FACULTY, (TENURED, TENURE-LINE)
José Anguiano, Ph.D., Department Chair
Professor and Chair
Ph.D. Chicana/o Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Office: KH C-4069B
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest: Popular Music, Sound Studies, Audiences and Fandom, Popular Culture
Anita Revilla Tijerina, Ph.D.
Professor
Ph.D. Social Sciences and Comparative Education, Race and Ethnic Studies focus, UCLA GSEIS
Office: KH A 3048
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest: Muxerista and Jotería Studies, Critical Race Theory and Education, Social Movements, Comparative Ethnic Studies
Lourdes Alberto, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,American Indian and Indigenous Studies Faculty
323-343-2190
Office Location: King Hall D1059
Email: [email protected]
Alejandro Covarrubias, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Race and Ethnic Studies in Education, UCLA
Office: KH C-3059
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest: Critical Race Quantitative Intersectionality; Movement-Building Praxis; High School Push-Outs; Transformative Resistance and Refusal
Lani Cupchoy, Ph.D.
Olga A. Garcia, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor
Phone: 323-343-2190
Email: [email protected]
Sandra J. Gutiérrez de Jesús, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Native American Studies, UC Davis
Office: KH C-4035
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Indigenous social movements and self-governance, transnational Indigenous migration, linguistic rights and revitalization, Indigenous media studies.
Valerie Talavera-Bustillos, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone Number: 323-343-2197
Office: King Hall B-3023
Email: [email protected]
Tarisi Vunidilo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Phone: 323-343-2190
Office: King Hall D1059
Email: [email protected]
Lecturers
Cynthia Alonso
Lecturer
Master of Arts Chicana/o Latina/o Studies, Cal State LA
Email: c[email protected]
Areas of Interest: Chicana Feminist Theory, Critical Race Theory, Transformative Educational Resistance, Social Justice Movements, Femtoring and Healing Strategies Within and Beyond Academic Spaces
María R. Ambriz Hernández, M.A.
Lecturer
Master of Arts in Spanish, Latin American Literature and Spanish of the Southwest
University of New Mexico (UNM)
Email: [email protected]
Lauren Arenson, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Ph.D. Intercultural Education, USC
Office: KH C-4069
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest: Issues of diversity, gender, health inequities, and environmental justice. Academic researcher and supporter of the Gabieleno Band of Mission Indians- Kizh Nation.
Katherine Batanero
Lecturer
M.A. Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, Cal State LA
Phone: 323-343-2190
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest: Chicana/o Studies, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Chicana lesbian experience.
Karla Cativo
Email: [email protected]
Gregory Esparza, M.A.
Email: [email protected]
"Sonny" Richard E. Espinoza, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Ph.D. Film & Television - Critical Studies
Office: Fine Arts 230
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest: race, history & mass media, social media & AI, film & TV history
Dr. Joanna Flores
Email: [email protected]
Michelle L. Lopez, M.F.A.
Claudia Mercado
Faculty Lecturer
MFA Television, Film & Theater, CSULA
Office: KH C4069
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest: Film History & Art, Film & Documentary Production, Chicanx/Latinx History, Art & Teatro, Mesoamerican Art & Culture, Women of Color Feminisms, Performance Art, Indigenismo, Poetry, Herbalism
Susana Morales
Professor
Ph.D. Social Sciences and Comparative Education, Race and Ethnic Studies focus, UCLA GSEIS
Office: KH A 3048
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest: Muxerista and Jotería Studies, Critical Race Theory and Education, Social Movements, Comparative Ethnic Studies
Omar G. Ramirez
Phone: 323-343-2190
Email: [email protected]
Leda Ramos, M.F.A.
Lecturer
Director, Central American Memoria Histórica Archive,
M.F.A., Rutger’s University
Office: KH C4069
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest: Chicanx & Central American art and film, Central American archives & collections, internationalist social movements
Pedro Reyes, M.A.
Lecturer
M.A. Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies, Cal State LA
Office: KH C-4069
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest: Intersectional Veteran Critical Theory (VTC), Critical Military Studies, social movements, ethnography.
Website: Pedro Reyes Website
Ryan E. Santos
Diana Solis
Kiki Rivera
Email: [email protected]
Theresa A. Yugar, Ph.D.
M.Div., Harvard University
Email: [email protected]