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Director, Latin American and Latino Studies

Omar Granados  Profile of Omar Granados  Office hours

Associate Professor
311B Graff Main Hall
ogranados@uwlax.edu
608.785.5243

Specialty areas:

Contemporary Latin American and Latino literature and cultural studies, Caribbean studies, film studies, migration studies and literary translation.

Advisory Board Members

Jonathan Borja  Profile of Jonathan Borja  Office hours

Associate Professor
234 Lowe Center For The Arts
jborja@uwlax.edu
608.785.8410

Specialty areas:

Flute, Music History

Christine Hippert  Profile of Christine Hippert  Office hours

Professor
437L Wimberly Hall
chippert@uwlax.edu
608.785.6775

Specialty areas:

anthropology of food, medical anthropology, community development, the social construction and politics of gender/ethnic/racial/national identities, migration, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, public health

Alessandro Quartiroli  Profile of Alessandro Quartiroli  Meet with me  Office hours

Professor
331G Graff Main Hall
aquartiroli@uwlax.edu
608.785.6897

Specialty areas:

Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology & Counseling

  • professional training, development, and practice in sport psychologists,
  • self-care and wellbeing in sport psychologists and other professionals,
  • cultural competence and humility in psychology practitioners,
  • identity in psychology practitioners,
  • performance psychology in esports,
  • organizational culture in sport and health organizations.
Megan Strom  Profile of Megan Strom

Associate Professor
315I Graff Main Hall
mstrom@uwlax.edu
608.785.8320

Specialty areas:

Hispanic Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Social Semiotics, Spanish in the United States, Critical Media Studies, Spanish for the Health Professions

Associated Faculty

Jonathan Borja  Profile of Jonathan Borja  Office hours

Associate Professor
234 Lowe Center For The Arts
jborja@uwlax.edu
608.785.8410

Specialty areas:

Flute, Music History

Rose Brougham  Profile of Rose Brougham  Office hours

Associate Professor
315E Graff Main Hall
rbrougham@uwlax.edu
608.785.5242

Specialty areas:

Spanish American poetry, Southern Cone, daughter-mother relationships, and performance poetry

Victoria Calmes  Profile of Victoria Calmes  Office hours

Associate Professor
311D Graff Main Hall
vcalmes@uwlax.edu
608.785.8328

Specialty areas:

XX Century Peninsular Literature, Film Studies, 2nd Language Acquisition

Enilda Delgado  Profile of Enilda Delgado  Office hours

Professor
437B Wimberly Hall
edelgado@uwlax.edu
608.785.6776

Specialty areas:

Demography, Social Stratification, Social Statistics and Quantitative Research Methods

Timothy Gongaware  Profile of Timothy Gongaware  Office hours

Professor
437M Wimberly Hall
tgongaware@uwlax.edu
608.785.6772

Specialty areas:

Social Movements, Collective Behavior, Leisure Groups, Identity (individual and collective), Qualitative Research, Popular Culture

David Hart  Profile of David Hart

Professor
425V Wimberly Hall
dhart@uwlax.edu
608.785.8302

Specialty areas:

Various ethnic American literature, immigration literature, postcolonial studies, Caribbean literature and culture, world literatures, cultural studies, folklore, cultural memory, globalization and literature, and critical theory.

Christine Hippert  Profile of Christine Hippert  Office hours

Professor
437L Wimberly Hall
chippert@uwlax.edu
608.785.6775

Specialty areas:

anthropology of food, medical anthropology, community development, the social construction and politics of gender/ethnic/racial/national identities, migration, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, public health

Heather Linville  Profile of Heather Linville  Office hours

Professor
320 Morris Hall
hlinville@uwlax.edu
608.785.8326

Specialty areas:

Dr. Linville's main research areas are digital storytelling as translanguaging, advocacy for English learners (ELs), language teacher education, and language ideologies.

Adele Lozano  Profile of Adele Lozano

Associate Professor
345E Morris Hall
alozano@uwlax.edu
608.785.6871

Specialty areas:

Latinx/a/o identity development and leadership development; student development theory; ethnic cultural centers; qualitative research

Víctor Macías-González  Profile of Víctor Macías-González  Office hours

Professor
138D Wimberly Hall
vmacias-gonzalez@uwlax.edu
608.785.8349

Specialty areas:

Latin American, Mexican, Latinx histories and history of gender and sexuality.  Latin Americanists study the history of nineteen different countries in the Americas, plus the Philippines, Spain, and the U.S.A.  I focus on nineteenth-century Mexico, especially the Porfiriato (1876-1911) and the U.S. Southwest. Research interests include diplomacy, transnational migration, Mexican diaspora, consumption and material culture, masculinity, Latin@s in the Midwest, the homophile movement, and LGBTQ history of the Midwest.    Service interests include development of outreach programs to increase Latino entry into higher education, graduate, and professional programs, as well as LGBTQ public history programs, and faculty promotion and retention programs.

Peter Marina  Profile of Peter Marina  Office hours

Associate Professor
437K Wimberly Hall
pmarina@uwlax.edu
608.785.6770

Specialty areas:

Urban Ethnography, Critical & Cultural Criminology, Race & Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Human Rights Policing, Transgressive Criminology, Travel and Tourism, Urban Sociology, Hispanic Immigration, among other topics.

Timothy McAndrews  Profile of Timothy McAndrews  Office hours

Professor
435A Wimberly Hall
tmcandrews@uwlax.edu
608.785.6774

Specialty areas:

South American/Andean Archaeology, Rise of Complex Society, Origins of Urbanism, Sedentary Village-Based Adaptations

Alessandro Quartiroli  Profile of Alessandro Quartiroli  Meet with me  Office hours

Professor
331G Graff Main Hall
aquartiroli@uwlax.edu
608.785.6897

Specialty areas:

Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology & Counseling

  • professional training, development, and practice in sport psychologists,
  • self-care and wellbeing in sport psychologists and other professionals,
  • cultural competence and humility in psychology practitioners,
  • identity in psychology practitioners,
  • performance psychology in esports,
  • organizational culture in sport and health organizations.
Jose Rubio-Zepeda  Profile of Jose Rubio-Zepeda  Meet with me  Office hours

Assistant Director for Retention
1108 Centennial Hall
jrubiozepeda@uwlax.edu
608.785.8228

Specialty areas:

Academic and Financial Retention, Males of Color in higher education, Transnationalism and identity within the context of migration; globalization and its effects; African Diaspora in Central America and the Caribbean, especially in the Dominican Republic and Haiti; critical race theory; cultural studies; masculinity, class, gender

Megan Strom  Profile of Megan Strom

Associate Professor
315I Graff Main Hall
mstrom@uwlax.edu
608.785.8320

Specialty areas:

Hispanic Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Social Semiotics, Spanish in the United States, Critical Media Studies, Spanish for the Health Professions

Latin American Student Organization (LASO) Representative