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Faculty Spotlights

  • Mirelsie Velázquez is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work centers history of education, women's history, Puerto Rican studies, gender and sexuality, and teacher education. 
  • Gilberto Rosas's research interests include “the state,” racism and its broad complexities, critical ethnography, and experimental writing.
  • José A. de la Garza Valenzuela focuses on fiction by gay Chicano writers and his current research investigates the legal underpinnings of queer migrant narrative to shed light on experiences of migration and residence in the U.S. inaccessible through the state’s legal archive.
  • Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada seeks to produce knowledge that supports the development of a holistic and substantial peace. Her research interests include violence and grassroots peacemaking, racialization and gender in El Salvador, transnational feminisms and activist research, and the politics of intersectional inequalities and justice.
  • Nic Flores specializes in public and sexual health, HIV/AIDS prevention, ethnography, comparative ethnic and racial studies, and gender and sexuality studies with additional interests in queer of color critique, disability studies, and feminist science and technology studies. 
  • Janett Barragán Miranda is currently working on her book manuscript tentatively titled, "Hungering for Equality: Mexican and Mexican Americans from Post WWII To Civil Rights," a monograph about the community of Mexican origin and their struggle for food justice in the 1960s.
  • Isabel Molina-Guzmán's research examines the relationship between ethnoracial, gender, sexual identity and media discourses in the reproduction of inequality. 
  • Natalie Lira is an interdisciplinary scholar who examines the politics of reproduction and histories of medicine in the United States. Her research interests include the politics of reproduction, histories of medicine, and the ways that struggles for racial and reproductive justice intersect.