My research enhances engineering participation by addressing issues of access and persistence focusing on the barriers minoritized students face and supporting their engagement and success.

Anita Huizar-Hernández is an associate professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures. She studies the ways literature, film, and other texts have consolidated or challenged myths about Arizona, the West, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Santellano focuses on Latinx sociology, race and ethnicity, immigration, intersectionality, and work, occupations and entrepreneurship.