Biography Andrea-Teresa (“Tess” Arenas) is retired from her positions at UW-Madison as a Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies Faculty Affiliate and the director of the Office of Service Learning and Community-Based Research in the College of Letters & Science. She has directed the Somos Latinas Digital History Project and is now the coordinator and founder of …
Biography Patrick Barrett was the Managing Director of the Havens-Wright Center f0r Social Justice, which is housed in the Department of Sociology, until his retirement. He also served as a faculty associate with the University’s Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies. His research and teaching centers on history, politics, labor, empire, and …
Biography Jim Escalante is a professor emeritus of Art. During his time as a faculty member, he served as director of the CLS Program and offered diligent and valuable service to the Program.
Biography Before her retirement, Mary Louise Gómez was Professor of Literacy Studies & Teacher Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She taught courses to aspiring teachers concerning varying aspects of diversity—such as race, ethnicity, social class, gender identity/sexual orientation, language background, and gender. She also taught graduate courses focusing on life history and narrative …
Biography Prof. Márquez’s teaching and research interests are in political sociology and American politics. He has published extensively on Latinos and American politics; his research has focused on Mexican American social movement organizations. He has served as the Director of the Chicano/Latino Studies Program. He published research chronicles political mobilization in South El Paso, Texas, …
Biography Dr. Quintana received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology in 1989 from the University of Notre Dame. Before joining the faculty at UW-Madison in 1996, he was on the faculty in the Counseling Psychology Program at the University of Texas at Austin for seven years where he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor. During …
Biography Prof. Scarano studies the Caribbean & Latin America. His research and teaching area is the history of the Caribbean region, with emphasis on the Spanish-speaking nations and Puerto Rico in particular. He has worked on all periods and a variety of topics, ranging from slavery and the plantation economy, demographic history, and the reconstituted …
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Biography A retired Professor of Counseling Psychology and Human Development and Family Studies, Lynet Uttal grew up in many places (Ann Arbor, Michigan; Oahu, Hawaii, Kyoto, Japan; Perth, Western Australia), and as an adult lived in Santa Cruz, Berkeley, and Oakland, California; Memphis, Tennessee, Phoenix, Arizona before arriving in Madison, Wisconsin. These multiple border crossings …