Michelle Vasquez Ruiz

Education:

B.A., Political Science and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies, University of California, Irvine; M.A., History, California State University, Los Angeles; Ph.D., American Studies, University of Southern California

Dissertation:

Dismantling Settler Crimmigration: Histories of Indigenous Transborder Mobilities

Thesis Advisor:

George Sanchez, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

Research Topic:

Dismantling Settler Crimmigration: Histories of Indigenous Transborder Mobilities, examines how crimmigration, the merger between criminal law and immigration enforcement, disrupts the cultural practices of diasporic Latinx Indigenous communities.

Mentor:

Genevieve Carpio, Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position:

President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

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