Faculty Committee
Laura Gutiérrez, Mexico Center Chair
Chair
Laura Gutiérrez is associate professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies. Her primary areas of interest are Latin American and Latina/o performance and visual culture studies; gender and sexuality studies; feminist theories; and questions of race, including blackness in Mexican popular culture. Gutiérrez was the inaugural recipient of the Dean's Faculty Mentoring Award from the College of Liberal Arts in spring 2022. She is the author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage (2010). Gutiérrez holds affiliate appointments in the Center for Mexican American Studies, the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, and LLILAS, where she serves on the Executive Committee.
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)
