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Assistant Professor of History 
Kevan Aguilar
Assistant Professor of History 
Research Interests

Transnational Mexican History; the Spanish Civil War; Racial Formations; Indigeneity; Immigration/Exile; Revolution and Radicalism

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Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies
Isabel F. Almeida
Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies
Research Interests

Latina pregnancy, reproductive health, pregnancy anxiety, stress, mental health, health psychology

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Professor of Sociology
Stanley Bailey
Professor of Sociology
Research Interests

Race and Ethnicity (Comparative and International Perspectives), Sociology of Religion, Immigration, Latin America

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Professor of Sociology and Economics
Frank D. Bean
Professor of Sociology and Economics
Research Interests

International Migration, Demography, Racial & Ethnic Relations, Economic Sociology, Family

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Professor, Film & Media Studies
Catherine Benamou
Professor, Film & Media Studies
Research Interests

Latin American and Latina/o Film & media, Transnational flows and diasporic spectatorship, Orson Welles, media ethnography and historical reconstruction

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Professor of History
Alex Borucki
Professor of History
Research Interests

African Diaspora, Colonial Latin America, Early Modern Atlantic World

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Professor of Sociology
Susan K. Brown
Professor of Sociology
Research Interests

International migration, educational inequality, urban sociology

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Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Anthropology
Lee Cabatingan
Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Anthropology
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Professor and Chair, Chicano/Latino Studies
Belinda Campos
Professor and Chair, Chicano/Latino Studies
Research Interests

Culture; Relationships; Positive Emotion; Health

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Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies and History, Chicano/Latino Studies
Anita Casavantes Bradford
Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies and History, Chicano/Latino Studies
Research Interests

Transnational and Comparative Latinx History; Immigration, Race and Ethnicity; Critical Refugee Studies; Childhood, Gender and Family; Religion and Politics

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Professor of Anthropology
Leo Chavez
Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests

International migration, Latin American immigrants, medical anthropology, transnational communities, breast and cervical cancer beliefs, analysis of visual images

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Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
David H. Colmenares
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Research Interests

Colonial Mexico, Mesoamerican Studies, Visual Culture, Antiquarianism, Early Modern Iberia

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Professor, Criminology, Law & Society School of Social Ecology
Susan B. Coutin
Professor, Criminology, Law & Society School of Social Ecology
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Associate Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, Political Science
Louis Desipio
Associate Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, Political Science
Research Interests

Ethnic Politics, Latino Politics, Immigration, Naturalization, U.S. electoral politics

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Professor, Music
Michael Dessen
Professor, Music
Research Interests

Composition, networked music, the Asian American creative music movement and African diasporic collaboration.

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Associate Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies
Glenda Flores
Associate Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies
Research Interests

Latina/o Sociology; Immigration; Middle-Class Minorities; Race, Gender & Class; Education; Work and Occupations

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Assistant Professor, History
Felix Jean-Louis III
Assistant Professor, History
Research Interests

Haiti, African American, Caribbean, African Diaspora, Afro-Europe, Afro-Francophone, Diaspora, Race Making, Gender

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Assistant Professor, Global and International Studies
Alexander David Huezo
Assistant Professor, Global and International Studies
Research Interests

Environmental justice studies, war on drugs, U.S. militarism, latin american studies, ethnography, geospatial analysis

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Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Adriana M. Johnson
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Research Interests

Brazil, Postcolonial Latin American literature, culture and film

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Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies
Keiji Kunigami
Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies
Research Interests

Brazilian & Japanese Cinema, Critical Race Theory, Film and Media Theory, Critical Theory, Silent Cinema, Decoloniality, Cinematic Embodiment, Asian-Latin American Studies

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Assistant Professor, Art History
Abigail Lapin-Dardashti
Assistant Professor, Art History
Research Interests

Modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino/a/x art and architecture, history of African diasporic art in Latin America, transnationalism, migration, racial formation, activism, critical race theory, postcolonial

Genesis Lara
Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies
Génesis Lara
Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies
Research Interests

African diaspora studies, Caribbean history and diaspora studies, postcolonial and revolutionary studies

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Director, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Professor of Spanish
Horacio Legrás
Director, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Professor of Spanish
Research Interests

Latin American Culture. Psychoanalysis. Philosophy. Political Theory. Popular Culture and Insurgency. Photography

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Associate Professor of Spanish
Viviane Mahieux
Associate Professor of Spanish
Research Interests

Modern and contemporary Latin American literature, with a focus on Mexico

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Department Chair and Professor of Anthropology
William Maurer
Department Chair and Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests

Anthropology of law; globalization; Caribbean; anthropology of money and finance; gender and kinship

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Associate Professor of History
Rachel O'Toole
Associate Professor of History
Research Interests

Colonial Latin America, African Diaspora, Gender & Sexuality

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Assistant Professor of Spanish & Portuguese
Rocío Pichon-Riviere
Assistant Professor of Spanish & Portuguese
Research Interests

Literature and visual culture (including graphic novels and other comics), trans and queer theory, feminismo descolonial and Latinx feminism, medical humanities, graphic medicine, transformative justice.

Mamyrah Prosper
Assistant Professor, Global & International Studies
Mamyrah Prosper
Assistant Professor, Global & International Studies
Research Interests

Specializes in research on social movements in the Caribbean and Latin America - particularly Black and Haitian social movements

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Associate Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, History
Ana Elizabeth Rosas
Associate Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, History
Research Interests

Chicana/o Comparative History, Immigration, Ethnicity

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Professor of Sociology
Ruben Rumbaut
Professor of Sociology
Research Interests

U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S.-Latin American Relations, Mexican-American Politics, Orange County Homeless and a Community Study of Mexican Americans (on Mt. Vernon St.) in San Bernardino

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Assistant Professor, History
Chelsea Schields
Assistant Professor, History
Research Interests

Caribbean; Europe; decolonization; gender and sexuality; race; oil; global history

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Professor of History
Patricia Seed
Professor of History
Research Interests

Mapping: History & Design, Game Design, Navigation

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Professor of Spanish
Jacobo Sefamí
Professor of Spanish
Research Interests

Modern and Contemporary Latin American Poetry/ Mexican Literature/ Spanish American Literature

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Associate Professor of Political Science
Caesar D. Sereseres
Associate Professor of Political Science
Research Interests

U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S.-Latin American Relations, Mexican-American Politics, Orange County Homeless and a Community Study of Mexican Americans (on Mt. Vernon St.) in San Bernardino.

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Professor of Political Science
Etel Solingen
Professor of Political Science
Research Interests

International Relations Theory, International Political Economy, International Cooperation, Macropolitics/Institutions, Comparative Politics, World Politics and Regional Orders

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Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology
Edward Telles
Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology
Research Interests

Immigration, race, ethnicity, latin america, latinos

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Professor of History
Heidi Tinsman
Professor of History
Research Interests

Latin America, Gender & Sexuality, World History

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Associate Professor of Spanish
Julio Torres
Associate Professor of Spanish
Research Interests

Heritage/Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Cognition, Task-Based Language Learning, Curriculum & Instruction

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Assistant Professor of English
Mercedes Trigos
Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests

Heritage/Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Cognition, Task-Based Language Learning, Curriculum & Instruction