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Faculty with teaching and research interests in Latina/o Studies, 2009-2010
Ana Aparicio, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Latina/o Studies. Dr. Aparicio is a cultural anthropologist concerned with the ways in which people navigate, contest, and transform systems of social and racial inequality. Her books include: Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment (2006) and Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the Poverty of Policy (2004), co-edited with Philip Kretsedemas.
Elisa Baena, lecturer, Spanish, earned her PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from UIC. Her dissertation was titled, A Pragmatic Study of Irony in Context. Since then she has taught language courses at NU. Her research interests in the Linguistics field include Pragmatics with an emphasis on figurative language uses, Sociolinguistics and Syntax. In the Social Anthropology field her studies include US and Spanish immigration, the femicides in Ciudad Juarez, and the social effects of globalization in Mexico.
Geraldo Cadava, Assistant Professor, History, works on cultural symbolism in the U.S. Southwestern Borderlands, and on cultural, social, economic, and political inter-connections with northern Mexico.
Hector Carrillo, Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies. His areas of specialization are Latino culture and ethnicity, sexuality, migration, and health. He currently investigates the intersections of sexuality, migration, and heath among Mexican gay and bisexual men who have relocated to California.
Heather Colburn, Senior Lecturer, Acting Director of the Spanish Language Program, Spanish. Since writing her dissertation--an analysis of ritual as satire in Ramón del Valle-Inclán and Miguel Angel Asturias-- Dr. Colburn has been interested in the similarities between seemingly different cultures, as well as the ways in which cultures interact and affect one another. She has taught courses on notions of identity and the role of the artist, focusing primarily on Latino/a literature and art. She has also served as faculty adviser to a student-organized seminar on bilingual education and NCLB in Chicago Public Schools.
John Alba Cutler, Assistant Professor, English. Dr. Cutler works on Latina/o literature, with Chicano masculinity in the U.S. in the twentieth century one of his focuses.
Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, Assistant Professor, Political Science Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Her work focuses on campaigns and elections underpinned by the intersection of political psychology and race and ethnic politics. DeFrancesco Soto is currently examining how Latinos evaluate co-ethnic candidates. In particular, she considers how different dimensions of Latino group identity influence the ultimate evaluation of a co-ethnic candidate. She has also published several papers on inter-minority relations, with an emphasis on the negotiation of race relations in the new South as a result of the growth of Latinos in that region.
Micaela Diaz-Sanchez, Mellon Postdoctoratal Fellow, Latina and Latino Studies.
Jaime Dominguez, Lecturer, Political Science. His research interests include race and ethnicity, urban and Latino and minority politics. He is one of the principal architect’s of the Chicago Democracy Project (CDP), a thirty-year (1975-2005) online political database that provides citizens, community groups, and religious organizations with information on campaign finance, electoral outcomes, government contracts, minority appointments and levels of public employment for the City of Chicago.
Henry GodinezAssociate Professor, Theater. Artistic Director of the Theater and Interpretation Center, School of Communication. He is a director, and the director of the biennial Latino theatre festival at the Goodman Theater.
Nancy MacLean, Professor of History and African American Studies; Interim Director Latina/o Studies. She studies the workings of class, gender, race, and region in twentieth-century social movements and public policy. Her most recent book is Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace.
Emily Maguire, Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese. Dr. Maguire has broad preparation in Latino and Caribbean literature, as well as Latin American and Spanish literature more generally. Her current work examines the overlap between literature and ethnography in Cuba.
John Márquez, Assistant Professor, African American Studies and Latina/o Studies. Dr. Márquez is interested in black-Latina/o relations, Afro-Latina America, racial violence, anti-racist activism, critical race theory, and globalization.
Ana Puga, Assistant Professor, Theater. Dr. Puga specializes in contemporary Latino and Latin American literature, especially relating to dramaturgy, translation, and performance. She has published translations of plays of Chilean playwright Juan Radrigan called Finished from the Start and Other Plays (2007). Dr. Puga also writes on plays about dictatorship in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. She recently published book, Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater: Upstaging Dictatorship (2008) from Routledge Press.
Angelica Rivera, Adjunct Lecturer, Latina and Latino Studies.
Ramón Rivera-Servera, Assistant Professor, Performance Studies. His research and teaching focus on contemporary Latina/o American public cultures with special emphasis on the ways categories of race, gender and sexuality are negotiated in the process of migration. On leave 2008-09.
Mónica Russel y Rodríguez, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology; Associate Dean of WCAS. Dr. Russel y Rodríguez is a cultural anthropologist interested in race and mestizaje, modes of resistance to social inequality, and Chicana/Latina feminist theory. Most recently published work is, “Accounting for MeXicana feminisms” (2008), American Ethnologist. Outside of academe, she is on the educational task force of the Catholic Coalition for Immigration Reform and is a board member of Teatro Luna.
Joel Valentin-Martinez, Senior Lecturer, Dance/Theater. His choreographed work "Tlatelolco Revisited" recently premiered with Luna Negra Dance Theater. He he is currently restaging Nora Chipaumire’s Groundswell.
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