Currently Enrolled Students
| Name | Cohort | |
|---|---|---|
| Karla Larrañaga | klarranaga@ucsb.edu | 2019 |
| 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 |
Completed Doctorates
| Name | Dissertation Title | Faculty Chair | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eddy Alvarez | Space, Identity, and Memory in Queer, Brown, L.A.: Finding Sequins in the Rubble | Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval | 2014 |
| Michelle Baca |
Loss, Rumination, and Narrative: Chicana/o Melancholy as Generative State | Francisco Lomeli | 2013 |
| Janett Barragan Miranda | Hungering for Equality: Mexicans and Mexican Americans from WorldWar II through the Civil Rights | Miroslava Chavez-Garcia | 2019 |
| Rosie Bermudez | Doing Dignity Work: Alicia Escalante and the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization, 1967-1974 | Miroslava Chavez-Garcia | 2019 |
| 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 |
| Tomas Avila Carrasco | Oppositional Performance: A Social-Historical Analysis of the Avant-Garde Comedy Troupe Chicano Secret Service | Mario T. Garcia & George Lipsitz | 2012 |
| Nicholas Centino |
Atomic Chicanas/os: Embodied Memory and The Raza Rockabilly Scene of Greater Los Angeles | D. Inés Casillas | 2014 |
| Carisa Cortez | Survivors Ink: Self-Transformation, Self-Creation and Healing Through Tattoo | Edwina Barvosa | 2013 |
| José G. Anguiano Cortez | Latino Listening Cultures: Identity, Affect, and Resilient Music Practices | Maria Herrera-Sobek | 2012 |
| Juan Sebastian Ferrada | Latinx Temporalities: The Queer Time of Spanglish, Family, and Latinx Futurity in Santa Ana, California, 2014-2017 | D. Inés Casillas | 2018 |
| Amy Foss | Race, Racialization and the Colonial Conquest of the Santa Barbara Channel Region: Colonial and National Racial Ideological Systems | Edwina Barvosa | 2017 |
| Francisco Fuentes | Bordering Faith: spiritual transformation, cultural change, and Chicana/o youth at the border | Ralph Armburster Sandoval | 2016 |
| Amber Rose Gonzalez | Another City is Possible: Mujeres de Maiz, Radical Indigenous Mestizaje and Activist Scholarship | Chela Sandoval | 2014 |
| Sara Veronica Hinojos | Can joo belieb it?": The Racial Politics of Chican@ Linguistic Scripts in U.S. Media (1925-2014) | D. Inés Casillas | 2016 |
| Felicia Rhapsody Lopez | Mayahuel and Tlahuizcalpanteuctli in the Nahua Codices: Indigenous Readings of Nahuatl Pictoral and Alphabetic Texts | Gerardo Aldana | 2016 |
| Jessica Lopez Lyman | Gendering the Midwest Regional Imaginary: Chicana/Latina Performance in Urban Minnesota | Aida Hurtado | 2016 |
| Tomas A. Madrigal | Agribusiness and Mexican Farm Worker Families in Washington State (1964-2013) | Aida Hurtado | 2016 |
| Natalia Villanueva Nieves | Reading the Latina Soul: Affect and Hegemony in the Hermeneutics of (Trans)National Latina Narratives | Maria Herrera-Sobek & Ellie D. Hernandez | 2019 |
| Ricardo Elias 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 J. Yosso | 2013 |
| Marla Ramirez | Contested Illegality: Three Generations of Exclusion through Mexican "Repatriation" and the Politics of Immigration Law, 1920-2005 | D. Inés Casillas | 2015 |
| Adrianna Santos | Radical Storytelling: Reading Chicana Survival Narratives | Maria Herrera-Sobek | 2014 |
| Cristina Serna | Deconstructing the Nation: Queer and Feminist Art in Mexican and Chicana/o Social Movements | Chela Sandoval & Horacio Roque Ramirez | 2014 |
| Adrianna Marie Bayer Simone | "It Was NEVER Fiction:" The Decolonized Voice of Michele Serros | Maria Herrera-Sobek & Francisco Lomeli | 2017 |
| Silvia E. 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 J. Yosso | 2016 |
| Ester N. Trujillo | Understanding and Negotiating U.S. Salvadoran Ethnic Identity in the Diaspora | Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval | 2017 |
| Jessie Turner | Mixed and Mixed: Inheritance and Intersectionality in the Identity Formation and Identity Migration of People with Mexican and Other Ethnoracial Backgrounds | Ralph Armburster-Sandoval | 2012 |
| 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 |
| Magda Garcia | Claiming La Bruja: Rage, the Speculative, and Contemporary Border Tejanx Feminist Affects | Chela Sandoval | 2021 |
| Paulina Ramirez Niembro | Coloniality of Affect: Theoretical Approaches to Contemporary Migratory Affect as Decolonial World-Making | Chela Sandoval | 2022 |
| Alejandro Prado | Chicanx Material Conditions: Chicanidad and the ‘Rise of China,’ Global Capitalism, International Solidarity in 21st Century Los Angeles, California | Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval | 2022 |
| 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-Sandoval | 2022 |
| Marina Chavez | College Folklórico Dancers at an HSI: (Re)Dressing Tradition through Cultural Preservation and Cultural Transformation | Ellie Hernandez | 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 |
M.A. Papers
Eddy F. 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 A. Calvo-Quiros: 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 F. Centino: From London to East Los’ A Cultural History of La Raza and the Rockabilly Scene
Carisa Prieto 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 Rose González: The Labor of Memory: Personal Risks and Collective Concerns in the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Supermarket Strike.
Sara Veronica 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 Rhapsody 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
Tomás A. Madrigal: Community Formation at Goleta Barbers: A Case Study of a Mexican/Chicano Barrio Barbershop in Goleta, CA
Ricardo Elias 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 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.