Lecturer Faculty in the Latina/Latino Studies Department share their research, scholarship, creative works and community projects through the classes they teach. Please note that the Lecturer Faculty’s service to the University does not include serving as academic advisors or chairs of a student’s thesis committee.
Daniel Acosta Elkan
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 2018
Research Interests: Puerto Ricans in the U.S., cross-racial activism, migration studies, social movements, citizenship.
Carlos Ernesto Cuauhtemoc Hagedorn
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 2016 (SF State), 2024 (LTNS)
Research Interests: 21st Century Ethnic Studies Movement, Ethnic Studies Youth Development and Third World Solidarity and Internationalism
Emelia Leon
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 2024
Research Interests: Adolescent sexual health, reproductive justice, healing centered approaches, activism as a strategy to heal the body, community centered poetry & writing workshops
Augustine Romero
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 2023
Research Interests: Anti-racism in Policy, Anti-racism in Education, Critical Race Theory in Education, Critical Race Theory in Policy, Equity in Education, Equity in Policy, Language Revitalization and Sustainability.
Eileene C. Tejada
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 2018
Research Interests: Application of African, Indigenous and Caribbean epistemologies and pedagogies to expand ways of knowing and being in the American classroom.
Arianna Vargas
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 2024
Research Interests: Race, Class, Gender; Latinx and Black feminisms; Social Movements; Latinx sociology; Ethnic Studies; Culture; Health and Healing; Resiliency; police violence; Sociology of Knowledge; Third Spaces; Pop-up Spaces; Mercados; Latinx Spaces in the Bay Area.
Daisy Zamora-Evans
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 2011
Research Interests: Cultural studies, media studies, visual culture, literature, art and political studies.