In an effort to highlight the diverse field of Latinx Studies, we have created a comprehensive list of NYU Latinx Studies Faculty that spans departments and schools.
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Maria Abascal
Social Policy; Intergroup relations and boundary processes; Impact of demographic diversification.
SCA Adjunct Instructor and Fellow, multidisciplinary artist practices, race, identity, performance, collective community, contemporary Afro-Latinx art and culture
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Cristina Beltrán
Modern and contemporary political theory; Democratic theory; Latino Studies/Latino politics in the U.S.; American political thought; Race and ethnicity; Gender and sexuality.
María Rosa Brea
Steinhardt Clinical Associate Professor; Director, Bilingual Extension Track; speech-language practices, linguistic liberation
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Michelle Castañeda
Migration, Latino/a and Latin American studies, dance, and critical legal studies
Carlos Chirinos
Clinical Music and Global Health Associate Professor; Director NYU Music and Social Change Lab.
Assistant Professor in GPH’s Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences; health inequities, race/ethnic disparities
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Arlene Dávila
Media, visual culture, consumption, political economy, comparative race in the Americas.
Sharon De La Cruz
STEM pedagogy, art, and social justice; Assistant Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications/ Interactive Media Arts programs.
Melissa Aslo De La Torre
Librarian for Latin American, Caribbean, Spanish, and Portuguese Studies.
Adriana Díaz-Donoso
Music Assistant Professor and Director of music education; her scholarship focuses on equity and access to music education, the roles of arts organizations in community building and social change, and diversity issues in music teacher preparation.
Ana M. Dopico
Comparative studies of the Americas; Cuban and Caribbean Culture; Memory and popular culture; Public intellectuals and cultural genealogies; U.S. Latino cultures; North-South studies/cultural politics of the global South.
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Irvin Ibarguen
Latino/a History, Immigration, Social Movements.
Rita Indiana
Music composition, creative writing, experimental Caribbean popular music, storytelling.
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Licia Fiol-Matta
Latin American cultural studies; Women’s and gender studies, and Music.
Gigliana Melzi
Cultural and linguistic practices in Latino families, young children’s learning and development, emergent bilinguals, home-school connections
Maria E. Montoya
U.S. History; History of the American West; Environmental History; Labor History.
ethnic politics, urban politics, education politics and public policy
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Urayoán Noel
U.S. Latin@ literatures and cultures; Poetry and poetics of the Americas; media and performance studies; the Caribbean and its diasporas; modernisms and avant-gardes; creative writing.
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Juan Piñon
Globalization; Political economy; Television studies and social and cultural practices; New technologies.
Mary Louise Pratt
Literature, cultural theory, language policy, bilingualism.
Judy Pryor-Ramirez
Clinical Associate Professor of Public Service; Director of Executive Master of Public Administration Program
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Renato I. Rosaldo
Sociocultural anthropology; Theory; History; Cultural poetics; Poetry; Ethnography as text; Island Southeast Asia; US Latinos; Mexico.
Cloe Gentiles Reyes
Scholar, poet and performer whose writing and teaching center Indigenous politics of sound at the intersections of race, class, and disability.
Luis Rincón Alba
artist and scholar whose research focuses on the political and social potential of festive practices in the Caribbean and Latin America
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Josie Saldaña-Portillo
Latin American and Latinx Studies; Indigenous Studies; colonization and comparative race in the Americas; development studies and revolutionary thought.
Erica Saldívar García
Clinical Assistant Professor of TESOL, Bilingual, and World Language Education; bilingualism and biliteracy of multilingual youth, raciolinguistic and literacy ideologies, and language education policy.
Marie Cruz Soto
Imperial/colonial history of violent displacements, Puerto Rico militarized colonialism; Peace activism.
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Andrew Torres
Clinical Assistant Professor of English Education; critical race theory, raciocultural trauma, embodied arts
Simon Ventura Trujillo
Chicana/o and Latina/o studies and literature; U.S. multi-ethnic literature; comparative ethnic studies in the Americas; Borderlands theories and methodologies
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Delio Vasquez
Political theory; Philosophy; Black Studies; US social movements.