Faculty Members
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Anna Ochoa O'Leary Department Head Email: olearya@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-8134 FAX: (520) 621-7966 Office: Chávez, Room 207A Dr. Anna Ochoa O'Leary, is Professor and Department Head. She received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. Her dissertation, "Investment in Female Education as an Economic Strategy among... |
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Antonio Estrada Professor Email: aestrada@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7551 FAX: (520) 621-7966 Office: Chávez Bldg., Room 208 Antonio "Tony" Estrada is a Professor of Mexican American Studies and Public Health, and has been with the MAS department since 1991. He received his master's and doctorate degrees in Public Health, graduating from the UCLA School of Public Health in 1986. His primary interests are in... |
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Patrisia Gonzales Associate Professor Email: pgonza@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-0408 FAX: (520) 621-7966 Office: Chávez, Room 220 As the granddaughter of Kickapoo, Comanche and Macehual peoples who migrated throughout the present-day United States and Mexico, Patrisia Gonzales specializes in Indigenous ways of knowing and Indigenous medicine. She obtained her Ph.D. in Mass Communications from the Department of Life... |
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Maurice Rafael Magaña Assistant Professor Email: mmagana0512@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1037 FAX: (520) 621-7966 Office: Chávez, Room 207C Maurice (Mauricio) Rafael Magaña is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the cultural politics of youth organizing, transnational migration, urban space, and social movements in Mexico and the United States. Specifically, Dr. Magaña’s work examines how youth construct... |
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Lydia Otero Associate Professor, Emeritus Email: lotero@email.arizona.edu Lydia R. Otero was a faculty member in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona from 2003 to 2020. They specialized in Public and Oral History, Latinx Urbanization and Placemaking in Latinx Communities. Otero's essays on (Re)claiming Place and History, Heritage... |
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Roberto Rodríguez Associate Professor Email: rodrigu7@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-0824 FAX: (520) 621-7966 Office: Chávez, Room 207B Roberto Rodriguez, PhD – or Dr. Cintli – is an associate professor, in the Mexican American Studies Department, at the University of Arizona. He is a longtime-award-winning journalist/columnist who returned to school in 2003 in pursuit of a Master's degree (2005) and a Ph.D. in Mass... |
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Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith Adjunct Lecturer Email: rrg@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-4987 FAX: (520) 621-7966 Office: Chávez, Room 207C Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith is the Co-Director of the Binational Migration Institute at the Department of Mexican American Studies at UA.... |
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Michelle Téllez Assistant Professor Email: michelletellez@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-0409 Office: César Chavez Bldg., Room 228 Dr. Michelle Téllez, an interdisciplinary scholar trained in Community Studies, Sociology, Chicana/o Studies and Education, has been committed to mapping projects of resistance, exploring shared human experiences and advancing social justice for the last 25-years. Having been raised along the U.... |
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Ada Wilkinson-Lee Associate Professor Email: adaw@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-7766 FAX: (520) 621-7966 Office: Chávez, Room 214 Ada Wilkinson-Lee, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. She completed her postdoctoral work as a WARMER Fellow with the National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health at the University of Arizona. Both her Ph.D. and Master’s... |