Latina/o/x Studies & Scholars
This starter pack includes people who write on US Latina/o/x experience in a broad and expansive ways. Please send suggestions and invite others!
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@jorgenleal.bsky.social
@rtrodrig.bsky.social
Professor. Writer. Author of A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad (@dukepress.bsky.social). Southern Californian still in love with Chicago.
@laprofelgp.bsky.social
Afro Latina. Professor at Princeton. Author of Community as Rebellion. Radically imagining a world where Haiti and Palestine are free, Black lives are centered, women and queer folx are safe and schools teach for freedom. www.lorgiagarciapena.com
@mvasquezruiz.bsky.social
Oaxaqueña in LA researching histories of Indigenous immigration. UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, UCLA || PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity @USC https://michelle-vasquez-ruiz.com
@abregoleisy.bsky.social
@drefajr.bsky.social
Chicanx-Cubanx Scholar, Writer, Joteria Studies, Sound, LA, Oral History, Pop Culture. Associate Professor and Chair, Dept of Chicana & Chicano Studies, CSU Fullerton; from North Hollywood; Water sign, stickers, sequins.
@jairofunez.bsky.social
For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring... dignity.
@mcantusanchez.bsky.social
Educator, mother, wife, life-long learner, book lover, scholar, writer, and overall advocate for justice and peace. I am an Instructor of English devoted to teaching Latinx and Multi-Ethnic Literature while inspiring my students to become agents of change.
@drlizaaranda.bsky.social
Sociologist who studies im/migrant lives, specifically im/migrant well-being among undocumented youth and Puerto Rican climate migrants. Views are my own and do not reflect the institution for which I work.
@nimperatori.bsky.social
Catholic theologian, professor, feminist. Cuban-American mom in NYC. Church nerd, cross-stitcher, romance reader. She/her.
@normaelia-8.bsky.social
@nicholemflores.bsky.social
Associate professor of religious studies at UVA. Author of The Aesthetics of Solidarity: Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy (Georgetown 2021). Writing a book on Advent & Christian political imagination. Views are mine and they are breathtaking.
@jaxhidalgo.bsky.social
Student of biblical studies, religion, Latinaoxe studies, apocalypse, utopia, etc.; educator based in San Diego, California.
@mespino19.bsky.social
Doctora | MKE 🏡 | Zaca 🇲🇽 | lifter 🏋🏾♀️ | ΧΥΣ 🌺🦉 | ISU🌪 🔴🟡 | MU 🦅💙💛| UW 🦡♥️🤍 | https://linktr.ee/mespino19
@delmaramos.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of #HigherEd Asset-based research for equity, & social justice. 🇲🇽
@sorophd.bsky.social
Prof NYU/founder @ImmigrantEdNext Ethnography, immigration, 1stgen, wanderluster, yogi, public-radio listener, seltzer-water drinker, music lover & phd wannabe
@karinavadophd.bsky.social
Scholar, writer, and contingent faculty @Hopkins • Latin/x American Studies, Science & Tech Studies, & Science Fiction Studies • Book-in-progress: "Latinx DNA: Race, Latinidad, and the Gene(ome)" • Forever running on coladas • She/Ella/Dr. 🇳🇮
@mtrist2.bsky.social
director of cultural studies & assistant professor @ Towson｜radical queerness, brownness, & performance｜generally a curmudgeon｜he/him/his
@ladrayuri.bsky.social
Chicana historian of the modern United States with specialties in migration, race, Latinxs, labor, and indigeneity | Assistant Prof of History at UIUC
@salvadorherrera.bsky.social
Writing a novel and another book; dog dad troubling humanity | Assistant Prof of Latinx Lit and Culture at UO | http://salvadorherrera.net
@grodriguezlemus.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ UT Austin | MSEd @ IU Bloomington + BA @ San José State | Higher Education | Qualitative, Arts-Based Methods // Jotería Crips in the Academy https://education.utexas.edu/student/gabriel_rodriguez/
@drrioscontreras.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology @ChapmanU: Border PAR, Migration, Race/Ethnicity, Criminology, Disasters, Visual Soc, Aussie Pup, She/Ella
@carladellagatta.bsky.social
Dramaturg | Arts Advocate | Writer | Theatre Historian 💃🏻 Associate Professor | Author: Latinx Shakespeares Co-Editor: Shakespeare & Latinidad https://www.latinxshakespeares.org/ https://www.carladellagatta.com/
@anelizanani.bsky.social
Town Yeller 🗣️ Ph.D. Student in Ethnic Studies focusing on women and style in Latinx communities 💃 I write a pop culture zine and substack called AGONY HOUR 😝 East LA/Oakland 🩵
@ornelashigdon.bsky.social
Historian of California and the West. Author of “The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920” Opinions are my own. She/her/ella
@doctoraldreamer.bsky.social
Sociologist studying Latinx immigrants, race, and education. Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rhode Island College. Born and raised in 🇵🇪, Came of age in North Carolina 🇺🇸. Living in Worcester, MA and working in Providence, RI.
@crllugo.bsky.social
Ethnic Studies professor from Cabo Rojo, PR (where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Caribbean Sea) now living in the Pacific Northwest. Mary (human), Iloh (schnauzer), and Arly (schnauzer) are life. Views are my own (and sometimes, the schnauzers').
@doctamaga.bsky.social
Asst Profa. Chicanx/Latinx Literary and Cultural Studies writing a book in Latina fictions as hemispheric affective maps tracing blanqueamiento, anti-Blackness and misogyny| Chilanga lost in a falling empire| 😺 person| Opinions my own in English & Español
@solcaribe.bsky.social
Sociologist of race and inequality, critical geographies of race, gender, and (im)migration, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Latinx Studies at Oregon State University, dog lover, cook. Boricua, to my heart. Views are my own.
@alikulez.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at #BostonCollege. Latin American literature. Food Studies. Dad. Turco. Comparativist at heart. South-South shenanigans. Views mine. substack: alikulez.substack.com website: alikulez.com insta: instagram.com/theprofessoreats
@juliedowling.bsky.social
Latina Sociologist and Census nerd 🇲🇽 Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American & Latino Studies at University of Illinois Chicago
@ccarmona.bsky.social
Chicanx Writer/Poet/Editor and Mexican American Studies Professor
@dani-monster.bsky.social
English Literature PhD Student | Latinx/e Gothic, Horror, & Monsters | Queer-of-Color Critique | Crip-of-Color Critique | Chicana Feminism & Border Theory | Environmental Humanities 🌈♿️🇲🇽
@sinfronteras72.bsky.social
#BGSU | Teaching Professor | #EthnicStudies | Historian | Focusing on Chicana/o/x & Latina/o/x #labor, #migration, and #activism histories.
@valeria8a.bsky.social
Spanish Linguistics profe, focused mainly on Spanish as a Heritage Language at Oregon State. 🦫 Views my own.
@dasalmur.bsky.social
🌈 🇨🇷| Data Insight Lead at @atlanticfellows | MSc in Inequalities and Social Science from LSE @LSEInequalities - LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2MVcsTI
@glendamflores.bsky.social
Sociologist and ChcLat Prof. at UCI studying race and work, gender, and education. Author of Latina Teachers (2017) and The Weight of the White Coat (2025) https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-weight-of-the-white-coat/paper
@xicanoadrian.bsky.social
profe; Northeastern Illinois University; race, labor, and migration; Muxerista; papa de Tonalli👦🏽 Tuey y Beni🐶; unceded land People of the Three Fires - Chicago
@jlunadd.bsky.social
3rd-Gen Mexican-American | Linguistic Anthropologist working in healthcare | Language Accessibility consultant. Advocating for immigrant and minority communities in Minnesota🗣️ Originally from SoCal🌴🌞 Occasionally carve wooden spoons 🥄
@arlenedavila.bsky.social
Professor and founding director of The Latinx Project at NYU. Author Latinx Art, Latino Spin, Nuyorican Art ++
@yess321.bsky.social
❤n soul plantitas words music sports love. PhD, tenured profe, tía. the journey is the reward. feed your soul. que nunca se me quite la esperanza. blessed. 🌞🌜🔥🌬💦🌽🇲🇽
@uconnelinstituto.bsky.social
El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies is a multidisciplinary research and teaching institute in the University of Connecticut’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. elin.uconn.edu
@latinohistory.bsky.social
Professor of Latinx history @ Yale. Center director (RITM). Ezra Stiles. Dogs.
@maricela27.bsky.social
UCI Sociology Ph.D. Candidate | Soc of Education | Latine Doctoral Pipeline | NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow | UC-HSI President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellow She/her/ella
@eileengalvez.bsky.social
2024-2025 Yale Education Studies Research Fellow. Scholarship: US Central American/s & Isthmian (in)visibilities, futurities, epistemologies, and methodologies | colonial and imperial technologies of higher ed | storyteller www.eileengalvez.com
@mllambrinou.bsky.social
I write on immigration & education, Latinas in STEM. MD Community Schools enthusiast. History buff. Fight fascism. Opinions only my own & do not reflect any institution or agency I may be associated with.
@xicanaphd.bsky.social
Xicana from the IE. Proud Community College Ethnic Studies Professor, former Social Studies and Latina/o/x Studies high school teacher, Writer, Poet, and author of the blog Xicana Ph.D. www.xicanaphd.com
@maiagiladi.bsky.social
Author of Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence (Duke University Press, 2025) | Assistant Prof. of Latinx studies, Johns Hopkins University | views my own | she/her/ella 🧟
@polocamacho.bsky.social
Philosopher and Bioethicist 🧬 Chuqueño/Fronterizo 🏜️ I drink copious amounts of third-wave coffee and write music 🎸 Views are my own 🫡 https://mpolocamacho.cargo.site/
@beckymartinez.bsky.social
Mamá, Hermana, Chingona, Anthropologist, Scholar Activist, Creator of Camino Scholars Writing-Walking Retreat, Spain Books: Marked Women: The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela & Betrayal U: Politics of Exclusion in Higher Education
@josealamillo.bsky.social
Professor at CSU Channel Islands and researcher of Mexican American cultural history. Enjoys food, live concerts, movie theaters, hiking and outdoors, playing tennis and attending Dodgers games.
@markocegueda.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History at Brown | Latino/a Urban History, Public History, Race, Ethnicity, Social Movements
@cristinaele.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @SyracuseU 🎞️ scholar of Latinx diasporas, CentAm&Caribbean, histories of photography and visual culture, environmental humanities
@sarahdwald.bsky.social
environmental humanities prof at U of Oregon | Environmental justice | Living with MBC (she/her)
@edwarmulfo.bsky.social
PhD | Instructor of Communication, Performance, and Sexuality Studies | Queer Latinx Performances of Loss from the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Borderland | Connoisseur of Guilty Pleasures They/Them
@jonmgarcia.bsky.social
PhD candidate at @USC | Historian of American Religion | Researching Latinos, migration, and evangelicalism | Tweeting religion, politics, and sports.
@elprof.bsky.social
Just an aging punk rocker turned Chicano historian, professor & researcher. I'm an Assistant Professor in History somewhere in east Texas, have a doctorate in Borderlands History, and I'm behind on my writing. Views are my own.
@nicholasvargas.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Latinx Studies at UC Berkeley. Sociological lens. Research interests in Latinx racialization, classification, and education.
@julioaliceaphd.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers-Camden | PhD from UCLA | Race | Urban Studies | Organizational Theory | Education | 2022 NAEd/Spencer Fellow | 🇵🇷
@drcaromaldo.bsky.social
🇵🇷writer and mom🌻 Mixed Race Afro-Boricua❗Asst Prof of #LatinxLit at Baruch College & Alum in the CUNYverse| PhD, American Studies | #ComicsStudies, baking, poetry, crochet 🧶, shitposting 🗨she/ella🗯 RTs & typos are my own
@jrodriguezmatos.bsky.social
It’s not hoarding if it’s books or records. Author of _Writing of the Formless: José Lezama Lima and the End of Time_ (Fordham UP). 🇵🇷
@kwazana.bsky.social
I write about food. Mom. Professor, c19 US and gender studies department chair. Moroccan Arab Jew. Radical diasporism. Winner of the James Beard, Lora Romero, Best Book in Food Studies and Choice Awards. “Can Run Meetings” 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
@gerardomarti.bsky.social
William R Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Editor Soc of Rel Journal, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Rel & AAR Rel and Soc Sci Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D | Schuller Bio 2025📚
@nelsonlflores.bsky.social
Professor researching race and language in education Check out my book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/becoming-the-system-9780197516829
@ernstchavez.bsky.social
Historian interested in Chicanx-Latinx Studies, film, gender and sexuality, Queer Studies, and so much more!) . Amateur film photographer. ELA born and raised, living in El Paso-Cd. Juárez. All views my own.
@wepm.bsky.social
✨ phd candidate @ UVA • managing editor @ archipelagos journal • dh designer @ Scholars' Lab ✨ 🔎 Researching technosocial infrastructures in 21st-century Caribbean science fiction lit ⚙️ Praxis Fellowship alumna @ Scholars' Lab ⚙️ Comp Lit alumna @ UPR-RP
@efrenpolipsy.bsky.social
UCLA Political Psychologist. Director of Race, Ethnicity, Politics, & Society (REPS) Lab. Newby accordionist 🪗. Arriba El Grullo, Jalisco 🇲🇽.
@guategamerphd.bsky.social
🇬🇹 🇺🇸 professor of Latina/o/x literature and media I 💜 games (Tales, Fire Emblem) Author of INVISIBILITY AND INFLUENCE: A LITERARY HISTORY OF AFROLATINIDADES (UT Press, 2024)
@raqsmoreira.bsky.social
Assistant professor of communication studies. Currently studying Latinidad's relationship to antiblackness. Rio/Texas
@timmonreal.bsky.social
Former MS 👨🏻🏫 • profe @UBGSE • Posts about Latinx ED (teachers/SSE ), beisbol, rocksteady, space • Dad de 3 • Type1 • Chicano • 559 (& 209) raised • posts own
@llamasjr.bsky.social
global media professor at @asc.upenn.edu associate directing at @annenbergcargc.bsky.social author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01 español incluído.
@brettolmsted.bsky.social
PhD in 20th Cen. U.S. History (Latinx, Labor, Immigration, Politics). College professor. Forthcoming book: Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience (Illinois Press Fall 2025) Views my own / Reposts are not endorsements
@emilyceleste.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UCDavis | border & migration studies | environmental humanities | c20/21 Mexican, Central American & Latinx lit. | chihuahuense + tapatía.
@amsw66.bsky.social
Prof. Emerita (finally) still a Historian, Lakers fan, Boxing fan, Corgis, working on Latinx religion but first, Dan Berrigan bio. Chicana, ELA por vida
@lmkey.bsky.social
Historian, animal lover, ADHD, and caregiver. Mexican American history, military, and the West.
@mlewincampos.bsky.social
Independent ethnomusicologist and historian of music: romantic composers; Latinx folk; political/human rights/queerness activism in modern pop. Proud native. Poet. AskHistorians mod & podcast host. They/she 🏳️🌈
@nellstra.bsky.social
Historian of transnational politics & religion between US & Latin America. Postdoc, SDSU. Co-founder, histcatmex.bsky.social. Social justice. Foodie. https://nathanellstrand.com/
@lwieck.bsky.social
Historian of 20th and 21st cities, US West, race and culture. Associate Professor and Director of Public History at St. Mary's Univ. Lover of books, coffee, and flowers.
@casadefauxdobe.bsky.social
Professional nerd in Latinx Studies I write about art, the built environment, adobe building practices, and tourism in NM 🌸 she/her/ella 🌸
@profceciliam.bsky.social
Historian @DukeU & author of "Making the Latino South" (UNC Press) Currently writing about the history of Latino conservatives More on www.ceciliamarquez.org
@jennrnajera.bsky.social
Borderlands anthropologist. Writer. Immigration & Education. Poetry & Latinx Art. Assoc Prof of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside. Blue skies for everyone 💙
@odalisgg.bsky.social
writer. tv enthusiast. caribbean latinx digital cultures & phd things at UT Austin. caribeña. she/her. 🍉
@alejandrinammedina.bsky.social
académica de mujer *Latinx Studies, Sound Studies, Performance Studies* https://am-medina.com/
@larrylafountain.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Michigan. Author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (2021) + Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. Coeditor Keywords for Latina/o Studies. On sabbatical this year. 🇵🇷 🌈
@monicalmercado.bsky.social
so-called lady scholar and scholar of ladies | usually writing or thinking about Catholic girlhoods, female rage, feminist interventions in the museum, and convent road trips 🚗📚👩🏻💻🎀 | @colgate.edu prof | she/her
@monijimenez.bsky.social
Writer, baker, and prof. Caribbean history, race, law & empire @BlackStudiesUT. Puerto Rico, poetry & pilates. Reluctant soccer mom and lover of plants. Author of Making Never-Never Land @UNC Press.
@jangulo.bsky.social
UFW Foundation ACLS Research & Policy Analyst l SDSU-IV adjunct I PhD @SMUHistoryDept | Latinx, Immigration, Public, and Labor Historian I Writing a book about California’s Imperial-Mexicali Borderlands https://www.jonathan-angulo.com/
@bobbyrivera21.bsky.social
A Nuyorican, I teach theology and religious studies at St. John’s University in NY. 🇵🇷
@paulinaaserrano.bsky.social
Historian | Carlos E. Castañeda Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin she/ella
@juanmora.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History and Latino Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Migration, Race & Ethnicity, Agricultural Workers, Food Studies, Midwest. https://linktr.ee/juanignaciomora?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@shakticastro.bsky.social
PhD candidate in history. Wise Latina. Mama. I write and think about Puerto Ricans, drugs, harm reduction, public health, and public history.
@julieweise.bsky.social
http://Corazondedixie.org Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910. Co-producer @nuestrosouth + http://teachinspanglish.org. Working on "Guest Worker: Lives across Borders in an Age of Prosperity" (UNC press). Missing Marseille.
@jorgeramirezlopez.bsky.social
UC President’s Postdoctoral fellow, American Indian Studies Center, UCLA | Writing about Indigenous Oaxacan migration, culture, and politics since the late 20th century Jorgeramirezlopez.com
@robertomacias.bsky.social
Acting-Assistant Professor in the Department of English @UCRiverside | Research interests: Chicanx masculinities, ontology, and the concept of the political | (he/him)
@melzp.bsky.social
Postdoc Fellow @Dartmouth I PhD @ucberkeley @ethnicuc | Latina/o/x Aging, Immigration, Poverty and Inequality | @NASEMFordFellow I @Rutgers McNair | 🇵🇷+🇨🇺