UCD Chicana/o Studies Department

02/25/2026

🚨 FINAL 5 DAYS — WE’RE ALMOST THERE! 🚨

Our crowdfunding campaign for Oaxaca at UC Davis is in the final stretch, and we need your help to reach our stretch goal of $5,000! Thank you to everyone who has donated so far!

📣 Gifts to our campaign will provide support for learning opportunities on transnational (US-Mexico) health issues in Oaxaca, Mexico, including but not limited to internships, public health experiences, and programmatic and operational support. Every gift — big or small — makes a difference.

👉 Donate now: https://tinyurl.com/UCDOaxacaCrowdfund

💛 Only 5 days left!
Let’s finish strong — share this with friends, family, classmates, and alumni.

Thank you for your support! 🙌

12/09/2025

Check out this incredible video showcasing the amazing experiences our students had during the fall Latinx Health Intership Quarter Abroad Program in Oaxaca, Mexico!

In Fall 2026, this program will be celebrating a remarkable 20 years of existence! This visionary program was designed to merge Chicana/o/x Studies and global health to raise awareness about and address health inequities that transcend borders. We have empowered over 300 students, many of whom have pursued careers in medicine, public health, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, and physical therapy. Many alumni praise the program as being instrumental to their journey in becoming compassionate healthcare providers.

In response to institutional budget pressures, the program is currently under threat and we need your support! Your donation today can help ensure that the program continues to inspire students and those they serve in Oaxaca. Every contribution—large or small—helps sustain a program that transforms lives, advances equity, and builds a more culturally grounded healthcare future. All donors will receive recognition on our website.
Tax deductible donation link: https://give.ucdavis.edu/CLAS/77060

Checks can be sent to:
College of Letters and Science Development
1450 Drew Ave Ste 200
Davis, CA 95618

If you are interested in sending a major gift, please email the Chair of the Department, Dr. Lorena Marquez at [email protected].

Thank you for your unwavering commitment and generosity. Together, we can keep the spirit and legacy of the Oaxaca Quarter Abroad Program alive for years to come.

https://youtu.be/ptpuLO-ZzN4?si=0RO824wXlvzEpxIAentsioer

2025 video highlights

02/18/2025

With the escalated attacks on environmental justice, immigrants and refugees, trans and q***r people, and BIPOC communities, the urgency to build and nurture movements of resistance and freedom have never been greater.

Join us for a transdisciplinary conversation that seeks to think through and unsettle the traditional narratives of environmental catastrophe to imagine radical environmental futures.

We discuss and explore the ways feminist and q***r of color scholars, organizers, and community practitioners move us in the direction of ecological freedom for all.

08/27/2024

07/23/2024

There is still time to register for CHI courses being offered in Summer II. See highlight below for Race and Juvenile Justice with lecturer Daniel Talamantes.

05/17/2024

**UPDATE ** VENUE CHANGE**
The UC Davis Chicana/o/x Studies Department is commemorating its 50th anniversary by honoring its fundadoras!
May 29th

Davis Community Church Fellowship Hall
412 C Street Davis, CA 95616

In person registration https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRNkJT8BQ3Wz9dBNFfH5-gZGbL0u68JqsN01_N2wPa552Gpg/viewform

Zoom registration
https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkd-qgrzspH91bx_c1aD6riibG7-15F6cj #/registration

03/06/2024

Chicana/o/x Studies is pleased to announce our final candidate visit for the position of Associate/Full Professor ~ Politics, Law, Colonialism, and Social Movements is coming next week!
If you are on campus, please come by 3201 Hart Hall.
Dr. Rudy Guevarra Jr. will present his research Wed. 3/13 2:00-3:30pm
with
Pedagogy presentation Thur. 3/14 12:00-1:00pm

02/27/2024

Dr. Jorge Ramirez-Lopez will be giving a virtual research talk for our department tomorrow (2/28) from 1:00-2:30 PM.

The Zoom link is: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/91252245383

Dr. Ramirez-Lopez is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the American Indian Studies Center at UCLA.

Title of talk: From the Pueblo to Coalitional Politics: The Emergence of the Indigenous Migrant Movement

Abstract: In the late twentieth century, the significant migration of Indigenous people from Oaxaca, Mexico, began to transform the historically Chicanx and Latinx communities in California. Amid a period of heightened anti-immigrant racism and increased border militarization, Oaxacan diasporic people drew on their Native practices of providing service to their pueblos (communities of origin) and engaged in activism across the places in which they labored and lived. In turn, this began the emergence and evolution of the Indigenous migrant social movement through grassroots and transnational efforts to mobilize in defense of their communities of origin amid multiple settler nation-states. This talk shows how the Indigenous migrant movement began in places like San Diego and how it developed coalitional politics that drew upon their Native self-governance and cultural traditions yet became transformed under new circumstances.

Professional biography: Dr. Jorge Ramirez-Lopez (he/him) is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the American Indian Studies Center at UCLA. Dr. Ramirez-Lopez received his Ph.D. in US history from the University of California, San Diego, in 2021. He writes about transnational social movements, race and Indigeneity, migration, and labor between the United States and Mexico. His work has been published in The Journal of American Ethnic History, Aztlán, Kalfou, The National Review of Black Politics, and the Radical History Review. Recently, he co-authored the epilogue for the second edition of Seth Holmes’s Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (UC Press, 2023). Finally, he is a member of the board of directors for the Binational Center for the Development of Oaxacan Indigenous Communities (CBDIO) in the Central Valley and an advisor for the Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations (FIOB) in California, organizations with more than thirty years in existence.

Michael V. Singh, Ph.D. (he/him/él)

Postdoctoral Fellow 2023-2024
National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation

Assistant Professor
Department of Chicana/o/x Studies
University of California, Davis (on traditional Patwin lands)

02/27/2024

SPRING COURSE ALERT:

02/27/2024

SPRING COURSE ALERT:
Central Americans in the US

02/26/2024

Chicana/o/x Studies is pleased to announce our first candidate visit for the position of Associate/Full Professor ~ Politics, Law, Colonialism, and Social Movements is here TODAY!

If you are on campus, please come by 3201 Hart Hall.
Dr. Lilia Soto will present her research 1:30pm - 2:45pm
with
Pedagogy presentation 3:30-4:30pm