College of Letters & Science
Biography Lalo Alcaraz is a well-known illustrator and Chicano artist, and an award-winning nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist and the creator of the syndicated daily comic strip, “LA cucaracha”, published daily since 2002. He has worked as a writer, producer, and consultant for film, TV, and animation, including projects at Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney, Fox, and …
Biography Jeanette Arellano is a visual artist with Voces de los Artistas, an affinity group with more than 50 members, established in 2016 in Milwaukee. Inspired by the affinity model pioneered by Gran Fury during the ACT UP movement of the 1980s, the group collaborates directly with community organization Voces de la Frontera, producing picket …
Biography Jessica Lopez Lyman, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary performance artist and Xicana feminist scholar interested in how Indigenous and People of Color create alternative spaces to heal and imagine new worlds. She received her Ph.D. in Chicana and Chicano Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Jessica has published poetry and scholarship in Chicana/Latina …
Biography Malaquias Montoya was born in New Mexico and raised in California’s San Joaquin Valley. His entire family had to work as farm laborers for survival. His art, including acrylic paintings, murals, washes, drawings, and silkscreen prints, was enormously influential during the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and remains so today. He is …
Biography Dr. Reinoza is an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, whose research explores diverse facets of Latinx visual art and territorial representation in the United States, including its relationship to border discourse and activism though a decolonial perspective. She is the author of Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx and the Politics of Territory …
Biography Dewey Tafoya a visual artist and screen printer from Boyle Heights, California. Growing up in an era of nightly helicopter malathion spraying, police street sweeps, punk rock and oldies, he makes art echoes the urban landscapes, cultures and communities of inner city Los Angeles. Often using satirical humor, much of Dewey’s work deconstructs historical …
Biography Elliott Young is Professor in the History Department at Lewis and Clark College. Professor Young is the author of Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System (Oxford, 2021), Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through WWII (UNC, 2014), and Catarino Garza’s Revolution on …