Dr. Ramirez-Lopez is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the American Indian Studies Center at UCLA. He is an interdisciplinary historian whose expertise emphasizes Global Indigeneity, Immigration, Chicanx/Latinx Studies, Oral History, US history, Modern Mexico, Relational and Comparative Studies of Race, and Social Movements. He earned his Ph.D. in History at UC San Diego. Prior to the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College in the Society of Fellows and the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies.

He is at work on his book project, Democracy from Below: The Communal Worlds Indigenous Migrants Created which explores the early Oaxacan diasporic generation who labored and lived between southern Mexico and the US/Mexican Pacific Coast in the late twentieth century. The book centers the stories of migrant individuals, communities, and organizations revealing the Indigenous politics they enacted and the multiracial and multiethnic efforts they pursued with Mexican, Chicanas/os, Latinas/os, Native, and white allies across multiple territories.

He serves as chair of the Mexican Studies Section of the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) 2025-2026, of the American Historical Association (AHA). Additionally, 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) for 2024-2028.

Dr. Ramirez-Lopez is See Xánh a (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 and an advisor for the Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB), California.