Sebastian Lopez-Vergara
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature
IDEA Fellow in Latinx and Indigenous Diaspora Studies

Vergara’s research focuses on Indigenous representations across media and their relationships to histories of dispossession in modern Latin America with a particular focus on Chile. He completed his PhD at University of Washington, Seattle, where he taught cultural studies, critical ethnic studies, and Latin American studies courses, as well as Spanish language and contemporary Latin American history with University Beyond Bars, an organization offering post-secondary education to the incarcerated in Washington State’s prisons. Prior to Washington state, Vergara lived in Chile, where he was raised, and earned a BA in English Literature and Linguistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.