Faculty
Regular Faculty
![Professor Lisa Sousa](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/sousa-lisa_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Lisa Sousa, Chair
Norman Bridge Professor, History
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., UCLA
Sousa specializes in the histories of colonial Latin America, indigenous peoples and languages of Mexico, and women, gender and sexuality.
Cristina Awadalla
Assistant Professor, Latino/a and Latin American Studies
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
![Professor Raul Villa](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/villa-raul_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Raul Villa
Professor, Latino/a & Latin American Studies
B.A., Yale University; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz
Raul Villa's major areas of scholarly and curricular expertise are in Chicano and U.S. literature and popular culture, urban studies (with a particular emphasis on Los Angeles cultural studies), and Southwest/Borderlands literature and expressive culture.
Advisory Committee
![Michael Amoruso](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/Michael_Amoruso_400x400.jpg)
Michael Amoruso
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
B.A., Lehigh University; M.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
Areas of specialization:聽death, race, and urban religion in the United States and Latin America.
![Headshot of Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr.](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/robert-sanchez_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr.
Associate Professor, Philosophy
B.A., Pitzer College; M.A., P.h.D., U.C. Riverside
Robert Sanchez specializes in Mexican/Latinx/Latin American philosophy, as well as existentialism, and he has interests in the philosophy of race, the philosophy of food, and the history of philosophy.聽He co-hosts a blog on聽Mexican philosophy.聽
![Professor Dolores Trevizo](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/trevizo-dolores_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Dolores Trevizo
Madeline N. McKinnie Professor, Sociology
B.A., swag外流; M.A., Ph.D., UCLA
Dolores Trevizo is a political sociologist and teaches courses in political sociology, social movements and revolutions, theory, immigration to the United States, and quantitative research methods.
Affiliated Faculty
![Madeline Baer](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/mad_400x400z.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Madeline Baer
Associate Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
B.A., American University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Madeline Baer鈥檚 research and teaching focuses on global political economy, human rights, and water policy with a regional focus on Latin America.
![Professor Mariska Bolyanatz](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/bolyanatz-mariska_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Mari拧ka Bolyanatz Brown
Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., Gordon College, Massachusetts; M.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; Ph.D., UCLA
Mari拧ka Bolyanatz Brown (IPA: [m蓹藞删i蕛k蓹 bo蕣li藞蓱n瑟ts b晒蓱蕣n])聽is a linguist whose work focuses on socially conditioned variation in speech production and perception in Spanish.
![Professor Anthony Tirado Chase](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/tirado-chase-anthony_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Anthony Tirado Chase
Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
B.A., UC Santa Cruz; M.A.L.S., Columbia University; M.A.L.D., Ph.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Anthony Tirado Chase鈥檚 research and teaching interests focus on human rights, the work of international organizations, and the politics of the Middle East and broader Muslim world.
Lan T. Chu
Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
B.A., M.A., New York University; Ph.D., George Washington University
Chu鈥檚 research and teaching interests focus on the political role of religious institutions, the Catholic Church and global politics, faith diplomacy, religion and international relations theory, inter-religious dialogue, political ideologies (theory and practice), and the political liberalization processes of former and existing communist countries.
![Professor Salvador Fern谩ndez](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/fernandez-salvador_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Salvador Fern谩ndez
National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship
B.A., UC Riverside; M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., UCLA
Salvador Fern谩ndez teaches courses on Spanish and Latin American literature and civilization, as well as Mexican and Chicano/a studies. His research areas of interest are the contemporary Mexican novel and Chicano/a studies.
![Professor Mary Lopez](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/lopez-mary_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Mary J. Lopez
Professor, Economics
B.A., UC Riverside; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Professor Lopez's research is in the areas of labor economics, applied micro, and demography.
![Professor Viviana MacManus](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/macmanus-viviana_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Viviana MacManus
Associate Professor, Critical Theory & Social Justice
B.A., swag外流; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Viviana Beatriz MacManus鈥檚 research and teaching focuses on Latin American and Latinx feminist theory, literature, film, and cultural studies.
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Richard Mora
Professor, Sociology
B.A., Harvard College (Sociology); M.A., University of Michigan (Education); M.A., Harvard University (Sociology); Ph.D., Harvard University (Sociology & Social Policy)
Dr. Mora teaches courses on masculinities, youth cultures, education, immigration, violence, & social inequality
![Karla Pena](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/KarlaHS%20%282%29.jpg)
Karla Pe帽a
Assistant Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy
B.A., California State University Northridge; M.S., University of Michigan; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University
Karla Pe帽a's teaching and research is centered on social movements and the political ecology of natural resource extraction and environmental change, from a local and global perspective.
![Professor Mike Shelton](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/shelton-mike_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Michael Shelton
Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.S., St. Cloud State University; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Michael Shelton is a linguist, specializing in phonology and psycholinguistics.
![Professor Ron Solorzano](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/solorzano-ron_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Ronald Sol贸rzano
Professor, Education
B.S., M.Ed., Loyola Marymount University; Ph.D., UCLA
Ron Sol贸rzano teaches education policy, school reform and legal court cases, second language acquisition theories and practices, high stakes student and teacher assessments, program evaluation and race/class effects in education courses.