Dr. Ramirez-Lopez is a scholar of Indigenous and Latinx histories, migration, social movements, and borderlands.

Dr. Ramirez-Lopez is assistant professor in the Department of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to joining as faculty at UC Santa Barbara, Dr. Ramirez-Lopez was a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Indian Studies Center at UCLA (2023-2025). He was also a Society of Fellows postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at Dartmouth College (2021-2023). Dr. Ramirez-Lopez earned his Ph.D. in history at UC San Diego.

He is a member of the Committee on the Status of African American, Latina/o, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and ALANA histories of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), 2024-2028. At UC Santa Barara, Dr. Ramirez-Lopez is a member of the Cedric J. and Elizabeth P. Robinson Archive steering committee.

Dr. Ramirez-Lopez is Triqui and Putleco. His family and roots are from the Mixteca region of Oaxaca. He is a member of the board of directors for the Centro Binacional para el Desarollo Indígena Oaxaqueño (CBDIO) and an advisor for the Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB), California.