Con su pluma en su mano con paciencia y sin temor, escribió muchas verdades y respeto nos ganó --Tish Hinojosa, Frontejas

The following is an informal directory of Chicana/Latina academics who teach and work on some form of Chicana Studies*.  This directory is dependent on YOU--please let me know... if you should be included, or if someone you know should be included.  Information updates are also appreciated, because the field changes so rapidly.  Please write or use this form!

English / Humanities

Norma Alarcon, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley.  Founder of Third Woman Press, Chicana feminist literary theorist, Recent publications include "The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism," in Criticism in the Borderlands; "Traddutora, Traditora: A Paradigmatic Figure of Chicana Feminism" in Cultural Critique (1989); Chicana Critical Issues (ed. Norma Cantu for Third Woman Press, 1993) and The Sexuality of Latinas with Ana Castillo and Cherrie Moraga.

Frances Aparicio.  Latin American & Latino Studies/, University of Illinois at Chicago. U.S. Latino/a literatures and cultures; cultural studies in Latin/o America; popular music; language and cultural identity; literary translation; teaching Spanish to heritage language learners. Recent pubs include Listening to Salsa:  Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures (Hanover, NH:  Wesleyan Press/University Press of New England, 1998).

Maria Pilar Aquino, University of San Diego.  Liberation Theologies, Christian Ethics & Social Justice, Catholic Social Thought, Catholic Theology, and Feminist Theologies.  Associate director of USD's Center for the Study of Latino/a Catholicism.  Recent publications include Feminist Intercultural Theology, ed. with Maria J. Rosado Nunes. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2007); “The Dynamics of Globalization and the University” in Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, ed. Fernando F. Segovia (Maryknoll , NY: Orbis Books, 2003); and “La Humanidad Peregrina Viviente: Migración y Experiencia Religiosa,” in Migration, Religious Experience, and Globalization , ed. Campese and Ciallella (Staten Island, NY: Center for Migration Studies, 2003). Also see her webpage on Christian Social Justice

Alicia Arrizon, Ethnic Studies / Spanish & Portugese, UC Riverside.  Contemporary Latin-American Literature and Culture; Chicano/Chicana Literature and Culture, gender and sexuality. 

Mary Beltrán, Chicana/o Studies and Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Film and media studies; cultural studies; Latino/a studies; racial representation in U.S. film, television and production; media activism. Recent publications include “Dolores Del Rio, the First ‘Latino Invasion,’ and Hollywood’s Transition to Sound,” (forthcoming in Aztlán, Spring 2005) and “Más Macha: The New Latina Action Hero,” in Action and Adventure Cinema (Routledge, 2004). 9/04

Maylei Blackwell, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA. Chicana Feminisms, LatAm Feminisms, Women of Color, Globalization, Transnational Organizing, Cultural Studies, Visual Culture, Oral History. Recent publications include "Contested Histories: las Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, Chicana Feminisms and Print Culture" in Chicana Feminisms, eds. Arredondo, et al; "Encountering Latin American and Carribean Feminisms" with Sonia Alvarez et al, in Signs 28:2 (2002); and Time to Rise: Issues and Strategies of U.S. Women of Color, co-edited for the Women of Color Resource Center (Oakland, California). 8/04

Mary Pat Brady, English, Cornell University.  U.S. Latino and Latina literatures and cultures, cultural studies, American multi-ethnic literatures, gender & sexuality, cultural geographies.  8/04

Luz Calvo, Ethnic Studies, California State University, Eastbay.  Latino/a cultural studies, critical race theory, visual culture, history of race/racialization in the U.S., and sexuality studies.  Recent publications include “Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma Lopez.” Meridians 5:1 (2004); “Embodied at the Shrine of Cultural Disjuncture,” in Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation, eds. Angela Y. Davis and Neferti X. Tadiar (NY: Palgrave Press, 2005); and "'Lemme Stay, I Want to Watch': Ambivalence in Borderlands Cinema," Latina/o Popular Culture (NYU Press, 2002).

Alicia Schmidt Camacho, American Studies, Yale University. Globalization, Feminist Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Ethnic Studies.

Cordelia Chavez Candelaria, Transborder Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies, English, Arizona State University. Publications include Seeking the Perfect Game: Baseball in American Literature (Greenwood Press, 1989), and her poetry in Arroyos to the Heart (Lalo Press, 1993), and many, many articles and edited chapters including “La Malinche, Feminist Prototype” reprinted in Frontiers Classic Edition: Chicana Studies Reader (U Nebraska Press, 2002) and “Engendering Re/Solutions: The (Feminist) Legacy of Estela Portillo Trambley” in Aldama & Quiñonez, Decolonial Voices: Chicana/o Cultural Studies in the 21st Century (Indiana U Press, 2002); and “Letting La Llorona Go, or Rereading History's ‘Tender Mercies,”' Heresies 27 (1993).

Norma Cantú, English, UT San Antonio.  Chicana & Chicano literature, Borderlands culture, the quinceañera, gender.  Publications include Soldiers of the Cross: Los matachines de la Santa Cruz (Texas A&M Univ Press, 2005), Entre Malinche y Guadalupe: Tejanas in Literature and Art, with Inés Hernández Ávila (Univ Texas Press, forthcoming), Chicana Traditions: Continuity & Change with Olga Najera Ramírez (Univ of Illinois, 2002), Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios with the Latina Feminst Group (Duke Univ Press, 2001), Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (Houghton-Mifflin, 2000), as well as numerous works of fiction.

Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Rhetoric, University of Iowa. Third world feminisms, Whiteness/Antiracism studies, Critical pedagogy, and the Politics of spirituality & justice. 8/04

Marivel Danielson, Chicana & Chicano Studies, Arizona State University. Chicana & Latina literature, sexuality, gender, performance, race/border/diaspora theory. Publications include "Walking Outside the Lines: Marga Gomez's jaywalker and the Problematization of Marginality," Ollantay Theater Magazine (forthcoming) and "Monica Palacios Celebrating 20 Years as a Queer Performer" (Lesbian News, Sept 2002).

Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, Chicana Studies, UC Davis.  Chicana/o cultural studies, transnational cultural studies networks, critical literacy, global multiculturalism.Recent publications include the Chicana/o Cultural Studies Reader (Routledge, 2006). 

Susana Chavez-Silverman, Spanish, Pomona College

Dora Luz Cobian, Foreign Languages, Women's Studies, Chicano Studies, Colorado State University, Pueblo.  La Chicana, Third World Feminisms, ethnicity and dance, ethnic literature.

Sheila Contreras, Professional Writing Department, Michigan State University.

Maria Cotera, American Culture-Latina/o Studies and Women's Studies, University of Michigan. Latina/o Studies, U.S. Third World feminist thought, American modernism, cultural anthropology, race and gender, 20th century racial formations. Publications include "Engendering a 'Dialectics of Our America:' Jovita Gonzalez' Pluralist Dialogue as Feminist Testimonio," in Las Obreras (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2000); ‘All My Relatives Are Noble’: Recovering the Feminine in Waterlily” in American Indian Quarterly (Fall 2004); and “Jovita González and the Legacy of Borderlands Feminism” in Latina Legacies (Oxford Press, 2004).

Theresa Delgadillo, English, University of Notre Dame. Chicana Studies, American Literature, and Media/Film Studies. Publications include "Forms of Chicana Feminist Resistance: Hybrid Spirituality in Ana Castillo's So Far From God," "Norman Mailer's Mexican: Enabler of the White Man's Quest in 'The Naked and the Dead,'" and "Exiles, Migrants, Settlers, and Natives: Literary Representations of Chicano/as and Mexicans in the Midwest." Currently working on a book manuscript, Hybrid Spiritualities: Resistance and Religious Faith in Contemporary Chicana/o Narrative. Read more about Dr. Delgadillo in this 2000 profile.

Dionne Espinoza, Chicana/o Studies, California State University, Los Angeles.   Chicana feminisms, gender, race, ethnicity, postcolonial theory; social movements; oral history, testimonial and autobiography; comparative women of color feminisms; culture and gender in social movements; coalition politics; youth culture.  Research areas include Chicana Brown Berets in East Los Angeles (oral history); Chicana vocalists and participants in Eastside youth culture; and Chicana socialist activism.  Currently working on a book manuscript on the "dynamics of sexism and cultural nationalism as well as how Chicanas claimed agency and organized within the movimiento." Publications include Other Sisterhoods: Women of Color and Literary Theory, ed. Sandra K. Stanley, U of Illinois P, 1998, and a review of Alma Garcia's Chicana Feminist Thought..

Susana L. Gallardo, Women's Studies & Social Science. San Jose State University. Chicana/o & Latina/o Religious Traditions, American Religions, Chicana Feminism, Cultural Studies.

Maria Alicia Garza, Modern Languages & Literature, Boise State University. Chicana Literature, Gender Studies, Environmental Issues. 8/04

Leticia Garza-Falcon, English / Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Denver.  Publications include Gente Decente: A Borderlands Response to the Rhetoric of Dominance (UT Press, 1998) and Andalusian Poems (Godine, 1994).

Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA. Chicano/a Art, popular culture, border studies, gender & sexuality, writing.  Publications include  Sor Juana’s Second Dream:  A Novel (U of New Mexico Press, 1999), Chicano Art Inside/Outside The Master's House,  The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories.  11/07

Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies, Oregon State University.  Erlinda serves as chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies. Her PhD is from the University of New Mexico in Spanish, and she returned to that department for much of her career, attaining the rank of Professor and serving as department chair. She has published widely on Chicano/a literature and especially the literature of New Mexico. She is also a novelist and poet. Among her current interests are a Chicano/a literary history, work with Recovering the U S Hispanic Literary Heritage, a document recovery project. She has recently completed a translation of her novel, Paletitas de Guayaba, into English, and has submitted a collection of stories called Rosebud to a university press.

Maria C. Gonzalez, English, University of Houston.  Mexican-American Literature, Feminist Theory.  Most recent publication: Contemporary Mexican-American Women Novelists: A Feminist Identity (Peter Lang, 1996). 

Michelle A. Gonzalez, Religious Studies, Miami University. Latin American, Latino/a, and African-American religiosity, feminist theology, theological anthropology, and theological method. Publications include Sor Juana: Beauty and Justice in the Americas (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2003); Afro-Cuban Theology: Religion, Race, Culture, and Identity (Gainesville: Florida, 2006); and Created in God's Image: An Introduction to Feminist Theological Anthropology (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2007).

Camille Guerin-Gonzalez, Chicana/o Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison. Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, comparative working-class cultures, comparative race and nationalisms, immigration and diaspora, comparative working class women's history

Nicole Guidotti Hernandez, Women’s Studies / English, University of Arizona. US Third World Feminism, Critical race theory, Chicana/o & Latina/o Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, American Studies. Recent publications include "Reading Violence, Making Chicana Subjectivities," in Techno/futuros: Genealogies, Power, Desire (2007), eds. Nancy Mirabal and Agustin Lao-Montes, and "Dora the Explorer, Constructing 'Latinidades' and the Politics of Global Citizenship" in Latino Studies (Summer 2007). 11/07

Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Languages & Literature, Seattle University. Chicana/o literature, Mexican/Chicana relations, Mexican Lit, Cultural Studies, Women's Studies. Gabriella's work includes a book of poetry, A Most Improbable Life (Finishing Line Press, 2003), and a series of articles in the National Catholic Reporter. Personal site here 8/04

Michelle Habell-Pallan, Ethnic Studies, University of Washington.  Globalization of Chicana/o and Latina/o border writing, performance culture, popular culture and gender; Chicana cultural politics; women of color feminist theories and writing; critical theories of gender, class, and race/ethnicity. Latest publication is "'Soy Punkera, Y Que?' Sexuality, Translocality, and Punk in Los Angeles & Beyond" in Rocking' Las Americas (Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 2004). 8/04

Maria Herrera Sobek, Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara.  Mexican & Chicana/o literature, border studies, the corrido, gender, cultural theory.  Publications include: The Bracero Experience: Elite Lore versus Folklore; Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song;  and The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis.  She has edited several volumes including: Chicana Creativity and Criticism; Culture Across Borders; Mexican Immigration and Popular Culture; Chicana Writers on Word and Film; Saga de Mexico; and Reconstructing a Hispanic/Chicano Literary Heritage.  Currently  working on an anthology on narco-corridos and a book on contemporary critical theories and corridos. 

Consuelo Lopez Springfield, Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Latina & Caribbean Studies, Puerto Rican Studies, feminist studies, rhetoric & literature, Popular Culture. Publications include Daughters of Caliban: 20th Century Caribbean Women (Indiana UP, 1997). Currently serving as Assistant Dean of College of Letters & Science, UWM.

Theresa Melendez, English / Chicana/o Studies, Michigan State University at E. Lansing.  Chicana/o Literature, Mexican Folklore, Medieval Literature.

Luz Mena, Women & Gender Studies, UC Davis.  Cultural geography, Latin American history, ethnic studies, colonial relations.

Paula Moya, English, Stanford University.  20th-Century American fiction, Chicana/o cultural studies, feminist theory, writings by women of color, U.S. Latino literature.  Most recent publication: Postmodernism, 'Realism,' and the Politics of Identity: Cherrie Moraga and Chicana Feminism"  inFeminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures, ed. by M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. 

Laura E. Perez, Ethnic Studies / Spanish, UC Berkeley.  Contemporary U.S. Latina and Latin American women's writing; Chicana/o literature and visual arts; and contemporary cultural theory.  Recent publications include: Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities (Duke U Press 2007); "Reconfiguring Nation and Identity: U.S. Latin and Latin American Women's Oppositional Writings," "Reflections and Confessions on the 'Minority' and Post-Colonial Immigrant ID Tour," "For Love and Theory:  An Ofrenda," and "El desorden, Nationalism, and Chicana/o Aesthetics."

Annette Angela Portillo, American Studies, Mount Holyoke College. Chicana/o Studies, Native American literatures, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Oral History. Dissertation titled "Outlaw Genres: Reconceptualizing Life Stories by Chicanas and Native American Women" (2004)

Catherine Ramirez, American Studies, UC Santa Cruz.  Chicana & U.S. Latino literature, culture, and history; gender studies and feminist theory; cultural studies; urban youth cultures; science, technology, and race.  Publications include The Lady Zoot Suiter: The Pachuca and the Rearticulation of Race, Class, Gender & the Nation (forthcoming, Duke Univ Press) and "Deus ex machina: Tradition, Technology, and the Chicanafuturist Art of Marion C. Martinez" (forthcoming in Aztlan) 8/04

Dora Ramirez-Dhoore, English, Boise State University. Chicana/o Literature; Race, Gender, & Technology. Publications include "Cyberspace Xican@isma: Technology, Satire and Writing" in
Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, ed. Robert Brooke (2003). 8/04

Tey Diana Rebolledo, Spanish, University of New Mexico. Chicana/o literature, feminist theory.  Publications include Women Singing in the Snow (University of Arizona, 1995) and Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (1993) with Eliana S. Rivero.  Read more about Infinite Divisions here...  8/04

Anita Tijerina Revilla, Women's Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Chicana/Latina Feminist and Queer Studies, Latina/o Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, and Education. Recent publications include: “Raza Womyn Engaged in Love and Revolution: Chicana Student Activists Creating Safe Spaces” Cleveland Marshall State Law Review; “Muxerista Pedagogy: Raza Womyn Teaching Social Justice through Activism,” The High School Journal 87:4 (2004); and “Inmensa Fe en le Victoria: Social Justice through Education,” Frontiers 24:2-3 (2003).

Eliana Rivero, Spanish, University of Arizona. Latin American Literature.  Publications include Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (1993) with Eliana S. Rivero.  Read more about Infinite Divisions here...  8/04

Jeanette Rodriguez, Theology/Religious Studies, Seattle University.  Religion & culture, religion & social conflict, theologies of liberation, US Hispanic theology, Feminist theology, cultural memory, Christology, theology of inculturation.  Publications include Stories We Live/Cuentos que Vivimos (Paulist Press, 1996) and Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith & Empowerment Among Mexican American Women (UT Press, 1994) and the co-edited collection, A Reader in U.S./Latina Feminist Theology (UT Press, 2002). 8/04

Juana María Rodríguez, Women & Gender Studies, UC Davis??.  Latina/o Literatures and Cultures, Queer Theory, Media Arts, Critical Legal Theory.  Her first book is Queer Latinidad, Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces (NYU Press, 2003) and she is currently working on a new project involving Queer Latin@ creative representation.

Catriona Rueda Esquibel, Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University. Women of Color in the US, Latina Feminisms, Chicana/o Cultural Studies, Mythic Mexican Mothers, Romance and Sexuality, and Race and Gender in Science Fiction.  Recent publications include With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians (University of Texas Press, 2006); “Aztec Princess Still at Large,” Beyond the Frame,  eds. Angela Y. Davis and Neferti Tadiar (NY: Palgrave (2005) and “Shameless Histories: Chicana Lesbian Fictions Talking Race/Talking Sex.” Tortilleras, eds. Lourdes Torres and Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.

Maria Josefina Saldana, English / Ethnic Studies, Brown University

Sonia Saldivar Hull, English, UT San Antonio.  Chicana feminisms, border feminisms, geopolitics, Chicana subjectivity.  Publications include her newest book, Feminism on the Border: Chicana Politics and Literature (University of California, 2000), and numerous articles and introductory essays on Chicana literature, feminism, and the cultural intersections of borderland studies. Her works in progress include Between My Art and Activism: Chicana Fronterista Cultural Terrains and Memorias Fronterizas: Memoirs of a Chicana Feminist.

Elva Salinas, English, San Diego City College.  Chicana/o Literature, Composition.

Marta Sanchez, Chicana/o, Latin American and U.S. Ethnic Literature, UC San Diego.  Chicana Literature, Race and Gender Theory.  Recent publications include "Arturo Islas' The Rain God: An Alternative Tradition," American Literature (June 1990), and "La Malinche at the Intersection: Race and Gender in Down These Mean Streets," PMLA (January 1998).

Rosaura Sanchez, Latin American and Chicana/o Literature, UC San Diego.  Critical Theory; Cultural Studies, Third World Studies, Gender Studies.  Publications include Chicano Discourse. A Socio-Historic Perspective (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1994), and Telling Identities:The Californio Testimonios (University of Minnesota Press, 1995).

Anna Sandoval, Chicano & Latino Studies, Cal State Long Beach.  Feminisms of the Américas, Chicano Thought.  Recent publications include "Forming Feminist Coalitions: The Internationalist Agenda of Helena Marta Viramontes" in Chicana Literary and Artistic Expressions (2000), and "Building Up Our Resistance, Chicanas in Academia" in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (1999).

Chela Sandoval, Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara.  Critical and Cultural theory,  gender/sexuality, and cinema studies. 

Adaljiza Sosa Riddell, Chicana Studies, UC Davis emeritus. 

Sandra Soto, Women's Studies, University of Arizona.  Chicana literary studies, Chicana Studies, Queer Theory, US. Third World Feminism.

Ruby C. Tapia, Women's Studies, Ohio State University. Visual culture, critical race feminism, feminist media studies, technologies of race.

Eden E. Torres. Chicano Studies & Women's Studies, University of Minnesota. Chicana feminism, Chicana/o cultural studies, interdisciplinary theory and method, feminist pedagogy. Latest publications include Chicana Without Apology (Routledge, 2003); "Ella que tiene jefes y no los ve, se queda en cueros: Chicana Intellectuals (Re)Creating Revolution," in Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory and Practice (NYU, 2000) and "Maria Novaro's 'El jardin del eden': Symbolic Relationships on the Mexican Border," in the Cine Vestival Catalogue (Guadalupe Cultural Arts, 1999).

Gloria Velasquez, Spanish, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Helena Maria Viramontes, English / Creative Writing, Cornell University.  Publications include Under the Feet of Jesus. 

Arlene Sanchez Walsh, Religious Studies, Azusa Pacific University. Latino/a Religion, Transnational religion, Pentecostalism, religion and popular culture. Most recent publication is Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society (Columbia Univ Press, 2003).

Yvonne Yarbro Bejarano, Spanish & Portugese, Stanford University.  Chicana/o cultural studies with an emphasis on gender and queer theory; race and nation; Chicana/o literature; and representations of race, sexuality and gender in cultural production by Chicanas/os and Latinas/os.  Recent publications include The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherríe Moraga; Feminism and the Honor Plays of Lope de Vega (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1994); and Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation with McKenna & Griswold del Castillo (Los Angeles: Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, 1991).  Another project is the Chicana Art Database, which includes the work of twelve individual artists -- Mesa-Baines, Baca, Lopez,  Hernandez, Alicia, Montoya, Munoz, Valdez, Rodriguez, Alvarez, Carrasco and Aguilar -- as well as four major Chicana/o art exhibitions.  
 

History

Louise Ano Nuevo Kerr, History, U of Illinois.  Mexican-American/Latino History, Film and History, Urban and Community History.  Recent publications include "Chicanas in the Great Depression: Chicago as a Case Study" in Between Borders, and"Demographic and Institutional Frameworks for Hiring in the 1990's" in the Journal of Women's History.

Gabriela F. Arredondo, History / Latin American & Latina/o Studies, UC Santa Cruz. Comparative Latina and Latino histories, Chicana feminisms, critical race and ethnicity theories, U.S. im/migration social histories, Borderlands studies. Publications include Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity and Nation, 1916-1939 (Urbana: U of Illinois, 2007); "Navigating Ethno-Racial Currents, Mexicans in Chicago, 1919-1939," Journal of Urban History, 30:3 (2004); and "Cartographies of Americanisms: Possibilities For Transnational Identities, Chicago, 1916-1939, " in Geographies of Latinidad,  eds. García, Leger, and Valdívia, forthcoming; and Chicana Feminisms: Disruption in Dialogue with Hurtado, Klahn, Nájera-Ramírez, and Zavella, eds. (Durham: Duke, 2003).

Adriana Ayala, History & Ethnic Studies, National Hispanic University.

Raquel Casas, History, University of Nevada at Las Vegas.  Chicana/o History, Women's History, History of Southwest.  Publications include Married to a Daughter of the Land: Interethnic Marriages in California, 1820-1880 (University of Nevada, Las Vegas Press, 2007) and "Victoria Reid and the Politics of Identity" in Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community, eds. Ruiz & Korrol (Oxford Press, 2005)

Antonia Castaneda, History, St. Mary's University.  Chicana/o history, gender and sexuality,   Recent publications include an essay on bilingual subjectivity in Mapping Multiculturalisms (University of Minnesota, 1996) and "Sexual Violence in the Politics and Policies of Conquest: Amerindian Women and the Spanish Conquest of Alta California" in Building With Our Hands (UC Press, 1993).

Miroslava Chavez, Chicana Studies, UC Davis.  United States, Chicana/o, Women, and the American West. Publications include "'Pongo mi demanda': Challenging Patriarchy in Mexican Los Angeles," in Over the Edge: Remapping Western History (UC Press, 1998) and she is currently working on a book, Mexican Women and the American Conquest in Los Angeles, 1820s to 1880s.

Adelaida R. Del Castillo, History / Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University.  Editor of Between Borders: Essays on Mexicana/Chicana History, Floricanto Press, 1990), and with Rosa M. Martinez, Mexican Women in the United States:Struggles Past and Present (1980). 

Deena Gonzalez, Chicano Studies & American Cultures,  Loyola Marymount University.  Chicana history, feminist theory, gender and sexuality.  Latest publications include Refusing the Favor:  The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe (Oxford Press, 1999) and "La Tules of Image and Reality: Euro-American Attitudes and Legend Formation on a Spanish-Mexican Frontier" in Building With Our Hands (UC Press, 1993). 

Yolanda Chavez Leyva, History, University of Texas at El Paso.  Chicana/o History, Women's History, Border Studies, Tejana/o History, Latino Military History. Recent publications include "'I Go to Fight for Social Justice': Mexican Children as Revolutionaries in the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920," (Journal of Peace and Change, (October 1998), "Listening to the Silence" in Living Chicana Theory (Ed. Carla Trujillo, Third Woman Press, 1997), and "El Amparo de las Viudas; Widows and Land in Colonial New Mexico," Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West (Eds. Jameson & Armitage, Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1997).

Elena Gutierrez, Latin American/Latino Studies and Gender & Women's Studies, University of Illinois. Publications include Undivided Rights Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, with eds. Silliman, Fried, and Ross.  Elena's research on the involuntary sterilization of Mexican-origin women in Los Angeles in the 1970s illuminates the ways in which political, social and racial anxieties shaped the construction of the "problem" of Chicana fertility. Also previous work as an activist for women's health and reproductive issues, with the National Latina Health Organization.

Valerie Mendoza. Chicano/Latino history, US women's history, Spanish borderlands, Los Angeles, 20th century U.S. history. Currently working on a book entitled "Beyond the Border: Gender and Community in Mexican Kansas City, 1900-1940."

Nancy Raquel Mirabal, La Raza Studies, San Francisco State University.  Latina/o History, Oral History. 

Maria E. Montoya, History/Latino Studies, New York University. History of the American West and Southwest; U.S. History; Environmental history; Latino History. Publications include Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840 to 1920 (UC Press, 2002, pbk by UKansas Press, 2005); and “Creating an American Home:  Work, Gender and Space in Rockefeller’s Coal Towns,” in Mapping Memories: Latina Lives, eds. Ruiz and Chavez (Urbana: U Illinois Press, forthcoming).

Lorena Oropeza, History, UC Davis.  History of US Foreign Relations; Chicano History.  Recent publications include Raza Sí! ¡Guerra No!: Chicano Protest and Patriotism During the Viet Nam War Era (UC Press, 2005) and "Making History: The Chicano Movement" in Toward a New Chicana/o History (Michigan State U Press, 1998). 

Cynthia E. Orozco.  Chicana/Chicano history, Spanish and Mexican Borderlands, US West, Latina and Latino history, politics, and organizational history. A longtime advocate for Chicana Studies and founder of the Chicana Caucus of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS).  Her most recent work includes "Sexism in Chicano Studies" in Chicana Voices; "Getting Started in Chicana Studies," Women Studies Quarterly; "Beyond Machismo, Ladies Auxiliaries, and La Familia: Women's Voluntarist Politics, 1870-1990; Alice Dickerson Montemayor: Feminism and Politics in the 1930s" in Writing the Range; and 80 encyclopedic entries on Tejana and Tejano history in the New Handbook of Texas, including the overview of Mexican American women and Selena Quintanilla Perez. Forthcoming book is titled No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movementdetailing the rise of LULAC. 

Emma Perez, Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder.  Chicana/o history, Borderlands studies, women's history, oral history, the theory of writing on women in Texas.  Newest publication is The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (Indiana Univ Press, 1999), "Speaking from the Margin: Uninvited Discourse on Sexuality and Power," and a novel, Gulf Dreams.

Gina Marie Pitti, History, Arizona State University. Chicano history, Gender, Religious Studies

Naomi Helena Quiñonez, Independent Scholar. Chicana/o History, Chicana/o studies, creative writing. Recent publications include Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century with Arturo Aldama (Indiana Univ Press, 2002) as well as poetry collections The Smoking Mirror (West End Press, 1998), the co-edited Invocation L.A: Urban Multicultural Poetry (West End Press, 1989), Sueno de Colibiri/Hummingbird Dream (West End Press, 1985), and contributions to numerous anthologies and journals including Infinite Divisions, Mascaras and Under the Fifth Sun. 8/05

Vicki Ruiz, History and Chicano/Latino History, University of California at Irvine.  Chicana/o History, U.S. Women's History, Western History, Labor Studies, Gender and the U.S.-Mexico Border, Oral Narratives, and Immigration History.  One of the most prolific Chicana historians, her publications include From Out of the Shadows:  Mexican Women in Twentieth Century America (Oxford Press, 1997); Cannery Women, Cannery Lives; Mexican Women, Unionization, And The California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 (Univ of NM Press, 1987);  Unequal Sisters : A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (co-edited with Ellen Carol Dubois), and Women on the U.S.-Mexico Border : Responses to Change (co-edited with  Susan Tiano). 

Elizabeth Salas, American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington. New Mexican history and politics, Chicana Mexicana and Chicano history, and minorities in the military.  Publications include Soldaderas in the Mexican military : myth and history (UT Press, 1990). 

Felicity Shaeffer-Gabriel, Latin American & Latina/o Studies, UCSC (postdoc). 8/04

Mary Ann Villarreal, History / Ethnic Studies, University of Utah. Mexican American women and family businesses, oral histories, whiteness, politics of representation in cultural tourism. 

Social Sciences

Ana Maria Alonso, Anthropology, University of Arizona.  Gender, sexuality, transnational politics. 

Maxine Baca Zinn, Sociology, Michigan State University.  Latina families, intersection of race and gender. A veteran Chicana researcher, recent publications include Through The Prism of Difference: A Sex and Gender Reader with eds. Hondagneu-Sotelo and Messner (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997); Race, Class, and Gender: Common Bonds, Different Voices with eds. Ngan Ling-Chow, and Wilkinson (Sage Publications, 1996); and Women of Color in U.S. Society with Bonnie Thornton Dill, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994). Also see here

Edwina Barvosa-Carter, Political Science/Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara.  Social and political theory, including feminist theory, Chicana Feminisms and Chicano/Latino politics.  Current research on multiple identity (as theorized by Chicanas) and its implications for multicultural democracy.

Ruth Behar, Anthropology/Latino Studies/Women's Studies, University of Michigan.  Self-narratives, autobiographies and life histories of Latin American and Latina women; ethnicity and narrative in American personal ethnographies; Cuba and Cuban Americans; diaspora Jewish cultures; agrarian life; popular religion.  A 1988 MacArthur Fellow. 

Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez, Women's Studies, University of Arizona. Theater, cultural theory, gender and sexuality.  Most recent publication is El Teatro Campesino: Theater in the Chicano Movement (UT Press).  In 1996 she received the lifetime Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Association for Chicana/o Studies.  More on Yolanda 8/04

Bernadette Marie Calafell, Communication & Rhetorical Studies, Latino-Latin American Studies, Syracuse University. Chicana/o popular culture, rhetoric, performance, cultural studies, queer theory. Publications include "Disrupting the Dichotomy: 'Yo Soy Chicana/o?' in the New Latina/o South" in The Communication Review 7 (2004) and with F.P. Delgado, "Reading Latina/o Images: Interrogating Americanos" in Critical Studies in Media Communication 21 (2004). 12/04

Theresa Carrillo, La Raza Studies, San Francisco State University.  Latina/o and Mexican political economy, Latinas and labor organizing, immigration, Latina/o politics.  See courses here. Publications include Gendered Unions: The Rise and Demise of the Mexican Garment Workers Movement 1985-95 (Austin: University of Texas Press, forthcoming) and "Cross-Border Talk: Transnational Perspectives on Labor, Race and Sexuality," in CrossTalk: Issues in Multicultural Feminism (NY: The New Museum/MIT Press, in press).

Rosario Ceballo, Psychology, Latino Studies, University of Michigan.  Effects of poverty and community violence on family relationships and children's psychological well-being, with a special emphasis on African-American and Latino families; social networks and support systems; women's resiliency to stressful life events; coping with the effects of infertility among African American couples, and Latinos use of mental health services. 

Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, Chicana Studies, UC Davis 

Connie Coca, Chicano Studies, University of Wyoming. Chicana studies, Community Studies, Social Work.

Teresa Cordova, Chicana/o Studies; Community & Regional Planning, University of New Mexico. Community Planning Methods, Political Economy of Urban Development, Community Economics. Publications include "Agency, Commitment & Connection: Embracing the Roots of Chicana/o Studies," International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Ed 18:2 (2005); "Research, Pedagogy & Action," Latino Studies Journal 1 (2003); and Chicana Voices: Intersections of Class, Race & Gender, with Cantu, Cardenas, Garcia & Sierra (Austin: UT Press, 1986);

Gloria Cuadraz, American Studies, Arizona State University-West.  Sociology of Race & Gender, Chicana/os and Education, Qualitative Research Methods.  Publications include "Chicana/o Generations and the Horatio Alger Myth" in NEA Higher Education Journal 13:1 (1997)and "From Scholarship Girls to Scholarship Women:  Surviving the Contradictions of Race and Class in Academe," with Jennifer Pierce in Explorations in Ethnic Studies 17:1 (1994).

Julia Curry Rodriguez, Mexican-American Studies, San Jose State University.  Chicana/o Studies.

KarenMary Davalos, Chicana/o Studies and American Cultures, Loyola Marymount University. Diaspora/Mestizaje, Nationalism/Transnationalism, Feminist Anthropology and Feminist Theory. Recent publications include: Exhibiting Mestizaje: Mexican (American) Museums in the Diaspora (Univ of New Mexico, 2001), "In the Blink of an Eye: Chicana/o Art Collecting" in East of the River: Chicano Art Collectors (Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2000), "Performing Politics", in The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlan Scholarship 1970-2000 (2002).

Arlene Davila, Anthropology, Syracuse University.  Cultural politics, identity, representation, globalization, mass media, cultural citizenship. Most recent publications include Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos and the Neoliberal City (UC Press, 2004); Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People (UC Press, 2001); Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico (Temple U Press, 1997) and the article "Latinizing Culture: Art, Museums and the Politics of U.S. Multicultural Encompassment" in Cultural Anthropology 14:2 (1999).

Elizabeth De La Portilla, Anthropology / Education, Women's Studies, UT San Antonio. Curanderismo, identity, ritual healing, ethnobotany, theory of anthropology, medical anthropology.

Eileen Diaz McConnell, Transborder Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies, Arizona State University. Race & Ethnic Relations, Latina/o demography, Latin American migration, Latina/os in the Midwest. Recent publications include " The U.S. Destinations of Contemporary Mexican Immigrants," International Migration Review 42:3 (2008); "Through the Front Door: Housing Outcomes of New Lawful Immigrants," with Ilana Redstone Akresh, International Migration Review 41: 4, (2007); and “Buying Into the American Dream? Mexican Immigrants, Legal Status, and Homeownership in Los Angeles County,” with Enrico A. Marcelli, Social Science Quarterly 88:1 (2007). 11/07

Elisa Facio, Sociology & Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder.  Chicana aging, Chicana/o families.  Most recent publications include "The Queering of Chicana Studies: Philosophy, Text and Image," with Jun Xing and Lane R. Hirabayashi, in Reversing the Lens, Ethnicity, Race, Gender and Sexuality Through Film (University Press of Colorado, 2003); Understanding Older Chicanas: Sociological and Policy Perspective, (Sage, 1996) and "Ethnography as Personal Experience," in Race and Ethnicity in Social Research with Dennis & Stanfsfeld. 

Leticia Flores, Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University. Minority health care disparities, with specific emphasis in the area of pain evaluation, treatment and management, chronic pain management, medication compliance, identity issues. 

Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Latin American/Latino Studies, University of Illinois. Race and ethnicity, Identity, U.S. Latinos, ethnographic studies. Publications include her book School Kids, Street Kids: Identity and Development in Latino Students (Teaching College Press, 2002); the articles "The Racialization of Latinos" in Latino Studies Journal 10:3 (1999); and "The Structuring of Extracurricular Opportunities and Latino Student Retention" in Journal of Poverty 4:1/2 (2000).

Ivette Flores-Ortiz, Chicana Studies, UC Davis

Rosa Linda Fregoso, Latin American & Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz.  Theories of representation, cinema and media, cultural studies, transnational feminist studies.  Author of Mexicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (UC Press, 2003 [text in pdf form here, 20MB]), and The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture (Univ Minnesota Press, 1993), and editor of The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films by Lourdes Portillo (U Texas Press, 2001 [text in pdf form here, 20MB]).  Here's Rosalinda's  review of Alison Anders' film, La Vida Loca, posted via UC Berkeley.* 

Maria Guadalupe (Lupe) Gallegos-Diaz, Sociology, Independent scholar.  Chicana/o History, Chicanas in the Nonprofit Sector, Leadership & Community Development; Philanthropy, Nonprofits & Fundraising.  Recent publications include "Multicultural Alliance Program" in the AFP Bulletin.  8/04

Alma Garcia, Sociology, Santa Clara University. Chicana/o Studies. Recent publication, Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings (Routledge, 1997) and Curriculum Resources in Chicano Studies, co-editor (Bilingual Press, 1989).

Maribel Garcia, Anthropology & Women's Studies, California State University, San Marcos.  Chicana/o Studies, Critical Race Studies, Feminist political theory, Cultural studies. 8/04

Velia Garcia, Anthropology & Raza Studies, San Francisco State University. Race and ethnicity, social inequality, crime and justice, social history, women. 12/04

Angela B. Ginorio, Women’s Studies & Psychology, University of Washington.  Women & Violence, Women & Science, Gendered Technologies.  Publications include "Transition to and from High School of Ethnic Minority Students" in Access Denied (Oxford Press, 2000) and "The Feminist and the Scientist" in Women's Studies Quarterly (2000).  Also directs the Rural Girls in Science Program. 8/04

Alberta Gloria, Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Counseling Psychology, Chicanos/Latinos in higher education, academic support issues, cultural congruity, counselor training for Chicano/Latino communities. Publications include "Apoyando estudiantes Chicanas: Therapeutic factors in Chicana college student support groups" (JSGW 1999) and "Counseling Latino university students: Psychosociocultural issues for consideration (JCD 2000).

S. Teri Gomez, Ethnic & Women's Studies, Cal State Polytechnic University, Pomona.  Chicana feminist theory, Political theory, Chicana/o Politics, U.S. Third World women feminisms.

Maria Dolores Gonzales, Spanish, University of New Mexico.  Sociolinguistics of the Southwest, language and gender, language attitudes, language use in mediation and conflict resolution.  Publications include Speaking Chicana: Voice, Power and Identity (University of Arizona Press, 1999) and Sometimes Spanish and Sometimes English (Routledge Press, 1995). 8/04

Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez, Sociology, UT Austin. Chicana/Latina Sexualities, Sexualities, Masculinities; Qualitative Methods, Chicano/Latino Men and Masculinities. Most recent publications are Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants and Their Sex Lives (UC Press, July 2005), "De Madres a Hijas: Gendered Lessons on Virginity Across Generations of Mexican Immigrant Women" in Gender and U.S. Migration (UC Press, 2004), and "Fathering Latina Sexualities: Mexican Men and the Virginity of their Daughters" in Journal of Marriage and Famil, 66: 1118-1130. (5/05)

Aida Hurtado, Psychology & Education, UC Santa Cruz.  Social identity, feminist theory, the social psychology of bilingualism, political consciousness, survey methodology.  Research Director of the "Latino Eligibility Task Force Study" analyzing Chicano/Latino education and issues of representation in California and the UC system.  Publications include Voicing Chicana Feminisms: Young Women Speak Out on Sexuality and Identity (NYU Press, 2003), The Color of Privilege : Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism (University of Michigan Press, 1996), and No Longer a Minority: Latinos and Social Policy in California with David E. Hayes-Bautista.

Francisca James Hernandez, Chicano Studies / Anthropology, Pima Community College, and Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley.  Border studies, literacy, education, bilingualism, transnationalism.  Her work examines the US-Mexico border as a social space of disruption in which the  monocultural and monolingual model of the nation-state, dominant in both the United States and Mexico, is challenged and transformed by a bilingual, multicultural and transnational community.  Francisca writes about Chicana/o literature, political economy, Chicanisma or Chicana feminism and she scribes an occasional poem.   Her most recent publication is a contribution to Overseas Research: A Practical Guide by Burnett & Cason (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1997). 

Maria de la Luz Ibarra, Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University. Urban anthropology, domestic labor, cultural poltics of aging and death. Publications include: "Mexican Immigrant Women and the New Domestic Labor," and "Creen Que No Tenemos Vidas: Mexicana Household Workers in Santa Barbara, California. Currently completing book entitled "Borrowed Lives: Mexicanas and the New Domestic Labor."

Ana María Juárez, Anthropology, Texas State University at San Marcos.  Race, gender, sexuality, feminist studies, and critical cultural studies.  Culture areas include Mayas, Greater Mexico, and Latin America; fieldwork among Caste War Mayas in Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico since 1990. Publications include "What Is the Right (White) Way to Be Sexual? Reconceptualizing Latina Sexuality" (Aztlán, 2003) and "Ongoing Struggles: Mayas and Immigrants in Tourist Era Tulum" in Journal of LatAm Anthropology 7:1 (2002), and "Ethics and Politics in the Making of Boystown: La Zona de Tolerancia" (SWT Bulletin, 2001).

Marta Lopez-Garza, Sociology / Chicana/o Studies, Cal State Northridge.  Race, gender, women's economic activity.  Forthcoming publication, Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy:  The Metamorphosis of Los Angeles (Stanord Press), edited with David Diaz, and "Toward a Reconceptualization of Women's Economic Activities" in Chicana Voices, ed. Teresa Cordova.

Lisa Magaña, Transborder Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies, Arizona State University. Chicano / Latino Politics and Policy, Immigration and Migration, Chicano Studies. Recent publications include Mexican Americans and the Politics of Diversity (Univ of Arizona Press, 2005), Straddling the Border: The Immigration Policy Process and Its Effect on the INS (University of Texas Press, 2005), “The Social Construction of Mexican and Cuban Immigrants by Politicians in Mainstream Newspapers” with Robert Short (Review of Policy Research 19:4 2002) and “Politics, Prejudice and Immigration” (Journal of Social Psychology 142:6), both with Robert Short. (8/05)

Jacqueline Martinez, Communication/Women's Studies, Arizona State University.  Chicana feminism, Phenomenology, Semiotics & Communication Theory, Human Science Methodology.  Most recent publications include "Racisms, heterosexisms, and identities: a semiotic phenomenology of self-understanding" (2003); Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) and "Speaking as a Chicana:  Tracing Cultural Heritage...," in Chicanas and Language:  Reflection, Reconstruction and Innovation (Tucson:  University of Arizona Press, 1999).

Lara Medina, Chicana/o studies / Religious Studies, Cal State Northridge.  Chicana history, Chicana religious practices, syncretism, gender and sexuality.  Most recent publication: "Los Espiritus Siguen Hablando: Chicana Spiritualities" in Living Chicana Theory, ed. Trujillo. 

Margarita Melville, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Marta Menchaca, Anthropology, UT Austin.  Social anthropology, ethnicity, gender, oral history, Chicano studies: US/Mexican culture, Latin America.  Most recent publication:  The Mexican Outsiders : A Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination in California (Univ of Texas Press, 1995). 

Isabel Miranda, Chicana/o Studies, Cal State Northridge

Marie ("Queta") Miranda, Bilingual/Bicultural Studies, UT San Antonio.

Juana Mora, Chicana/o Studies, Cal State Northridge

Olga Najera-Ramirez, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz. Mexican expressiive culture, transnational communities, cultural borderlands, identity formations, the politics of race, and the media. Most recent publication is Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change, co-edited with Norma E. Cantú, (University of Illinois, 2002). She also wrote, directed and produced a half-hour bilingual ethnographic documentary video entitled "La Charreada: Rodeo a la Mexicana" in collaboration with KTEH, San Jose Public Television Station

Josephine Mendez-Negrete, Sociology and Bilingual/Bicultural Studies, UT San Antonio. Chicana/Latino leadership, Urban Communities, Ethnic identity, Race, class, and gender, Feminist theory. Recent publications include Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed (San José, CA: Chusma House, 2002; reprinted Duke U Press, 2006); "Can a culturally informed after school curricula make a difference in teen pregnancy prevention? Preliminary evidence," with Saldaña & Vega, Families in Society (2006).

Margarita Nieto, Chicana/o Studies, Cal State Northridge.

Jacqueline Olvera, Sociology, Connecticut College. Race and Ethnicity, Poverty, Urban Inequality, and Organizations.

Vilma Ortiz, Sociology, UCLA.  Latina/o Sociology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Sex and Gender.  Publications include Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. (co-editor)

Amalia Pallares, Latin American/Latino Studies and Political Science, University of Illinois. Latin America, comparative politics, racial and ethnic politics, Latinos in the U.S.  Publications include Race, Nation and Class in the Andes: The Ecuadorian Indian Movement 1963-1994 (Univ of Oklahoma Press, forthcoming) and “Under the Shadows of Yaruquies" in Social Justice in Latin America, forthcoming.

Mary Pardo, Chicana/o Studies & Women's Studies, Cal State Northridge.  Chicana political activism, community studies.  Her most recent work is Mexican American Women Activists: Identity and Resistance in Two Los Angeles Communities (Temple Univ Press, 1998),  which  tells the stories of Chicanas from two Los Angeles neighborhoods and "how they transformed the everyday problems they confronted into political concerns. By placing these women's experiences at the center of her discussion of grassroots political activism, Mary Pardo illuminates the gender, race, and class character of community networking."

Milagros Peña, Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville. Women's Studies, Social Movements, Race and Ethnic Relations, Latinas and Latinos in the U.S., Sociology of Religion. Publications include Theologies and Liberation in Peru: The Role of Ideas in Social Movements, and "Latina Religious Practice: Analyzing Cultural Dimensions in Measures of Religiosity."

Beatriz Pesquera, Chicana Studies & Sociology, UC Davis.  Chicanas' employment, Chicana/o families, Chicana feminism, race, class and gender.  Recent publications include co-editing Building With Our Hands (UC Press, 1993). 

Ana Roca, Linguistics, Florida International University. Bilingualism and Spanish as a U.S. heritage language, Hispanic culture, images of women in film. Publications include co-edited Mi lengua: Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States (Georgetown Press, 2003) and edited Research on Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Issues and Challenges (Cascadilla Press, 2000).

Jacki Rodriguez, Psychology, Occidental College.  Social Psychology, Racial identity and political consciousness, Chicanos and Chicanas in contemporary american society. 

Manuela Romero, Sociology, UT El Paso, and Executive Director, Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation (WiscAMP). Work and Labor Markets, Stratification/Mobility, Organizations, Majority/minority relations.

Mary Romero, Chicana/o Studies/ Justice & Social Inquiry, Arizona State University.  Race Relations in the U.S.,  Latina/o and Chicana/o Studies in Sociology,  Gender, Race and Work, Social Stratification, Ethnography, Narrative and Qualitative Methods.  Recent publications include Latina/o Popular Culture with Michelle Habell-Pallan (NY: NYU Press, 2002); Maid in the U.S.A. (NY: Routledge, 1992) and Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. with Hondagneu-Sotelo & Ortiz (NY: Routledge, 1997)

Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, Chicana Studies, University of Arizona / Pima Community College.  Chicana/Mexicana history, immigration, human rights, border studies.  Currently writing a book on women who fled the Mexican Revolution to take refuge in Southeastern Arizona.  Active with Pueblo Por La Paz in Tucson, and the National Commission for Democracy in Mexico.  Also wrote "Oral History: Considerations and Problems for its Use in the History of Mexicanas in the United States" (Between Borders, Floricanto Press, 1990). 

Monica Russel y Rodriguez, Cultural Anthropology, Race & Mestizaje, Chicana Feminist Theory, U.S. Latino Communities.  Recent publications include “Mexicanas and Mongrels: Policies of Hybridity, Gender and Nation in the US-Mexican War,” Latino Studies Journal 11:3 (2000), "Confronting anthropology's silencing praxis: Speaking of/from a Chicana consciousness" in Qualitative Inquiry 4:1 (1998); and "(En)Countering Domestic Violence, Complicity, and Definitions of Chicana Womanhood" in Voces: A Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies 2:1 (1997).

Marta Sanchez, Chicana/o Studies & Sociology, Cal State Northridge

Déborah Berman Santana, Ethnic Studies, Mills College.  Latinos in the US; Latin America & the Caribbean; political ecology of colonialism, population, economic development, ethnicity, and the environment in California. Publications include Kicking off the Bootstraps:  Environment, Development, and Community Power in Puerto Rico as well as articles on sovereignty movements, indigenous and African heritage among Latinos, and the role of human diversity in global sustainability.

Denise Segura, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara.  Gender, feminist studies, Chicano studies, race relations, work.  Publications include "Latinos in Isla Vista: A Report on the Quality of Life Among Latino Immigrants" (UCSB Research Report, 1999); “Chicana Political Consciousness: Renegotiating Culture, Class and Gender with Oppositional Practices,” Aztlan (coauthor, 1999); “La Sufrida: Contradictions of Acculturation and Gender in Latina Health Research,” Revisioning Women, Health and Healing (coauthor, 1999) and "Chicanas in White Collar Jobs: 'You Have to Prove Yourself More,'" Sociological Perspectives (1992); "Chicana Feminisms: Their Political Context and Contemporary Expressions," Women, A Feminist Perspective (5th ed., 1994).  She is currently co-writing a book with Beatriz Pesquera, tentatively titled, Malinche Speaks: Chicana Feminism as Heresy and Empowerment.

Rosalia Solorzano-Torres, Chicano Studies / Sociology, UT El Paso & Pima Community College.  Chicana/o Studies, Chicana feminisms, U.S. - Mexico Border Immigration, Chicana labor issues, gender and sexuality.   Her publications include "Attitudes and Migration Patterns: A Comparative Study of the 'Marias' in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua;" and Chicano Studies, Survey and Analysis with Bixler-Márquez, Ortega, and LaFarelle (Dubuque, Iowa:  Kendall/Hunt  Publishing Company, 2001).   She is presently editing a collection of works for an anthology about Chicana identity and sexualities. 

Shirlene Soto, Chicana/o Studies & Women's Studies, Cal State Northridge

Seline Szkupinski Quiroga, Transborder Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies, Arizona State University. Race, gender and identity in illness narratives; health disparities; stratified reproduction. Publications include co-edited Violence Against Women And Girls In San Francisco: Meeting The Needs Of Survivors (Commission on the Status of Women, San Francisco, CA, 2000) and the co-edited "Barriers to Health Care for Abused Latina and Asian Immigrant Women," in Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (11:1, 2000)

Adela de la Torre, Chicana Studies, UC Davis. Agricultural economy,  immigration, health-care acces, political and economic empowerment of the Mexican-origin community.  Currently Director of the Mexican-American Studies Research Center at University of Arizona.   Recent publications include co-editing Building With Our Hands (UC Press, 1993).

Maura Toro-Morn, Sociology, Illinois State University.  Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Sex and Gender, Latino Sociology.

Arlene Torres, Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "Race" relations, ethnic identity, Gender & Class, Comparative Latina/o diasporas, the body, nation.  Publications include Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean, with N.E. Whitten, vols I & II (Indiana Univ Pr, 1998) and "From Jíbara to Anthropologist: Puerto Rican Ethnography and the Politics of Representation" in Identities (1998). 8/04

Dolores Trevizo, Sociology, Occidental College.  Political sociology, social movements and revolutions, theory, immigration to the United States and quantitative research methods. Her research and writing focus on the relations between states (democratic and authoritarian) and civil societies. Recently, her work has focused on the causes and political consequences of peasant movements in Mexico.

Carla Trujillo, Psychology, independent scholar. Identity, sexuality, higher education. Publications include Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (Third Woman Press, 1991) and Living Chicana Theory (Third Woman Press, 1998), and a forthcoming novel, What Night Brings (Curbstone Press, 2003). Currently serving as Director of Diversity, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley.

Angela Valenzuela, Mexican American Studies (Sociology) & Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas at Austin.  Most recent publication is Subtractive Schooling: U.S. Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring (NY:  State University of New York, 1999). 

Olga Vasquez, Communication, UC San Diego.  Literacy, language, and culture in intercultural settings, bilingual education, culturally responsive curriculum,  access to educational resources by underrepresented groups, literacy activities through computer and telecommunication technology. Publications include Pushing Boundaries: Language and Culture in a Mexicano Community (Cambridge, 1994) and "A Look at Language as a Resource: Lessons from La Clase Mágica," in Bilingual Education: Politics, Practice, and Research (National Society for the Study of Education, 1993).  

Margaret A. Villanueva, Community Studies, St. Cloud State University.  Latino Studies, popular culture, women's cross-cultural experience, construction of gender, and rural Mexico.  Publications include "Gendered Namings and the Ironies of Fieldwork: Notes from Papantla, Tropical Mexico," in Women and Language;  "Staging Culture in Totonacapan: The space of rescate/The space of terr(or)itorialidad," Studies in Latin American Popular Culture; and "Ethnic Slurs or Free Speech?: The Politics of Representation in The Midwest Campus News," Anthropology and Education Quarterly.  See her community mural art page. 

Margaret Zamudio, Sociology & Chicana/o Studies, University of Wyoming. Immigration & labor organizing, race, class, gender, Chicana/o sociology. Publications include "Alienation & Resistance: New Possibilities for Working-Class Formation" in Social Justice 31:3 (2004) and "Confronting Difference: Progressive Politics and Sites of Resistance" in Social Justice in These Times (2004).

Patricia Zavella, Community Studies / Latin American & Latina/o Studies, UC Santa Cruz.   Feminist studies, regional political economies in the southwest United States and Mexico, poverty, the relationship between women's wage and domestic labor, family, kinship, sexuality, and social networks, the social and cultural changes brought about by transnational migration of Mexicana/o workers and U.S. capital, and ethnographic research methods.  Co-director of UCSC's Chicano/Latino Research Center.  Publications include “Changing Constructions of Sexuality and Risk: Migrant Mexican Women Farmworkers in California,” with Xóchitl Castañeda in J LatAmAnthro 8:2 (2003) and "Talkin Sex: Chicanas and Mexicanas Theorize about Silences and Sexual Pleasures," in her co-edited collection, Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader (Duke Univ Press, 2003), as well as her classic Women's Work and Chicano Families : Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley (Cornell Press, 1987, now in its fifth printing).

Education

Lourdes Arguelles, Education, Claremont Graduate University.  Immigrant and refugee studies, environmental education, the study of genders and sexualities, radical democratic pedagogy,  narrative research, political economy, and eastern and earth-based spiritualities. 

Dolores Bernal, Education, University of Utah.  Chicana feminist theory & praxis. 

Frances Contreras, Education, University of Washington. Administration, Policy Analysis. 8/04

Barbara S.C. Goldstein, Education, independent scholar.   Research in bilingual special education; critical pedagogy and special education; cross-cultural collaborative consultation.  Recent publications include "Assessment of Oral Storytelling Abilities of Latino Junior High School Students with Learning Handicaps" and "Critical Pedagogy in a Bilingual Special Education Classroom" in Journal of Learning Disabilities.

Isabelle Medina Sandoval, Education, College of Santa Fe. 

Ellen Riojas-Clark, Bilingual & Bicultural Education, UT San Antonio.   Bilingual education, assessment of language minority students.  Publications include: "Ferngully: An alternative approach for reviewing English comprehension",TESOL Journal; "Language and culture: Critical components of multicultural teacher education" in Urban Review; "How did you learn to write in English when you haven't been taught in English?: The language experience approach in a dual language program" in Bilingual Research Journal.  Forthcoming are: "Teachers as folklorists and historians in the identification of gifted language minority children" in Language and Cognitive Development.

Gloria Rodriguez, Education, Latin American & Border Studies, California State Univ Eastbay.  Educational leadership, finance and policy. 

Patricia Sánchez, Bilingual & Bicultural Education, UT San Antonio.  
Immigrant education, Latina/o transnationalism, Bilingual teacher preparation

Guadalupe Valdes, Education / Spanish & Portugese, Stanford University.  Bilingualism, Linguistics.  An expert on Spanish-English bilingualism in the United States, Valdes' most recent book is titled Con Respeto: Bridging the Distance Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools

Creative & Cultural Arts

Judith Baca, Chicana & Chicano Studies (Cesar Chavez Center), UCLA.  Professor of studio art, UC Irvine; founder and artistic director, Social and Public Arts Resource Center.  Visual arts, muralist, public art in ethnic communities; Public art, race and gender issues, inner-city youth, urban issues of space.  Urban murals, community arts programs, maintenance program for murals, mediation of difference in multicultural communities. Also see her personal site at http://judybaca.com.

Amalia Mesa Bains, Visual & Public Art Department, Cal State Monterey Bay.  Art education, art criticism, cultural diversity, chicano traditions in Mexican-American art, altar installations, defining a Chicano and Latino aesthetic in the United States & Latin America.

Rosa Linda Fregoso, Film & Cultural Studies, UC Davis, see above

Cherrie Moraga, Drama, Stanford University.  Creative writing, drama.  Cherrie's numerous publications include her plays Giving Up the Ghost, and Heroes & Saints and other plays, the pathbreaking collection of poetry and prose, Loving in the War Years/Lo Que Nunca Paso por sus Labios, and most recently, The Last Generation and Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood. Earlier co-edited anthologies include Cuentos: Stories by Latinas, and The Sexuality of Latinas.  Also see her personal site at http://cherriemoraga.com

Patricia Rodriguez, Arts & Creative Technologies, Cal State Monterey Bay.  Studio art courses, mural painting, small sculpture building, three-dimensional, drawing, printmaking, painting Chicano Art history, Mujeras Muralistas (Women Muralists), public art projects, murals, sculpture.  See her personal site at http://www.patriciarodriguezarts.com/

Juanita Regino Suarez, Dance Department, State University of New York at Brockport.  Dancer,  choregrapher, educator and vocalist in the Dance Department and Interdisciplinary Arts for Children.  Her dissertation is titled "Specters of the Dark: The Dance Making Manifesto of Chicana Choreographies."