Ethnic Studies Department Faculty and Staff
Faculty and Staff Directory
Department ChairAssociate Professor of Black Studies
Phone: 661-654-3030Email: tsalisbury1@csub.eduOffice: EDUC 217
Administrative Support Coordinator
Phone: 661-654-2208Email: djimenez-arredondo@csub.eduOffice: EDUC 215
Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies
Phone: 661-654-3820Email: ncisneros9@csub.eduOffice: EDUC 222
Assistant Professor of Indigenousand Native American Studies
Phone: 661-654-3827Email: mgutierrez-de-jesu@csub.eduOffice: EDUC 224More About Dr. Maria Gutierrez de JesusDr. Maria Gutierrez de Jesus received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies from the University of California at Davis. She is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Bakersfield. Her teaching and research interests include Indigenous-based pedagogies and community-based education, Indigenous media with a focus on community-owned media, Indigenous women, and Indigenous cultural and language revitalization and reclamation practices. She is currently working on her first book manuscript, tentatively titled “Juchari Anapu Jimpo! Reclamation of the Heritage Language and Identity: Social Processes, Oral Memory, and Innovations in the Non-P’urhépecha Speaking Communities of Lake Pátzcuaro,” which traces Indigenous language reclamation practices in her home community, Huecorio, Michoacán, Mexico.
Assistant Professor of Critical Pacific Islands& Oceania Studies & Asian American Studies
Phone: 661-654-3207Email: jsataraka@csub.eduOffice: EDUC 212More About Dr. Jeremiah SatarakaJeremiah Sataraka, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at CSUB. He teaches Critical Pacific Islands & Oceania Studies, Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies courses and is the co-chair of the LGBTQ+ PRIDE Faculty & Staff Affinity group. His primary research interests include developing Ocean Critical Race Theory, and increasing the visibility of QTPI (Queer and/or Transgender Pacific Islander) activists and communities like U.T.O.P.I.A. (United Territories of Pacific Islander Alliance). He is also an advisory board member of the Central Valley Pacific Islander Alliance.
Dr. Sataraka received his Ph.D. in Cultural Studies & Social Thought in Education from Washington State University and his B.A. in Sociology from Whitworth University. He is a first generation college graduate, born and raised on the homelands of the Puyallup and Nisqually Tribes (Tacoma, WA), born to parents from Korea and Amerika Samoa. He currently lives with the love of his life, Pedro Navejas Rodriguez and their emotionally dependent dog Katara (#ATLAB).
Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies
Email: jvillagran2@csub.eduOffice: EDUC 251More About Dr. Jose G. VillagranDr. José G. Villagrán was born and raised on the migrant farmworker circuits between Northern California, South Texas, and Wisconsin. He earned an M.A. in Mexican-American Studies and a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin and has an extensive teaching background in Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Studies. He researches Latinx labor with a particular focus on migrant and seasonal farmworkers of the “Midwest stream” between South Texas and the U.S. Midwest.
