Past Advisory Committee Members

José M. Aguilar-Hernández is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic and Women’s Studies in the College of Education and Integrative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona.  Aguilar-Hernández is the proud son of immigrant farmworkers from Zacatecas, México. He grew up in the Ventura County and transferred from Moorpark Community College to UCLA where he earned a B.A. in Chicana/o Studies and History.

Aguilar-Hernández earned a M.A. in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. in Education from UCLA.  His dissertation, Si Se Pudo!: A Critical Race History of the Movements for Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA, 1990-1993, is about the inception (and more) of the Chicana/o Studies Departmentalization process at UCLA.  During his five years as a doctoral student Aguilar-Hernández served as a Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and additionally, he also taught courses in Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Northridge and CalState LA.

Aguilar-Hernández’ research publications and teaching interests include social movements, educational history, pedagogy, critical race theory, historical methods, and gender and sexuality

Brianne A. Dávila is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Psychology and Sociology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of sociology of education, Latina/o sociology, and social inequality.  Dr. Dávila also has research experience as an applied sociologist having previously worked for the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California.

Through her teaching, research, and service, Dr. Dávila strives to demonstrate a commitment to issues of educational access and equity, community-based learning, and social justice.  She earned her doctorate in Sociology and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has a master’s from the same program and received a bachelor’s in Sociology with a Spanish minor from Pitzer College in Claremont, CA.  Outside of the classroom and halls of the university, Dr. Dávila enjoys spending time with her many family members, playing and reading with her son, going on walks in nature, and traveling.

Dr. Alejandro Morales is an associate professor of Psychology in the joint department of Psychology and Sociology at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He conducts qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies in understanding the psycho-social-cultural mechanisms of adjustment in Latino immigrant families with children who serve as translators and interpreters (i.e., language brokers). His research also focuses on identifying the processes that facilitate the psychological wellbeing of Latino gay men. He teaches courses on abnormal psychology, basic counseling skills, intimate relationships, human sexuality, and couple's therapy. He received his PhD and MA in Counseling Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his BA in Psychology from the California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Anjana Narayan is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State Polytechnic University Pomona. She is the co-author of Living our Religions: Hindu and Muslim Asian American Women Narrate their Experiences (2009) and the co-editor of Research Beyond Borders: Interdisciplinary Reflections (2011). She is currently associated with an international and interdisciplinary collaborative research network to advance the study of lived religions and gender in relation to Hinduism and Islam.

Anthony Ocampo, Ph.D., is a scholar and writer who focuses on race, immigration, and LGBTQ issues. He is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona and a Ford Foundation Fellow. He is the author of The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race, recently featured on NPR Morning Edition. Dr. Ocampo is currently working on his second book, Brown and Gay in LA, which chronicles the lives of gay men of color from immigrant families.

A native Los Angeleno, Dr. Ocampo is a graduate of Stanford University (BA 2003, MA 2004) and UCLA (MA 2006, PhD 2011).