Latin American and Iberian Studies program

Advisory Committee

Faculty - Alphabetical

Faculty - Fields

Staff

Graduate Students

Alumni

ffiliated Faculty - Alphabetical

Name / Description	Information
Gerardo V. Aldana PhD Harvard University. Maya hieroglyphic history, Mesoamerican art, experimental archeology, science studies, culture theory.	Assistant Professor (805)893-5713 South Hall 1710 gvaldana@chicst.ucsb.edu Chicano Studies
Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval PhD UC Riverside. Globalization, labor, social movements, race and ethnic relations, Latin American Studies.	Assistant Professor (805)893-5709 South Hall 1722 armbrust@chicst.ucsb.edu Chicano Studies
Edwina Barvosa-Carter PhD Harvard University Contemporary, Social and Political Theory, Intellectual History, and Chicana/o Studies.	Assistant Professor (805)893-5714 South Hall 1704 barvosa@chicst.ucsb.edu Chicano Studies
Silvia Bermúdez PhD University of Southern California. Twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American poetry.	Professor (805)893-4057 Phelps 4311 bermudez@spanport.ucsb.edu Spanish and Portuguese
Kum-Kum Bhavnani PhD Cambridge University. Third-world women, cultural studies, feminist studies, critical ethnography, critical psychology.	Professor (805)893-3240 Ellison 2844 bhavnani@soc.ucsb.edu Sociology, Women's Studies, Global and International Studies
Debra Blumenthal PhD History, University of Toronto. Medieval Europe, Spain.	Assistant Professor (805)893-8208 HSSB 4217 blumenthal@history.ucsb.edu History
Kathleen Bruhn PhD Stanford University. Comparative politics, Latin America, Mexico, Brazil.	Associate Professor (805)893-2999 Ellison 3804 bruhn@polsci.ucsb.edu Political Science
Rudy V. Busto PhD University of California, Berkeley. Religion in racially ethnic communities; Chicano/Latino/Pacific Islander history and religious traditions; hybridity and religious change.	Assistant Professor (805) 893-3199 HSSB 3038 rude@religion.ucsb.edu Religious Studies
Leo F. Cabranes-Grant PhD Harvard University. Spanish Golden Age literature, Spanish and Hispanic American drama, intercultural studies.	Assistant Professor (805)893-5376 Phelps 4213 cabranes@dramadance.ucsb.edu Dramatic Arts Spanish and Portuguese
João Camilo Dos Santos Doctorat d'Etat Université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes. Contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian literature, literary theory.	Professor (805)893-2615 Phelps 4327 jcamilo@spanport.ucsb.edu Spanish and Portuguese
David. L. Carr PhD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Rural-frontier migration and deforestation, rural development, health, fertility; geography, environmental studies; Central America.	Assistant Professor (805) 893-4219 Ellison 3611 carr@geog.ucsb.edu Geography
Jorge Castillo PhD Harvard University. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latin American literature, history of ideas.	Associate Professor (805)893-2514 Phelps 4220 castillo@spanport.ucsb.edu Spanish and Portuguese
Jorge Checa PhD Princeton University. Golden Age Spanish literature and culture, literary theory.	Professor (805)893-3655 Phelps 4325 checa@spanport.ucsb.edu Spanish and Portuguese
Dorothy M. Chun PhD UC Berkeley. Second language acquisition, intonation and discourse, computer-assisted language learning.	Professor (805)893-2293 Phelps 6216 dchun@gss.ucsb.edu Germanic, Slavic, & Semitic
David A. Cleveland PhD University of Arizona. Agricultural development, sustainability, cultural and biological diversity, crop genetic resources and plant breeding, indigenous knowledge and intellectual property rights, demography, science and culture of development; Southwest U.S., Southern Mexico.	Associate Professor (805)893-7502 GIRV 2309 cleveland@lifesci.ucsb.edu Environmental Studies
Sarah Cline PhD UCLA. Social and cultural history of Mexico, Latin America, Mexican Indians, religion, race, gender, general colonial history.	Professor Director LAIS (805)893-2726, (805)893-7320 HSSB 4251, Phelps 3212 cline@history.ucsb.edu History
Antonio Cortijo PhD UC Berkeley. Spanish Golden Age and medieval literature, humanism, Latin and vernacular.	Associate Professor Spanish and Portuguese
G. Reginald Daniel PhD UCLA. Race and ethnic relations, comparative and historical sociology, comparative race and culture. Brazil.	Associate Professor (805)893-3410 Ellison 2839 rdaniel@soc.ucsb.edu Sociology
Richard Durán PhD UC Berkeley. Teaching and learning, research methodology, cultural perspectives and comparative education, teacher education, psychology, cognitive science, LISO, Chicano/a studies.	Professor (805)893-3555 Phelps 2317 duran@education.ucsb.edu Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Francis A. Dutra PhD New York University. Early modern Portugal, Brazil, social history, institutional history, religion.	Professor (805)893-2722 HSSB 3252 dutra@history.ucsb.edu History
John Foran PhD UC Berkeley. Development and social change, Middle Eastern Studies, Latin American Studies, comparative historical methods, social theory, political sociology, social movements, cultural studies.	Professor (805)893-8199 Ellison 2711 foran@soc.ucsb.edu Sociology
Anabel Ford PhD Anthropology UCSB.	Researcher Affiliate (805)893-8191 ford@marc.ucsb.edu Institute for Social, Behavioral, & Economic Research, MesoAmerican Research Institute
Mario T. García PhD UC San Diego. Chicano history, race and ethnicity, southwestern U.S. history, autobiography, Latino religion.	Professor (805)893-4074, (805)893-2471 South Hall 1720, HSSB 3256 garcia@history.ucsb.edu Chicano Studies History
Michael D. Gurven PhD University of New Mexico. Cooperation and food sharing, foraging, hunter-gatherer ecology, altruism and reciprocity, the dynamics of social networks, evolution of human life history patterns, South American Indians, Bolivia, Paraguay.	Assistant Professor (805)893-2202 HSSB 2059 gurven@anth.ucsb.edu Anthropology
Carl Gutiérrez-Jones PhD Cornell University. Chicano and U.S. literature.	Professor (805)893-4622 South Hall 2607 carlgj@english.ucsb.edu English
Ellie D. Hernández PhD University of California, Berkeley. Chicana/o literature and culture; women of color; feminist methodologies; gender and sexuality; critical theory.	Assistant Professor (805) 893-7503 South Hall 4705 ehernandez@womst.ucsb.edu Women’s Studies
Barbara Herr Harthorn PhD Anthropology, UCLA.	Researcher Affiliate (805)893-3350 North Hall 2216 bharthor@omni.ucsb.edu Associate Director, Institute for Social, Behavioral & Economic Research; Director, Social Science Research Development Office
Maria Herrera-Sobek PhD UCLA. Luis Leal Endowed Chair in Chicano Studies. Literature, gender, cultural studies, oral tradition.	Professor Luis Leal Endowed Chair (805)893-3601 sobek@chicst.ucsb.edu Chicano Studies
Jonathan X. Inda PhD UC Berkeley. Globalization, migrant and diasporic cultures, culture and the body, nations and nationalism, critical theories of violence.	Associate Professor (805)893-5712 South Hall 1709 inda@chicst.ucsb.edu Chicano Studies
Guisela Latorre PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain. Chicana/o and Latin American art history, Chicana creative expressions, and Latina/o public art.	Assistant Professor (805)893-5710 South Hall 1724 latorre@chicst.ucsb.edu Chicano Studies
Suzanne Jill Levine PhD New York University. Latin American literature, comparative literature, literary translation.	Professor (805)893-3983 Phelps 4331 sjlevine@spanport.ucsb.edu Spanish and Portuguese
Francisco Lomelí PhD University of New Mexico. Chicano Literature, literary history, cultural studies, border studies, language.	Professor (805)893-5715, (805)893-2654 South Hall 1703, Phelps 4218 lomeli@spanport.ucsb.edu Chicano Studies Spanish and Portuguese
Fernando López-Alves PhD UCLA. Comparative politics, Latin America , political economy, Southern Cone	Professor (805)893-3248 Ellison Hall 3721 lopez-al@polsci.ucsb.edu Political Science
Christopher McAuley PhD University of Michigan. Political economy. World systems theory, Black intellectual history, Latin American and Caribbean political economy, economic history of the Americas.	Associate Professor (805)893-5511 South Hall 3716 mcauley@blackstudies.ucsb.edu Black Studies
Ellen McCracken PhD UC San Diego. Comparative literature and U.S. Latino literature, literary theory.	Professor (805)893-3856 Phelps Hall 4216 emccr@spanport.ucsb.edu\| Spanish and Portuguese
Timothy McGovern PhD UCLA. 19th century Spanish and Portuguese literature; queer studies; Mexican literature; second language acquisition.	Associate Professor (805)893-3210 Phelps 4313 mcgovern@spanport.ucsb.edu Spanish and Portuguese
Cecilia Méndez G. PhD State University of New York at Stony Brook. Andean history, state formation, national identities.	Associate Professor (805)893-3974 HSSB 4227 mendez@history.ucsb.edu History
Viola Miglio PhD University of Maryland. Phonology, language change, Romance languages.	Assistant Professor (805)893-7423 Phelps 4328 miglio@spanport.ucsb.edu Spanish and Portuguese
Carlos Morton PhD University of Texas, Austin. Drama, playwriting Studies.	Professor Director, Center of Chicano (805) 893-2226 carlos.morton@chicano.ucsb.edu Dramatic Art and Dance
Mary O'Connor PhD Anthropology UCSB 1980. Globalization, migration, and religious change; religion, symbolic analysis and ethnic identity in Mexico and the U.S.; ethnic minorities; ethnology of Latin America.	Researcher Affiliate (805)893-4810 North Hall 1015 moconnor@isber.ucsb.edu Associate Research Anthropologist, Institute for Social, Behavioral & Economic Research
Elide Oliver PhD University of São Paulo. Brazilian narrative and poetry, comparative literature, Portuguese literature, literary theory.	Assistant Professor (805)893-6147 Phelps 4217 elideoliver@spanport.ucsb.edu Spanish and Portuguese
Juan-Vicente Palerm PhD Universidad Iberoamericana. Peasant studies, development, Mexico.	Professor (805)893-8449 HSSB 2080 palerm@anth.ucsb.edu Anthropology
Jeanette Favrot Peterson PhD UCLA. Pre-Columbian and colonial art, Virgin of Guadalupe.	Associate Professor (805)893-7578 Arts 1147 jeanette@arthistory.ucsb.edu Art History
Giorgio Perissinotto PhD Columbia University. Hispanic linguistics, medieval literature, cultural history of the Hispanic world.	Professor (805)893-2851 Phelps 4329 giorgio@spanport.ucsb.edu Spanish and Portuguese
Sarah Poot-Herrera PhD El Colegio de México. Mexican and Spanish American literature, literary theory, Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz.	Professor (805)893-4054 Phelps 4317 spooth@spanport.ucsb.edu Spanish and Portuguese
Jason Duque Raley PhD Stanford. Culture, learning, social interaction, writing and literacy. Teacher learning networks and communities; qualitative research methods.	Assistant Professor (805)893-5367 Phelps 2330 raley@education.ucsb.edu Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Eduardo Raposo Doutoramento University of Lisbon. Spanish and Portuguese linguistics, comparative Romance grammar, syntax and semantics, generative grammar.	Professor (805)893-2798 Phelps 4333, 4206 Spanish and Portuguese
Dwight Fletcher Reynolds PhD University of Pennsylvania. Islamic Studies, Spain. Oral tradition, music, religion.	Professor (805) 893-7136 HSSB 3056 dreynold@religion.ucsb.edu Religious Studies
William I. Robinson PhD University of New Mexico. Globalization, development, political economy, macrosociology, political sociology, Latin America.	Professor (805)893-5607 Ellison 2706 wirobins@soc.ucsb.edu Sociology
David P. Rock PhD Cambridge University. Latin American and Argentine history.	Professor (805)893-3662 HSSB 4260 rock@history.ucsb.edu History
Laura Romo PhD UCLA. Social, cultural, and cognitive influences on health education, adolescent sexuality, and women's reproductive health.	Assistant Professor (805)893-3081 Phelps 1333 lromo@education.ucsb.edu Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Horacio Roque Ramírez PhD UC Berkeley. Queer/LGBT community history, Central American studies, oral history theories and methods, popular cultures, creative writing and narrative.	Assistant Professor (805)893-5710 South Hall 1724 roqueramirez@chicst.ucsb.edu Chicana and Chicano Studies
Chela Sandoval PhD UC Santa Cruz. Cyber and millennial studies, third space feminism, critical media theory and production, oppositional consciousness and social movement.	Associate Professor (805)893-3363 South Hall 1702 sandoval@chicst.ucsb.edu Chicano Studies
Katharina Schreiber PhD Binghamton University. Archeology of Andean South American and southwestern United States , origin and development of complex societies, empire expansion, settlement patterns.	Professor (805)893-4291 HSSB 1025 kschreiber@anth.ucsb.edu Anthropology
Denise Segura PhD Berkeley. Chicana/o Studies, feminist studies, gender, family, work, race-ethnic relations.	Professor (805)893-4761 Ellison Hall 2716 segura@soc.ucsb.edu Sociology
Harvey L. Sharrer. PhD UCLA. Medieval Spanish and Portuguese literatures, Catalan language and culture, comparative medieval literature.	Professor (805)893-8378 Phelps 4315 sharrer@spanport.ucsb.edu Spanish and Portuguese
Gabriela Soto Laveaga PhD UC San Diego. Mexico, peasant studies, history of science, modern political history.	Assistant Professor (805)893-4304 HSSB 4219 gsotolaveaga@history.ucsb.edu History
Susan Stonich PhD University of Kentucky. Political ecology, ecological anthropology, Appalachia, Latin America, Asia.	Professor (805)893-8627, (805)893-4505 HSSB 2028, Girvetz 2318 stonich@anth.ucsb.edu Anthropology Environmental Studies
Roberto Strongman PhD UC San Diego. Caribbean Literature and Cultural Studies; Afro-Hispanic Studies; Yoruba and Congo Religious traditions in the Americas; Santeria and Palo Monte; Queer Studies.	893-4039 South Hall 3703 rstrongman@blackstudies.ucsb.edu Black Studies
Inés M. Talamántez PhD UC San Diego. Chicano/Mexican cultures, Native American religious traditions and philosophies.	Associate Professor (805)893-4326, (805)893-8807 HSSB 3069, South Hall 1718 talamant@religion.ucsb.edu Religious Studies Chicano Studies
Zaragoza Vargas PhD University of Michigan. U.S. labor history; Chicano/a studies.	Professor (805)893-8745 HSSB 4254 vargas@history.ucsb.edu History
Cristina Venegas PhD University of Southern California. Latin American and Latino media, international cinema, media and digital technologies.	Assistant Professor (805)893-4511 Ellison 1805 venegas@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu Film Studies
Howard Winant PhD UC Santa Cruz. Race and racism, political sociology, comparative/historical sociology, social theory.	Professor (805)893-7465 Ellison 2815 hwinant@soc.ucsb.edu Sociology