People

Ivonne del Valle

Associate Professor of Colonial Studies. She received her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2004, and before returning to the Bay Area in 2009, she taught at the University of Michigan. Her research and teaching make connections between the past and the present which try to show the relevance of the colonial period for an understanding of contemporary times. She was co-director of the Berkeley research group “Mexico and the Rule of Law.” She has written a book and a series of articles on the Jesuits (José de Acosta and Loyola, and Jesuits in the northern borderlands of New Spain) as a...

Oscar Perea Rodriguez

Lecturer 5212 Dwinelle Hall opr@berkeley.edu Office Hours: M 10-11, W 11-12 pm

Alejandra Decker

Alejandra Decker is a Ph.D candidate in Hispanic Languages & Literatures and a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is on 19th century Latin American and Latinx literatures, science, and technology, with a special focus on mining literature and scientific writing in postcolonial Mexico. She has taught Spanish language and literature courses for both heritage speakers and foreign language learners.

Jose Rabasa

Professor Emeritus jrabasa@berkeley.edu

Arthur Askins

Professor Emeritus alfa@berkeley.edu

Dru Dougherty

Professor Emeritus 5213 Dwinelle Hall enigma@berkeley.edu Office Hours: By appointment

Candace Slater

Ph. D., Stanford University, 1975. (Professor) Research interests: Brazilian Literature and Culture; Latin American folk and popular traditions.

Julio Ramos

Professor Emeritus ramosj@berkeley.edu

Milton Azevedo

Professor Emeritus 5213 Dwinelle Hall mmazeved@berkeley.edu

Jamila Leaks

Academic Personnel Coordinator 5315 Dwinelle Hall gspaacad@berkeley.edu