Currently Enrolled Students

First Name Last Name Email Cohort
Veronica Mandujano v_mandujano@ucsb.edu 2019
Kristian Vasquez kevasquez@ucsb.edu 2019
Alejandra Valencia Medina   alejandra_valenciame@ucsb.edu 2021
Edward Reyes edwardreyes@ucsb.edu 2021
Ricardo Delgado Solis ricardodelgadosolis@ucsb.edu 2021
John Jairo Valencia johnvalencia@ucsb.edu 2021
Diana Sanchez dianasanchez@ucsb.edu 2022
Fabian Pavon fpavon@ucsb.edu 2022
Cynthia De la Rosa cdelarosa@ucsb.edu 2023
Kathy Palomino palomino@ucsb.edu 2023
Damian Yazzie dyazzie@ucsb.edu 2023
Karla Gomez-Pelayo gomez-pelayo@ucsb.edu 2023
Gabriela Lúa gabrielalua@ucsb.edu 2023
Alejandra Mejia-Pulido alejandramejia-pulid@ucsb.edu 2023
Diego  Lazcano Avila diego606@ucsb.edu 2024
Jorge Castillo jorge_castillo@ucsb.edu 2024
Ricardo Mata Vazquez mata@ucsb.edu 2024
Danny Sanchez-Bravo sdsanchez@ucsb.edu 2024
Daniel Lopez daniel_lopez@ucsb.edu 2024
Cecelia Adame ceceliaadame@ucsb.edu 2025
Julisa Rojas julisarojas@ucsb.edu 2025
Martiza Gomez maritzagomez@ucsb.edu 2026
Ruben Ramirez rhramirez@ucsb.edu 2026

Completed Doctorates

First Name Last Name Dissertation Title Advisor Year
Jose Anguiano Latino Listening Cultures: Identity, Affect, and Resilient Music Practices Maria Herrera Sobek 2012
Francisco Fuentes Bordering Faith: spiritual transformation, cultural change, and Chicana/o youth at the border Ralph Armbruster 2016
Cristina Serna Deconstructing the Nation: Queer and Feminist Art in Mexican and Chicana/o Social Movements Chela Sandoval 2014
Thomas Carrasco Oppositional Performance: A Social-Historical Analysis of the Avant-Garde Comedy Troupe Chicano Secret Service Mario Garcia & George Lipsitz 2012
Michelle Baca Loss, Rumination, and Narrative: Chicana/o Melancholy as Generative State Francisco Lomeli 2014
Jessie Turner Mixed and Mixed: Inheritance and Intersectionality in the Identity Formation and Identity Migration of People with Mexican and Other Ethnoracial Backgrounds Ralph Armbruster 2012
Ricardo Ortega Guided by Great Feelings of Love: Using Photovoice and Critical Pedagogy to Document the Life Experiences of Undocumented Latino/a Students in Higher Education Tara Yosso 2013
Amber Gonzalez Another City is Possible: Mujeres de Maiz, Radical Indigenous Mestizaje and Activist Scholarship Chela Sandoval 2015
William Calvo Monsters of Late Capitalism Along the U.S.-Mexico Border: Legends, Epistemologies, and the Politics of Imagination Maria Herrera Sobek & Francisco Lomeli 2014
Adrianna Santos Radical Storytelling: Reading Chicana Survival Narratives Maria Herrera Sobek 2014
Eddy Alvarez Space, Identity, and Memory in Queer Brown Los Angeles: Finding Sequins in the Rubble Ralph Armbruster 2014
Carisa Cortez Survivors Ink: Self-Transformation, Self-Creation and Healing Through Tattoo Edwina Barvosa 2013
Nicholas Centino Atomic Chicanas/os: Embodied Memory and the Raza Rockabilly Scene of Los Angeles D. Inés Casillas 2014
Marla Ramirez Contested Illegality: Three Generations of Exclusion through Mexican "Repatriation" and the Politics of Immigration Law, 1920-2005 D. Inés Casillas & Miroslava Chavez-Garcia 2015
Tomas Madrigal Agribusiness and Mexican Farm Worker Families in Washington State (1964-2013) Aida Hurtado & Juan-Vicente Palerm 2015
Amy Foss Race, Racialization and the Colonial Conquest of the Santa Barbara Channel Region: Colonial and National Racial Ideological Systems Edwina Barvosa 2017
Sara Hinojos "Can joo belieb it?": The Racial Politics of Chican@ Linguistic Scripts in U.S. Media (1925-2014) D. Inés Casillas 2016
Jessica Lyman Gendering the Midwest Regional Imaginary: Chicana/Latina Performance in Urban Minnesota Aida Hurtado 2016
Ester Trujillo Understanding and Negotiating U.S. Salvadoran Ethnic Identity in the Diaspora Ralph Armbruster 2017
Felicia Lopez Mayahuel and Tlahuizcalpanteuctli in the Nahua Codices: Indigenous Readings of Nahuatl Pictoral and Alphabetic Texts Gerardo Aldana 2016
Silvia Toscano Learning to Heal, Healing to Learn: Sacred Pedagogies and the Aesthetics of a Teaching-Healing Praxis among Chicana and Chicano Educators in Southern California Tara Yosso 2016
Juan Ferrada Latinx Temporalities: The Queer Time of Spanglish, Family, and Latinx Futurity in Santa Ana, California, 2014-2017 D. Inés Casillas 2018
Janett Barragan Miranda Hungering for Equality: Mexicans and Mexican Americans from World War II through the Civil Rights Miroslava Chavez-Garcia 2019
Adrianna Simone "It Was NEVER Fiction:" The Decolonized Voice of Michele Serros Maria Herrera Sobek & Francisco Lomeli 2017
Rosie Bermudez Doing Dignity Work: Alicia Escalante and the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization, 1967-1974 Miroslava Chavez-Garcia 2019
Magda Garcia Claiming La Bruja: Rage, the Speculative, and Contemporary Border Tejanx Feminist Affects Chela Sandoval 2021
Ana Barba From Fear-Based Policy Making to Democratic Policy Making in School Shooting Safety Protocols: Lessons from LA Unified School District 1993-2019 Ralph Armbruster 2023
Natalia Villanueva-Nieves Reading the Latina Soul: Affect and Hegemony in the Hermeneutics of (Trans)National Latina Narratives Ellie Hernandez & Maria Herrera Sobek 2019
Adanari Zarate Understanding the Impact of Raciolinguistic Ideologies on the Educational Experiences of "academically promising" Mexican-origin Youth in Santa Ana, CA. D. Inés Casillas 2020
Marina Chavez College Folklórico Dancers at an HSI: (Re)Dressing Tradition through Cultural Preservation and Cultural Transformation Ellie Hernandez & Victor Rios 2023
Alejandro Prado Chicanx Material Conditions: Chicanidad and the ‘Rise of China,’ Global Capitalism, International Solidarity in 21st Century Los Angeles, California Ralph Armbruster 2022
Aracely Garcia Gonzalez Flirting with Sexual Economies: A Study on The Latina Body in Popular Culture and Online Sex Work Industries Chela Sandoval 2023
Paulina Ramirez Niembro Coloniality of Affect: Theoretical Approaches to Contemporary Migratory Affect as Decolonial World-Making Chela Sandoval 2021
Karla Larrañaga Venerations in Cyberspace: Chicanx Popular Catholicism, Latina Feminist Theology, and the Digital Transformation of La Virgen de Guadalupe’s Altar D. Inés Casillas 2026

M.A. Papers

First Name Last Name M.A. Paper Title
Eddy Alvarez ¿Transgénero inmigrante y qué?: Bamby Salcedo, Selfcraft, and the Making of a Transgender Male-to-Female Activist
Jose Anguiano Listening to California's Missions: Mission Music and the Indigenous Experience in Colonial California
Michelle Baca Ulcerated, Amputees and the Bodies That Could Save Them: An Analysis of Alejandro Morales, Oscar Zeta Acosta and John Rechy
Eduardo Blanco Reconfiguring the Semiotic Operationality of Textual Discourse in John Rechy’s The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez:
William Calvo Lowriders as Expressions of Chicana/o Vernacular Knowledge:
Thomas Carrasco Days of Troy Oppositional Performance as Cultural Production in Los Angeles' Troy Cafe, 1990-1995:
Nicholas Centino From London to East Los’ A Cultural History of La Raza and the Rockabilly Scene:
Carisa Cortez Inking Identity: A study of Individual and Collective Motivations For Tattoo Among Chicana College Students in California
Amy Foss Histories of Marginalization, the State, and Dis-Memberings of California Indigenous People: An Oral History of a Barbareño Chumash Elder
Francisco Fuentes Men and Masculinities in the Maquiladora Shop Floor: A Case Study of one of Central Mexico's Maquiladoras
Amber Gonzalez The Labor of Memory: Personal Risks and Collective Concerns in the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Supermarket Strike.
Sara Hinojos Re-Visions of Chico and the Man: Chicanos and 1970s Television
Rolando Rene Longoria II Silence and Femicide in Ciudad Juarez: A Critical, Post-Colonial Study
Felicia Lopez Mayahuel and Maguey as Teotl in the Codex Borgia: Establishing a Visual Grammar for Reading Directional Tree Panels
Jessica Lopez Lyman Isolated Vidas: Reclaiming Minnesota Chicana/o Bodies, Sitios y Lenguas
Tomas Madrigal Community Formation at Goleta Barbers: A Case Study of a Mexican/Chicano Barrio Barbershop in Goleta, CA
Ricardo Ortega Latino Undergraduates Navigating the Undocumented University:
Marla Ramirez “A New Brown Model Minority”? — Undocumented immigrant youth, AB 540, and the federal DREAM Act:
Adrianna Santos Theorizing Beyond Metaphor to Survival Narrative: Chicana Discourses of Rape and Sexual Violence in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God .
Cristina Serna Queer Globalizations: Exploring Transnationalized Feminist Cultures among Queer Chicana, Latina, and Mexican Lesbian Activists and Artists
Jessie Turner An Impermissible Borderlands: White/Mexican Multiraciality and the Vectors of Identity Formation, Migration, and Chican@ Community Membership.