Professor Hames-García studies and teaches about inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality and disability in the criminal justice system from policing and criminal courts to incarceration and reentry. He has also published and taught extensively on critical theories of identity and the self.
He joined the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in fall of 2021. He previously worked for 15 years in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon and for 8 years previous to that in the Department of English at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
From 2019 until 2022, he served as a member of the City of Eugene’s Civilian Review Board (which reviews investigations into allegations of misconduct and uses of force by the Eugene Police Department). He also served on the Eugene Police Commission in 2022.