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Oakes Faculty Fellows

The Oakes College faculty represents a wealth of expertise from the natural sciences to the humanities, and we are proud to have some of the top scholars in the world among our faculty. Our students major in nearly every discipline at UCSC—from economics and computer science, to theater arts and Latin American and Latino studies—and they are well supported by the depth and breadth of the Oakes College faculty and the extensive knowledge of our advising team.

TBA is Oakes's faculty chair!

The Chair of the Faculty is an Academic Senate member, other than the Provost, who is elected by the college Faculty to serve a two year term, and will serve as a member of the Executive Committee.

 

Leslie A Lopez
  • Pronouns she/they
  • Title
    • Continuing Lecturer, PhD Anthropology
    • Director, Corre la Voz
  • Division Social Sciences Division
  • Department
    • Oakes College
    • Community Studies Program
    • Education Department
  • Affiliations Latin American & Latino Studies, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
  • Phone
    831-459-4463
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Oakes College Academic Building, 218#
    • Education Department, McHenry 0266, El Sol Lab
  • Mail Stop Oakes College
  • Mailing Address
    • 1156 High Street
    • Santa Cruz CA 95064
  • Courses Oakes Core: Communicating Diversity for a Just Society; Winter Core (College One); CMMU 10: Intro to Community Activism; OAKS/EDU 151A/B: Community Literacies (Seminar & Field Study, Corre la Voz); Oakes Oral History Project; OAKS/LALS 128: Latino/as in the US Media; OAKS/LALS 80D: Political Change in Mexico; OAKS 153: Community Mapping (Participatory asset mapping for problem-solving)

Summary of Expertise

Community-based and collaborative program design, development, and project management. Pedagogies and research techniques to co-produce community belonging and useful knowledge with diverse participants, on campus and off. Multi-modal tools (writing, drama, field research, photography, video, audio). Focus areas: Political culture, political economy; systems analysis and strategy; education; media; housing and health; immigration. Critical history of Mexico and US.