Faculty Listing
Core Faculty
Leisy Abrego
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
abrego@ucla.edu
Judith Baca
Professor
M.A., California State University, Northridge
judybaca@ucla.edu
Eric Avila
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
eavila@ucla.edu
Maylei Blackwell
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
maylei@chavez.ucla.edu
Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Professor
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
agdealba@ucla.edu
David Hernández
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
dhernandez@chavez.ucla.edu
Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
hinojosa@ucla.edu
Reynaldo F. Macías
Professor
Ph.D., Georgetown University
reynaldo@chavez.ucla.edu
María Cristina Pons
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California
mcpons@ucla.edu
Susan Plann
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
plann@humnet.ucla.edu
Robert Chao Romero
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
rcromero@chavez.ucla.edu
Otto Santa Ana
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
otto@ucla.edu
Abel Valenzuela Jr.
Professor and Chair
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
abel@ucla.edu
Joint Faculty
Rosina Becerra (Social Welfare)
Leobardo Estrada (Urban Planning)
Laura E. Gómez (Law)
Kris Gutierrez, Emeritus (Education)
Daniel Solórzano (Education)
Jose Luis Valenzuela (Theater)
Affiliated Faculty
Héctor Calderón (Spanish & Portuguese)
Juan Gómez-Quiñones (History)
Carlos Grijálva (Psychology)
David Hayes-Bautista (Medicine)
Marissa K. López (English)
Steven Loza (Ethnomusicology)
Chon A. Noriega (Film, Television, and Digital Media)
Vilma Ortíz (Sociology)
Rafaél Pérez-Torres (English)
Fernando M. Torres-Gil (Social Welfare)
Concepción Valadez (Education)
Charlene Villaseñor Black (Art History)
Lecturers
Alejandro Covarrubias
Alma López
Songhai Miguda-Armsted
Avis Ridley-Thomas
Abigail Rosas



