Sociology Faculty
Research Interests
- Queer and trans life in the Anglophone Caribbean and its diasporas
- Queer and trans asylum
- Caribbean festivals
- The Chinese Caribbean
- Community-centered ethnography
Research Interests
- Community and urban sociology
- U.S. immigration and integration
- Population and society
Juanita DÃaz-Cotto
Affiliated Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Areas Studies Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Research Interests
- Criminal Justice/Penal Institutions
- Gender/Sexuality
- Latinas and Other People of Color in the U.S.
- Latin American and Caribbean History
Research Interests
- Politics in Latin America
- Historical sociology
- State-business relations
Juliana Góes
LACAS Faculty Affiliate
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Research Interests
- Race and racism
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Social movements
- Decolonial theory
- Gender and sexuality
- Global sociology
- Urban sociology
Gladys Jiménez-Muñoz
Affiliated Faculty
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Affiliated Faculty
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Research Interests
- U.S. Women’s History
- Latinas/os in the U.S.
- Puerto Rican Women’s History
- Feminist Theories
- Cultural Studies
- Critique of Coloniality
Research Interests
- Capitalism as World-Ecology
- Environmental History
- Agrarian Change
Research Interests
- Settler colonial whiteness
- U.S. empire
- Militarism in Oceania
- Anti-racism beyond the state
- Indigenous and settler solidarities
Research Interests
- Latin America and the United States
- Urban agriculture
- Food justice and sovereignty movements
- Environmental ethics
- Community-based research
- Political economy/ecology
Kelvin Santiago Valles
Professor
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Research Interests
- African Diaspora
- The Americas
- The Caribbean Within World-system
Marina Sitrin
Associate Professor
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Research Interests
- Abolition and Alternative Adjudication Processes
- Collective Action, Social Movements/Societies in Movement
- Commons, Commoning and Municipalism
- Prefigurative and Affective Politics and Direct/Participatory Democracy
George Ygarza
LACAS Faculty Affiliate
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Research Interests
- Latin American state formation
- Race-making
- Place-based and informed resistance
- Otherwise politics
- Abolition
Affiliated Faculty
Memoriam – Benita Roth
Memoriam – Dale W. Tomich