Presentation at Indiana University Bloomington, 2022.
About
Areas of Expertise: Global Indigenous Studies, Immigration, Chicanx Latinx Studies, Oral History, US history, Modern Mexico, Relational and Comparative Studies of Race, Social Movements
Bio: Dr. Jorge Ramirez-Lopez is a postdoctoral fellow in the American Indian Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is an interdisciplinary historian whose expertise lies at the intersection of Indigenous and immigration studies, with attention to social movements, race, diaspora, and labor within and between the United States and Mexico.
Dr. Ramirez-Lopez is See Xánh a (Triqui) and Putleco. His family and roots are from the Mixteca region of Oaxaca. 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.
Teaching
Dr. Ramirez-Lopez has taught at Dartmouth College, UC San Diego, and the University of San Diego in the departments of Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies (LALACS), History, and Ethnic Studies.
Instructor of Record
Indigenous Migrations and Latinidad (LALACS, Dartmouth College)
Mexican America (History/Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego)
Introduction to Chicana/o Studies (History, UC San Diego)
US History since 1877 (History, University of San Diego)
Teaching Assistant
Introduction to African-American/Black Studies (UC San Diego)
Introduction to Asian American Studies (UC San Diego)
Introduction to Chicana/o Studies (UC San Diego)
Reader
US History Survey: The Nineteenth Century (UC San Diego)
Latin American History Survey: The Nineteenth Century (UC San Diego)
Mentorship
As an Indigenous scholar, researcher, and educator, mentorship is of vital importance to Dr. Ramirez-Lopez, both within and beyond the classroom.
Research Mentor, Dartmouth’s Consortium of Studies in Race, Migraton, and Sexuality (RMS) (2021-2022), and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program (2023-2024). Dartmouth College.
Academic Mentor, San Martin Indigenous Scholarship Fund (SMI scholarship), SMI supports Indigenous migrant community college students in the Central Valley of California and Washington state. Centro Binacional Para el Desarollo Indígena Oaxaqueño (CBDIO) and UC Berkeley.
Mentor, Puente Project at Santa Rosa Junior College. A University of California-led project, Puente provides educationally underrepresented students with the tools, knowledge, and mentorship to transfer to and graduate from a four-year university.