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

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]

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]

 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]