Professor Emeritus
Miguel Domínguez was granted professor emeritus status in 2020. He obtained his BA at CSULA (1970), MA at Brown University (1973), and Ph. D. at UCLA (1983). He is the founding chairperson of the department of Chicano Studies, a former chairperson of Modern Languages, and past acting associate dean of the College of and Humanities. He has created and taught courses in Chicano Studies, Spanish, and Education. He was granted the Lyle E. Gibson Dominguez Hills Distinguished Teaching Award in 1993.
His research interests include the history of the Spanish language, comparative Romance linguistics, Latin American dialectology, and Mexican and Chicano folklore. His present teaching focus is Latin American and Iberian literature and Latin American history and culture. He is currently working on establishing a digital archive of the Spanish of Latinos in the greater Los Angeles area.
He is a founding member of the CSUDH Latino Staff and Faculty Association, and has established a scholarship foundation for Chicano Studies and Spanish majors: The Julieta and Juan Domínguez Memorial Scholarship Fund (his parents).
During the last 20 years, he has organized conferences on student retention which morphed into the annual Latino university student mental health conference. He also established a program that combines a Spanish minor with a major in mental health recovery to graduate bilingual mental health promoters in the Latino community. In 2019, he was selected to be on the state advisory board of California HOSA (Health Occupation Students of America).
He continues to be very involved in outreach and retention activities in high schools and parent groups in the Latino community. He has presented many bilingual “university readiness” workshops to incoming students and their parents, on and off campus.
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