Faculty & Staff Directory
- Cristián Doña-Reveco, PhD — cdona@unomaha.edu
- OLLAS Director
- Associate Professor of Sociology
- International Migration within the Americas in a Comparative-Historical Perspective
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- Juan Casas, PhD — jcasas@unomaha.edu
- OLLAS Associate Director
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- Relational Aggression and Victimization, Peer Relationships, Friendships and Dual Language
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- Yuriko Doku, M.S. — ydoku@unomaha.edu
- OLLAS Assistant Director
- Non-Profit Management, Leadership
- Labor Economics, Economic Inequality, Economics of Migration
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- Alina Lopez, B.S. — alinalopez@unomaha.edu
- OLLAS Community Engagement Coordinator
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- Ana Gavia, B.A. — aagavia@unomaha.edu
- OLLAS Communications & Study Abroad Assistant
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- Ana Díaz-Orozco — adiazorozco@unomaha.edu
- OLLAS Student Worker
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- Lissette Aliaga-Linares, PhD — laliagalinares@unomaha.edu
- Assistant Professor of Sociology
- Senior Research Associate, CPAR
- 402.554.3722
- Urban Segregation, Migration, Urban Poverty and Informal Work
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- Maria Arbelaez, PhD — marbelaez@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor of History
- 402.554.3649
- South America, Modern Mexico, Borderlands
- Latino/Chicano Studies, Mexican Americans in the Midwest
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- Timi Barone, PhD — tbarone@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- 402.554.3372
- Epidemiology/Evolution of Human Disease, Ethnomedicines, Health Care Utilization
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- Theresa Barron-McKeagney, PhD — tbarronm@unomaha.edu
- Associate Dean of CPACS
- Associate Professor of Social Work
- 492.554.2923
- Community Service, Latino Advocacy and Women's Issues
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- Danielle Battisti, PhD — dbattisti@unomaha.edu
- Assistant Professor of History
- 402.554.4821
- Twentieth Century American History, Immigration and Ethnic History
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- Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, PhD — jalvarado@unomaha.edu
- Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
- Professor of Political Science
- 402.554.4859
- Comparative Politics/Sustainable Development in Latin America, Inter-American Politics and Latino Politics.
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- Juan Casas, PhD — jcasas@unomaha.edu
- OLLAS Associate Director
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- Relational Aggression and Victimization, Peer Relationships, Friendships and Dual Language
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- Ann Coyne, PhD — acoyne@unomaha.edu
- Professor of Social Work
- 402.554.2798
- Developmental Disabilities, Child Welfare, Public Welfare, Program Evaluation and Grant Writing and Research
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- Ana Cruz, PhD — anacruz@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor of Communication
- 402.554.4847
- Marriage and the Family, Race, Ethnicity and Culture
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- Cristián Doña-Reveco, PhD — cdona@unomaha.edu
- OLLAS Director
- Associate Professor of Sociology
- International Migration within the Americas in a Comparative-Historical Perspective
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- Claudia Garcia, PhD — csgarcia@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor of Spanish
- 402.554.4837
- Contemporary Latin American Literature, Guatemalan Narrative and Cultural Studies
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- Ramon Guerra, PhD — rguerra@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor of English
- 402.554.2096
- Chicano/Latino Literature, Ethnic Literature and 20th Century American Literature
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- Mary Ann Powell, PhD — maryannpowell@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor of Sociology
- 402.554.2632
- Family, Sex and Gender and Quantitative Methodology
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- Sandra Rodriguez-Arroyo, D Ed — srodriguezarroy@unomaha.edu
- Assistant Professor of Education
- 402.554.3676
- Language Teacher Education (ESL, Bilingual, and World Languages), Critical Analysis of Language Policies
- Applying Reading and Writing in the Content Areas
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- Regina (Gina) Emily Robbins — rrobbins@unomaha.edu
- Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology and Native American Studies
- Preventive and Societal Medicine
- Medical Humanities
- Contemporary Native American Issues
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- Troy Romero, PhD — tromero@unomaha.edu
- Assistant Professor, Goodrich Program
- 402.554.3466
- Organizational Justice and Organizational Diversity
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- Thomas Sanchez, PhD — thomassanchez@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor of Sociology
- 402.554.4977
- Ethnic/Race Relations, Sociological Theory and Ethnic Identity Formation
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- Jonathan Santo, PhD — jsanto@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- 402.554.4056
- Adolescent Development, Statistics and Cross-Cultural Psychology
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- Steven Torres, PhD — sltorres@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor of Spanish
- 402.554.3749
- Modern Spanish and Latin American Literature, Cultural Studies and Metacultural Discourse, Film Studies and Sociology of Literature
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- Laura Walls, PhD — lwalls@unomaha.edu
- Assistant Professor of Spanish
- 402.554.3749
- Spanish for Native Speakers
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- Daniel Wuebben, PhD — dwuebben@unomaha.edu
- Assistant Professor, Goodrich Program
- 402.554.2278
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- Jasney Cogua-Lopez, PhD — jcogualopez@unomaha.edu
- Community Intervention Evaluator
- Boys Town National Research Institute
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- Kristin Fearnow, JD — kfearnow@unomaha.edu
- Attorney
- Dornan, Lustgarten and Troia
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- Athena Ramos, PhD — aramos@unmc.edu
- Community Health Program Manager
- UNMC College of Public Health, Center for Reducing Health Disparities
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- Lina Traslaviña Stover, PhD — ltraslavina@unomaha.edu
- Associate Director, Recruitment
- Undergraduate Admissions
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- Lourdes Gouveia, PhD — lgouveia@unomaha.edu
- OLLAS Director Emerita
- Professor Emerita of Sociology
- Latin American Migration, US Latino Populations, and Latino American Societies in the Globalization Era
- Global Development and Food and Agriculture
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- Michael Carroll, PhD — mcarroll@unomaha.edu
- Emeritus Professor, Goodrich Program
- 402.554.3458
- Indian Poetry, Chicano/a Literature, Multicultural Education and African American Cultural Studies
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- Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS)
- 6001 Dodge Street, ASH 102
- Omaha, NE 68182-0479
- Phone: 402.554.3835
- Fax: 402.554.3557
- Email: unoollas@unomaha.edu
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