José Manuel Santillana Blanco

Education:

B.A., Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota; Ph.D., Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota

Dissertation:

Racial Motherhood Ecologies: Towards a Mapping of Social Life, Violence & Resistance in the Southwest Borderlands, 1980-Present

Thesis Advisor:

Zenzele Isoke, Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota, and Edén Torres, Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota

Research Topic:

Critical Environmental Justice Studies / Racial Geographies / Black, Mexican immigrant, and Indigenous Communities / Women of Color Feminisms / Decolonial Ecologies / Public Policy and Planning

Mentor:

Julie Sze, Professor of American Studies, University of California, Davis

Current Position:

President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of American Studies, University of California, Davis

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