Faculty

Juan Vicente Palerm, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies Professor, Department of Anthropology Universidad Iberoamericana, México palerm@anth.ucsb.edu more info...

Maria Herrera Sobek, Ph.D. Professor, Luis Leal Endowed Chair in Chicano Studies, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Academic Policy University of California, Los Angeles maria.sobek@evc.ucsb.edu more info...

Gerardo Aldana, Ph.D. Associate Professor Harvard University gvaldana@chicst.ucsb.edu more info...

Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of California, Riverside armbrust@chicst.ucsb.edu more info...

Edwina Barvosa, Ph.D. Associate Professor Harvard University barvosa@chicst.ucsb.edu more info...

Dolores Inés Casillas, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Michigan casillas@chicst.ucsb.edu more info...

Mario T. Garcia, Ph.D. Professor University of California, San Diego garcia@history.ucsb.edu more info...

Francisco Lomelí, Ph.D. Professor Chair, Department of Spanish and Portugese University of New Mexico lomeli@chicst.ucsb.edu more info...

Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of California, Berkeley roqueramirez@chicst.ucsb.edu more info...

Chela Sandoval, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of California, Santa Cruz sandoval@chicst.ucsb.edu more info...

Tara J. Yosso, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of California, Los Angeles yosso@chicst.ucsb.edu more info...

Administration

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Sonya Baker Undergraduate Advisor sbaker@chicst.ucsb.edu more info...

Katherine G. Morales Staff Graduate Advisor kmorales@chicst.ucsb.edu more info...

Visiting Faculty

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Mario Barrera, Ph.D.
Email: mbarrera8@yahoo.com
Teaching areas: Film analysis; Theories of "race" and ethnicity; Scope and method in Chicano Studies.
 

Peter Garcia, Ph.D.
Email: pgarcia@chicst.ucsb.edu
Teaching Areas: Barrio Popular Culture; Chicana/o, Latina/o and Mexican
Musics; Chicana/o and Mexican Folklore; Qualitative Research Methodologies and Transdisciplinary Investigative Applications
 

Faviana Hirsch-Dubin, Ph.D.
Email: faviana5@aol.com
Teaching areas: Mayan ethnomathematics; Chicanas/os in education and in mathematics; Indigenous pedagogies and indigenous movements (including the Zapatistas)
 

Graciela Limón, Ph.D.
Email: alondra5@att.net
Teaching areas: Latina/Chicana Narratives; Border Narratives; Contemporary Latin American Literature
 

Visiting Artists

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Monica Palacios
Email: monicapalacios@earthlink.net
Website: www.monicapalacios.com
BA: San Francisco State University
Creative Writing Concentration: Chico State University
Teaching areas:  Autobiographical Writing & Performing; Women of Color in Film; Queer Studies
 

Alma López
Email: alma310@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.almalopez.net
BA: University of California, Santa Barbara
MFA: University of California, Irvine
Teaching areas: Art & Feminism; Contemporary Chicano Art; Digital Art; Queer Communities
 

Affiliated Faculty

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Rudy V. Busto
Religious Studies
rude@religion.ucsb.edu

Manuel J. Casas
Education
casas@education.ucsb.edu

Sarah Cline
History
cline@history.ucsb.edu

Reginald G. Daniel
Sociology
rdaniel@soc.ucsb.edu

Richard Duran
Education
duran@education.ucsb.edu

Carl Gutierrez-Jones
English
carlgj@english.ucsb.edu

Ellie Hernandez
Women’s Studies
ehernandez@womst.ucsb.edu

Raymond Huerta
Office of Academic Preparation and Equal Opportunity 
rhuer@uxc.isc.ucsb.edu

Gaye Theresa Johnson
Black Studies
gtjohnson@blackstudies.ucsb.edu

Claudine Michel
Black Studies
michel@blackstudies.ucsb.edu

Carlos Morton
Department of Theater & Dance
cmorton@theaterdance.ucsb.edu

Denise A. Segura
Sociology
segura@soc.ucsb.edu

Gabriela Soto Laveaga
History
gsotolaveaga@history.ucsb.edu

Roberto Strongman
Black Studies
rstrongman@blackstudies.ucsb.edu

Inés Talamantez
Religious Studies
talamant@religion.ucsb.edu

Zaragoza Vargas
History
vargas@history.ucsb.edu

Cristina Venegas
Film Studies
venegas@filmstudies.ucsb.edu

Howard A. Winant
Sociology
hwinant@soc.ucsb.edu

Victor Rios
Sociology
vrios@soc.ucsb.edu

Leo Cabranes-Grant
Theater & Dance and Spanish & Portuguese
cabranes@theaterdance.ucsb.edu