Campus Directory

Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Latin American & Latino Studies
Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
Merrill College

Title Associate Professor, Latin American & Latino Studies
Chair: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, UCSC Academic Senate
Ex Officio, Department Chair, Latin American & Latino Studies

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
History Department
Merrill College
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Feminist Studies Department

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas 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

Primary Office Location Merrill College Academic Building
33

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours on leave Winter 2025

Mail Stop Merrill/Crown Faculty Services

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 College.

Summary of Expertise

Chicana/o/x histories; Chicana and Mexicana feminisms; “borderlands” studies; Migration histories of the Américas; Latina/o/x studies; social history - U.S./Mexico;  critical race studies;  history of modern Mexico. 

Research Interests

Current research interests in cross-ethnic and cross-racial cooperation rooted in historical Chicana/o/x activism, diversity in coalitions, and processes of racial "mixing" in historical contexts of struggles for rights in what is now the United States.

Teaching Interests

Dr. Arredondo's teaching and research interests include Chicana/o/x histories, comparative Latina/o/x histories, comparative immigration/migrations in the United States, histories of ethnic and racial studies, bridging Latin American and Latina/o Studies,  gender and racial formations, U.S./Mexico histories, oral history and archival research methods.

Awards, Honors and Grants

Distinguished Research Lecturer, Organization of American Historians

Research Fellow, UCSC Executive Vice Chancellor's Fellows Academy

Golden Apple Teaching Award, Social Sciences Division, UCSC

Fellow, Executive Vice Chancellor's Leadership Academy, UCSC

Research Fellow, Stanford University: Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity

UC Online Educational Innovations Course Development Grant, co- PI

Crossing Latinidades Humanities Initiative, co- PI

UC MEXUS "Translations of Knowledge", co-PI

Courses LALS10: Intro to Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x/e Studies
LALS 100: Bridging Latin American & Latina/o/x Studies
LALS143: Comparative Race and Ethnicity
LALS144: Mexicana/Chicana Histories
LALS180: Borders: Real and Imagined: México-U.S.
LALS194: Migration Histories in the Americas
LALS200: Graduate: Bridging Latin American & Latino Studies: Concepts & Theories in LALS
LALS225: Graduate: Comparative Race in the Americas