Biography Armando Ibarra is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the School for Workers/Department of Labor Education and holds a joint appointment with Chican@ and Latin@ Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He served as Director of the CLS Program from 2018 to 2021. Having earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University …
Biography Michael T. Light is Professor of Sociology and Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also affiliated with the Institute for Research on Poverty, the Center for Demography and Ecology, the LaFollette School of Public Affairs, the Center for Law, Society & Justice, the Center for German and European Studies, the Tommy G. Thompson Center …
Biography Biography Rubén Medina is a poet, translator and scholar. He is also one of the founders of Infrarealism. His research and teaching center on Mexican and US Latinx literature and culture, continental connections, film studies, Neo-avant-garde movements, and Mexican migration to the United States. In the area of research, he has published: Autor, autoridad y …
Biography Almita Miranda is an interdisciplinary geographer and cultural anthropologist with research interests in race/ethnicity, gender, political economy, (im)migration, citizenship, transnationalism, Latinx families and grassroots organizing in the U.S. and Mexico. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2017 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in …
Biography Biography I am a historian of the US–Mexico borderlands. I investigate how processes of mass immigration removals have imposed notions of illegality on citizens in their own native countries. Specifically, I center the everyday experiences of women and children in families whose members hold varying legal statuses (citizens, legally admitted immigrants, and unauthorized immigrants)—what …
Biography Aurora Santiago Ortiz is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Chicanx/e and Latinx/ez Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on antiracist feminisms, decolonial perspectives, and participatory action research. Her work has been published in the Michigan Journal for Community Service Learning, the Italian Journal of Urban Studies, Curriculum Inquiry, the International …
Biography Education 2014 University of California at Los Angeles. Ph.D., Urban Planning 2006 University of California at Los Angeles. M.S., Urban Planning 2003 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, el Centro de Enseñanza Para Extranjeros 2000 University of California at Los Angeles, B.A., History Cum Laude 1999 Pasadena City College 1996 University of …