Research

  • 2024 UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research, UCLA Division of Graduate Education, UCLA

  • 2022 W. Turrentine Jackson Dissertation Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association

  • 2022 Latinx Studies Section Dissertation Award, Latin American Studies Association

  • 2022 Latin American Studies Association/Oxfam America Martin Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention)

Dr. Ramirez-Lopez’s work is influenced by an understanding of what a hemispheric Indigenous perspective can tell us about our shared pasts and the worlds Native, racialized, and working people struggle for. His scholarship has been generously supported by the Fulbright-García Robles, the Social Science Research Council-DPDF, UC San Diego's Chancellor’s Research Excellence Scholarships, UC San Diego’s Friends of the International Center Fellowship, the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, and the Emerging Scholars of Program at the University of Houston Downtown.

Publications:

  • Native-Latinx Histories, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (in-progress)

  • “Our Dark Hands and Sore Backs: The Comité Cívico Popular Mixteco and the New Grassroots Activism by Indigenous Mexican Migrants” Journal of American Ethnic History 43, no. 2 (2024): 5-33. 10.5406/19364695.43.2.01 

  • “Why Oaxaca? Why Now? The Political Currents of Indigenous Oaxacan Migrants in the Twenty-First Century” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 48, no. 2 (Fall 2023): 179-193. 10.1525/azt.2023.48.2.179

  • “Epilogue: We Provide Food for Your Table: Triqui Farmworkers Organizing for Change,” co-authored with Seth Holmes, in Seth Holmes, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Updated with A New Preface and Epilogue (University of California Press 2023). https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398634/fresh-fruit-broken-bodies

  • “Indigenous Harvest in Oaxacalifornia,” in Carissa Garcia and Yenedit Mendez, eds, Boom Oaxaca: Conversaciones de Campo a Campo (The Press at California State University, Fresno 2022). Co-authored with Xóchitl Flores-Marcial.

  •  “Archives of Indigenous Self-Activity: Capitalism, Violence, and Indigeneity in the Americas,” Radical History Review, Special Issue on Militarism and Capitalism 133 (January 2019): 149-162. 10.1215/01636545-7160126

  •  “In Memoriam: Cedric Robinson, Modest Audacity, and the Black Radical Tradition,” Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies 3, No. 2 (Fall 2016): 288-297. Co-authored with Jonathan D. Gomez and Ismael F. Illescas. 10.15367/kf.v3i2.108