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.
Professor Ramírez is an historian of the modern United States with specialties in migration, Latinxs, labor, and indigeneity.
Professor Soto-Crespo's research interests include American, later, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Latina/o Studies, Post-Colonial, Fiction, Theory & Criticism, Film/Visual Culture.
Professor Vázquez' research and teaching interests range from contemporary graffiti and murals and the construction of spaces by US Latino/as, to the representation of national narratives in Mexico, Spain and the Caribbean.
Professor Velez is interested in the role that our social imaginaries play both in shaping and reimagining our ethical commitments, geopolitical responses to racialized and gendered colonial violence, as well as the politics of knowledge production.
Professor Vergara Bracamontes is a scholar of Latinx studies, critical prison studies, and queer of color critique who focuses on Latinx migration in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.
During the summer of 2024, LLS major Alexa Rodriguez conducted research as a TRIO McNair Scholar. She wrote to us about her experience.
During the spring of 2024, LLS major Adriana Serrano Matsumoto was an intern for Senator Dick Durbin. She wrote to us about her experience.