Core Faculty for the LAS Minor and Graduate Emphasis

Name	Title/Interest	Email
Stanley Bailey	Professor of Sociology Race and Ethnicity (Comparative and International Perspectives), Sociology of Religion, Immigration, Latin America	bailey@uci.edu
Frank D. Bean	UCI Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Economics International Migration, Demography, Racial & Ethnic Relations, Economic Sociology, Family	fbean@uci.edu
Catherine Benamou	Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies Latin American and Latina/o Film & media, Transnational flows and diasporic spectatorship, Orson Welles, media ethnography and historical reconstruction Published Books	cbenamou@uci.edu
Alex Borucki	Associate Professor in History African Diaspora, Colonial Latin America, Early Modern Atlantic World Published Books	aborucki@uci.edu
Susan K. Brown	Professor of Sociology International migration, educational inequality, urban sociology	skbrown@uci.edu
Lee Cabatingan	Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Anthropology Faculty Website	lcabatin@uci.edu
Belinda Campos	Associate Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies Culture, Relationships, Positive Emotion, Health	bcampos@uci.edu
Anita Casavantes Bradford	Associate Professor Chicano/Latino Studies Transnational Comparative Latina/o History, Childhood, Immigration Faculty Website Published Books	acasavan@uci.edu
Leo Chavez	Professor of Anthropology International migration, Latin American immigrants, medical anthropology, transnational communities, breast and cervical cancer beliefs, analysis of visual images	lchavez@uci.edu
Susan B. Coutin	Professor, Criminology, Law & Society School of Social Ecology Faculty Website	scoutin@uci.edu
Louis Desipio	Associate Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, Political Science Ethnic Politics, Latino Politics, Immigration, Naturalization, U.S. electoral politics	ldesipio@uci.edu
Glenda Flores	Associate Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies Latina/o Sociology; Immigration; Middle-Class Minorities; Race, Gender & Class; Education; Work and Occupations	gmflores@uci.edu
Ivette N. Hernández-Torres	Associate Professor of Spanish Latin American Colonial Literature & Caribbean Literature Published Books	ivetteh@uci.edu
Felix Jean-Louis III	Assistant Professor, History Haiti, African American, Caribbean, African Diaspora, Afro-Europe, Afro-Francophone, Diaspora, Race Making, Gender	fjeanlou@uci.edu
Adriana M. Johnson	Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Brazil, Postcolonial Latin American literature, culture and film	adrianaj@uci.edu
Abigail LapinDardashti	Assistant Professor, Art History Modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino/a/x art and architecture, history of African diasporic art in Latin America, transnationalism, migration, racial formation, activism, critical race theory, postcoloni	alapinda@uci.edu
Rodrigo Lazo	Professor of English American Literature, Latino Studies, Nineteenth Century, Hemispheric American Studies, Immigrant/Migrant Fiction Published Books	rlazo@uci.edu
Horacio Legras	Director, Latin American Studies Professor of Spanish Latin American Culture. Psychoanalysis. Philosophy. Political Theory. Popular Culture and Insurgency. Photography Faculty Website	hlegras@uci.edu
Viviane Mahieux	Associate Professor of Spanish Modern and contemporary Latin American literature, with a focus on Mexico Published Books	vmahieux@uci.edu
William Maurer	Department Chair and Professor of Anthropology Anthropology of law; globalization; Caribbean; anthropology of money and finance; gender and kinship	wmmaurer@uci.edu
Rachel O'Toole	Associate Professor of History Colonial Latin America, African Diaspora, Gender & Sexuality Published Books	rotoole@uci.edu
Gustavo Oliveira	Assistant Professor, Global & International Studies Faculty Website	gustavo.oliveira@uci.edu
Mamyrah Prosper	Assistant Professor, Global & International Studies Specializes in research on social movements in the Caribbean and Latin America - particularly Black and Haitian social movements	mprosper@uci.edu
Ana Elizabeth Rosas	Associate Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, History Chicana/o Comparative History, Immigration, Ethnicity Published Books	arosas1@uci.edu
Ruben Rumbaut	Professor of Sociology U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S.-Latin American Relations, Mexican-American Politics, Orange County Homeless and a Community Study of Mexican Americans (on Mt. Vernon St.) in San Bernardino	rrumbaut@uic.edu
Chelsea Schields	Assistant Professor, History Caribbean; Europe; decolonization; gender and sexuality; race; oil; global history Published Books	cschield@uci.edu
Patricia Seed	Professor of History Mapping: History & Design, Game Design, Navigation Published Books	seed5@uci.edu
Jacobo Sefami	Professor of Spanish Modern and Contemporary Latin American Poetry/ Mexican Literature/ Spanish American Literature Published Books	jsefami@uci.edu
Caesar D. Sereseres	Associate Professor of Political Science U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S.-Latin American Relations, Mexican-American Politics, Orange County Homeless and a Community Study of Mexican Americans (on Mt. Vernon St.) in San Bernardino.	cdserese@uci.edu
Etel Solingen	Professor of Political Science International Relations Theory, International Political Economy, International Cooperation, Macropolitics/Institutions, Comparative Politics, World Politics and Regional Orders	esolinge@uci.edu
Edward Telles	Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology Faculty Website	e.telles@uci.edu
Heidi Tinsman	Professor of History Latin America, Gender & Sexuality, World History Published Books	hetinsma@uci.edu
Julio Torres	Associate Professor of Spanish Heritage/Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Cognition, Task-Based Language Learning, Curriculum & Instruction	torresju@uci.edu