The following scholars earned their PhDs from UC Irvine and completed the graduate
emphasis in Chicano/Latino Studies.
2022
Kayla Puente, Ph.D. in Education
2021
Deyanira Nevarez Martinez, Ph.D. in Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy
Archibaldo Silva, Ph.D. in Sociology
Jose A. Torres, Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society
Michelle E. Zuniga, Ph.D. in Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy
2020
Karen Arcos, Ph.D. in Cognitive Science
Placement: UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dept. of Psychology, UC Santa
Cruz
Dissertation: Short-term and Working Memory in Blind and Sighted Individuals
2019
Daniel Millán, Ph.D. in Sociology
Placement: Core Fellow & Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College
Dissertation: The Role of Family Household Composition and Household Transitions
in the Educational Performance of Latina/o Children of Immigrants
Alberto E. Morales, Ph.D. in Anthropology
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies, University
of California, Irvine
Dissertation: Experimental Ecologies: Expert Networks and Research Infrastructures
in Panama's City of Knowledge
Daina Sanchez, Ph.D. in Anthropology
Placement: Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Lehman College, City University
of New York; Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow in Race
and Indigeneity at Brown University (2018-2019 AY)
Dissertation: The Children of Solaga: Ritual, Identity, and Transnationalism Among
the Children of Indigenous Mexican Immigrants
Mark Anthony Ocegueda, Ph.D. in History
Placement: Assistant Professor of History, California State University, Sacramento
Dissertation: Sol y Sombra: San Bernardino's Mexican Community, 1880-1960.
2016
Edelina M. Burciaga, Ph.D. in Sociology
Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado, Denver
Dissertation: The Latino Undocumented 1.5-generation: Navigating Belonging in New
and Old Destinations
Jonathan Calvillo, Ph.D. in Sociology
Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion, Boston University School
of Theology
Dissertation: Diverging Pathways of Assimilation: The Influence of Religious Affiliation
on the Ethnic Identity of Mexican Immigrants.
Cathery Yeh, Ph.D. in Education
Placement: Assistant Professor, Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University
Dissertation: Mathematics, Language, and Learning: A Longitudinal Study of Elementary
Teachers and their Mathematics Teaching Practices
2015
Alfredo Carlos, Ph.D. in Political Science
Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science and Chicano and Latino Studies,
California State University, Long Beach
Dissertation: Economic Democracy: From Continual Crisis to a People Oriented Economy
Raul Perez, Ph.D. in Sociology
Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Denver
Dissertation: Navigating the Hurtline: Race in American Stand-up Comedy from Civil
Rights to Color-Blindness
2014
Alejandra Albarran, Ph.D. in Education
Dissertation: Improving School Readiness through Parent Education Programming: Understanding
the Role of Community-Based Organizations
in a Large Urban City Center
Maria Amon, PhD. in Drama
Placement: Lecturer, Department of Chicano and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University
and Adjunct Faculty, Department of Dramatic Arts,
Dissertation: Little Girls and Legal Defendants: Theatricalization and Performances
of Innocence in Modern American Culture
Dana Nakano, Ph.D. in Sociology
Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University, Stanislaus
Dissertation: A Matter of Belonging: Dilemmas of Race, Assimilation, and Substantive
Citizenship among Later Generation Japanese Americans
2012
Daisy Verduzco Reyes, Ph.D. in Sociology
Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean
& Latin American Studies, University of Connecticut
Dissertation: Latino Student Politics: Constructing Ethnic Identities in Organizations
2011
Nicolas Bravo, Ph.D. in History
Dissertation: Spinning the Bottle: Ethnic Mexicans and Alcohol in Prohibition Era Los
Angeles
Armando Ibarra, Ph.D. in Political Science
Placement: Associate Professor, School for Workers, University of Wisconsin Extension
Dissertation: Poverty in the Valley of Plenty: Mexican Families and Migrant Work in
California
