Previous Faculty Fellows

Heather Montes-Ireland
Women's and Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Decoupling Work and Dignity in Latina Visual Culture”

Ana Schaposchnik
History, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Did the Holy Office Leave Room for Agency?: The Trial of Faith of Francisco Vazquez (Lima, 1600s)”

Monica Reyes
Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Shelter Rhetorics: Storytelling within the U.S. Asylum Process"

Francesca Royster
English, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Listening for My Mother: Travels in Music from Chicago to Bahia"

Carolina Sternberg
Latin American and Latino Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
"Neoliberal Urban Governance. Spaces, Culture and Discourses in Buenos Aires and Chicago"

Rafael Vizcaíno
Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
"Women of Color Feminist Critique as a Decolonizing Spirituality"

Emanuele Colombo
Catholic Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Missions and Memory Indigenous Narratives of the Jesuit Reductions"

Delia Cosentino
History of Art and Architecture, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
"Resurrecting Mexico-Tenochtitlan, 1915-1965"

Joe R. Tafoya
Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
"Bringing in Detatched Latinos: The Link Between Voting and Decision-Making Under Risk"

Fanny Söderbäck
Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Stranger than Other Strangers: On the Figure of the Foreigner in Kristeva and Anzaldúa"

Chris Tirres
Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Virgilio Elizondo's Implicit Evolutionary Cosmology"

Lourdes Torres
Latin American and Latino Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Code-Switching in Latina/o Picture Books"

Ana Schaposchnik
History, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Prisoners’ Agency in the Cells of the Lima Inquisitions (Perú, 1570-1820)"

Rocío Ferreira
Modern Languages, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Las mujeres disparan: Imágenes y poéticas de la violencia política en la novela peruana'

Bradley Hoot
Modern Languages, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Linguistic Properties of Bilingual U.S. Latinos’ Spanish/English Code-Switching"

Rose Spalding
Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Subterranean Politics: Mining and Resistance in Central America"

José Soltero
Sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Factors that Influence Poverty among Mexican Immigrants in the Chicago Area"

Carolina Barrera Tobón
Modern Languages, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Children’s Language Use in a Chicago Spanish Immersion Early Education Classroom"

Ida Shiela Salusky
Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"The Roles of Identity and Supportive Social Networks in College Persistence for First Generation College Students"

Meghan Condon
School of Public Service, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Immigrant Inclusion in the Safety Net and Latino Youth Development"

Susana S. Martínez
Modern Languages, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Disposable and Deportable: Bearing Witness to Testimonies of Central American Migration"

Carolina Sternberg
Latin Americana and Latino Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Understanding 'Simulated' Urban Middle-class Identities in Neoliberal Buenos Aires"

María Rosario Acosta López
Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Conversations on Community, Memory, and Polticial Action (Seminiar with Jean-Luc Nancy)"

Cecilia Martínez-Torteya
Psychology, College of Science and Health
"Violence Exposure and Emotional/Behavioral Problems Among Latino Young Children: The Role of Family Immigration History"

Delia Cosentino
History of Art and Architecture, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"The Aztec Calendar Stone in the Production of a 'Greater Mexico'"

Christopher Tirres
Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Decolonial Aesthetics as a Source for Decolonial Spirituality?: Expanding Walter Mignolo's Spiritual-Philosophical Vision"

Emanuele Colombo
Catholic Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Dreaming Latin America: Early Modern Imagination from a Jesuit Perspective"

María J. Ferrera
School of Public Service, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"The YHSC Impact Study: Engaging Immigrant Youth in a Health Promotion and Outreach Program withn the Latino Community"

Hugh Bartling
Public Policy Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Mexico City's Water Crisis and the Potential for Decentralized Solutions"

Juan Mora-Torres
History, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"From Ceska-Pilsen to Little Mexico: The Making of a Chicago Barrio, 1960-1973"

Bernadette Sánchez
Psychology, College of Science and Health
"Mentoring, Ethnic Identity, and Positive Latino Youth Development"

Camilla Fojas
Latin American and Latino Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Border Media and New Space of Latinidad"

Adrienne Holloway
School of Public Service, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"The Minority Suburbs: Does the Increase of the Minority Population in Suburban America Equate to Positive Geography of Opportunity Outcomes?"

Ana Schaposchnik
History, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
The Inquisition and the Crypto-Jews in 1600s Lima, Perú"

José Zagal
School of Cinema and Interactive Media, Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
"Hispanic Perceptions of Race and its Representation in Videogames"

Bill Johnson González
English, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"'Con-Textos': Early Twentieth Century Latino Periodicals and the Early Latino Journals"

Bibiana Suárez
Art, Media, and Design, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Memoria (Memory): An Art Installation that Investigates the Place of Latino in the Cultural and Political Landscape of the U.S. Since WWII"

Thomas Krainz
History, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Fleeing Mexico's Revolution: El Paso's Treatment of Mexican Refugees, 1910-1920"

Antonio Polo
Psychology, College of Science and Health
"Improving the Health Literacy and Connection of Latino Families Referred to Mental Health Services"

Blackhawk Hancock
Sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Converging Cultures: Latino Culture(s) Role in Defining Chicago's Haute-Cuisine,

Jason Goulah
Leadership, Language, and Curriculum, School of Education
"Soka Education in Latin America: A Case Study in Brazil Soka Elementary School and Brazil Soka Kindergarten"

Winifred Curran
Geography, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Ethnicity, Immigration Status and Language in the Battle Over Schools in Pilsen: Gentrification and the Remaking of Public Education"

René de los Santos
Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Rhetoric of Mexican Revolution"

Rocío Ferreira
Modern Languages, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Yuyanapaq/Para Recordar/To Remember: Memory, Displacement, and Political Violence in Contemporary Peruvian Culture"

Stephen Haymes
Educational Policy Studies and Research, School of Education
"Collective Memory and Internally Displaced Afro-Colombians"

Julie E. Moody-Freeman
African and Black Diaspora Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Framing History and Culture: Indigenous Identities as Cultural and Political Capital in Belize"

Amor Kohli
African and Black Diaspora Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Cu-Bop, Castro, and the Formation of a Global Black Cultural Politics"

Anna O. Law
Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"The U.S. Courts of Appeals and Latin American Immigration"

John Tofik Karam
Latin American and Latino Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Seeking Arabs: Latinos, El Clon, and Post-9/11 Chicago

Jacqueline Lazú
Modern Languages, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Urban Removal, Revolutionary Maneuver: The Voices of the Chicago Young Lords"

José Soltero
Sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Mexican-African and Mexican-Puerto Rican Conflicts in Chicago: Myth or Reality?"

Juan Mora-Torres
History, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"'Me Voy P'al Norte (I'm Going North)': The First Great Mexican Migration to the United States, 1900-1932"

Sylvia Escarcega
Latin American and Latino Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Transnational Indigeneity: A Case Study of Indigenous Migrant Culture in Chicago"

Susana S. Martínez
Modern Languages, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Mediated Images: Visual Representatives of Mayan Women in Modern Day Guatemala"

Jacqueline Lazú
Modern Languages, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"From Cane to Fables: A History of Puerto Rican Theater in the United States"

Alesia García
English, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"Las Lloronas in Action: A Latino Leadership Project (Latina Voces)"

Layla P. Suleiman
School of Education
"Youth Researchers as Youth Development in Latino Communities"

Bernadette Sánchez
Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
"A Psychosociocultural Perspective of the Academic Experience of Latino Adolescents"