Experts Directory: Minorities: Latinas/os
Jos茅 Luis Benavides
Department of Journalism
work: (818) 677-7242
email: jose.benavides@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish
- Spanish-language media
- Ethics media
- Diversity
- Media in Latin America
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Douglas Carranza (Mena)
Department of Central American Studies
work: (818) 677-6487
email: douglas.carranza@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish
- Central America
- Central American politics
- Central American economies
- Central American social movements
- Migration
- Indigenous issues in Central America
- Regional politics in Central America
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Melisa Galvan
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-7356
email: mgalvan@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish
- History of Mexico, especially the 19th听century
- Borderlands history
- Latin American history
- History of Contraband
- Chicano/Latino history
- Political economy
- Port studies
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Peter J. Garcia
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-3491
email: peter.garcia@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish
- Latin American ethnomusicology
- Southwest borderlands culture
- Chicana/o folklore
- Member of the advisory board of the 鈥淓ncyclopedia of Latina/o Folklore鈥�
- Author: 鈥淒ecolonizing Enchantment: Echoes of Nuevo Mexicano Popular Musics鈥�
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Jinah Kim
Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-7414
email:听jinah.kim@csun.edu
- Asian American and Korean American politics and culture, including the Los Angeles riots, 20th& and 21st century popular culture, contemporary politics and K-pop
- Asian-Latino cultural and political relations
- Issues听impacting undocumented Asian populations
- Author:听鈥淧ostcolonial Grief: Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas鈥�
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Marta Cristina L贸pez-Garza
Department of Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-6488 / 4785
email: marta.lopez-garza@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish
- Economic development
- Ethnographic field research
- Formerly incarcerated women
- Immigration and public policy
- Race and class studies
- Urban sociology
- Women鈥檚/feminist studies
- Documentary filmmaking from a social science perspective
- Visual sociology (photography)
- Member, Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment, South Los Angeles
- Member, Institute for the Renewal of the California Draw
- Co-author: 鈥淩egions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together鈥�
- Co-editor: 鈥淎sian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: The Metamorphosis of Los Angeles鈥�
- Documentary: 鈥� 鈥榃hen Will the Punishment End?鈥� Formerly Incarcerated Women Rebuilding Their Lives鈥�
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Lara Medina
Department Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-3392
email: Lara.medina@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish
- U.S. Latinos and religion
- Chicano/a religious history
- Religion and ethnicity
- Women and religion
- Liberation theology
- Popular religious traditions and transformations
- Dia de los Muertos
- Chicano/a Catholic healing traditions
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David L. Moguel
Department of Secondary Education听
work: (818) 677-4010
email: david.l.moguel@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish
- Teacher education
- Bilingual education and education of immigrant students
- Latino/Hispanic population history, culture and education
- Service learning
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Theresa Monta帽o
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-6801
email: theresa.montano@csun.eduor
Also speaks: Spanish
- Public education
- Teachers鈥� unions
- Privatization of public education
- Education in Los Angeles
- Bilingual education/duel immersion
- California politics
- Chicana/o studies
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