Faculty
Gerardo Aldana, PhD, Harvard University, Professor (Maya hieroglyphic history, Mesoamerican art, experimental archaeology, science studies, culture theory)
Ralph Armbruster, PhD, UC Riverside, Professor (globalization, labor, social movements, race and ethnic relations, Latin American studies and community/urban studies)
Giovanni Batz, PhD, University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor (Maya social movements and resistance, extractivist industries, Guatemala, migration, and forced displacement.)
D. Ines Casillas, PhD, University of Michigan, Professor (U.S. Spanish-language media, radio/sound practices, immigration policy, gender, popular culture)
Micaela Diaz-Sanchez, PhD, Stanford University, Assistant Professor (Chicana/o and Latina/o Performance Studies, Visual Culture and Cultural Studies, Afro-Latina/o Diaspora Studies, Chicana/Latina Feminisms, Chicana/o and Latina/o Theater History and Ethnomusicology, Dramaturgy, Acting Methodology)
Juanita Garcia, PhD, Texas A & M University, Assistant Professor (Immigration; Latinx Sociology; Intersectionality; Medical Sociology; Sociology of Mental Health; Aging; Social Determinants of Health)
Ellie Hernandez, PhD, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor (Chicana/o and Latina/o cultural production, queer theory, 20th century American literature, and transnational gender culture)
Aida Hurtado, PhD, University of Michigan, Professor (Chicana feminisms, study of masculinities, Chicana/o and Latino/a educational achievement, feminist theory)
Celia Rodriguez, Senior Lecturer SOE
Silvia Rodriguez Vega, Assistant Professor (mixed-status immigrant families, legal violence, arts education, ARTivism, and community-engaged research (UCLA).)
Daina Sanchez, PhD, UC Irvine, Assistant Professor (Transnational Migration and Children of Immigrants; Identity and Community Formation; Oaxaca, Los Angeles)
Chela Sandoval, PhD, UC Santa Cruz, Professor (cyber and millennial studies, third space feminism, critical media theory and production, oppositional consciousness and social movement)
Emeriti Faculty
Yolanda Broyles, PhD, Stanford University
Mario Garcia, PhD, UC San Diego
Maria Herrera Sobek, PhD, UC Irvine
Francisco Lomeli, PhD, University of New Mexico (Chicano/a Literature, Theory of the Novel, Literary History of the American Southwest, Border Studies, Latin American Literature from Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile) Joint Appointment: SP&PT
Affiliated Faculty
Edwina Barvosa, PhD (Feminist Studies)
Rudy Busto, PhD (Religious Studies)
Leo Cabranes-Grant, PhD (Theater and Dance, Spanish and Portuguese)
Richard Duran, PhD (Education)
Victor Rios, PhD (Sociology)
Laura Romo, PhD (Education)
Denise Segura, PhD (Sociology)
Roberto Strongman, PhD (Black Studies)
Cristina Venegas, PhD (Film and Media Studies)