Affiliated Scholars: Latina & Latino Studies Program

Affiliated Scholars

Daisy Hernández

Faculty Affiliate, Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Program in Creative Writing | Department of English

E-mail: daisy.hernandez@northwestern.edu

Daisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease, which won the 2022 PEN /Jean Stein Book Award and was selected as an inaugural title for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. She is also the author of the award-winning memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed and coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. The former editor of ColorLinesmagazine, she has reported for the New York Times, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and Slate, and she is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Northwestern University.

Jesús Escobar

Faculty Affiliate, Professor | Department of Art History

E-mail: j-escobar@northwestern.edu

Jesús Escobar teaches in the Department of Art History at Northwestern. His research focuses on architecture, cartography, and cities in Spain, Europe, and Latin America during the early modern period (ca. 1500–1800). He has written two award-winning books about architecture and urbanism in Madrid, examined in the context of the global Spanish Empire. Professor Escobar’s teaching includes introductory and intermediate-level lecture courses as well as seminars on art and architecture. He offers two courses that are of special interest to LLSP students: one on Latin American art and architecture from around 1493 to around 1945, and the other on colonial art and architecture in Mexico.

Mauricio A. Cordero

Faculty Affiliate, Visiting Assistant Professor | Department of Radio/Television/Film

E-mail: mcordero@northwestern.edu

Mauricio Cordero is an experienced educator and practicing artist, writer and game designer. He teaches comic book production, artist books and tabletop role play game design. His work investigates the state of otherness and social justice in both comics and game design. He is the editor of the comics anthology BORDERx A Crisis in Graphic Detail. His work will appear in From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides from Ohio State U. Press, and Cabin Fever a Pirate Borg anthology from Limithron Press. He worked at MIT from 2017-2024 in the Department of Comparative Media Studies as a Lecturer and as Instructional Designer for the Witnessing Comics for Social Justice project.

He has worked in his own gallery in Tours, France, The Institute of Contemporary Art and with many creative organizations such as the Boston Center for the Arts, Citizens for Safety, the Hispanic Office of Planning and Education-Boston, The Revolving Museum and has published his work in various publications, zines and indie publications.

Mei-Ling Hopgood

Faculty Affiliate, Professor of Journalism | Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications

E-mail: hopgood@northwestern.edu

Meih-Ling Hopgood is an award-winning journalist and author. She is a Professor of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications. She founded and teaches the school's bilingual (Spanish and English) journalism class, and leads other classes and projects focusing on multicultural and multilingual reporting and storytelling, and diversity, equity and inclusion. A former correspondent in South America, Hopgood directs the Medill journalism residency program in Argentina. She has won several national and international awards for her reporting and writing, including the National Headliner Best in Show and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting. In 2020, News Leaders Association awarded Hopgood the Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship in recognition of an educator's outstanding efforts to encourage students of color in the field of journalism.

Michael Anthony Turcios

Faculty Affiliate, Assistant Professor in Screen Cultures Program | Department of Radio/Television/Film

E-mail: michael.turcios@northwestern.edu

Michael Anthony Turcios, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in Screen Cultures in the Department of Radio/Television/Film. He is faculty affiliate with the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research and the Latina and Latino Studies Program, and is involved with the Northwestern Prison Education Program.

Professor Turcios specializes in the histories of nontheatrical film and media, nontraditional audiovisual texts, ephemeral and nonextant media, and relational studies of antiracist and anticolonial movements.

His first book in progress, Relational Insurgent Medias, is a study of nontraditional film and media cultures of the 1960s and 1970s concerning Chicanas/os in East Los Angeles and Algerians in Paris, France. He draws on archival material and examines the representation of both communities in nontheatrical film (produced by academic publishers, government agencies, local television); film screenings in nontraditional settings (factories, worker quarters, community centers); independent audiovisual texts; and moving images in non-filmic contexts (photography and murals). Currently at work on a second book project, Professor Turcios historicizes Indigenous people’s media on subjects of cultural preservation, ancestral land reclamation, and fabulation as a media restorative method in Palestine, the Americas, and Indian Ocean.

A first-generation scholar from a working-class background, Professor Turcios especially mentors students from historically excluded backgrounds and experiences.

Michelle Guittar

Faculty Liaison, University Library | Librarian for Latinx Studies

E-mail: michelle.guittar@northwestern.edu

Phone:847.491.8961

Nathan Rossi

Faculty Affiliate, Assistant Professor of Instruction | Department of Radio/Television/Film

E-mail: nrossi@northwestern.edu

Nathan Rossi is an assistant professor of instruction in the Department of Radio/Television/Film. His research takes a cultural studies approach and broadly focuses on Latinx media, digital technology, and Central American studies. His current book project focuses on Latinx genealogy and examines the impact of social media and digital technologies, such as DNA testing kits, on Latinx identity. His work can be found in the International Journal of Communication, NACLA, Latino Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and Flow: A Forum on Culture and Media.

Pablo J Boczkowski

Faculty Affiliate, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor | Department of Communication Studies

E-mail: pjb9@northwestern.edu

Pablo J. Boczkowski has doctorates in Clinical Psychology (Universidad de Belgrano, 1994) and Science and Technology Studies (Cornell University, 2001). He was an assistant professor at MIT from 2001 until 2005, and since then has been at Northwestern University, with a primary appointment in the Department of Communication Studies. His research program examines digital culture from a comparative perspective, with a special focus on Latin America and Latinx USA. Boczkowski is the author of seven books, including Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers, which is the only book in the history of the International Communication Association to receive both the Outstanding Book Award (in 2005), for the best book published in the previous two years, and the Fellows Book Award (in 2023), for making a “substantial contribution to the scholarship of the communication field as well as the broader rubric of the social sciences and have stood some test of time.” He has also co-edited five volumes and written over sixty journal articles. His most recent book, co-authored with Northwestern graduate student Mora Matassi, To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media and Platforms (MIT Press, 2023), received the 2024 Global Communication and Social Change Award from the International Communication Association. Boczkowski’s current research centers on the digitization of mental health work. He has been a Member of the School of Social Science of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and a recipient of the Distinguished Career Award from the Communication, Information Technologies and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. He writes regularly about communication, culture, and politics for Infobae, the leading news site of the Spanish speaking world.