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.

John Calloway
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 1999
Research Interests: Equity and social justice in the arts

Brigitte Davila
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 1994
Research Interests: Law and public policy, with an emphasis on community activism.

Daniel Acosta Elkan
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 2018
Research Interests: Puerto Ricans in the U.S., cross-racial activism, migration studies, social movements, citizenship.

Ruben Diaz Vasquez
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 2023
Research Interests: Chicana/o/x Cultural Studies, Chicanx Literary Theory, Latinx Studies, Ethnography & Fieldwork Methods, Ethnographies of Culture, Race, & Space, Sociology of Immigration, Sociology of Race, Transnational Feminisms, and Postcolonial & Decolonial Theory, Nahuatl Language and Literature

Leticia Hernandez
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 1998; 2002; 2016
Research Interests: Central American Studies and local San Francisco history and populations.
Angelina Loyola
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 2021
Research Interests: School-to-Prison Pipeline, Race and Ethnicity, Critical Pedagogy; Lowrider Studies, Sociology of the Chicana/x/o Experience, Indigenous Epistemologies

Yvette Rico
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 2020
Research Interests: Burnout and stress in psychology graduate students and psychologists.
Augustine Romero
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 2023
Research Interests:

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.

Daisy Zamora-Evans
Title: Lecturer Faculty
Appointment: 2011
Research Interests: Cultural studies, media studies, visual culture, literature, art and political studies.