Affiliated Faculty

 

Kevan Aguilar
  • Assistant Professor, History
    Ph.D., History, University of California, San Diego 
    M.A., Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego 
    B.A., History, California State University, Long Beach 

  • Mexican Revolution; the Spanish Civil War; racial formations; Chicanx/Latinx history; Global Indigenous Studies; immigration/exile; revolution and radicalism

  • kevana@uci.edu

  • Website
Catherine Benamou
  • Professor, Film and Media Studies, UCI School of Humanities
    Ph.D., Cinema Studies, New York University, 1997

  • Hispanophone and Lusophone film and television, media ethnography and historiography, transnational media flows and audiences, U.S. Latinx film, video, radio, and print media, media and social justice

  •  2349 Humanities Gateway

  • cbenamou@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
John Billimek
  • Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Family Medicine
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine 

  • medication adherence, diabetes, health disparities, social determinants of health, doctor-patient communication, life context and chronic disease management

  • jbillime@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Susan Coutin
  • Professor, Criminology, Law and Society
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 1990

  • law, culture, immigration, human rights, citizenship, political activism, central america

  •  3375 Social Ecology II | 949-824-1447

  • scoutin@uci.edu
Arcelia Gutierrez
  • Assistant Professor, Film & Media Studies

  •  2212 Humanities Gateway | (949) 824-8596

  • arceliag@uci.edu
Alein Haro-Ramos
  • Assistant Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior | UC Irvine Public Health

  • immigrant health across the life course; occupational psychosocial risk factors; precarious employment; public policies, social inequities, and racialized disparities among Latino/xs

  • ayharo@hs.uci.edu
  • Website
Mirian Martinez-Aranda
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2021

  • international migration, immigration detention, law and society, race and ethnicity

  •  4223 Social Science Plaza B

  • miriangm@uci.edu
Michael Mendez
Valentina Montero Roman
  • Assistant Professor, English

  •  373 Humanities Instructional - HIB

  • monterov@uci.edu
Denise Payan
  • Associate Professor, Public Health

  • Website
Rocío Pichon-Rivière
  • Assistant Professor, Latin American & Iberian Cultures
    Ph.D., New York University 

  • Latin American / Latinx literature and visual culture (including graphic novels and other comics), trans and queer theory, feminismo descolonial and Latinx feminism, health humanities, graphic medicine, transformative justice

  • pichonrm@uci.edu
  • Website
Isabela Seong Leong Quintana
Maria Rendon
  • Associate Professor, Urban Planning & Public Policy

  • urban sociology, immigration, race/ethnicity, sociology of education and social policy

  •  212B Social Ecology I | 949-824-5880

  • mgrendon@uci.edu
  • Website
Rocío Rosales
  • Inclusive Excellence Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Diversity
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2012

  • international migration, immigrant and ethnic economies, urban sociology, qualitative methods, ethnography, latino/a studies, race and ethnicity, immigrant detention

  •  4109 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-5859

  • r.rosales@uci.edu
  • Website
Heidi Tinsman
Mercedes Trigos
  • Assistant Professor, English
    Ph.D., English and Americna Literature, New York University 
    M.A., Humanities, University of Chicago 
    B.A., English and Hispanic Studies, Rice University 

  • twentieth-century literatures and cultures of the Americas; Chicanx, Latinx, and Mexican studies; racialization; sex and sexuality; feminisms

  • mtrigos@uci.edu
  • Website
Carolina Valdivia Ordorica
  • Assistant Professor, Criminology, Law and Society
    Ph.D., Harvard University 

  • immigration, sociology of education, race and ethnicity, youth and families, social movements

  • c.valdivia@uci.edu
  • Website
Irene Vega
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2017

  • international migration, racial group formation, socio-legal studies, educational inequality

  • ivega@uci.edu
  • Website
Salvador Zárate
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 

  • race, gender, labor, and the environment; southern california domestic work and gardening labor; marxism and women of color feminism; historical methods and anthropology; ethnic studies

  • sezarate@uci.edu

 

 

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