The Latinx Social Science Research Workshop Series creates mentorship links among faculty, postdocs, and graduate students. During the workshops, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty members share research in progress and receive feedback from a community of engaged scholars in the Latinx Social Sciences. The workshops are held on selected dates at the Latinx Research Center from 12-1:30 pm.
For the 2024 Fall Semester, the LSSPI will implement the following workshops:
September 12, 20204:
- Inaugural Session
October 3, 2024:
- Presenters: Stephen Rusell Pearson Ocaña "Front-Page Revolt: Basta Ya!, The Defense of Los Siete, and the Making of Raza Revolutionaries in the San Francisco Mission District, 1969-1973"
- Discussant: Jeremy Peschard
- Presenter: Adan Martinez "A Theory of Subnational Crisis Politics"
- Discussant: Lorraine Torres-Colon
October 17, 2024:
- Presenter: Cristina Mendez "Tomarnos en cuenta: Mam women’s language reclamation practices through Ecologies of Valorización"
- Discussant: Kevin Quintero
- Open Discussion Session: "The Job Market & Navigating Graduate School."
November 7, 2024:
- Presenter: Jonathan Ibarra "They Swore They Were the Police:" The School-Safety Imperative and The Paradox of Restorative School Discipline"
- Discussant: Amy Andrea Martinez
- Presenter: Amy Andrea Martinez "Santa Bruta—Home of El Indio Muerto: The Colonial-Carceral City's Attempt to Eliminate the 'Mexican Problem"
- Discussant: Jonathan Ibarra
November 21, 2024:
- Presenter: Mario Varo "Investing in Humanity: A Study on Universal Representation in the San Francisco Bay Area."
- Discussant: Stephen Russel Pearson Ocaña
- Presenter: Stepanie Canizales "Living Legal Trauma: How Punitive Immigration Laws Shape Immigrant Community Helpers."
- Discussant: Laura Ramirez
December 5, 2024:
- Presenter: Jeremy Peschard (Title TBC)
- Discussant: Miguel Samano
- Presenter: Julio Salas (Title TBC)
- Discussant: Stephanie Canizales
During the 2024 Spring Semester, the LSSPI implemented six workshops:
January 18, 2024:
- Inagural Session
February 8, 2024:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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
During the 2023 Fall semester, the LSSPI implemented five workshops:
September 13, 2023:
- Inaugural Session
October 11, 2023:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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