Lecturer Faculty

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

John Calloway

Title: Lecturer Faculty

Appointment: 1999

Research Interests: Equity and social justice in the arts

Brigitte Davila

Brigitte Davila

Title: Lecturer Faculty

Appointment: 1994

Research Interests: Law and public policy, with an emphasis on community activism.

Daniel Acosta Elkan

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

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

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

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

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

Daisy Zamora-Evans

Title: Lecturer Faculty

Appointment: 2011

Research Interests: Cultural studies, media studies, visual culture, literature, art and political studies. 

Meet LTNS Faculty Members