Lucero is an associate professor of the Jackson School for International Studies, the Chair of Latin America and Caribbean Studies Jackson School Associate Director, adjunct associate professor of American Indian Studies and Geography and affiliate faculty in the Comparative History of Ideas. He now adds associate faculty of the Harry Bridges Center to this impressive list. Lucero’s main research and teaching interests include indigenous politics, social movements, Latin American politics, and borderlands. He is currently working on two research projects looking at cultural politics firstly between indigenous peoples and the agents of extractive industry in Peru, and secondly of human rights activism, religion, and Indigenous politics on the Mexico-US border. He is a former council member of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and co-founder of the Summer Institute on Global Indigeneities. His classes offer students the chance to learn about the politics of extraction in the global south and Latin America.
Research/Teaching Areas: Development, Identity and Culture, Indigenous Politics, Law, Rights, and Governance (LRG), Migration, Refugees and Borderlands, Post/ Colonialism
