Riverside
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
adalberto.aguirre@ucr.edu
Riverside
Bonacich, Edna
Professor - Sociology\Ethnic Studies
Areas of Expertise: Race/ethnic relations, labor, immigration, social
change.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-4373
edna.bonacich@ucr.edu
Riverside
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
paul.gelles@ucr.edu
Riverside
Navarro, Armando
Professor\Chair
Areas of Expertise: Chicano politics, social change/community organizing.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-4577 x1826
armando.navarro@ucr.edu
Riverside
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
flora.ortiz@ucr.edu
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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
Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Globalization, Labor, Social Movements, Racism,
and Latin American Studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-5709
ralpharm@hotmail.com
Santa Barbara
Broyles-González, Yolanda
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Philosophy and Social Theory, Intellectual History,
and Chicano/a Studies
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-2073
broyles@chicst.ucsb.edu
Santa Barbara
Cabezón, José
Professor
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
Santa Barbara
Casas, J. Manuel
Professor
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
Santa Barbara
Garcia, Mario
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Chicano Studies and American race and ethnicity.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-8930-2471, 893-4074
garcia@history.ucsb.edu
Santa Barbara
Herrera-Sobek, María
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Literature, Gender, Cultural Studies, and Oral
Tradition. (Dept. Chair)
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-3601
sobek@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
Phone:805-893-3974
mendez@history.ucsb.edu
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Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Alvarez, Sonia E.
Associate Professor - Politics
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
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
Phone:831-459-5319
gfarredo@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
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
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
Phone:
Santa Cruz
González-Pagani, María Victoria
Lecturer
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
Santa Cruz
Marez, Curtis
Assistant Professor - American Studies
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
Santa Cruz
Martínez-Echazábal, Lourdes
Associate Professor
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
Santa Cruz
Sweet, David G.
Emeritus
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
Santa Cruz
Zavella, Patricia
Professor - Latin American/Latino Studies
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
