![Aguilar](/sites/default/files/2024-01/Aguilar_1.png)
Assistant Professor of History
Transnational Mexican History; the Spanish Civil War; Racial Formations; Indigeneity; Immigration/Exile; Revolution and Radicalism
![Stanley Bailey](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/stanley-bailey.jpeg?itok=MTFdUiCO)
Professor of Sociology
Race and Ethnicity (Comparative and International Perspectives), Sociology of Religion, Immigration, Latin America
![Frank Bean](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/frank-bean.jpeg?itok=N80efErW)
UCI Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Economics
International Migration, Demography, Racial & Ethnic Relations, Economic Sociology, Family
![Catherine Benamou standing in front of a white wall wearing a purple sweater](/sites/default/files/2023-09/Catherine%20Benamou.jpg)
Professor, Film & Media Studies
Latin American and Latina/o Film & media, Transnational flows and diasporic spectatorship, Orson Welles, media ethnography and historical reconstruction
![Alex Borucki](/sites/default/files/2022-05/ABorucki.png)
Professor of History
African Diaspora, Colonial Latin America, Early Modern Atlantic World
![Susan K. Brown](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/susan-brown.jpeg?itok=YPnuvuG2)
Professor of Sociology
International migration, educational inequality, urban sociology
![cabatingan](/sites/default/files/2024-01/Cabatingan.png)
Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Anthropology
![Belinda Campos](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/belinda-campos.jpeg?itok=LD_gMaV_)
Associate Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies
Culture, Relationships, Positive Emotion, Health
![Anita Casavantes Bradford](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/anita-casavantes-bradford.jpeg?itok=p_qvtFDP)
Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies
Transnational Comparative Latina/o History, Childhood, Immigration
![chavez](/sites/default/files/2024-01/Chavez_1.png)
Professor of Anthropology
International migration, Latin American immigrants, medical anthropology, transnational communities, breast and cervical cancer beliefs, analysis of visual images
![David Colmenares](/sites/default/files/2023-03/colmenares_0.jpg)
Assitant Professor of Comparative Literature
Colonial Mexico and Amerindian Knowledge Production
![Susan B. Coutin](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/susan-b-coutin.jpeg?itok=80MagKIm)
Professor, Criminology, Law & Society
School of Social Ecology
![Louis Desipio](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/louis-desipio.jpeg?itok=3yXqurnx)
Associate Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, Political Science
Ethnic Politics, Latino Politics, Immigration, Naturalization, U.S. electoral politics
![Dessen](/sites/default/files/2024-05/Dessen_0.png)
Professor, Music
Composition, networked music, the Asian American creative music movement and African diasporic collaboration.
![Glenda Flores](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/glenda-flores.jpeg?itok=plURGoO_)
Associate Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies
Latina/o Sociology; Immigration; Middle-Class Minorities; Race, Gender & Class; Education; Work and Occupations
![Ivette N. Hernandez Torres](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/ivette-hernandez-torres.jpeg?itok=Kv17NWen)
Associate Professor of Spanish
Latin American Colonial Literature & Caribbean Literature
![Felix Jean-Louis III](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/felix-jean-louis-iii.jpeg?itok=DnTiJg8t)
Assistant Professor, History
Haiti, African American, Caribbean, African Diaspora, Afro-Europe, Afro-Francophone, Diaspora, Race Making, Gender
![Adriana Johnson](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/adriana-johnson.jpeg?itok=V2bWIbcc)
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Brazil, Postcolonial Latin American literature, culture and film
![André Keiji Kunigami in front of trees](/sites/default/files/2023-09/Andre%20Kunigami%20%281%29.jpg)
Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies
Brazilian & Japanese Cinema, Critical Race Theory, Film and Media Theory, Critical Theory, Silent Cinema, Decoloniality, Cinematic Embodiment, Asian-Latin American Studies
![Abigail LapinDardashti](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/abigail-lapin-dardashti.jpeg?itok=3DvJxWEF)
Assistant Professor, Art History
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
![Horacio Legras](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/horacio-legras.jpeg?itok=GLSmP0f8)
Director, Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Professor of Spanish
Latin American Culture. Psychoanalysis. Philosophy. Political Theory. Popular Culture and Insurgency. Photography
![Viviane Mahieux](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/viviane-mahieux.jpeg?itok=PLJJuXla)
Associate Professor of Spanish
Modern and contemporary Latin American literature, with a focus on Mexico
![William Maurer](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/william-maurer.jpeg?itok=otIqsaCC)
Department Chair and Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology of law; globalization; Caribbean; anthropology of money and finance; gender and kinship
![Rachel O'Toole](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_450w/public/2022-06/rachel-otoole.jpeg?itok=ew3lj9Ko)
Associate Professor of History
Colonial Latin America, African Diaspora, Gender & Sexuality
![prosper](/sites/default/files/2024-01/prosper_1.png)
Mamyrah Prosper
Assistant Professor, Global & International Studies
Specializes in research on social movements in the Caribbean and Latin America - particularly Black and Haitian social movements
![Ana Elizabeth Rosas](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/ana-elizabeth-rosas.jpeg?itok=xYMR9zDs)
Associate Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, History
Chicana/o Comparative History, Immigration, Ethnicity
![Ruben Rumbaut](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/ruben-rumbaut.jpeg?itok=TcpQObes)
Professor of Sociology
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
![Chelsea Schields](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/chelsea-schields.jpeg?itok=va6AZJgx)
Assistant Professor, History
Caribbean; Europe; decolonization; gender and sexuality; race; oil; global history
![Patricia Seed](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/patricia-seed.jpeg?itok=qDQ8zcH4)
Professor of History
Mapping: History & Design, Game Design, Navigation
![Jacobo Sefami](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/jacobo-sefami.jpeg?itok=B88A0z83)
Professor of Spanish
Modern and Contemporary Latin American Poetry/ Mexican Literature/ Spanish American Literature
![Caesar Sereseres](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/caesar-sereseres.jpeg?itok=kfjQzOFW)
Associate Professor of Political Science
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.
![Etel Solingen](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/etel-solingen.jpeg?itok=792P2Cce)
Professor of Political Science
International Relations Theory, International Political Economy, International Cooperation, Macropolitics/Institutions, Comparative Politics, World Politics and Regional Orders
![telles](/sites/default/files/2024-01/telles_0.png)
Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology
![Heidi Tinsman](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/heidi-tinsman.jpeg?itok=o2wyiTYU)
Professor of History
Latin America, Gender & Sexuality, World History
![Julio Torres](/sites/default/files/styles/inline_media_300w/public/2022-06/julio-torres.jpeg?itok=MKs6tklS)
Associate Professor of Spanish
Heritage/Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Cognition, Task-Based Language Learning, Curriculum & Instruction