Sonia Song-Ha Lee

Associate Professor, Latino Studies Program

Associate Professor, American Studies

Director, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society

• soslee@iu.edu
• 812-855-7716
• Ballantine 545

Research Interests
Black and Latinx studies; social movements, constructions of race and ethnicity, trauma and healing, mental health, abolition

Sylvia Martínez

Professor, Latino Studies Program

Professor, School of Education

• symartin@iu.edu
• (812) 856-8582
• ED 4260

Research Interests
Latina/o education, Latina/o ethnic identity development, sociology of education

Research Interests
Latino/a/x educational pipeline; Latino/a/x ethnic identity, higher education, sociology of education

Juan Ignacio Mora

Assistant Professor, Latino Studies Program

Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History

Assistant Professor, Department of History

• jimora@iu.edu
• 812-855-5229
• Ballantine Hall 848

Research Interests
20th century; Indiana history; Latin American history; U.S. History; Borderlands; citizenship and belonging; cultural history; empire and colonialism; food and food cultures; labor and work; music; race and ethnicity

John Nieto-Phillips

Associate Professor, Latino Studies Program

Vice Provost, Diversity and Inclusion

Associate Professor, History

Founding Editor, Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures

• jnietoph@iu.edu
• (812) 855-3642
• Bryan Hall 115: Ballantine Hall 835

Research Interests
19th century; 20th century; Latin American history; U.S. history; borderlands; citizenship and belonging; cultural history; empire and colonialism; fascism; public history and memory; race and ethnicity; social and revolutionary movements 

Carolina Ortega

Assistant Professor, Latino Studies Program

Assistant Professor, History

• caorte@iu.edu
• 812-855-4051
• Ballantine Hall 856

Research Interests
20th century; Latin American history; borderlands; citizenship and belonging; cultural history; labor and work; race and ethnicity; religion and society

Solimar Otero

Director, Latino Studies Program (on leave)

Professor, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Professor, Department of Gender Studies

• solioter@iu.edu
• 812-855-2732
• 800 E. 3rd St., 213

Research Interests
Afro-Caribbean religions in folklore, literature, and ethnography; archives and alternate histories of gender and sexuality in spiritual contexts; Africana and Afrolatino ritual, art, and performance and their social impacts

Judith Rodriguez

Assistant Professor, Latino Studies Program

Assistant Professor, Gender Studies

• jurodr@iu.edu
• 812-855-0101
• Lindley Hall 230B

Research Interests
Afro-Latina/x/o studies; literary criticism; queer of color critique; Black feminist theory; Black critical theory; performance studies; Caribbean philosophical thought

Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa

Interim Director, Latino Studies Program

Assistant Professor, Latino Studies Program

Assistant Professor, English

Assistant Professor, American Studies

Supporting Faculty, Native American and Indigenous Studies Program

Affiliate Faculty, CREES, CLACS

• olgrodri@iu.edu
• 812-855-8484
• Ballantine Hall 727

Research Interests
Race and feminist theory; Indigenous, Afro-Latinx, and Latin American studies; visual culture, popular music, literature.

Research Interests
race and feminist theory; Indigenous, Latinx and Latin American studies; visual culture; popular music

Alberto Varon

Associate Professor, Latino Studies Program

Associate Professor, English

Interim Associate Director, Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society

• avaron@iu.edu
• 812-856-7991
• Ballantine Hall 459

Research Interests
citizenship, race, and representation in American cultures; Latinx cultures from the 19^th century; interdisciplinary American and Latinx cultures