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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
Irvin Ibarguen
Latino/a History, Immigration, Social Movements.
Rita Indiana
Music composition, creative writing, experimental Caribbean popular music, storytelling.
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
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.
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 Assistant Professor of Public Service; Director of Executive Master of Public Administration Program
Renato I. Rosaldo
Sociocultural anthropology; Theory; History; Cultural poetics; Poetry; Ethnography as text; Island Southeast Asia; US Latinos; Mexico.
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.
Andrew Torres
Clinical Assistant Professor of English Education; critical race theory, raciocultural trauma, embodied arts
Delio Vasquez
Political theory; Philosophy; Black Studies; US social movements.
Alexandra Vazquez
Music, U.S. Latina/o and Latin American Studies; Caribbean aesthetics and criticism; race and ethnicity; and feminist theory
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