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Areas of expertise: Latino/a Studies, American Studies, Print Media, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o Studies, California History
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My broad zone of interest is the Americas, both before and after the fateful Indigenous-European contact of 1492. I study how written language conveys and confers power in the world. Sometimes that power shows up within a frame that people call “literature” (its definition is shifty); sometimes it is expressed as a recorded utterance; sometimes it sits quietly within a seemingly mundane note or glyph. The material forms by which writing is organized and distributed into things—... more »
Areas of expertise: Chicana/o Studies, American Studies, Latino/a Studies, Sexuality, Poverty
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Ph.D., Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor, Latin American & Latino Studies, Chair: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, UCSC Academic Senate, Ex Officio, Department Chair, Latin American & Latino Studies
Latin American & Latino Studies, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, Merrill CollegeAreas of expertise: Latin American and Latino Studies, Latino/a Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, US History, Archives, Archival Practices, Mexico, Border Studies
Biography, Education and Training
Associate Professor LALS; Chair: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, UCSC Academic Senate; former Department Chair, LALS (2016-2021); UCSC EVC Research Fellow 2018-19; former director Dolores Huerta Research Center (Chicano Latino Research Center); author Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-1939 (2008); co-editor Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader (2003). PhD (History), The University of Chicago; CIC Fellow: University of Michigan; MA (History) SFSU; BA (History) Reed Col... more »
Areas of expertise: Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, History, Latino/a Studies
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Thiago H. Mota (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of African History. Fully trained in the Global South, he earned a PhD in Social History from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (with a cotutelle at the University of Lisbon, Portugal). During and after his doctoral studies, Dr Mota conducted research in several countries, such as Brazil, France, Gambia, Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, and Senegal, working on the early process of social spreading of Islam... more »
Areas of expertise: Ethnography, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Latino/a Studies, Globalization
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Dr. Morales is an Indigiqueer (Zapotec) feminist scholar, educator, Native ethnographer, and community organizer. She earned her doctoral degree from the Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She employs contemporary Black, Indigenous, and Chicanx/Latinx feminist theories of gender and sexuality, belonging, and settler colonialism to examine new generations of Indigenous women and Indigiqueer youth’s deployment of different practices of Indigenous governance to build diaspori... more »
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