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Loreto R. Prieto
Director
208 Carver Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011-2060

515.294.9744
lprieto@iastate.edu

Faculty

Dr. Loreto R. Prieto, Director
PhD, University of Iowa) Prieto has written about Mexican American mental health issues, and diversity issues in the teaching of psychology and higher education. He is currently establishing the Laboratory for Latino/a Psychology in the ISU Psychology Department where research efforts will focus on factors affecting the educational attainment of Latino/as.
Announcement

Dr. Patricia Hamm
(Ph.D., University of California Irvine) focuses her research and teaching activities on the role of the Mexican diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico relations; U.S.-Mexico relations; relations between the Mexican diaspora and Mexico; and Latin American diasporic politics. She is the founding member of The Mexican/Mexican-American Dialogue, a non-partisan forum of Mexican-origin researchers and practitioners from the United States and Mexico dedicated to discuss and analyze the national, international and transnational interests of the Mexican diaspora.
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Dr. Marta M. Maldonado
(Ph.D., Washington State University) Dr. Maldonado's research interests include political economy, the sociology of inequality (in particular, the dynamics of race, gender and class), communities, environmental sociology, and the sociology of technology. Pertaining to Latinos/as, her recent research has examined the Mexicanization of agricultural labor in the Pacific Northwest, the racialization of technology, and the everyday production of environmental inequalities in agricultural workplaces, which often involves the disproportionate exposure of Latino/a workers to environmental hazards and other workplace risks.

Dr. Maya Socolovsky
(Ph.D., Oxford) Dr. Socolovsky has written on U.S. Latino and Ethnic American literature. Her special interests include history, memory and violence, and she teaches courses in U.S. Latino literature through the Department of English. She is currently working on issues of trauma in U.S. Latino/a literature.
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