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
Susan Bibler 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
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
Michael Mendez
Kristine Molina
  • Associate Professor, Psychological Science

  • Website
Denise Payan
  • Associate Professor, Public Health

  • Website
Rocío Pichon-Rivière
  • Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
    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 Quintana
  • Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies

  • Website
Rubén G. Rumbaut
  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus
    Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1978

  • international migration, immigration laws, criminalization, incarceration, social inequality and mobility, race and ethnicity

  • rrumbaut@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
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
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