The Latinx Social Science Research Workshop Series creates mentorship links across faculty, postdocs, and graduate students. During the workshops, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty share research in progress and receive feedback from a community of engaged scholars in the Latino Social Sciences.
The workshops are held on selected dates at the Latinx Research Center from 12-1:30 pm.
During the 2023 Fall semester, the LSSPI implemented five workshops:
September 13, 2023: Inaugural Session
October 11, 2023: First Workshop
- Presenter: Amy Andrea Martinez "Gangs, Politics, & Possibilities: Transforming the ‘Survivalist Gang Mentality’ into Anti- colonial Consciousness through Revolutionary Political Education"
- Discussant: G. Cristina Mora
- Presenter: Stephen Russell Pearson-Ocaña "The Wars of Suburbia: Chicano Masculinity, Suburbanization, and the Military-Industrial Complex in Los Angeles as a Historical and Contemporary Phenomenon"
- Discussant: Karen Villegas
November 8, 2023: Second Workshop
- Presenter: Kevin Quintero "School Facility Funding Inequities: An Assessment of California"
- Discussant: Jose Aguilar
- Presenter: Lorraine Torres-Colón "Geographies of Colonial Divestment and Violence: The Spatial Patterning of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault within Puerto Rico"
- Discussant: Michael Rodriguez-Muñiz
November 29, 2023: Third Workshop
- Presenter: Karen Villegas "Trapped in our origin stories: Interrogating the ideologies of ESL citizenship classrooms"
- Discussant: Kristina Lovato
- Presenter: Michelle Zaragoza "Mapping Wellbeing: Utilizing Testimonio and Body Maps to Explore Newcomer Latinx Immigrant Youth Wellbeing Through a Community Cultural Wealth Framework"
- Discussant: Lorraine Torres-Colón.
December 6, 2023: End of the Semester Workshop
- Presenter: Professor G. Cristina Mora "Between the Poles: Ambivalence, Uncertainty, and Soft Bias in Immigration Attitudes in California"
- Discussant: Nicholas Vargas
- Presenter: Professor Leonardo Arriola "Patronage Protection: How Party Machines Shaped Mexican Repatriation"
- Discussant: Lorena Oropeza
The LSSPI will implement six workshops during the 2024 Spring Semester:
January 18, 2024: Inagural Session
February 8, 2024: First Workshop
- Presenter: Maria E Rojas "Post-Doctoral Job Search Application Materials".
- Discussant: G. Cristina Mora
- Presenter: Laura Ramirez "Not for the Birds! The Jurisprudence of Guano".
- Discussant: Adan Martinez
February 29, 2024: Second Workshop
- Presenter: Adan Martinez "Brazilian Subnational Pandemic and Everyday Health Politics".
- Discussant: Karen Villegas
- Presenter: Karen Villegas "Free-duhm and kap-i-tl-ist ih-kon-uh-mee: The investments of ESL citizenship classrooms".
- Discussant: Juan G. Berumen
March 21, 2024: Third Workshop
- Presenter: Amy Andrea Martinez "The Barrioization of the Mexican Pueblo in Santa Barbara".
- Discussant: Christian O Paiz
- Presenter: Arlyn Moreno-Luna "College Adjustment and Satisfaction for Latinx Transfer Students at Elite Public Institution: A comparison to their non-transfer Latinx peers".
- Discussant: Nicholas Vargas
April 11, 2024: Fourth Workshop
- Presenter: Kevin Quintero "School Facility Funding Inequities: An Assessment of California".
- Discussant: Arlyn Moreno-Luna
- Presenter: Juan G. Berumen "The Quiet Before the Storm: Preparing Ethnic Studies High School Teachers to Implement AB101".
- Discussant: Maria E Rojas
May 2, 2024: End of Semester Workshop
- Presenters Lorraine Torres-Colón "Colonial Closures: Examining the Relationship Between Educational Divestment and Gender-Based Violence in a Non-Sovereign Context".
- Discussant: Marvyn Arevalo
- Presenter: Miguel Samano "Talk Stories: Sociocultural Linguistics and Asian and Latinx American Narrative Forms".
- Discussant: Kevin Quintero