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, 2009. Deadline for admission only is January 1, 2010.	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)

Felicia Rhapsody Lopez (Aztec and Mayan cultures, writing, and mythology; writing of Chicana Fiction based on history, mythology, and religion)

Jessica Lopez Lyman (Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity; Mixed Race Identity; Performance Art Education)

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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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

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

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

Amber Rose González:  The Labor of Memory:  Personal Risks and Collective Concerns in the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Supermarket Strike.

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

Adrianna Michelle 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.

Graduate Program Office

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Form D:  Graduate Request for Transfer Credit:

Requesting to transfer units is a two step process.  This form is to be used in order to request for the transfer of credit from another institution to UCSB.  Students are to complete the Graduate Student Petition (available at http://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/) once Form D has been approved by the Department.
 

Form E:  Graduate Request for UCSB Course Substitutions:

This form is to be used in order to request for the substitution of a course offered outside the Department for a Department Graduate Elective.
 

Form F:  Graduate Student Petition for Employment over 50% Time

This form is to be used in order to request Departmental approval for employment totaling over 50% during a single academic quarter.  Approval must be obtained prior to the start of employment.
 

Form K:  Contract for Independent Study Course

This form is to be completed by the student and instructor of the Independent Study course.
The following graduate level courses are considered Independent Study courses: CHST 592, CHST 596, CHST 597, CHST 598, and CHST 599.
 

Instructor Door Card

The door card should be placed outside of your Graduate Tower communication room during any quarter in which you have been appointed a Teaching Assistant and/or Teaching Associate position for the department.