Tenure Track Faculty

Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies

Chicanx and Latinx aesthetics, performance, and popular culture, Gender and Sexuality, queer oral histories, Los Angeles queer Latinx histories, Queer of color theories, Jotería Studies, Jotería pedagogies, Queer Space, Feminist geographies, Sound Studies, Critical Fat studies.

H-324-C

edalvarez@fullerton.edu

Erualdo R. González

Department  Professor

Community development, gentrification, neighborhood planning, planning and health, urban politics, critical urbanism, and planning and Latina/os- Mexican Immigration.

H-312 B

egonzalez@fullerton.edu

Alexandro José Gradilla

Associate Professor

Critical Medical Anthropology, Social Theory (Focault, Gramsci), Social history (19th, 20th century), Marxist political theory, Race, racism, and racialization, Indigeneity and autochthonous identities, Bioethics, Cultural Competency, Latin American Subaltern Studies, Gender and Men’s/Masculinity Studies, Reproductive health, Mentorship, Recruiting, retaining and tenuring faculty of color.

H-324 F

agradilla@fullerton.edu

Monica D. Hanna

Associate Professor

Literary and cultural studies: U.S., U.S. Latina/o, African American, Latin American, Italian, Nationalisms and transnationalisms, including concepts of trans-Americanity and the global South, Literary Journalism, Comparative literatures of migration (U.S., Europe), Historiography, Postmodernism, Genre studies, Spatial theory, Translation.

H-314

mohanna@fullerton.edu

Gabriela Nuñez

Department Chair and Associate Professor

Contemporary Chicanx and Latinx literature and cultural studies, environmentalism in popular culture and social justice movements, BIPOC sports and recreation.

H-314

gnunez@fullerton.edu

Mario Alberto Obando

Assistant Professor

Latinx and Chicanx oral and public history, queer and feminist of color interventions in comparative ethnic studies and pedagogy, Central American diaspora, Latinx and Indigenous spirituality.

H324-A 

 maobando@fullerton.edu

Patricia A. Pérez

Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty

Chicana/o Education; College Choice; Examinations of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Immigration Status on College Access, Equity, Persistence and Retention; Qualitative Research.

H-211 H

pperez@fullerton.edu

Marlen Rios-Hernandez

Assistant Professor

Gender and Sexuality, Cultural Studies with an emphasis on Film, Critical Ethnographies, Sound Studies, Chicana Feminisms, Hemispheric Punk Movements and Policing “Post”-COINTELPRO, Feminist Musicology, Punk Pedagogy and Archival Research Methods.

H-330

mrioshernandez@fullerton.edu

Nadia Zepeda

Assistant Professor

Chicana feminisms, healing justice, transformative justice, community wellness, healing and self-care, oral history, gender & sexuality, women of color feminisms, Chicana/x Indigeneity and Chicana/x spirituality.

H-324D 

nzepeda@fullerton.edu