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Three of our Ph.D. students, Lau Malaver, Alejandra Portillos & Jose Vasquez-Zarate, received Tinker Grants from the Latin American Studies Center to support their projects in Colombia, Mexico City & Oaxaca this summer 2019! For the duration of a month and a half, Lau Malaver, born and raised in Bogotá,...

Cassy's Master's thesis, titled, "Race, Gender, and Domestic Human Trafficking: An Intersectional Description of Human Trafficking Cases at the State Level," is one of the most-accessed of 2.25 million full-text graduate works across all subject areas, based on total PDF downloads in the ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses Global™ database. Congrats, Cassy!

En memoriam: Dr Elisa Facio Dr. Elisa Facio, one of the foundational members of the Department of Ethnic Studies, passed away on August 30, 2018. Dr. Facio dedicated her life to fighting for social justice and for spaces of respect and empowerment for Chicanas, faculty and students of color, and...

Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies The Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Asian American Studies to begin in Fall 2019. We are particularly interested in candidates who examine gender and sexuality in transnational and comparative perspectives...

Dr. Ordaz grew up in Brentwood, California. She is the granddaughter of bracero agricultural laborers and the daughter of migrant workers. At the age of 18 she left home to pursue higher education and became a first gen college student at UC Santa Barbara triple majoring in Women’s Studies, History...

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Villanueva will join the DES faculty as Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2018. Congratulations, Dr. Villanueva, on your promotion!

As the newly elected Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies, I hope to continue building on the visionary and pragmatic leadership of Dr. Rabaka and Dr. Maeda. I am deeply committed to continue building our Department of top tier scholars, teachers, students at both the undergraduate and doctoral levels,...

Dr. Rabaka has been appointed Research Fellow in the College of Human Sciences at UNISA, Nelson Mandela's alma mater. Congrats, Dr. Rabaka!