People

Sonia Lee

Director

Email:

soslee@iu.edu

Sonia Lee is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Latinx Studies at Indiana University. Her research interests include the civil rights and Black Power movements, Black-Brown solidarities, constructions of race and ethnicity, mental health, substance abuse, trauma and practices of healing within freedom movements.

Alberto Varon

CRRES Interim Associate Director

Email:

avaron@iu.edu

Questions of citizenship, race, and representation in American cultures drive my research and teaching, and my work is animated by the possibilities of narrative forms to reflect and create our social lives. I am a scholar of Latinx cultures from the 19th century to the present and regularly teach courses in interdisciplinary American and Latinx cultures  

Koji Chavez

Assistant Director, CRRES and Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Email:

kochavez@iu.edu

Koji Chavez’s research is broadly focused on gender and racial inequalities in the labor market and in the workplace. Much of his research centers specifically on discrimination in the hiring process and relies multiple methods, both quantitative and qualitative, to understand trends in discrimination, and how and why they occur. Koji also enjoys teaching courses on the sociology of work, race and ethnicity, and research design. Koji received his BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University before becoming an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University.