
Meet Our Faculty, Staff, & Students

MALAS Graduate students Josue Arredondo, Carson Poole, Professor Bill Nericcio, Molly Scheid, and Katie Isola after the first day of sessions of @AglspC, San Antonio.
Faculty & Staff
MALAS graduate students work with the best faculty from across the College of Arts and Letters at SDSU and beyond--first-class, high quality researchers from the humanities, social sciences, business, communications, and the sciences, whose teaching and scholarship are changing the face of disciplines across the university.
Administration
Dr. William A. Nericcio
MALAS Director/Graduate Advisor
Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Chicana/o Studies, and
Latin American Studies; SDSU Editor, San Diego State University Press
Office: Arts and Letters 273
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (619) 594-1524 | Fax: (619) 594-4998
Dr. Howard Kushner
Professor Emeritus, History, and Director Emeritus, MALAS
Dr. Stuart C. Aitken
Professor, Geography
Dr. Clarissa Clò
Professor of Italian and European Studies and Director of the Italian Studies Program
Dr. D. J. Hopkins
Professor, Director of the School of Theatre, Television, and Film
Dr. Ramona L. Pérez
Professor of Anthropology and Director, Center for Latin American Studies
Dr. David Cline
Professor of History, SDSU
Dr. Roberto D. Hernández
Professor, Chicana/o Studies
Dr. Y Howard
Professor, English & Comparative Literature
Dr. John Putman
Professor, History and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Letters
Dr. Walter D. Penrose, Jr.
Professor, Department of History
Dr. Michael J. Roberts
Professor, Department of Sociology
Dr. Amy Schmitz Weiss
Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Media Studies
Dr. Ricardo Vasconcelos
Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, MALAS
Dr. Roy Whitaker
Associate Professor, Study of Religion, MALAS
Dr. Michael Caldwell
Lecturer, Classics & Humanities
Dr. Edith Frampton
Lecturer, English and Comparative Literature
Dr. Seth Mallios
Professor, Anthropology and SDSU University Historian
Dr. Michael Borgstrom
Professor, English and Comparative Literature; Associate Dean, College of Arts and
Letters
Dr. Jessica Pressman
Professor, English & Comparative Literature Director, Arts and Letters Digital Humanities
Initiative
Dr. Joseph Andrew Smith
Associate Professor, Classics and Humanities
Learn more about our faculty and staff.
MALAS Graduate Students
MALAS students come from all walks of life--documentary filmmakers, veteran Navy musicians, cloning researchers, administrative coordinators, surgeons, teachers, arts professionals, business majors, philosophers, civil engineers, dancers, rain-forest researchers, and retired intelligence community agents alike have all joined MALAS in recent years.
Learn more about current and past students.