Faculty & Staff

Director:

Dr. Christina Torres García

Affiliate Faculty:

Supporting Faculty:

Africana and Black Studies

Bobby Cummings

Phone: (509) 963-1075
Email: Bobby.Cummings@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: English, Curriculum, Rhetoric and Composition, African American Literature

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Anthropology

Rodrigo F. Rentería-Valencia

Phone: (509) 963-3549
Email: Rodrigo.Renteria@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: Environmental anthropology, linguistic anthropology, semiotics, visual anthropology, ritual and performance theory, human geography, maritime anthropology, indigenous studies. Ethnographic Specialization: the greater Southwest (including northern Mexico)

Nicole Jastremski

Phone: (509) 963-2215
Email: Nicole.Jastremeski@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: Biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, mortuary analysis, paleopathology, taphonomy, identity formation, Ecuador

Art

Biology

Daniel Beck

Phone: (509) 963-2886
Email: beckd@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: Terrestrial Ecology of the Pacific Northwest, Herpetology, Tropical Dry Forest Ecology, Mexico.

Kristina Ernest

Phone: (509) 963-2805
Email: ernestk@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: Population and community ecology. I am particularly interested in community structure, plant-herbivore interactions, and tropical biology.

Fabiola Serra Fuertes

Phone: (509) 963-3011
Email: fuertesf@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise:

Communication

César Garcia

Phone: (509) 963-1097
Email: Cesar.Garcia@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: Global public relations, image restoration strategies, sport public relations professional.

Cesar Garcia

Christina Torres García, Director

Email: Christina.Garcia@cwu.edu
Interest & Expertise: Her research focus lies at the intersections of social justice, Chicana feminist epistemologies, and critical race studies. Dra. Torres García's many accomplishments showcase her tremendous experience as an administrator and educator, alongside her outstanding advocacy and dedication to the values of equity and inclusion, and Latinx student success.

Curriculum, Supervision, & Educational Leadership

Susana Flores

Phone: (509) 963-2601
Email: Susana.Flores@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: Latinx students in K-16 education; Politics of Bilingual Education; Anti-racist education; Undergraduate Research

Keith Reyes

Phone: (509) 963-1547
Email: Keith.Reyes@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: multicultural education, systems of stratification, and Mexican American/racial-ethnic minority educational inequity (pk-20). Interests include reading the Bible, supporting students, and spending time with my wife and son.

Economics

Koushik Ghosh
Phone: (509) 963-1014
Email: Koushik.Ghosh@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: Public Finance and Policy, Global Issues, International Trade and Policy, Money, Banking and Financial Markets, as well as Managerial Economics.

Toni Sipic

Phone: (509) 963-2605
Email: Toni.Sipic@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise:

English

Chris Schedler

Phone: (509) 963-1357
Email: Christopher.Schedler@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: American Literature, Multicultural Literatures (particularly American Indian and Latino/a), Latin American Literatures, Modernism, and Border Theory

Pedro Xavier Cavazos

Phone: (509) 963-1573
Email: Pedro.Cavazos@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: Cavazos teaches in the Africana and Black Studies, Latino and Latin American Studies, and in the Professional and Creative Writing Programs at Central Washington University.

Geography

Craig Revels

Phone: (509) 963-1447
Email: Craig.Revels@cwu.edu

Interests & Expertise: cultural-historical Geography, landscape, Latin America

Elvin Delgado

Phone: (509) 963-2184
Email: Elvin.Delgado@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: energy and capitalism, political economy and nature, critical resource geography, and political ecology

Sterling Quinn

Phone: (509) 963-1186
Email: Sterling.Quinn@cwu.edu
Website: www.sterlingquinn.net

Interests & Expertise: Web mapping and geographic information systems, critical cartography, crowdsourced maps, open-source software, Latin America

Jennifer Lipton

Phone: (509) 963-1164
Email: Jennifer.Lipton@cwu.edu
Interests and Expertise: environmental geography, remote sensing, mountain environments, Latin America

History

Jason Dormady

Phone: (509) 963-1244
Email: Jason.Dormady@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: popular interpretations of revolution, as well as issues surrounding religion, sacred space, and community formation. He is currently working on a project that looks at urban planning and hygiene in post-revolutionary Guadalajara, Mexico. His archival research in Mexico has been primarily carried out in Guadalajara, Edo. Mex, DF, and Morelos.

Law and Justice

Veronica Cano Phone: (509) 963-2332 Email: Veronica.Cano@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: include youth justice, culture, gender, and comparative research with a focus on intersectionality. Her dissertation focused on exploring the impact of ethnic identity on risk-taking behaviors among Latina youth in the United States and the United Kingdom
Rodrigo Murataya Phone: (509) 963-3667 Email: Rodrigo.Murataya@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: specializes in criminal law, law enforcement and comparative criminal justice with a particular focus on Mexico

Political Science

Gilberto Garcia

Phone: (509) 963-2416
Email: Gilbert.Garcia@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: Latinos in the Pacific Northwest; Latino/a and Chicano/a Studies an emphasis on Pacific Northwest, U.S. Mexico border studies; Latin American Politics

Stefanie Wickstrom, PhD
Phone: 509-963-2408
Email: stefanie.wickstrom@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: political ecology, environmental politics, political culture, indigenous peoples and capitalist development, Mexico, Chile, Panama

Sociology

Nelson Pichardo Almanzar

Phone: (509) 963-1348
Email: Nelson.Pichardo@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: Minority Groups, Ethnic Awareness, Social Movements, Political Sociology, the Sociology of Sport, Sociology of Education, and Sociology of the Future.

World Languages and Cultures

Eric Mayer

Phone: (509) 963-3334
Email: Eric.Mayer@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: Spanish Renaissance and Baroque literatures, with an emphasis on Cervantes.

Hilda Peña-Alfaro

Phone: (509) 963-1218
Email: Hilda.Pena-Alfaro@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise: Heritage Language Learners Assessment, Self-Identification and Proficiency; Cross-Cultural Communication; Second Language Acquisition; Strategic Management; Culture, Language and Literacy

LANGUAGES: Native Spanish Speaker, near-native proficiency in French, English and Portuguese

Michael Johnson

Phone: (509) 963-3559
Email: mijohnson@cwu.edu
Interests & Expertise:

Supporting Staff

Veronica Gomez-Vilchis Human Resources Consultant Phone: (509) 963-2155 Email: Veronica.Gomez-Vilchis@cwu.edu
Ediz Kaykayoglu Executive Director, International Studies & Programs Phone: (509) 963-3616 Email: Ediz.Kaykayoglu@cwu.edu
Adrian Naranjo Director, Student Financial Services Phone: (509) 963-3546 Email: sfsdirector@cwu.edu
David Peña-Alfaro Director, Financial Planning & Analysis Phone: (509) 963-2340 Email: David.Pena-Alfaro@cwu.edu
Manuel Rodriguez Executive Director, Game On! and CWU Mariachi Advisor Phone: (509) 963-2216 Email: Manuel.Rodriguez@cwu.edu