Experts Directory: Minorities: Latinas/os

José 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 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 “Encyclopedia of Latina/o Folklore”
Author: “Decolonizing Enchantment: Echoes of Nuevo Mexicano Popular Musics”

Jinah Kim

Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-7414
email: 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 impacting undocumented Asian populations
Author: “Postcolonial Grief: Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas”

Marta Cristina López-Garza

Department of Gender and Women’s 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’s/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: “Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together”
Co-editor: “Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: The Metamorphosis of Los Angeles”
Documentary: “ ‘When Will the Punishment End?’ Formerly Incarcerated Women Rebuilding Their Lives”

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

David L. Moguel

Department of Secondary Education
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

Theresa Montaño

Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-6801
email: theresa.montano@csun.eduor
Also speaks: Spanish

Public education
Teachers’ unions
Privatization of public education
Education in Los Angeles
Bilingual education/duel immersion
California politics
Chicana/o studies

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