Maria de los Angeles Torres, Director of LALS
(Ph.D., University of Michigan)
torresma@uic.edu

Frances Aparicio, Professor of LALS
(Ph.D., Harvard University)
franapar@uic.edu   

Xóchitl Bada, Assistant Professor of LALS

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

xbada@uic.edu

Christopher Boyer, Associate Professor of LALS and History, Undergraduate Advisor
(Ph.D., University of Chicago)
crboyer@uic.edu 

Ralph Cintron, Associate Professor of LALS and English
Rhetoric and Ethnography
rcintron@uic.edu

Nilda Flores-González, Associate Professor of LALS and Sociology
(Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Sociology of U.S. Latinos/as.
nilda@uic.edu  

Elena Gutierrez, Associate Professor of LALS and Gender & Women Studies
(Ph.D., University of Michigan)
Chicana Studies; Health and Gender.
elgut@uic.edu

Alejandro L. Madrid, Assistant Professor of LALS

(Ph.D., The Ohio State University)

Musicology and Comparative Cultural Studies.

almadrid@uic.edu;

Joel Palka, Associate Professor of LALS and Anthropology
(Ph.D., Vanderbilt University)
Meso-American Studies/Archeology.
jpalka@uic.edu 

Amalia Pallares, Associate Professor of LALS and Political Science
(Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin)
Latin American/Latino Politics.
amalia@uic.edu 

Christian Roa, Associate Professor of LALS and Spanish
(Ph.D., Princeton University ) 

roa@uic.edu

Javier Villa-Flores, Associate Professor of LALS and History
(Ph.D., University of California , San Diego )
Mexican Colonial History.
javier@uic.edu

Other Faculty Teaching LALS

Anthropology: Brian Bauer, Waud Kracke, Jack Prost,
Anna Roosevelt

Art & Design: Silvia Malagrino

Art History: Ellen Baird, Virginia Miller

Criminal Justice: Mindie Lazarus Black, Lisa Sánchez

Economics: Barry Chiswick, Carmel Chiswick, Joseph Persky

Education: Irma Olmedo, Flora Rodríguez Brown, Pamela Quiroz.

English: Richard Cameron, Todd DeStigter, Luis Alberto Urrea

Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences: Peter Scheff

History: Renato Barahona, Bruce Calder, Melvin Holli, Leon Fink

Management:

Psychology: Olga Reyes

Public Health: Noel Chávez, Victoria Persky, Jesus Ramirez Del Valle

Social Work: Aida Giachello

Sociology: Anthony Orum

Spanish: Rafael Nuñez Cedeño, Margarita Saona, Dianna Niebylski

Urban Planning: John Betancur, David Ranney