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Pronouns she, her, ella

Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Latin American & Latino Studies

Title Professor Emerita

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
Feminist Studies Department
Anthropology Department
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Community Studies Program

Faculty Type Emeriti

Areas of Expertise Chicana/o Studies
American Studies
Latino/a Studies
Sexuality
Poverty

Web Site

Primary Office Location Remote work location
contact by email

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours N/A

Mail Stop Merrill/Crown Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests

The movement for reproductive justice, family, poverty, sexuality, transnational migration by Mexicans, Chicanx-Latinx studies, feminism, ethnographic research methods

Teaching Interests

Migration, Gender and Health in Latina/o Communities
Latino Families in Transition
Latina/o Ethnographic Practice
Criminalizing the Poor

Migration, Borders, Borderlands

Awards, Honors and Grants

American Anthropological Association's Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology Award, 2016

Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists 2016 ALLA Distinguished Career Award    

The Society for the Anthropology of North America Distinguished Career Achievement in the Critical Study of North America Award, 2010

“Honorable Mention” for the 2009-10 Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010

“Faculty Research Lecture” by the Academic Senate, University of California Santa Cruz, 2009

“Scholar of the Year” by the Chicano/Latino Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2006.
“NACCS Scholar of the Year” by the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, 2003.
The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award of 2002 for Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, co-authored with The Latina Feminist Group.
Named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics, Hispanic Business Magazine, October 2002.

Selected Publications

• “Reproductive Justice Activism in the Post-Dobbs Era,” Feminist Anthropology, 2023:1-13 doi: 10.1002/fea2.12134
• “Women of Color,” in special issue on “Keywords” in feminist anthropology, 3 2022: 404-11.
• “Intersectional Praxis in the Movement for Reproductive Justice: The Respect ABQ Women Campaign,” Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14, no. 2 (2016): 509-533. 
• "Contesting Structural Vulnerability through Reproductive Justice Activism with Latina Immigrants in California." North American Dialogue 19, no. 1 (2016): 36-45.
• The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism. New York: New York University Press, 2020 (https://nyupress.org/9781479812707/the-movement-for-reproductive-justice/)
• I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty
• Why Are Immigrant Families Different Now?
• Mexicans in California: Transformation and Challenges (co-edited with Ramón Gutiérrez). Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.
• Special issue on "Gendered Borderlands" (co-edited with Denise A. Segura) Gender and Society 22, no. 5 (2008).
• Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader (co-edited with Denise A. Segura). Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
• Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader (co-edited with Gabriela Arredondo, Aída Hurtado, Norma Klahn, and Olga Nájera Ramírez). Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.
• Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (co-authored with The Latina Feminist Group). Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.