
Meet Our Faculty and Staff
Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Andrés Ehecatl Aguilar
Assistant Professor
Office: AL-392 | Phone: (619) 594-6641
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Chicana/o/x Transnational Arts and Culture, linguistics, Chicontepec Náhuatl and
Ja’a Kumiai
Adelaida R. Del Castillo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Graduate Adviser
Office: AL-359 | Phone: (619) 594-1257
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Mexican gender systems, social and cultural citizenship, Mexicana/Chicana feminist
history
Michael Domínguez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: AL-355 | Phone: (619) 594-8443
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Research: schooling experiences of [email protected] youth: identity construction, socio-political development
and activism, racialization, and community and family ingenuity
Victoria González Rivera, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Office: AL-394 | Phone: (619) 594-8447
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Gender, sexuality, and Mexican, Chicanx, and Nicaraguan history
Roberto D. Hernández, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Office: AL-388 | Phone: (619) 594-4219
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Comparative border studies, decolonial theory, social movements
María Ibarra, Ph.D.
Professor, Department Chair, Undergraduate Adviser
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
Office: AL-398 | Phone: (619) 594-0656
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: U.S.-Mexican border, gender, and film studies
Isidro Ortiz, Ph.D.
Professor
Office: AL-357 | Phone: (619) 594-1256
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Chicana and Chicano politics, Community organization, educational reform
Lecturers
James Garza, Ph.D.
Office: AL-395 | Phone: (619) 594-0970
Email: [email protected]
Abel Macias
Office: AL-392 | Phone: (619) 594-6641
Email: [email protected]
Gregorio Pantoja
Office: AL-392 | Phone: (619) 594-6641
Email: [email protected]
Staff
Bertha Hernández
Administrative Coordinator
Office: AL-348
Phone: (619) 594-8444
Email: [email protected]
Faculty Emeriti
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]