The following scholars earned their PhDs from UC Irvine and completed the graduate emphasis in Chicano/Latino Studies.

 

2022

Kayla Puente, Ph.D. in Education

 

2021

Deyanira Nevarez Martinez, Ph.D. in Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy

Archibaldo Silva, Ph.D. in Sociology

Jose A. Torres, Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society

Michelle E. Zuniga, Ph.D. in Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy

 

2020
Karen Arcos, Ph.D. in Cognitive Science
      Placement: UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dept. of Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
      Dissertation: Short-term and Working Memory in Blind and Sighted Individuals

 

2019
Daniel Millán, Ph.D. in Sociology
      Placement: Core Fellow & Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College     

      Dissertation: The Role of Family Household Composition and Household Transitions in the Educational Performance of Latina/o Children of Immigrants 

Alberto E. Morales, Ph.D. in Anthropology

      Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine

      Dissertation: Experimental Ecologies: Expert Networks and Research Infrastructures in Panama's City of Knowledge

  

2018

Daina Sanchez, Ph.D. in Anthropology

Placement: Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Lehman College, City University of New York; Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow in Race

and Indigeneity at Brown University (2018-2019 AY)

Dissertation: The Children of Solaga: Ritual, Identity, and Transnationalism Among the Children of Indigenous Mexican Immigrants

 

2017

Mark Anthony Ocegueda, Ph.D. in History

Placement: Assistant Professor of History, California State University, Sacramento

Dissertation: Sol y Sombra: San Bernardino's Mexican Community, 1880-1960.

2016

Edelina M. Burciaga, Ph.D. in Sociology

Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado, Denver

Dissertation: The Latino Undocumented 1.5-generation: Navigating Belonging in New and Old Destinations

Jonathan Calvillo, Ph.D. in Sociology

Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion, Boston University School of Theology

Dissertation: Diverging Pathways of Assimilation: The Influence of Religious Affiliation on the Ethnic Identity of Mexican Immigrants.

Cathery Yeh, Ph.D. in Education

Placement: Assistant Professor, Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University

Dissertation: Mathematics, Language, and Learning: A Longitudinal Study of Elementary Teachers and their Mathematics Teaching Practices

2015

Alfredo Carlos, Ph.D. in Political Science

Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science and Chicano and Latino Studies, California State University, Long Beach

Dissertation: Economic Democracy: From Continual Crisis to a People Oriented Economy

Raul Perez, Ph.D. in Sociology

Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Denver

Dissertation: Navigating the Hurtline: Race in American Stand-up Comedy from Civil Rights to Color-Blindness

2014

Alejandra Albarran, Ph.D. in Education

Dissertation: Improving School Readiness through Parent Education Programming: Understanding the Role of Community-Based Organizations

in a Large Urban City Center

Maria Amon, PhD. in Drama

      Placement: Lecturer, Department of Chicano and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University and Adjunct Faculty, Department of Dramatic Arts,

San Diego City College 

Dissertation: Little Girls and Legal Defendants: Theatricalization and Performances of Innocence in Modern American Culture

Dana Nakano, Ph.D. in Sociology

Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University, Stanislaus

Dissertation: A Matter of Belonging: Dilemmas of Race, Assimilation, and Substantive Citizenship among Later Generation Japanese Americans

2012

Daisy Verduzco Reyes, Ph.D. in Sociology

Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean & Latin American Studies, University of Connecticut

Dissertation: Latino Student Politics: Constructing Ethnic Identities in Organizations

2011

Nicolas Bravo, Ph.D. in History

Dissertation: Spinning the Bottle: Ethnic Mexicans and Alcohol in Prohibition Era Los Angeles

 

2010

Armando Ibarra, Ph.D. in Political Science

      Placement: Associate Professor, School for Workers, University of Wisconsin Extension

Dissertation: Poverty in the Valley of Plenty: Mexican Families and Migrant Work in California