Faculty/Instructor List

Ricardo Ainslie

Professor

rico.ainslie@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0364  |  SZB 262D

Education   

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Interests

  Study of Psychoanalysis; Psychological Experience of Immigration; Ethnic Conflicts within Communities; the Relationship Between Individual and Collective Identity.

Efrai­m Armendariz

Professor

efraim@math.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0117  |  RLM 8.152

Education   

Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Interests

  Ring Theory

Norma V. Cantú

Professor

metrocan2@aol.com  |  (512) 232-7111  |  TNH 3.118M

Education   

J.D., Harvard University

Interests

  Governmental Policy for Civil Rights in American Education; Educational Funding; Disability Rights; Student Disciplinary Policies; Access to Special Services for English-language learners

Richard R. Flores

Professor

rrflores@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-9209  |  GEB 3.212

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Folklore and Expressive Culture of Greater Mexico; Anthropology of Symbols; Anthropology of Religion; Anthropology and History; and Critical Theory.

Douglas Foley

Professor

dfoley@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-3929  |  SZB 528A

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests

  Minority Communities in South Texas, Mississippi, and Iowa; Anthropology; U.S. Culture and Schools; Popular Culture; Social Movements; Race Relations; and Inequality in the U.S. Public Schools.

Neil Foley

Professor

nfoley@austin.utexas.edu  |  512.471.3261  |  GAR 3.412

Education   

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Interests

  Changing Constructions of Race, Citizenship, and National Identity in the American Southwest and Mexico; and Comparative Civil Rights Politics of African Americans and Mexican Americans

María E. Fránquiz

Professor

mfranquiz@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-5670  |  SZB 440C

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Interests

  Bilingual Education, Biliteracy, ethnographic and sociolinguistic research, Latina/o children’s and adolescent literature, migrant education, and Latina/o teacher identity.

Rueben A. Gonzales

Jacques P. Servier Professor in Pharmacy

rgonzales@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-5192  |  PHR 5.224C

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Understand the Neuro-chemical basis for Ethanol Drinking Behavior

Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

Ellen Clayton Garwood Professor

rorro@mail.utexas.edu  |  512.471.8796  |  PAR 324

Education   

Ph.D., 1969, University of Illinois

Interests

  American Literature and Creative Writing

Martha Menchaca

Professor

mmen@mail.utexas.edu  |  512.471.7537  |  SAC 5.158

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests

  Social Anthropology; Ethnicity; Gender; Oral History; Chicano Studies; U.S./Mexican Culture; and Latin America

Robin Moore

Professor

robin.moore@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0373  |  MBE 3.210

Education   

Ph.D. 1995, The University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Music and Nationalism; Music and Race Relations; Popular Music Study; and Socialist Art Aesthetics.

Alba A. Ortiz

Professor

alba.ortiz@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-6244  |  SZB 440

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Developing Models for Effective Schools and Instructional Delivery System of Minority Students; Preventing Academic Under Achievement of Hispanic students; Pre-Referral Intervention

Yolanda C. Padilla

Professor

ypadilla@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-6266  |  SSW 3.130K

Education   

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Interests

  Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Well-Being with an Emphasis on Mexican American Children and Families; Poverty; Immigration; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies

Charles E. Ramirez Berg

University Distinguished Teaching Professor

ramberg@mail.utexas.edu  |  512.471.9925  |  WWH 414

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Latinos and Media; Mexican Cinema; Chicano Cinema; and Latino Stereotypes in Hollywood Cinema

Manuel Ramirez III

Professor

ramirez@psy.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-7012  |  SEA 5.206

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Cross-Cultural Psychology; Ethno-Psychology; Cognitive Styles; Cultural Values; the Relationship of Acculturation to Mental Health and Family Dynamics; and Multicultural Orientations

Pedro Reyes

Professor and Ashbel Smith Chair in Education Policy

preyes@utsystem.edu  |  (512) 499-4233  |  O' Henry Hall 312

Education   

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Interests

  Social Organization of Schools; Conditions Fostering High Academic Success for Children of Poverty; and the Stratification of Learning Opportunities for Children of Color.

Néstor P. Rodríguez

Professor

nrodriguez@prc.utexas.edu  |  512.232.8072  |  BUR 580

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  International Migration; Immigration Policy; Border Enforcement; Global Urban Development; Racial/Ethnic Relations; and State Repression

Joseph Straubhaar

Amon G. Carter Centennial Professor of Communications

jdstraubhaar@mail.utexas.edu  |  512.471.5304  |  CMA 6.120

Education   

Ph.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Interests

  Global Media; International Communication and Cultural Theory; Information Societies and the Digital Divide in the U.S. and other Countries; and Global Television Production and Flow

Brian M. Stross

Professor

bstross@mail.utexas.edu  |  (5123) 471-0059  |  SAC 4.124

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Interests

  Linguistic Anthropology; Indigenous Mesoamerica; Maya Iconography and Epigraphy; Anthropology of Food; and Ethnobotany

Gerald Torres

Professor and Bryant Smith Chair in Law

gtorres@law.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-1368  |  TNH 3.266

Education   

LLM, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Interests

  Civil Rights Issues; Environmental Justice; Identity; and Race.

Fred Valdez, Jr.

Professor

fredv@mail.utexas.edu  |  512. 471.0060  |  EPS 2.114

Education   

Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests

  Archaeology; Mexican-American Borderlands

Richard Valencia

Professor

richard.valencia@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0378  |  SZB 506K

Education   

Ph.D., Unversity of California, Santa Barbara

Interests

  Intellectual & Academic Development of Racial/Ethnic Minority Children; Psychometric Evaluation of Intelligence & Achievement tests; & Teacher Testing & Prospective Minority Teachers.

Angela Valenzuela

Professor

valenz@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-6008  |  SZB 528L

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests

  Sociology of Education; Race and Ethnicity in Schools; Urban Education Reform; Educational Policy; Immigration; Globalization; and Human Rights.

Emilio Zamora

Professor

e.zamora@mail.utexas.edu  |  512.475.8706  |  GAR 2.104B

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Mexican American History; U.S. Working Class History; Oral History and the History of the Mexican Archival Enterprise in Texas and Northern Mexico

Lorenzo Candelaria

Associate Professor

lorenzo.candelaria@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-7131  |  MRH 3.742

Education   

Ph.D., Yale University

Interests

  Catholic Sacred Music in Spain, Mexico, and the Hispanic Southwestern United States

Oscar H. Casares

Associate Professor

ohcasares@yahoo.com  |  (512) 471-8715  |  PAR 108

Education   

M.F.A., University of Iowa

Interests

  Creative Writing

James H. Cox

Associate Professor

jhcox@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-7804  |  CAL 14

Education   

Ph.D., 1999, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Interests

  Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Native American Literature; Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Ethnic American Literatures, including Chicana/o Literature and Literature of Immigration

John Morán González

Associate Professor

jmgonzal@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-8117  |  PAR 321

Education   

Ph.D., 1998, Stanford University

Interests

  Latino/a Literature; Chicano/a Literature; Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Narrative Theory

Gloria González-López

Associate Professor

gloria@austin.utexas.edu  |  512.232.6343  |  BUR 464

Education   

Ph.D., University of Southern California

Interests

  Gender and Sexuality of Mexican Immigrant Populations

Nicole Guidotti-Hernández

Associate Professor and Associate Director

ngh24@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-6313  |  BUR 454

Education   

Ph.D., Cornell University

Interests

  Transnational Feminisms; Critical Race Studies; Chicana/o Studies; Latina/o Studies; Borderlands History; American Studie; Violence and Citizenship; and Indigeneity and Nationalisms.

Frank A. Guridy

Associate Professor

fguridy@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-7267  |  GAR 2.202

Education   

Ph.D., 2002, History, University of Michigan

Interests

  Caribbean/African Diaspora History with an emphasis on the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, Transnational History, Sport History

David L. Leal

Associate Professor

dleal@austin.utexas.edu  |  512.471.1343  |  BAT 3.140

Education   

Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests

  Latino Politics and Policy

Raul L. Madrid

Associate Professor

rmadrid@austin.utexas.edu  |  512.232.7246  |  BAT 3.112

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests

  Comparative Politics; Political Economy; Latin American Politics; and Voting Patterns of Indigenous Populations in Latin America

Deborah Paredez

Associate Professor

paredez@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-8116  |  PAR 334

Education   

Ph.D., 2002, Northwestern University

Interests

  Performance Studies; Poetry; Race, Gender, and Sexuality; Contemporary American Drama and Poetry; and Latina/o Studies

Domino R. Perez

Associate Professor and Director

drperez@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-4557  |  WMB 5.102

Education   

Ph.D., 1998, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Interests

  American Literature; Popular Culture; and Chicano/a Literature, Film and Cultural Studies

Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez

Associate Professor

mrivas@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0405

Education   

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Interests

  Intersection of Oral History and Journalism; and U.S. Latinos and the News Media.

América Rodríguez

Associate Professor

arodriguez@mail.utexas.edu  |  512.471.6645  |  CMA 6.118

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Interests

  Relationship between Mexican and U.S. Television News Production; National News Systems of the United States, Mexico, and Canada; and U.S. Spanish Language Broadcasting

Cherise Smith

Associate Professor

cherise_smith@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-1822  |  ART 1.205

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Luis Urrieta, Jr.

Associate Professor

urrieta@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-4129  |  SZB 528G

Education   

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Interests

  Identity, Agency, and Social Movements in Education with a focus on Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Indigenous (Purepecha) Formal and Informal Education; Native Research Methodologies; and Citizenship and Social Studies Education.

Cecilia Ballí

Assistant Professor

cballi@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-8522  |  EPS 1.134

Education   

Ph.D., Rice University

Interests

  U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; Gender and Violence; Transnational Crime; Music and Identity; and Ethnographic Writing Strategies.

Mary Beltrán

Assistant Professor

mary.beltran@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0021  |  CMA 6.126

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Critical and Cultural studies of the Construction of Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Film and Television; with specializations in Latina/os and Media and Mixed Race and U.S. Media Culture.

Jason Casellas

Assistant Professor

casellas@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-7202 (email preferred)  |  BAT 4.138

Education   

Ph.D., Princeton University

Interests

  Latino Politics; Legislative Politics; State and Local Politics; and Public Policy.

Cary Cordova

Assistant Professor

cordova@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-4582  |  BUR 448

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

George F. Flaherty

Assistant Professor

gflaherty@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-5531  |  DFA 2.524

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Interests

  Latin American and Latino Visual and Spatial Cultures since 1945; Film and Media Studies; Postcolonial Theory and Subaltern Studies, emphasis on Mexico and the U.S. Borderlands

Anne M. Martínez

Assistant Professor

ammtz@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-7268  |  GAR 3.214

Education   

Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Interests

  Religion; U.S.-Mexico Relations; and Race, Labor and Religion within the Mexican-origin community in Chicago in the first half of the Twentieth-Century

Ramón A. Martínez

Assistant Professor

rmartinez@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-2806  |  SZB 334J

Education   

Ph.D., UCLA

John Mckiernan-González

Assistant Professor

tulua@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-7260  |  GAR 0.108

Education   

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Interests

  Race and Ethnicity; Social History of Medicine; the Borderlands; Mexican American History; and Latino Studies

Roxanne Schroeder-Arce

Assistant Professor

roxanne@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-7345  |  WIN B.104H

Education   

M.F.A, University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Multi-cultural Theatre Education and Latino Theatre for Young Audiences

Victor B. Sáenz

Assistant Professor

vsaenz@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-8585  |  SZB 310Q

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Interests

  Higher Education Policy Issues; Educational Benefits of Racial/Ethnic Diversity; Desegregation Issues; Access, Transition, and Retention Issues (Especially Latino Males in Higher Education); Policy Impacts of Affirmative Action and Remedial Education Policies; and Assessment Issues in Higher Education (Learning Outcomes).

Julian Vasquez Heilig

Assistant Professor

jvh@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-8586  |  SZB 374D

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests

  Educational Policy, Access and Equity; High-Stakes Testing and Assessment Policies; Minority Issues in Education; Statistical Methods and Applications in Educational Policy Analysis; Sociology of Education; and Urban Education.

Cristina Cabello De Martinez

Senior Lecturer

cabellodemartinez@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-7127  |  BEN 3.122

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Patricia M. García

Lecturer

pmgarcia@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-4991  |  PAR 108

Education   

Ph.D., 2006, Texas A&M University

Interests

  Renaissance Literature; Women, Gender, and Literature; and Cultural Studies.

Michele Guzmán

Clinical Associate Professor

michele.guzman@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0374  |  SZB 504

Education   

Ph.D., University of Albany, State University of New York

Interests

  Multicultural Counseling; Ethnic and Racial Identity Issues; and Training Issues within this Discipline.

Robert L. Hernandez

Postdoctoral Fellow

robbhernandez@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-9315  |  WMB 5.124

Education   

Ph.D., University of Maryland

Stacy Macias

Postdoctoral Fellow

maciass@ucla.edu  |  (512) 232-1958  |  WMB 5.116

Education   

Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles

Christina Garcia

Assistant Instructor

tinag47@utexas.edu  |  471-4557  |  WMB 5.128

Lucy Guevara Velez

Assistant Instructor

lucyg@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-4557  |  WMB 5.118

Roen Salinas

Assistant Instructor

roen@aztlandance.com  |  (512) 471-4557  |  WMB 5.128