Latinx Studies Faculty
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: Location: Chapman 206 |
Fall 2026 Drop-In Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:30am |
Appointments for Second-Year CHC Advising: https://uo.campus.eab.com/pal/ciXKGorJ4O |
Other Appointment Types (HC 101H, Thesis, etc.): https://tinyurl.com/y6rs2z3k
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
Kelley Howarth
Teaching Professor in Spanish
Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Latinx, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: khowarth@uoregon.edu
Office: 103 PLC
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10-12 & by appt.
Research Interests: Spanish language contact and variation, heritage language pedagogy, critical pedagogies, art.