Faculty Listing
Professors
Abel Valenzuela Jr., Chair
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
abel@ucla.edu
Judith Baca
M.A., California State University Northridge
judybaca@ucla.edu
Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
agdealba@ucla.edu
Reynaldo F. Macías
Ph.D., Georgetown University
reynaldo@chavez.ucla.edu
Associate Professors
Eric Avila
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
eavila@ucla.edu
Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda
Ph.D., University of Chicago
raulhinojosa@comcast.net
María Cristina Pons
Ph.D., University of Southern California
mcpons@ucla.edu
Otto Santa Ana
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
otto@ucla.edu
Assistant Professors
Leisy Abrego
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
abrego@ucla.edu
Maylei Blackwell
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
maylei@chavez.ucla.edu
David Hernández
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
dhernandez@chavez.ucla.edu
Robert Chao Romero
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
rcromero@chavez.ucla.edu
Joint Faculty
Rosina Becerra (Social Welfare)
Leobardo Estrada (Urban Planning)
Kris Gutierrez, Emeritus (Education)
Daniel Solórzano (Education)
Jose Luis Valenzuela (Theater)
Affiliated Faculty
Héctor Calderón (Spanish & Portuguese)
Juan Gómez-Quiñones (History)
Carlos Grijálva (Psychology)
David Hayes-Bautista (Medicine)
Marissa K. López (English)
Steven Loza (Ethnomusicology)
Chon A. Noriega (Film, Television, and Digital Media)
Vilma Ortíz (Sociology)
Rafaél Pérez-Torres (English)
Susan Plann (Applied Linguistics, Spanish & Portuguese)
Fernando M. Torres-Gil (Social Welfare)
Concepción Valadez (Education)
Charlene Villaseñor Black (Art History)
Lecturers
Alejandro Covarrubias
Alma López
Avis Ridley-Thomas
Abigail Rosas



