Latinx Studies
Guillem Belmar Viernes
Assistant Professor
Linguistics, Language Teaching Studies, Latinx
Email: gbelmar@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 9.30 to 11.30 @ Straub 279
Research Interests: Language revitalization; language maintenance; language rights; language documentation; minority multilingualism; Minoritized Languages and (Social Media); Minoritized Language Translation; Indigenous diaspora; Mesomerica; Otomanguean Languages (Mixtec); P'urhépecha; Basque; Catalan
Bernadette Calafell
Professor
Past-Editor, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
IRES, Latinx
Email: calafell@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: By appointment via Calendly.<br />
https://calendly.com/bernadettecalafell/30min
Research Interests: Chicana, Hip-Hop, and Black feminisms, Performance Studies, monstrosity and horror, Latina/o/x/e studies, Kink, BDSM, Leather history, queer of color theory and method, critical qualitative, performative, and automethodologies, rhetorical criticism, MENA Studies, critical cultural studies, media studies and popular culture
Christopher Chávez
Carolyn Silva Chambers Distinguished Professor of Advertising
Director, Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies
CLLAS, IRES, Latinx, SOJC, SOJC-Advertising, SOJC-Advertising and Brand Responsibility, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad
Email: cchavez4@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9141
Office: 207 Allen Hall, 1275 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1275
Research Interests: Advertising, TV Commercials, Communication Theory, Persuasive Communication, Cultural Studies, Gender and Race In Media, Media and Diversity, Popular Culture, Media Studies and Globalization
Rosa Chavez-Jacuinde
Director, Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence
Latinx
Email: rosaura@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2848
Office: CMAE, 135 Oregon Hall, 1255 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1255
Grecia Chirinos Delgado
Assistant Teaching Professor
Global Studies, Latin American Studies, Latinx, Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: chirinos@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Wed/Thurs 10:30-11:30am and by appointment
Research Interests: U.S. Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Education, Critical Language Awareness, Sociolinguistics, Critical Pedagodies
José Cortez
Assistant Professor
Director of Latinx Studies
CLLAS, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies, English, Latinx
Email: jcortez3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0069
Office: 319 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall Term: MF 3:00pm-3:50pm
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Rhetoric, Latinx Studies
Amy Costales
Teaching Professor of Spanish
College of Arts and Sciences, Latinx, Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: acostale@uoregon.edu
Phone: Contact via e-mail or Teams
Office: 4A Mac Court
Office Hours: 4A Mac Court Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 and Thursdays 8:30-9:30 or by appt. Teams or in-person.
Research Interests: U.S Spanish, Linguistics, Border expression, Latino experience in U.S., K-12 education, children's literature, LatCrit, CRT
Lauren Cycyk
Associate Professor
College of Education, Communication Disorders and Sciences, Latinx
Email: lcycyk@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2149
Office: 269 Hedco Education Bldg, 5284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5295
Liliana Darwin López
Teaching Professor of Spanish and Spanish Heritage Language
Profesora de español como segunda lengua y lengua de herencia
Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Latinx, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: ldarwin@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2600
Office: 220 UO Annex, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: TTh 4-5 p.m. and by appt. (Spring 2026)
Research Interests: Latines in the U.S., Latine Literature, Estudios culturales
Robert Davis
Professor of Spanish
Interim Head, Dept. of Romance Languages
College of Arts and Sciences, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, Latinx
Email: rldavis@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0956
Office: 209 Friendly Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Book a visit here: https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/bookingsrldavisofficehours@uoregon.edu/bookings/
Research Interests: second language teaching and learning, technology in second language learning, Romance linguistics
Stephanie De Anda
Associate Professor
HEDCO Professor and Director of the Communication Disorders and Sciences Program
Communication Disorders and Sciences, Latinx
Email: sdeanda@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8530
Office: 254 HEDCO Education Bldg, 5284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5284
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
Associate Professor of Spanish
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, Latinx
Email: enjuto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4045
Office: 110 UO Annex
Office Hours: Th 10am-12pm at Agate Hall 123 and by appt at UO Annex 110
Research Interests: Spanish and Latin American Modern Poetry and Poetics; Transatlantic Studies; Film Studies; Comparative Literature (English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish); Gender Politics; Memory Studies; Children Studies; Spanish Civil War and historical testimony
Pedro García-Caro
Associate Professor of Spanish
Senator
OCIAS, Romance Languages, SAIL, Spanish, Translation Studies, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, Latinx
Email: pgcaro@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5813
Office: 110 UO Annex
Office Hours: T 1:00-3:00 or by appointment. Zoom or Teams
Research Interests: I am currently accepting graduate students seeking to work on Nationalism, Postmodernity, Postcolonial Studies, Environmental Studies, US Hispanic Literatures, Mexican Literature, Border Literature, Comparative American Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Satire, Drama, Translation
Isabel Garcia Valdivia
Assistant Professor
Sociology, Latinx
Email: igarciav@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5306
Office: 618 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Sign-up for office hours here: https://calendly.com/igarciav/15min or by appointment
Research Interests: Im/migration, Race and Ethnicity, Social Stratification, and Life course/Aging
Devin Grammon
Associate Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics
Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, Latinx
Email: grammon@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4070
Office: 417 Friendly Hall, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 9-10am
Research Interests: Sociocultural Linguistics, Second Language Studies, Linguistic Ethnography, Language Contact, Quechua and Andean Spanish, Linguistic Landscapes
Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez
Assistant Professor
Philosophy, Latinx
Email: gualdron@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Thursdays 12:00am-2:00pm, by appointment
Research Interests: Latin American and Caribbean Philosophy (Social and Political), Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, 18th and 19th century German Philosophy (esp. Hegel and Nietzsche), 20th century Continental Philosophy
Tobin Hansen
Associate Teaching Professor of Anthropology
Clark Honors College, Latinx
Email: thansen2@uoregon.edu
Office: 206 Chapman Hall, 1293 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1293
Office Hours: Spring 2026 Office Hours: Tuesdays, 4-6pm; Thursdays, 2-350pm. Make appointment: https://tinyurl.com/y6rs2z3k. Location: Chapman 206 or Zoom (your choice): https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/95791758651
Research Interests: deportation, migration, borderlands and bordering, prisons and policing, gangs, citizenship, gender, legal anthropology, ethnographic methods, testimony, community-scholarly collaborations, sociolinguistics, Spanish in the U.S., Mexico, Latin America
Nathalia Hernández-Vidal
Assistant Professor
Sociology, Latinx
Email: nher@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5004
Office: 717 PLC, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Friday 10:00-12:00
Research Interests: Environmental Justice, Feminist and Indigenous STS, Social Movements, Coloniality and Decolonization
Salomé Herrera
Assistant Professor of English
English, Latinx
Email: salh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1342
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: American Studies, Drama and Performance Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latino/a Studies, Literature of the Americas, Contemporary Literary Studies, Queer and Trans Studies, Race and Ethnicity