
Meet Our Faculty and Staff
Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Andrés Ehecatl Aguilar
Assistant Professor
Office: AL-392
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Chicana/o/x Transnational Arts and Culture, linguistics, Chicontepec Náhuatl and
Ja’a Kumiai
Michael Domínguez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Office: AL-355
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Schooling experiences of Chican@ youth: identity construction, socio-political development
and activism, racialization, and community and family ingenuity
Victoria González-Rivera, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Office: AL-394
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Gender, sexuality, and Mexican, Chicanx, and Nicaraguan history
Roberto D. Hernández, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Office: AL-388
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Comparative border studies, decolonial theory, social movements
María Ibarra, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Chair
Office: AL-396 | Phone: (619) 594-0316
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Globalization and social reproduction, (im)migration and paid domestic labor
Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
(on leave spring 2023, Faculty Early Retirement Program)
Office: AL-398
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: U.S.-Mexican border, gender, film studies
Isidro Ortiz, Ph.D.
Professor
Office: AL-357
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Chicana and Chicano politics, Community organization, educational reform
Natalie Santizo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: AL-359
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: 20th Century History, Critical Food Studies, Racial Geographies, Public History
Lilia Soto, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Office: AL-372
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Comparative/relational race and ethnic studies, transnational migration, identity
formation and the interconnectedness of time, place, age, gender and sexuality
Lecturers, Fall 2023
Victoria Chávez
Office: AL-382
Email: [email protected]
James Garza, Ph.D.
Office: AL-395
Email: [email protected]
Omar Padilla, Ph.D.
Office: AL-390
Email: [email protected]
Katherine Steelman
Office: AL-382
Email: [email protected]
Sarah Tánori
Office: AL-390
Email: [email protected]
Staff
Bertha Hernández
Administrative Coordinator
Office: AL-348
Phone: (619) 594-8444
Email: [email protected]
Yenifer Gallardo Preciado
Student Assistant
Office: AL-348
Email: [email protected]
Faculty Emeriti
Adelaida R. Del Castillo, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
Email: [email protected]
Richard Griswold del Castillo, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Email: [email protected]
D. Emily Hicks, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
Email: [email protected]
José "Pepe" Villarino, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Maria Butler
Lecturer Emerita
Email: [email protected]
Leilani Grajeda-Higley
Lecturer Emerita
Email: [email protected]
Coral MacFarland-Thuet
Lecturer Emerita
Email: [email protected]