College of Letters & Science
Biography Yohualli B. Anaya, MD, MPH earned her medical degree and Master of Public Health from the USC Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California. She completed residency training at the UCLA Family Medicine Residency Program. Before coming to the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH) at the University of Wisconsin School …
Biography Nidia Bañuelos is an Assistant Professor of Adult, Continuing, and Higher Education. She studies the design and implementation of new postsecondary programs for working adults, as well as the assets that low-income students with caregiving responsibilities bring to their education. She has a special interest in the history of “non-traditional” learners and the institutions …
Biography Edna Ely-Ledesma, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Director of the Kaufman Lab for the Study and Design of Food Systems and Marketplaces. She holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Science from Texas A&M University, Master of Architecture and a …
Biography As a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, Falina Enriquez studies music and language as an ensemble that helps us understand how people construct the world and emplace themselves—and others—within it. She focuses on the cultural politics of music as a form of artistic practice and labor in Recife, Brazil, a city long known as a …
Biography Micha Espinosa is an internationally recognized multi-hyphenate artist, educator, director (theatre and film), producer, and editor whose work spans voice, acting, actor training, pedagogy, authorship, and performance practices. She advances culturally responsive methodologies and centers Chicana/o/x, Latinx, and historically excluded narratives in theatre and film, shaping inclusive approaches to voice, performance, and storytelling. Professor Espinosa is …
Biography Frank Fernandez is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at University of Wisconsin, Madison. He teaches graduate courses on organizational theory and education finance. His work emphasizes higher education’s potential for promoting the public good through three strands of research. First, concerned with the role of higher education in society, especially in …
Biography Denia Garcia is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs. Garcia’s work examines the role of space and organizations in shaping how inequalities are experienced and reproduced. She is writing a book about community and belonging in a diverse neighborhood based on in-depth fieldwork in a Chicago neighborhood. Garcia also studies participatory budgeting, racial classification, …
Biography Dr. Gloria has several research teams exploring the educational processes and coping strategies that facilitate academic persistence and educational wellness for students of color. Studies are conceptualized using the Psychosociocultural approach to academic persistence in which the “whole student” is considered within the context of the university environment. Central to her work is the …
Biography Víctor Goldgel-Carballo is a scholar and a novelist with a particular interest in Spanish America, the Caribbean, and the 19th century. His research and teaching focus on race and ethnicity in a comparative frame, media history, aesthetics, visual culture, and modernism/modernity. He is the author of Cuando lo nuevo conquistó América. Prensa, moda y literatura en …
Biography Paola S. Hernández specializes in contemporary Latin American theatre, performance, and Latinx Studies. She has published numerous articles on Southern Cone theatre, performance and memory politics, sites of memory, human rights, and documentary theatre. She is the author El teatro de Argentina y Chile: Globalización, resistencia y desencanto (Corregidor, 2009), co-editor (with Brenda Werth and Florian …