Sheila Contreras

Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, Associate Professor, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, Chicano/Latino Studies

Area(s) of Specialization

• American Literature
• British Modernism
• Chicana/o Literature
• Latina feminisms
• Literary Primitivism
• Race and popular culture
• Travel literature and theory

Research Interests: Comparative Indigenous Studies, History and literature of Canadian Métis

Recent publications: Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism and Chincana/o Literature (The University of Texas Press, 2008)

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Jerry García

Ph. D., Washington State University, Assistant Professor, Department of History

Area(s) of Specialization

• Chicana/o History
• Masculinity
• Mexican History
• Latin American History
• Sports History
• Migration
• Popular culture

Research Interests

Japanese and Mexican migration, Mexican culture and masculinity, Chicanos and Asian Americans in the Pacific Northwest

Steve Gold

Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, Professor and Associate Chair and Graduate Program Director, Department of Sociology

Area(s) of Specialization:

• Classical Sociological Theory
• Contemporary Sociological Theory
• Migration and Social Change
• Qualitative Field Methods

Research Interests:

International Migration, Visual Sociology, Social Capital, International Migration, Ethnic Economies, Visual Sociology

Eduardo Guízar-Álvarez

Ph.D., The University of Iowa, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Area(s) of Specialization:

• Literature and culture of Mexico
• Mexican and Latin American literary and cultural studies

Research Interests:

U.S.-Mexico Border, Mexican Popular Culture, Subaltern Studies, Women Studies, Prison Literature, Mexican Cultural Studies, and Chicano/Latino Literature.

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Scott Michaelsen

Ph. D., State University of New York at Buffalo, Associate Professor, Department of English

Area(s) of Specialization:

• Border studies
• The history of the idea of "culture"
• Race in the nineteenth century
• Multicultural theory and science fiction.

Research Interests:

American nineteenth century, Law and literature, Sentimentalism, American popular cultures (particularly musical cultures), Science fiction and continental literary theory

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Katy Jurado

Ph. D., University of Michigan, Assistant Professor of English

Area(s) of Specialization:

• Chicana/o Literature
• Immigration Narratives
• Race and Popular Culture

Research Interests:

Chicana/o Literature, Immigration and Race, Women and Gender

Theresa Meléndez

Ph.D., University of California-San Diego, Associate Professor, Department of English and Director, Chicano/Latino Studies Program

Area(s) of Specialization:

• Chicano Literature
• Mexican Folklore
• Medieval Literature

Research Interests:

Oral Histories, Chicana/o and American Literature

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Dylan Miner

Ph. D., University of New Mexico, Assistant Professor, Residential College

Areas of Specialization:

• Chicana/o Art and Culture
• Colonialism and Art
• Art and Visual Culture

Research Interests:

Chicano Art and Art History, Film, Native American and Chicano Anti-Colonial and subaltern studies

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Javier Pescador

Ph.D. University of Michigan, Associate Professor, Department of History

Area(s) of Specialization:

• Mexican cultures in the U.S. Immigration
• Transnational Communities, Society, Identity
• Sacred Borderlands: Local Religion and Ethnic Identities along the Border, 18th - 20th centuries

Research Interests:

Organized Sports, Community formation in Great Lakes Chicano barrios, 1940-2000 Mexican Voices, Michigan Lives: An Oral History of Mexican American communities in Michigan

Dionicio Valdés

Ph.D. University of Michigan, Professor, Department of History, Graduate Director, Chicano/Latino Studies

Area(s) of Specialization:

• Chicano History
• Labor and Working Class History
• Mexico
• U.S.-Mexico Relations
• Race/Class Formations
• Cuba and Puerto Rico

Research Interests:

Chicana/os in the Midwest, Agricultural Workers, Urban History, Colonialism, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Hawaii

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