Adriana Nieto

Dr. Adriana Nieto is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Chicana/o Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She has been with the university for over 15 years, first starting out as an adjunct professor and then becoming a full-time faculty member in 2009. Her teaching and research interests include Latina spiritualities and practices; women of color feminisms; mental health among Xicanas in early 20th-century New Mexico; Chicana protestants in the US-Mexico Borderlands; oral history and water in the ‘West’, with special interest in acequia culture and practices in southern Colorado. Dr. Nieto received her PhD in religious and theological studies from the University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology, her master’s in Latin American studies, with a focus on gender studies and borderland history from the University of New Mexico, and her bachelor’s in Latin American and women studies, also from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Nieto is also currently on the Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI) Steering Committee and is an HTI alumna.