Latinx Studies Faculty
Guillem Belmar Viernes
Assistant Professor
Linguistics, Language Teaching Studies, Latinx
Email: gbelmar@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays 10 to 12 @ Straub 261 (ROOTS Lab)
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.
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
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
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: PLC 101, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
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
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: McArthur Court 101C, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
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: 541-346-4104
Office: UO Annex 220, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: TTh 3:30-4:30 p.m. and by appt. (Fall 2026)
Research Interests: Latines in the U.S., Latine Literature, Estudios culturales
Robert Davis
Professor of Spanish (retired)
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
Research Interests: second language teaching and learning, technology in second language learning, Romance linguistics
Stephanie De Anda
Associate Professor
HEDCO Professor
Communication Disorders and Sciences, Latinx, College of Education
Email: sdeanda@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8530
Office: 254 HEDCO Education Bldg, 5284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5284
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, Latinx
Email: enjuto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4045
Office: UO Annex 110, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fridays 10am-11:45am and by appt at UO Annex 110 (*I need to make appointments for my office hours because I need to open the door to the UO Annex)
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
Professor of Spanish
Senator
Romance Languages, 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: 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, Academic Freedom
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
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.
Ana-Maurine Lara
Associate Professor
William and Susan Piché Faculty Fellow
Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Black Studies, Latinx
Email: amlara@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: FALL 2025 - THURSDAYS, 12PM - 2PM
Sergio Loza
Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program
Romance Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, Latinx
Email: sloza@uoregon.edu
Office: UO Annex 228, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Email me for details
Research Interests: Spanish heritage language education, Spanish heritage language pedagogy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, U.S. Spanish, critical language awareness
Audrey Lucero
Professor
CLLAS, College of Education, Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education, IRES, Latinx, Educational Foundations, Curriculum and Teacher Education
Email: alucero@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8069
Office: 126C Lokey Education Bldg, 5277 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5277
Research Interests: Schooling For Latinx Students and Others From Marginalized Communities, and How Those Experiences Influence Their Identities as Literate Beings, Critical Literacy, Elementary & Middle School Education, Teacher Education, Children's Picture Books