Faculty Committee
Celeste González de Bustamante, Mexico Center Chair
Chair
Celeste González de Bustamante holds the Mary Gibbs Jones Centennial Chair in the School of Journalism and Media, will step in as the Chair of the Mexico Center in August 2024. Dr. González de Bustamante has been recognized for her research on historical and contemporary issues related to media in Mexico, other parts of Latin America, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Her latest book, Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century (2021), has received three national awards. Read more about Dr. González de Bustamante here.
Committee Member
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Edgar Gómez-Cruz
Assistant Dean for Community and Global Initiatives and Associate Professor, School of Information
Interests: Digital ethnograpy; visual culture; critical studies on data and algorithms; Latin America
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Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla
Associate Professor, School of Architecture
Interests: Ancient mason techniques; stereotomy, descriptive geometry, and architectural geometry informed by form-resistant structures
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Pilar Zazueta
Associate Professor of Instruction, LLILAS
Interests: Public policy; food consumption and nutrition; gender
Mexicanist Faculty
With over 70 Mexicanist faculty on campus, UT Austin has one of the largest research and teaching groups on Mexico and border issues outside Mexico. Their research covers a range of interests, from Mesoamerica's culture and languages to colonial and modern history, water resources, social inequalities, migration and border issues, gender and indigenous issues, contemporary Mexican politics, and art and architecture.
Visit the LLILAS Faculty page and filter your search by area to learn about LLILAS faculty working on Mexican, border, and Latino issues.
LLILAS Mexicanist faculty with Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui (center)
