Martin Guevara Urbina (1972) is a Mexican-born American author, writer, researcher, professor, and speaker who, as a sociologist and criminologist, works on Latina and Latino issues in the United States.
While at Sul Ross he studied under Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, considered the principal scholar of the Chicano Renaissance and founder of Chicano literary history with his book Backgrounds of Mexican American Literature (1971).
At Western Michigan, he began to examine the implications, utility, and significance of various social issues in research and publication, especially in the areas of race and ethnic relations, capital punishment, law and society, and social justice.
He then took a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where he developed a research agenda with a focus on ethnicity, race, gender, and other social issues.
[8][9] Urbina is author, coauthor, or editor of over 60 scholarly publications including several academic books.