Amy Sara Carroll, Ph.D. Duke University, 2004, MFA, Cornell University, 1995. Assistant Professor, American Culture/Latina/o Studies and English. Research Interests: Latina/o American contemporary cultural production, including performance, art, video, and literature, feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory, visual culture, cultural studies, inter-American studies, border studies, and critical creative writing. amysara@umich.edu
Maria Eugenia Cotera, Ph.D. Stanford, 2000. Director of Latina/o Studies (LS); Associate Professor, American Culture and Women's Studies. Research Interests: U.S./Third-World feminist theory, women of color intellectual geneologies, Latina feminism, comparative ethnic studies, American modernism, history of anthropology. mcotera@umich.edu
Colin Gunckel, Ph.D. UCLA, 2009. Assistant Professor of American Culture and Screen Arts and Cultures. Research Interests: American film history, Chicano/Latino art, Chicano/Latino film and media, Chicano/Latino music cultures, Chicano/Latino print culture, cultural studies, documentary, exploitation films, film genres, globalization, historiography, Latin Americna cinema, Latinos and urban space, media exhibition and reception, Mexican cinema, national cinemas, latin American cinema, and Third-World cinema.
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Ph.D. Princeton, 2002. Asociate Professor, American Culture and History. Research Interests: Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o history, international migrations, music and popular culture, community research, and oral history.
Selected Courses: The History of Latinos in the U.S., The History of Latinos in Michigan, The Latin Tinge: Latin Music in Social Context in The U.S. and Latin America. jessehg@umich.edu
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Ph.D. Columbia, 1999. Assistant Professor, American Culture/Latino Studies and Spanish. Research Interests: Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latina/o literature and culture; theater and performance studies; queer, lesbian, and gay studies; women's and gender studies. lawrlafo@umich.edu
Anthony P. Mora, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2002. Assistant Professor of American Culture and History. Research Interests: Chicana/o history, nationalism, race, and sexuality. apmora@umich.edu
Silvia Pedraza, Ph.D., Chicago, 1980. Professor, Sociology. Research Interests: The sociology of immigration, race, and ethnicity in America; the labor market incorporation of immigrants and ethnics in America; immigrants and refugees as social types; the sociology of the Cuban revolution and exodus; and comparative studies of immigrants and ethnics in America, historical and contemporary. spedraza@umich.edu
Daniel Ramirez, Ph.D. Duke, 2005. Assistant Professor of American Culture and History. Research Interests: American religious history; immigration, race and ethnicity in the Americas; African American studies; Mesoamerican/Latin American/Afro-Latino religions; Asian American religions; religious musics in the Americas; evangelicalisms of the Americas; Church and State; (post)colonial religious history; politics and religion; Spanish Reformation. dramire@umich.edu
Yeidy Rivero, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2000. Associate Professor of American Culture and Screen Arts & Cultures. Research Interests: Television studies, race and media, global media, Latino/a, Spanish Caribbean, Latin American, and African diaspora studies. yrivero@umich.edu
