Professor Atiles Osoria's research is focused on the sociolegal and criminological study of Puerto Rico and its legal and political relationship with the US.

Professor Burgos is a historian that specializes in US Latino history, Sport history, Urban history, and African American history.

Professor Callesano's research focuses on linguistic production and perception in U.S. Latinx communities.

Professor Cisneros' interests are in Rhetorical Studies and Intercultural Communication. His research focuses on public rhetoric about identity and culture, especially the ways that social identities like race/ethnicity, citizenship, and national identity are defined, maintained, and redefined through public communication.

Professor García Blizzard’s research interests lie at the intersection of Latin American Cultural Studies and Film Studies. Her primary scholarly focus is race and national identity in Mexican cinema.

Professor García is a poet and the author of Indifferent Cities (Tupelo Press), the inaugural winner of the Helena Whitehill Book Award, and Teeth Never Sleep (University of Arkansas Press), winner of a CantoMundo Poetry Prize and an American Book Award, and finalist for a PEN America Open Book Award and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. 

Professor González Ybarra looks at the powerful practices of teaching and learning that exist in community spaces and how Chicanx/Latinx bilingual youth, in particular, draw on their home, family, and community knowledge to navigate their sociopolitical worlds. 

Professor Gutierrez' scholarship focuses on issues of identity and power in mathematics education, paying particular attention to how race, class, and language affect teaching and learning.

Professor Meléndez' research focuses on issues of race and gender in colonial Spanish America with special interest in the eighteenth century, the cultural phenomenon of the Enlightenment, food studies, environmental studies, as well as visual studies. 

Professor Piedra’s research interests explores the social consequences of an increasingly diverse society by examining how the language and culture of immigrants affect their access to and use of social and health services.