Ethnic Studies Department Faculty and Staff
Department Chair &Assistant Professor of Critical Pacific Islands & Oceania Studies & Asian American
Studies Administrative Support Coordinator Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies Assistant Professor of Native American & Indigenous Studies and Native American Studies Associate Professor of Black Studies Assistant Professor of Latinx StudiesFaculty and Staff Directory
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Dr. Maria Gutierrez de Jesus received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies from the
University of California at Davis. She is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies
at 糖心Vlog视频, Bakersfield. Her teaching and research interests include
Indigenous-based pedagogies and community-based education, Indigenous media with a
focus on community-owned media, Indigenous women, and Indigenous cultural and language
revitalization and reclamation practices. She is currently working on her first book
manuscript, tentatively titled 鈥淛uchari Anapu Jimpo! Reclamation of the Heritage Language
and Identity: Social Processes, Oral Memory, and Innovations in the Non-P鈥檜rh茅pecha
Speaking Communities of Lake P谩tzcuaro,鈥� which traces Indigenous language reclamation
practices in her home community, Huecorio, Michoac谩n, Mexico.
Dr. Jos茅 G. Villagr谩n was born and raised on the migrant farmworker circuits between
Northern California, South Texas, and Wisconsin. He earned an M.A. in Mexican-American
Studies and a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Texas at
Austin and has an extensive teaching background in Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Studies.
He researches Latinx labor with a particular focus on migrant and seasonal farmworkers
of the 鈥淢idwest stream鈥� between South Texas and the U.S. Midwest.
