Directory
Amanda López '04
Associate Professor/Chair of History & Political Sciences, Saint Xavier University
Program Director for Latino/Latin American Studies, Saint Xavier University
Ivan Olaciregui
Census Field Supervisor, Department of Commerce
Sergio Puig
Professor of Law, Director of the International Trade and Business Law Program
Hassan Vafai
Research Professor, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics
Benjamin Wilder
Interim Director, Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, College of Science
Departmental Faculty
Antonio José Bacelar da Silva
Associate Professor, Brazil Studies and Linguistic Anthropology
Susan Brewer-Osorio
Assistant Professor, Political Science and Conflict Studies
Ryan A. Kashanipour
Assistant Professor of Practice, Mesoamerican History, Health, Medicine, and Science
Chair, Southwest Seminar
Kathleen C. O'Brien
Assistant Professor of Practice, Anthropology & Andean Studies
Academic Coordinator
Project Coordinator, Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) on Women's Leadership
Affiliate Faculty
Carlos Alsua
Senior Lecturer, International Management and Global Entrepreneurship
Nadia Alvarez Mexia
Assistant Professor of Practice, W.A. Franke Honors College
Kevin Anchiukaitis
Chair, Global Change Graduate Interdisciplinary Program
Alberto Arenas
Associate Professor, Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies
Santa Arias
Professor and Department Head, Spanish and Portuguese
Damián Baca
Associate Professor, Department of Mexican American Studies
Julio Betancourt
Research Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey
Katia de Costa Bezerra
Professor & Associate Head, Spanish & Portuguese
Stefano Bloch
Assistant Professor, School of Geography & Development
Victor Braitberg
Assistant Professor, Honors Interdisciplinary Faculty
Alex Braithwaite
Professor & Associate Director, School of Government & Public Policy
Michael M. Brescia
Curator of Ethnohistory, Arizona State Museum
James Buizer
Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Director of Climate Adaptation and International Development
Deputy Director, Institute of the Environment
Kevin Byrne
Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies, School of Theatre, Film and Television
Jose Francisco Cali Tzay
Lecturer in Law and Associate Director, IPLP Human Rights Clinical Programs
Julio Cammarota
Professor, Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies
Maritza Cardenas
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Director of Global Studies
Elena Centeno
Director of UNAM Center for Mexican Studies
Benedict Colombi
Professor, American Indian Studies
Faculty Director, Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs
Mary Carol Combs
Professor, Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies – College of Education
Malcolm Compitello
Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
Executive Editor, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies
Jill De Zapien
Director, Border / Transborder and Binational Public Health
Kristin Doran
Director of the Spanish Basic Language Program, Assistant Professor of Practice
Theodore Downing
Research Professor, Social Development – Arizona Research Laboratories
Burris Duncan
Professor Emeritus, Public Health & Pediatrics
John Ehiri
Professor and Department Chair, Department of Health Promotion Sciences
Jaime Fatas
Director & Associate Specialist, Spanish Translation and Interpretation Program
Julieta Fernandez
Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Jim Field
Assistant Dean, Graduate Education – College of Engineering
Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Timothy J. Finan
Research Anthropologist, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
Todd V. Fletcher
Associate Professor, Disability & Psychoeducational Studies – College of Education
Marla Franco
Assistant Vice Provost, Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives
Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Higher Education
George Frisvold
Extension Specialist, Agriculture & Resource Economics
David A. Gantz
Professor, Retired – James E. Rogers College of Law
David O. Garcia
Associate Professor, Health Promotion Sciences
Director, Nosotros Comprometidos A Su Salud
Assistant Director of Community Outreach and Engagement, The University of Arizona Cancer Center
Patrisia Gonzales
Associate Professor, Mexican American & Raza Studies
David Graizbord
Associate Professor & Associate Director, Arizona Center for Judaic Studies
Terrence Hill
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Director of Care, Health and Society Program
Secondary Appointment: Arizona Center on Aging
Laura Lopez Hoffman
Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
James C. Hopkins
Associate Specialist, James E. Rogers College of Law
Seánna Howard
Director, International Human Rights Advocacy Workshop
Professor of Practice
Affiliated Faculty Human Rights Practice & Latin American Studies
Anita Huizar-Hernandez
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Barbara Hutchinson
Program Manager, School of Natural Resources & the Environment
Richard Johnson
Assistant Director for Masters in Development Practice (MDP) Program
Edward Jolie
Associate Curator of Ethnology, Arizona State Museum
Clara Lee Tanner Associate Professor of Anthropology
Kevin Lansey
Professor and Department Head, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics
Daniel Linder
Assistant Professor of Practice
Todd O. Lutes
Associate Professor, Political Science – UA South
Maurice Rafael Magana
Assistant Professor in Mexican American Studies
Yuri Makino
Associate Professor, School of Theatre, Film and Television
Associate Director, Film and Television
Patricia Manning
Evaluation Specialist, Campus Health Service
Teresa Miguel-Stearns
Associate Dean, Legal Information Innovation
Director, Law Library & Professor of Law
Shefali Milczarek-Desai
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Director of the Workers’ Rights Clinic
Co-Director of the Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program
Kaitlin Murphy
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Gary Paul Nabhan
Research Social Scientist, Southwest Studies Center
Anna Ochoa O'Leary
Professor & Department Head, Mexican American Studies
Tracey Osborne
Associate Professor, School of Geography and Development
Francisco Javier Osorio Zago
Assistant Professor, School of Government and Public Policy
V. Spike Peterson
Professor, School of Government & Public Policy
Cristina Ramirez
Associate Professor of English, Department of English
Program Director for the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English Graduate Program
Jeannine Elisa Relly
Associate Professor, School of Journalism
Iliana Reyes
Professor, Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies – College of Education
Roberto Rodriguez
Associate Professor, Mexican American & Raza Studies
Jennifer Roth-Gordon
Associate Professor, School of Anthropology
Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith
Adjunct Lecturer, Mexican American & Raza Studies
Joaquin Ruiz
Vice President, Innovation - Office for Research and Discovery & Dean, College of Science
Professor, Geosciences
Dereka Rushbrook
Associate Professor, School of Geography and Development
Christian Ruvalcaba
Research Coordinator, Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry
Beverly Seckinger
Professor (School of Theatre, Film & Television)
Jeffrey C. Silvertooth
Associate Dean & Director, Cooperative Extension / Economic Development / Services
Professor, Soil/Water and Environmental Science
Charles R. Sterling
Professor, Emeritus – Veterinary Science & Microbiology
Michelle Tellez
Assistant Professor in Mexican American Studies
Gary D. Thompson
Professor & Department Head, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Gabriela Valdez
Director, Global Education
Assistant Professor of Practice
Interim Director of Global Health Program
Robert Varady
Research (Full) Professor of Environmental Policy
Benjamin Wilder
Director, AIR Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill
Associate Research Scientist, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Ada Wilkinson-Lee
Associate Professor, Department of Mexican American Studies
Robert Williams
Regents Professor, E Thomas Sullivan - Law / American Indian Studies
David Yetman
Research Social Scientist, Southwest Studies Center
Administrative Staff
Kathleen C. O'Brien
Assistant Professor of Practice, Anthropology & Andean Studies
Academic Coordinator
Project Coordinator, Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) on Women's Leadership
Undergraduate Advisor
Director of Graduate Studies
Graduate Students
Alumni
Juan Carlos Albarrán '07
Senior Lecturer in Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University
Robert Alvarez '16
Deputy Director, Training and Operations, CADCA
Kevin G. Andrade '12
Freelance journalist
Vice President, New England Chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Laurel Bellante '12
Assistant Director of the Center for Regional Food Studies, University of Arizona
Assistant Professor and Director of the B.A. in Food Studies at the School of Geography, University of Arizona
Melissa Burham '10
Adjunct Instructor, Pima Community College
Kathleen C. O'Brien '03
Assistant Professor of Practice, Sociocultural Anthropology and Andean Studies
Project Coordinator, Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) on Women's Leadership
Online Curriculum Specialist
Jill Calderon '08
Director, UA Global Travel at The University of Arizona
Jeremy Carter '10
Community Development Consultant
Irasema Coronado
Director and Professor, School of Transborder Studies, Arizona State University
Joel E. Correia '12
Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Florida
Luis Carlos Davis
Film director/producer and multimedia specialist
Alyssa Dormer '19
J.D. student at University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
Javier Duran
Associate Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies
Director of the Confluence Center for Creative Inquiry
Emily Ellis '18
Communications, Oak Spring Garden Foundation
Eric Franqui '15
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. State Department
Kathryn Gallien '05
Academic Advisor at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona
Lisa Gardinier '11
Curator, International Literature, University of Iowa
R. Andrés Guzmán '07
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University
Elena Jackson Abarrán '02
Associate Professor of History and Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University of Ohio
Keegan Krause '20
Doctoral student in Biological and Medical Anthropology, Northwestern University
Oscar Lai '12
Latin America Program Assistant, U.S. Forest Service
Francisco Lara- Garcia '12
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
Amanda López '04
Associate Professor/Chair of History & Political Science, Saint Xavier University
Program Director for Latino/Latin American Studies, Saint Xavier University
Marco Macías '08
Assistant Professor of History, Fort Hays State University
Riley McIsaac '09
Associate Director, HSI Grants Development
Richard Morgan Szybist '90
Owner of Los Encuentros Centro Cultural Panajachel, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Ivan Olaciregui '06
Census Field Supervisor, U.S. Department of Commerce
Mark Poepsel '07
Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Jay Sagar '04
Assistant Federal Public Defender, District of Arizona
Adjunct Professor of Practice, UA College of Law
Jeremy Slack '08
Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas
David Trautman '07
Elementary School Principal
Murphy Woodhouse '14
Senior Field Correspondent, AZPM Fronteras Desk
Christopher Yutzy '12
Latam Researcher at Kroll