New Faculty

Dr. Joseph Dupris, Jr., is joining the CU faculty this fall, 2021, where he will serve as Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Linguistics. Dr. Dupris received his PhD in Linguistics and Anthropology from the University of Arizona in 2020. Dr. Dupris's work addresses issues around tribal language research,...

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Nishant Upadhyay to the Department of Ethnic Studies at CU Boulder! They received their PhD at York University, Toronto, in the Graduate Program of Social and Political Thought in 2016. Their dissertation received the National Women’s Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Award...

Dr. Jennifer Ho, Director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts sits down with Professor Jennifer Ho, new faculty member in the Department of Ethnic Studies to answer some questions about her new role and recent move to Colorado. ;) Q—Jennifer Ho, Director, Center for Humanities and the Arts:...

Dr. Avalos is as a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ethnic Studies and will be joining the department as an Assistant Professor in the 2020-21 academic year. Prior to joining CU Boulder as a postdoc, she taught Religious Studies at Connecticut College. A Chicana of Apache descent, Dr...

Dr. Ordaz grew up in Brentwood, California. She is the granddaughter of bracero agricultural laborers and the daughter of migrant workers. At the age of 18 she left home to pursue higher education and became a first gen college student at UC Santa Barbara triple majoring in Women’s Studies, History...

Join us in welcoming Dr. Enrique Sepúlveda to our department! Dr. Sepúlveda brings his knowledge and skills in migration and border studies in global Latinx communities, critical literacy and pedagogy, and education and social justice (among many others), and we are excited to have him as a new colleague.