The Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara is now accepting applications for the M.A./Ph.D. program. If you are interested in applying to the program, please visit the UC Graduate Division web site for details. https://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/eapp/index.cfm

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Timetable

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Applications accepted in the Fall Deadline for both admission and financial aid consideration: December 15th, 2008. Deadline for admission only is January 1, 2009	Click to download Graduate Student Handbook

For additional information and details on the application process please contact:
Katherine Morales, Graduate Advisor
kmorales@chicst.ucsb.edu
(805) 893-5269.

Graduate Student Body

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Eddy F. Alvarez (Chicana/o and Latina/o immigrant queer cultures, identities, sexualities and histories, queer community activism, aesthetics, theories, representation, geo-spatial queer narratives)

José G. Anguiano Cortez (Chicano/Latino popular music and culture; music of colonial California; alterNative epistemologies)

Michelle P. Baca (representations of the body in Chicana/o cultural production; critical race and gender studies)

Eduardo Blanco (Literature and subverting ideological apparatuses; spatial organizations of power and resistance; heterotopias; production of counter hegemonic postionalities)

William A. Calvo-Quiros (Chicana/o Epistemologies; knowledge & power;
lowriders; visual production; Chicana/o material culture; barriology)

Tomas Avila-Carrasco (Chicana/o performance/media; cultural studies)

Nicholas F. Centino (cross cultural organizing; multi-ethnic youth movements)

Carisa Prieto Cortez (Chicana feminism; identity constructs and critical race; gender and sexuality studies)

Amy Foss (California indigenous peoples; mission studies; identity development; mental health treatment strategies)

Francisco Fuentes (Latino religion & theology; postcolonialism; youth culture)

Amber Rose González (Comparative Ethnic and Feminist Studies; Native American/Indigenous religious traditions & environmental justice; Social and Political Institutions)

Sara Veronica Hinojos (critical race studies; black and brown relations; globalization; immigration and social movements)

Tomas A. Madrigal (Cultural studies; subaltern studies; indigenous studies; epistemologies of resistance)

Ricardo Elias Ortega (Education Policy; Undocumented Students; Cultural Studies; Sexual Deviancy; Criminalized Youth)

Marla Ramirez (immigration; undocumented students in higher education; political/social movements)

Adrianna Michelle Santos (Chicana/o literature and cinema; feminist theory, pop culture; critical race; gender & sexuality)

Cristina Serna (Queer Chicana/o & Mexicana/o cultural production & activism; women of color & Xicana feminisms; queer people of color critical theories)

Monique Sonoquie (indigenous cultures; traditional environmental sustainability; California indigenous cultures (specific); Native Americans in mass media; TV production; grassroots documentary making)

Jessie Turner (multiracial and -ethnic identities in relation to Chicanidad; oral history and memoir; "Across-the-lines" feminist coalition; social construction of women's sexual bodies)

Completed M.A. Qualifying Papers:

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Anguiano, Jose: Listening to California's Missions: Mission Music and the Indigenous Experience in Colonial California

Baca, Michelle: Ulcerated, Amputees and the Bodies That Could Save Them:
An Analysis of Alejandro Morales, Oscar Zeta Acosta and John Rechy

Serna, Cristina: "Queer Globalizations": Exploring Transnationalized Feminist Cultures among Queer Chicana, Latina, and Mexican Lesbian Activists and Artists

Longoria II, Rolando Rene: Silence and Femicide in Ciudad Juarez: A Critical, Post-Colonial Study

Francisco Fuentes: Men and Masculinities in the Maquiladora Shop Floor: A Case Study of one of Central Mexico's Maquiladoras

Thomas Carrasco: Days of Troy Oppositional Performance as Cultural Production in Los Angeles' Troy Cafe, 1990-1995