Advisory Board

Stephen Bishop

Dr. Stephen Bishop received his PhD in French & Francophone Literature from the University of Michigan. His areas of specialization are African literature and culture and the intersection of law and literature, exemplified in his book, Legal Oppositional Narrative: A Case Study in Cameroon (2008). The book examines ways in which people contest the dominant legal and social order in Cameroon through reading and writing legal stories that ironically portray the inadequacies of current government policies. He worked previously as a lawyer on the Navajo Nation for a legal services corporation (DNA: People's Legal Services), primarily in the areas of government benefits, domestic violence, commercial fraud, Indian law, and family law.

Lloyd Lee

Dr.Lloyd Lee is an enrolled citizen of the Navajo Nation. He is currently a professor of Native American Studies, Director of the Center for Regional Studies, and editor of the Wicazo Sa Review journal. His research interests centers on American Indian identity, Leadership, and Native Nation/ Community building. He is the author of Diné Idenitity in a 21st Century World (2020), iné Masculinities: Conceptualizations and Reflections (2013), co-author of Native Americans and the University of New Mexico (2017), edited Nihikéyah: Navajo Homeland (2023).

Myrriah Gómez (MMUF Faculty Coordinator Fall 2025)

Dr. Myrriah Gómez, prior to joining the Honors College, was an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico – Gallup. Myrriah received a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Academies in 2011, which enabled her to return to New Mexico to conduct empirical and archival research for her dissertation. She has taught courses in History, Chicana/o Studies, Humanities, and English departments across New Mexico and in Texas. She received the UNM Faculty of Color award for Teaching in 2015. Myrriah’s current book project is entitled Nuclear Nuevo México: Identity, Ethnicity, and Resistance in Atomic Third Spaces. She is a proud Nuevomexicana, who is always in search of ways to better the lives of New Mexicans.

Tiffany N. Florvil

Dr. Tiffany N. Florvil is an Assistant Professor of 20th-Century European Women’s and Gender History. She specializes in the histories of post-1945 Germany and Europe, the African diaspora, gender and sexuality, emotions and social movements. She received her Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in Modern European History and her M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in European Women’s and Gender History. She has chapters appearing in two forthcoming volumes: Audre Lorde's International Legacy: Essays on Encounters, Creativity and Activism and Discoursing Gender, Culture, and Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora. She is currently working on her manuscript tentatively entitled Making a Movement: A History of Afro-Germans, Emotions, and Belonging.

Anna M. Nogar

Dr. Anna M. Nogar specializes in colonial Mexican literature and culture, and Mexican American literature and cultural studies. She is a graduate of the University of New Mexico ('00 B.S. Biochemistry, Spanish, Honors Program) and of The University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D. Hispanic Literature and Mexican American Studies). Her research encompasses colonial Latin American literary studies, as well as borderlands texts from the 19^th century onward, in particularly the bilingual writing of New Mexico. Her published books include Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico (2014), A History of Mexican Literature (2016), Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul (2017), as well as the forthcoming (2018) Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, 1628- Present, a monograph on the writing, legacy, and mystical travels of 17^th-century Spanish nun María de Jesús de Ágreda. Dr. Nogar’s current projects include an anthology of 19^th century New Mexican author Felipe M. Chacón, as well as trans-pacific cultural movements in colonial-era Mexico and the Philippines.

Irene Vásquez

Dr. Irene Vásquez received her Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. She serves as Director of Chicana and Chicano Studies. Irene Vásquez specializes in the intersectional histories and politics of Mexican-descent populations in the Americas. Her research and teaching interests include U.S. and transnational social and political movements. She co-authored a book on the Chicana and Chicano Movement titled, Making Aztlan: Ideology and Culture of the Chicana and Chicano Movement: Ideology, 1966-1977. She has written several essays in English and Spanish on the historic and contemporary relations between African Americans and Latin American descent peoples in the Americas. Irene Vásquez co-edited the The Borders In All of Us: New Approaches to Global Diasporic Societies, published by New World African Press.

Michael Lechuga (MMUF Faculty Coordinator Spring 2026)

Dr. Michael Lechuga researches and teaches Latina/o/x Studies Communication Studies, Rhetoric, Migration and Settler Colonialism Studies, and Affect Studies. He graduated with an M.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2007 and with a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Denver in 2016. His research explores the ways migrants and migrant communities are subjected in the US by austere migration control structures and white nationalist ideologies. His current research focuses on the role that technology plays in border security assemblages and the ways alienhood is mapped onto migrant bodies through contemporary mechanisms of white-settler governance. In addition, Dr. Lechuga is interested in Latina/o/x Futurism, Surveillance Studies, and Film Studies. He is currently writing his second book, Alien Affects, which illuminates the complex relationships between Hollywood alien invasion film industries and the industries tasked with securing the México/U.S. border.

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