UC MEXUS awards Dissertation Grants to UC graduate students for research toward the completion of their dissertations. Grant recipients are presented by year below, along with their departments, home campuses, faculty advisors, and project titles. “SCR 43” refers to California Senate Concurrent Resolution 43, which inspired specific support for research and creative activities in the area of Latino Studies.
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Rosie Bermudez, Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCSB
(Advisor: Miroslava Chavez-Garcia)
Chicana Welfare Rights: Alicia Escalante and the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization, 1967-1974
SCR-43
Araceli Calderón, Spanish and Portuguese, UCI
(Advisors: Viviane Mahieux and Catherine Benamou)
The Mexican Revolution: Ideologies of Motherhood in Mexican Cinema and Narrative
Maria del Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA
(Advisor: Mary N. Roberts)
Making Locations: Decentralizing Cultural Policies and Consolidating Art Communities in Mexico
Luis Chavez, Music, UCD
(Advisors: Zoila Mendoza and Henry Spiller)
The Utopia of Borders: On Music, Dance, and Festival in Northern Mexico
Konstantin Choumiline, Earth Sciences, UCR
(Advisor: Timothy Lyons)
Uranium isotopes as a novel proxy for oceanic redox and productivity in contrasting modern marine basins of the Gulf of California
Matthew Costa, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
(Advisor: James Leichter)
Belowground Mangrove Carbon: Spatial Patterns and Limitations on Decomposition Processes
Annie Danis, Anthropology, UCB
(Advisor: Jun Sunseri)
Archaeology of Pueblo de Abiquiu’s Historic Asequia System (New Mexico, U.S.A.)
SCR 43
Luz A. de Wit, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCSC
(Advisor: Donald Croll)
Understanding the association between feral cat density and rate of exposure to Toxoplasma gondii in island inhabitants of Mexico
Rebeca Figueroa, Native American Studies, UCD
(Advisor: Steven J. Crum)
From Pueblos de Indios to Hidrocálido Citizens to Mexicans: De-Indianization through Displacement and Settler Colonial Governances
Roberto Gallardo, Sociology, UCR
(Advisor: Adalberto Aguirre)
On the Thin Blue Line: Examining the Experience Mexican-American Officers in the Los Angeles Police Department
SCR-43
Eric Garcia, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCSC
(Advisor: Giacomo Bernardi)
Genomic Analysis of Disjunct Marine Fish Populations of the Northeastern Pacific and Sea of Cortez
Alma Garza, Sociology, UCI
(Advisor: Cynthia Feliciano)
Treading Borders: How College and Community Cultures Shape the Upwardly Mobile Experiences of Mexican-Origin Students
SCR-43
Miriam Paloma Giottonini Badilla, Urban Planning, UCLA
(Advisor: Leobardo Estrada)
Energy efficiency as an instrument for improving the living conditions of low-income households
Angel Gonzalez Lopez, Anthropology, UCR
(Advisor: Karl Taube)
The Aztec Stone Sculpture from the Basin of Mexico Project: Distinguishing agents, discourses, identities, and changes
Rebecca Hasselbeck, Anthropology, UCI
(Advisor: Leo Chavez)
Social and Labor Relations in the United States Horse Racing Industry
SCR 43
Mildred Mathias Award
Tracy Hruska, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, UCB
(Advisor: Lynn Huntsinger)
Thorny transformations: Shrub encroachment, agricultural conversion, and social change in northwestern Chihuahua
Sarah Kienle, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCSC
(Advisor: Daniel Costa)
Investigating the foraging behavior of a large marine predator, the northern elephant seal
Angel Ku, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF
(Advisor: Sourav Bandyopadhyay)
Discovery and Functional Characterization of Essential Pathways in KRAS Mutant Lung Cancers Cancer to targeted health disparities in Mexican and U.S. Born Latinos
SCR-43
Lina Reznicek-Parrado, Spanish and Portuguese, UCD
(Advisor: Cecilia Colombi)
Peer-to-peer Tutoring in Spanish as a Heritage Language: A Qualitative Study of Student Literacy Practices
SCR 43
Silvia Rodriguez Vega, Cesar E. Chavez Dept. of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
(Advisor: Leisy Abrego)
Healing with HeART: Resilience and Coping with Immigrant Children
SCR 43
Marco Antonio Rosales, History, UCD
(Advisor: Lorena Oropeza)
Battleground Arizona: Chicanos, Conservatives and the Roots of Racial Conflict in Arizona
SCR-43
Catharina Santasilia, Anthropology, UCR
(Advisor: Karl Taube)
Tlatilco: Where Things Are Hidden
Victoria Whitener, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA
(Advisor: Jennifer Jay)
Pathogen and antibiotic resistance gene dynamics in reclaimed water at agricultural sites in northern Mexico
Eleinis Avila-Lovera, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Louis Santiago)
Stem photosynthesis responses to drought in Baja California: Coordination between carbon and water resources
Philipp Brand, Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis
(Advisor: Santiago Ramírez)
Evolution of pheromone communication systems and its implications in reproductive isolation in orchid bees
Katherine Ennis, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Stacy M. Philpott)
Evaluating the ecological and economic consequences of shifting rainfall patterns in a Mexican coffee agroecosystem
Mildred Mathias Award - Co-Recipient
Stephanie Fairchild, History, UC San Diego
(Advisor: David Gutierrez)
"Every Generation Has to Win it Again": Understanding SEIU's Justice for Janitors Campaign in the Continuum of Radical Struggle for Justice and Dignity
SCR-43
Aurora Feeney-Kleinfeldt, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Charles Briggs)
Living Language and Feeling Communication: Yucatec Maya Speaker Collective Experiences and Embodiments of Meaning Making and Indigeneity
Richard Grijalva, Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
(Advisors: Samera Esmeir and Ivonne del Valle)
Archival Research and Primary Source Acquisition/Analysis for "The Idea of Mexico in the Long Colonial Twilight: Forging a Concept from the Bourbon Reforms to the First Federal Republic, 1754-1824"
Maria Gutierrez, Native American Studies, UC Davis
(Advisor: Liza Grandia)
State Nationalism, Cultural Politics, and Indigenous Intellectualisms: Educational Processes in the Pur'hépecha Region of Michoacán, Mexico, 1938-1990
Maria Esteli Jimenez Soto, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Stacy M. Philpott)
Complexity in a cup of coffee: Ecological and social implications of resource heterogeneity in Mexican coffee agroecosystems
Mildred Mathias Award - Co-Recipient
Lisa Johnson, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Rosemary Joyce)
Analyzing the Ritual 'Event': The Material Traces of Ancient Maya Ritual Practice in the Palenque Region of Chiapas, Mexico
Jane Lilly Lopez, Sociology, UC San Diego
(Advisor: David FitzGerald and Kwai Ng)
(Un)Authorized Love: U.S. Immigration Law and the Effects of Institutional (Dis)Approval on Mixed-Citizenship Families
SCR-43
Kristina Nielsen, Ethnomusicology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Tara Browner)
Danza Mexica in the United States: Alliances, Boundaries, and their Musical Manifestations in Contemporary Indigenous Movements
SCR-43
Phillip Ninomiya, History, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Rachel O'Toole)
Colonial Cosmopolitanism: Local Merchants and the Trade in Pacific Goods in Mexico, 1620-1670
Angela Ocampo, Political Science, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Matt Barreto)
Unengaged, irregular and habitual participants: Latinos transitioning in the U.S. political system
SCR-43
Elisa Oceguera, Cultural Studies, UC Davis
(Advisor: Robert Irwin)
In and Against Community: Heterodox Subjectivities in Agricultural California
SCR-43
Mathias Poertner, Political Science, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Ruth Berins Collier)
Creating Partisans: New Political Parties and Societal Linkages in Latin America
Paulo Quadri, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Erika Zavaleta)
Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use Change on Forest Species Distribution in the Iztaccihuatl and Popocatepetl Volcanoes
Claudia Rafful, Division of Global Public Health, Dept. of Medicine, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Steffanie Strathdee)
Impact of involuntary drug treatment on HIV risk behaviors among people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico
Irene Vega, Sociology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Vilma Ortiz)
Doing the State's Work on the Local Level: A Comparative Case Study of Immigration Enforcement Agents
SCR-43
Darren Banks, Mechanical Engineering, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Guillermo Aguilar)
Optical Cavitation for Localized Cooling Enhancement
Hector Beltran, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Charles Briggs)
The Rise of the Mexican/American Tech Startup Boom
SCR-43
Caitlin Cavanagh, Psychology and Social Behavior, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Elizabeth Cauffman)
The Role of Family in Probationary Success for Latino Juvenile Offenders
SCR-43
Jessica Chiang, Psychology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Andrew Fuligni)
Understanding Disease Risk Among Mexicans in the U.S.: The Impact of Early Family Stress on Inflammation and Underlying Mechanisms
SCR-43
Erin Conners, Division of Global Public Health, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Kimberly Brouwer)
Potential Role of Migration in Chagas Disease Expansion
Yasaman Damestani, Bioengineering, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Guillermo Aguilar)
Windows to the Brain (WttB): Transparent yttria-stabilized-zirconia (YSZ) cranial implants for non-invasive, chronic access to the brain for optical diagnostics and therapeutics
Charlie de la Rosa, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisors: Patricia Gowaty and Stephen Hubbell)
Effects of cattle foraging on the structure and composition of tropical deciduous forest in Sonora, Mexico
Meghan Donnelly, Anthropology, UC Davis
(Advisor: Joseph Dumit)
Violence and an Emergent Ethics of Journalism in Mexico
Eva Durazo, Community Health Sciences, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Steven Wallace)
How Ethnic Enclaves Affect Diabetes Among Older Mexican-origin Adults in the Southwest
SCR-43
Edwin Elias, Sociology, UC Riverside
(Advisors: Adalberto Aguirre and Ellen Reese)
New Dreams: The Impact of DACA on undocumented youth
SCR-43
Ruben Espinoza, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Steve McKay)
Fields in the Factory: Unpacking Precarious Labor in the Salinas Valley's Bagged Salad Industry
SCR-43
Kirby Farah, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Wendy Ashmore)
Elite domestic spaces and quotidian practices at Postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico
Mikael Fauvelle, Anthropology, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Guillermo Algaze)
Proyecto Arqueológico Fracción Mujular: Exploring Teotihuacan Influences in Domestic Contexts on Cerro Bernal, Chiapas, México
Miguel Garcia, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Davis
(Advisor: Robert Irwin)
Ambivalent Modernity: Science and Technology in Mexican Film, from the Golden Era and Beyond
Luz Maria Garcini, Psychology/Psychiatry, UC San Diego
(Advisors: Elizabeth Klonoff and Monica Ulibarri)
Proyecto Voces: A Study of Wellbeing among Mexican Undocumented Immigrants in San Diego
SCR-43
Tadej Gracner, Economics, UC Berkeley
(Advisors: Frederico Finan and Paul Gertler)
Cheaper Calories, Bigger Waistlines? The Role of Prices in Obesity Epidemic in Mexico
Jacqueline Lopez Gregory, Family Health Nursing, UC San Francisco
(Advisor: Catherine Chesla)
Exploring the Expression of Pain by Limited English Proficient Latino Immigrants in Language and Culturally Discordant Health Encounters
SCR-43
Sandra Gutierrez, Native American Studies, UC Davis
(Advisor: Liza Grandia)
"Juchari Uinapekua!:" Indigenous Identity, Land Struggles, and Ethno-nationalism in Michoacan's Lake Patzcuaro
Aaron Hyman, History of Art, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Elizabeth Honig)
Rubens in a New World: Prints, Authorship and Transatlantic Intertextuality
Shelley LaMon, Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Juan Vicente Palerm)
From the Far South to the North: The New International Migration of Indigenous Mexicans to the United States
SCR-43
Camilo Lund-Montano, History, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Waldo Martin)
Out of Order: Radical Lawyers and Revolutionary Movements in the Global Sixties
Alina Mendez, History, UC San Diego
(Advisors: David Gutierrez and Natalia Molina)
Cheap for Whom? Family Migration and Labor in the Imperial-Mexicali Borderlands, 1942-1964
SCR-43
Elizabeth Miller, Visual Arts Department, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Mariana Wardwell)
Maya Ruins in the U.S. Imagination: Critical Reflections in Art, Architecture and Archaeology 1840-1970
SCR-43
Eduardo Montoya, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Alain de Janvry)
Firms and crime: Evidence from the Mexican drug war
Keenan Morrison, Biology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: David Reznick)
The effect of reproductive mode on speciation in Cyprinodontiform fishes
Mark Ocegueda, History, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Vicki Ruiz)
Sol y Sombra: San Bernardino's Mexican American Community, 1900-1960
SCR-43
Jessica Ordaz, History, UC Davis
(Advisor: Lorena Oropeza)
Making Invisible Carceral Spaces Visible: Activism Inside Immigrant Detention Centers Along the U.S-Mexico Border, 1952-2001
SCR-43
Ulices Pina, History, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Eric Van Young)
Rebellious Citizens: National Reforms, State Formation, and the Practice of Local Governance in Jalisco, Mexico, 1915-1940
Anthony Rasmussen, Music, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Jonathan Ritter)
Hearing Change: Sonic Imaginaries in Mexico City
Jazmin Rodriguez-Jordan, Nutrition, UC Davis
(Advisor: Sheri Zidenberg-Cherr)
Introducing a Garden-Enhanced Nutrition Education Curriculum for Elementary Schoolchildren in Mexico: A Feasibility Study
Diana Rose, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Carolyn Dean)
Living Time, Performing Memory: Maya Ceremonies of Foundation and Renewal
Carolyn Schutten, History, UC Riverside
(Advisors: David Biggs and Catherine Gudis)
Flow and Obstruction: Modern History of the Tijuana River
Andrew Semotiuk, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Darrel Jenerette)
Yoreme-Mayo Ethnobotany and Botanical Resource use in a Modern World
Fernando Serrano, History, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Kevin Terraciano)
Indigenous Workers in the Guanajuato Mines: Labor, Migration, and Capital in the Transformation of Space, 1700-1800
Jessica Stair, History of Art, UC Berkeley
(Advisors: Todd Olson and Lisa Trever)
Indigenous Literacy and Systems of Remembrance in the Techialoyan Manuscripts of Seventeenth-Century New Spain
Calandra Turner Tomaszewicz, Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Carolyn Kurle)
Ecology and conservation of two migratory endangered species
Mildred Mathias Award
Amity Zimmer-Faust, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Jennifer Jay)
Development of the Inverse Capture IMS/ATP assay for rapid detection of human contamination sources to coastal water quality in Tijuana, Rosarito, and Ensenada, Mexico
Erica Arenas, Sociology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Robert Mare)
The role of preferences in union formation
Pierre Bachas, Economics, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Emmanuel Saez)
Access to finance and informality: The Mexican tax on cash deposits
Paul Barba, History, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Paul Spickard)
Enslaved in Texas: Slavery and Migration in Southeastern Comanchería
SCR 43
Victoria Bredow, Planning, Policy and Design, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Martha Feldman)
Making community engagement and immigration reform health policy: The role of community knowledge in local planning and policy making
SCR 43
Emma Britton, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Judith Habicht-Mauche)
Understanding the diversity of Casas Grandes polychromes and their social implications
Mildred Mathias Award
Edelina Burciaga, Sociology, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Cynthia Feliciano)
The new civics of belonging: The impact of state and local immigration law on the incorporation of the undocumented 1.5-generation
SCR 43
Georgia Hartman, Anthropology, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Julia Elyachar)
Constructing property in Cancún's informal settlements
Sarah Hykin, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Marvalee Wake)
The evolution of live-birth: Mexican Bunchgrass Lizards as an emerging model for adaptive evolution of a complex trait
Grayson Maas, Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Susan Stonich)
Bridging the identity gap: Affordances and constraints to becoming a science person
SCR 43
Jorge Mena, Computer Science, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Mario Gerla)
Vehicular network operating on a cognitive network
Anna O'Brien, Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis
(Advisors: Sharon Strauss, Evolution and Ecology, and Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Plant Sciences)
Do environmental gradients drive adaptation in mutualisms? A study of teosinte and mycorrhizae
Raquel Pacheco, Anthropology, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Nancy Postero)
Intergenerational dissonance: Youth, migration and indigenous politics
Logan Puck, Politics, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Kent Eaton)
Partners against crime? Private security and the Mexican State
Elizabeth Reddy, Anthropology, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Bill Maurer)
Seismic politics: The scientific development of an early alert system infrastructure in Mexico
Sonia Rodriguez, English, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Traise Yamamoto)
Conocimineto, narrative and healing in Latina/o children's and young adult literature
SCR 43
Melissa Ruck, Pediatrics, UC San Francisco
(Advisor: Michelle Hermiston)
Cooperative gene interactions in innate immunity leading to SLE
SCR 43
Flavio Silva de la Mora, Archeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Rosemary Joyce)
Lithic communities of practice in the Northwestern Maya Lowlands: Looking at Political and Economic Integration in the Late Classic (700-900 C.E.)
David Tamayo, History, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Margaret Chowning)
From members of the club to members of the polity: Voluntary associations the formation of the middle classes and the development of civil society in post-revolutionary Mexico 1920-1970
Paul Bilinski, Plant Sciences, UC Davis
(Advisor: Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra)
The Adaptive Role of Repeat-Driven Differences in Genome Size in Maize and Its Wild Relatives
Celina Callahan-Kapoor, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Matthew Wolf-Meyer)
Forming National Identities through Illness: Type-2 Diabetes and Obesity in McAllen, Texas
SCR 43
Lucien Carroll, Linguistics, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Gabriela Caballero)
Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec Word Prosodic Phonology
Christopher DiVittorio, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: David Ackerly)
Field and molecular estimates of natural selection and gene flow at 15 natural Encelia hybrid zones
Mildred Mathias Award
Kevin Escudero, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
(Advisors: Evelyn Glenn and Roberto Gonzales)
Mobilizing Rights, Contesting Citizenship and Leveraging Intersectional Identities: Immigrant Youth Activism and the Movement to Pass the DREAM Act
SCR 43
Alberto Garcia, History, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Margaret Chowning)
Northward Bound: The Bracero Program and Mexican Migration in Historical Perspective 1920-1970
Angela Garcia, Sociology, UC San Diego
(Advisor: David Fitzgerald)
Navigating Exclusion and Accommodation: Local Immigrant Policy and the Shaping of Incorporation
SCR 43
Sebastián Garrido de Sierra, Political Science, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Barbara Geddes)
Defections from the PRI 1982-2006
Micah Gell-Redman, Political Science, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Wayne Cornelius)
Institutions, Accountability and Public Health in Mexico
Andrew Gottscho, Biology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: John Gatesy)
Comparative Phylogeography and Speciation of Phrynosomatid Lizards of the Baja California Peninsula: Integrating Genomics, Climate and Geology
Laura Gutierrez, History, UC San Diego
(Advisor: David Gutierrez)
Return Migration and Post-Revolutionary Promise: Repatriation, Deportation and Development in Torreón 1920-1965
Robert Kett, Anthropology, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Mei Zhan)
Subterranean science: Oil, archaeology and the making of Southern Mexico
Sergio Nigenda Morales, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Robert Wayne)
Adaptation to different environments of the North American marsupial the Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana)
Caitlin Patler , Sociology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Roger Waldinger)
Young and Undocumented: The Impacts of Legal Status on the Incorporation of Immigrant Young Adults in California
SCR 43
Martin Rizzo, History, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Lisbeth Haas)
"No Somos Animales:" Indigenous Diversity and Plurality in 19th Century Santa Cruz, California
SCR 43
David Trouille, Sociology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Jack Katz)
Jugadores del parque: Immigrants, soccer and the mobilization of social ties
SCR 43
Luz Maria Sinaia Urrusti Frenk, Economics, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Frederico Finan)
The Political Economics of Media Capture in Mexico
Rosalynn Vega, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Charles Briggs)
A Tale of Two Births: Newborns and Neoliberalism in Multiethnic Mexico
Julie Wesp, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
(Advisors: Rosemary Joyce and Sabrina Agarwal)
Bioarchaeological Evidence of Gendered Labor in Colonial Mexico
Cynthia Albarrán, School of Nursing, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: MarySue Heilemann)
Perceptions Regarding HIV Risk and Sexual Health Among Female Migrant Farmworkers
John Alvarado, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Tom Patterson)
Reconceptualizing Changing Indigenous Masculinities and Usos y Costumbres in A Mixtec Transnational Community: The Case of San Jerónimo Progreso
Alberto Barrera Enderle, History, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Jaime E. Rodríguez)
The Transformation of the Political Culture in the Eastern Interior Provinces of the Viceroyalty of New Spain 1780-1824
Bryan Cockrell, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Rosemary Joyce)
Technological Characterization of Metals from the Cenote Sagrado Chichén Itzá
Laura Enríquez, Sociology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Vilma Ortíz)
Theorizing Patterns of Incorporation and Belonging for Undocumented Mexican Young Adults
Raquel Garcia, Spanish, UC Davis
(Advisor: Linda Egan)
Conscious Political Incorrectness: A Legitimate Discourse in Contemporary Mexican Literature, Theater and Stand-up Comedy
Osvaldo Gutiérrez, Chemistry, UC Davis
(Advisor: Dean J. Tantillo)
Regiocontrol in Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization/Cope Rearrangements of 15-Hexadienes
Melissa Guzmán, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Denise Segura)
Marking Spiritual Homes, Belonging and Boundaries: Mexican Pentecostals and Spiritual Citizenship
Si-Han Hai, Pediatrics, UC San Francisco
(Advisor: Michelle Hermiston)
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms for Lupus Nephritis in a Mouse Model of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Graham Hill, Sociology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Dylan Riley)
Ambivalent Nationalism: A Study of the Relationship Between Intra-Nationalism and Inter-Nationalism in Mexico
Elizabeth Horevitz, Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Kurt Organista)
Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care: Toward Reducing Mexican Im/migrant Health Disparities?
Benjamin Lessing, Political Science, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: David Collier)
The Logic of Violence in Criminal War
Patrick López-Aguado, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Victor Rios)
Affiliation, Identity and Criminalization: Tracing the Cultural Links between Prison and High-Incarceration Chicano/a Communities
Tomás Madrigal, Chicana/o Studies, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Juan Vicente Palerm)
The Demand for Labor and Mexican-origin Campesino Households in Washington State 1976-2012
Kaitlyn Mathis, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Neil Tsutsui)
Host Selection and Successful Parasitism of the Aggressive Arboreal Ant Azteca instabilis by Decapitating Phorid Flies (Genus: Pseudacteon) in Dynamic Coffee Agroecosystems
Veronica Montes, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisors: William Robinson and Denise Segura)
Household Economic Strategies in Transnational Mexican Families and their Gender Dimensions
Sarah Morando, Sociology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Stefan Timmermans)
De Algo Malo Algo Bueno": The Humanitarian Path to U.S. Citizenship"
Quetzalcoatl Orozco-Ramírez, Geography Graduate Group, UC Davis
(Advisor: Stephen Brush)
Human Perception and Management of Maize Diversity Related to Ethno-Linguistic Variation in the Context of Climate Change
Alicia Romero, History, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Alice Yang)
Portrait of a Barrio: Memory and Visual Culture in Barelas, N.M., 1900-1969
Stevie Ruiz, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Natalia Molina)
Settling for Less?: Interracial Sexual Politics and Land Conflict at the U.S.-Mexico Border 1905-1965
Adam Slade, Mechanical Engineering, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Guillermo Aguilar)
Thermally Induced Fracture of Tissue
Kurt Spurgin, Cell Biology and Neuroscience, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Margarita Currás-Collazo)
Cardiovascular toxicity following developmental exposure to organohalogen pollutant PBDEs
Germán Vergara, History, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Margaret Chowning)
Heterogenous Landscapes: Modernity, Peasants and Environmental Change in Nineteenth-Century Valley of Mexico
Ana Villarreal Montemayor, Sociology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Loïc Wacquant)
Violence, Fear and the Makeover of Everyday Life in the Mexican Metropolis
Nolan Warden, Ethnomusicology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisors: Steven Loza and Anthony Seeger)
Music of the Huichol People: The Construction and Commodification of an Ethnic Identity
Benjamin Wilder, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Exequiel Ezcurra)
Historical Biogeography of the Midriff Islands, Gulf of California, Mexico
Stephen Yee, Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Chelsea Specht)
Understanding the role of miR156 and the SPL genes in the evolution of sporophyte dominance
Abigail Andrews, Sociology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Peter Evans)
The Upshot of El Otro Lado: How Mixtec and Zapotec Migration Patterns Shape Gender Community and the Tradeoffs of Neoliberalism
Rebecca Anguiano, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Frank Worrell)
Language Brokering among Mexican Immigrant Families: Measurement Validation and Relationship to Family Dynamics, Perceived Stress, and Academics
Nick Bravo, History, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Vicki Ruiz)
Spinning the Bottle: Ethnic Mexicans and Alcohol in Los Angeles, 1900-1940
Michelle Butler, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Wendy Ashmore)
Ancient Political Authority and Communal Identity: Archaeology at Charco Redondo
Megan Carney, Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Susan Stonich)
Latina Women in the Making of Community-based Food Policy: The Transition from Food Security to Food Sovereignty
Thomas Carrasco, Chicana and Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: George Lipsitz)
Oppositional Performance:A Social-Historical Analysis of the Avant-Garde Comedy Troupe Chicano Secret Service
Juliet Chandler, Social and Behavioral Science, UC San Francisco
(Advisors: Roberta Rehm and Ruth Malone)
Living with Chronic Illness: Care-Seeking Experiences of Uninsured Latina Immigrants
Francisco Fuentes, Chicana and Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval)
Christian Youth Culture and Chicano Communities at the San Diego-Tijuana Border
Amy Garza, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Olga Najera-Ramirez)
Places of Sanctuary: Religion and Post-Migration Ethnicity in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Naomi Glenn-Levin, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Don Brenneis)
Translating Care: Transnational Families and State Interventions on the U.S./Mexico Border
Christopher Guilliams, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Bruce Baldwin)
Phylogenetic relationships and ecological speciation of the popcorn flowers Plagiobothrys Boraginaceae
Juan Herrera, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Ramon Grosfoguel)
Producing Fruitvale, Producing Latinidad: Race, Architecture and the Neoliberal Politics of Place
Alvaro Huerta, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
(Advisors: Karen Christensen and Leo Estrada)
Examining the Perils and Promises of an Informal Niche in a Global City: A Case Study of Paid Mexican Gardeners in Los Angeles
Veneranda Juarez-Varela, Geography Graduate Group, UC Davis
(Advisor: Luis E. Guarnizo)
Challenges and Opportunities for Mexican Rural Mazahua Women in a Context of Spatial Mobility
Argelia Lara, Education, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Daniel Solorzano)
Achieving the Dream, Facing Reality: Post-baccalaureate Experiences of Undocumented Latina/o College Graduates
Nicoletta Maestri, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Wendy Ashmore)
Investigating Ancient Political Landscapes in the Usumacinta Region: Research in the Site of Boca Chinikiha, Mexico
Dennis Xavier Medina Vidal, Political Science, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Martin Johnson)
Voces del Capitolio: Spanish-Language Media in the Statehouse
Leah Muse-Orlinoff, Sociology, UC San Diego
(Advisor: David FitzGerald)
Network Formation and Structure in Yucatecan Immigrant Entrepreneurs' Business Networks
M. Joey Pakes, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
(Advisors: Roy Caldwell and David Lindberg)
Investigation of chemosymbionts in the Anchialine Cave crustaceans Speleonectes tulumensis (Remipedia) and Typhlatya sp (Malacostraca)
Ricardo Perez Martinez, Physics and Astronomy, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Jose Wudka)
The study of gauge fields and fermions in compact spaces of the form M x I
Magali Rabasa, Cultural Studies, UC Davis
(Advisor: Marisol de la Cadena)
A Tianguis of Books or Making Books Public: Collective-Presses and Intellectual-Political Networks in a 'Continent in Movement'
Gina Rinetti-Vargas, Neurobiology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Felix Schweizer)
Pesticide-induced neurodegeneration: Understanding the effects on neuronal function and testing alternative therapeutic approaches
Rebecca Romo, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisors: Denise Segura and G. Reginald Daniel)
Between Black and Brown: Blaxican Identity in the United States
Naomi Schapiro, Family Health Care Nursing, UC San Francisco
(Advisor: Susan Kools)
Growing Up in the Transnational Family: Adolescent Perspectives on Family Reunification after Immigration-Related Separation
Sarah Selvidge, History, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Margaret Chowning)
Modernism and the Miracle: Architecture Planning and the State in Mexico 1940-1970
Cristina Serna, Chicana/o Studies, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Horacio Roque Ramirez)
Deconstructing the Nation: Queer and Feminist Artists in Mexican and Chicana/o Social Movements
Leticia Soto, Ethnomusicology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Steven Loza)
How Musical is Woman?: Gender and Aesthetics in Mariachi Performance
Eva Telzer, Psychology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisors: Andrew Fuligni and Adriana Galván)
The Protective Effects of Familism on Risky Behavior among Mexican Immigrant Youth
Vanessa Thulsiraj, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Jennifer Jay)
Characterizing fecal pollution in the San Antonio de los Buenos watershed through the development and application of rapid quantitative methods
(Mildred Mathias Award)
Alex Van Dam, Animal Science, UC Davis
(Advisor: Bernie May)
Genetic diversity of Mexico's cochineal insect: New insights into a pre-PRE-Columbian crop
Sylvia Zamora, Sociology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Vilma Ortiz)
Mexican Immigrants' Racial Perceptions of African Americans Pre and Post-Migration
Susy Zepeda, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Patricia Zavella)
Tracing Queer Latina Diasporas
Jacqueline Avila, Music, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Leonora Saavedra)
Mexican Cinematic Music of the Golden Era
Ann Bowers, Geology and Earth Science, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Richard Minnich)
Modeling forest structure in dry mixed-conifer forests of the Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California
Brenda Carpio, Political Science, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Raul Fernandez)
Ahora marchamos, Mañana votamos: Spanish-Language Media and Latino Political Participation
SCR 43
Jennifer Chmilar, Center for Conservation Biology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Scott L. Fedick)
Ancient Maya Landscape Management in a Dynamic Wetland Environment: El Eden, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Irenka Domínguez-Pareto, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Patricia Baquedano-López)
Learning Advocacy as Mothering: Language Socialization among Mexican Mothers of Children with Cognitive Disabilities in the Bay Area
SCR 43
Monica Garcia, History, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Zaragosa Vargas)
A History of Mexican and Mexican-American Women in the Mining Regions of the Rocky Mountain West, 1890-1930
SCR 43
Lucia Gudiel, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Scott L. Fedick)
Revisiting the Role of Root-Crops in Ancient Lowland Maya Subsistence: An Ethnoarchaeological and Experimental Approach
Santiago Guerrero, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Jeffrey M. Perloff)
Trickledown transparency in the Mexican gasoline market
Adriana Manago, Psychology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Patricia Greenfield)
Gender and Identity Development in the Context of Social Change in a Maya Community
Teri Orr, Biology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Kimberly Hammond)
Testing the cost and benefits of reproductive delays in the Jamaican fruit bat and a preliminary analysis of the reproductive patterns of the hairy fruit-eating bat
Veronica Pacheco, Ethnomusicology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Anthony Seeger)
Experiencing Religion through Music: A Study of Music and Religious Rituals in a Nahua Community
Shankari Patel, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Thomas Patterson)
Journey to the East: Pilgrimage Politics and Gender in Postclassic Yucatan
Francisco Perez-Gutierrez, Mechanical Engineering, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Guillermo Aguilar)
Studies of time-resolved imaging of hydrodynamic thin film erosion produced by short laser pulse-induced bubbles
Gabriela Rico, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Thomas Biolsi)
The Performance and Performativity of Indigeniety in Mexico: An Ethnography of Four P'urhepecha Cultural Performances in Michoacan
Guillermo Torres-Moye, Ecology, UC Davis
(Advisor: John Stachowicz)
A U.S.-Mexico Marine Connectivity Assesment: The sea star Patiria miniata
Matthew Van Dam, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Kipling Will)
Comparative phylogeography of dune restricted insects in the desert Southwest
Milo M. Alvarez, History, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Juan Gomez-Quinones)
On the shoulders of generations: The Brown Berets of Aztlan in the long Civil Rights Era
SCR 43
Meghan L. Andrew, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Thomas C. Patterson)
Urbanization and its discontents: The place of young urban adults and the city in multigenerational migratory
patterns
Iván Arenas, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Donald S. Moore)
Oaxaca at the Crossroads: Space, future, and the modern mexican imagination
Stuyvesant GB Bearns Esteva, Sociology/College Faculty Services, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Gabriela Sandoval)
Notes that bind: Son Jarocho music as a form of resistance and community
Susannah Bielak, Visual Arts, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Ernest Silva)
Mapping memory in San Ysidro
SCR 43
Michael G. Branstetter, Entomology, UC Davis
(Advisor: Philip S. Ward)
Leaf litter ants of Mexican montane wet forests: International collaboration on a conservation priority
Xochitl C. Chavez, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Olga Nájera-Ramírez)
Migrating performative traditions: La Guelaguetza Festival
Jesse Diaz, Jr., Sociology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Ellen Reese)
Organizing the Brown Tide: La Gran Epoca Primavera 2006 in Los Angeles, an insider's story
SCR 43
Hector Estrada-Medina, Geology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Robert Graham)
Water contribution by limestone bedrock and subsurface soil pockets and its effect on the water use
efficiency of two tree species in Yucatan, Mexico
Xóchitl M. Flores-Marcial, History, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Kevin Terraciano)
The Zapotec of Colonial Oaxaca: Local government and indigenous life in the Central Valley
Melisa C. Galván, History, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Margaret Chowning)
From contraband capital to border city: An economic and political history of the port of Matamoros,
1800-1848
Ricardo R. Gómez-Vilchis, Political Science, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Samuel Kernell)
Presidential approval in Mexico, determinants and effects, 1989-2006
Genevieve M. Gonzales, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Ananya Roy)
The making and unmaking of common sense: Undocumented Mexican youth and oppositional consciousness
SCR 43
Veronica M. Herrera, Political Science, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Ruth Berins Collier)
High reformers, low performers: Modernizing water and sanitation delivery in Mexico
Erin E. Kent, Epidemiology, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Hoda Anton-Culver)
An investigation of the influence of socioeconomic factors on adolescent and young adult leukemia and
lymphoma outcomes in California
SCR 43
Daniel I. Leonard, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Scott Fedick)
A regional survey of ancient Maya wetland use in Northern Quintana Roo, Mexico
Patrick C. Linder, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Michael Kearney)
The immigrant enclave and social difference in the Coachella Valley
SCR 43
Brian J. Madigan, History, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Margaret Chowning)
Law, justice, and morality in Colonial Mexico: Ecclesiastical and civil courts compared, 1650-1820
Nicholas P. Magnan, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
(Advisor: J. Edward Taylor)
The role of information in the adoption and non-adoption of no-till agriculture by smallholders in Mexico: An
experimental approach
Constance P. McGuire, Anthropology, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Susan Greenhalgh)
Transnationalizing gangs: Expertise, advocacy and the politics of policymaking
SCR 43
Paavo H. Monkkonen, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: David E. Dowall)
Mexico's emerging suburbia: Local impacts of national housing policy
Kinga J. Novak, History, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Margaret Chowning)
Giving thanks: A visual history of Mexican spirituality
Jennifer J. Petersen, Plant Sciences, UC Davis
(Advisor: Daniel Potter)
From chicle to chicozapote: Mayan and mestizo management and selection of the tropical tree fruit
Manilkara zapota in the Yucatan Peninsula
Maria I. Ramos, Visual Arts, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Elizabeth Newsome)
A reconstruction of ceremonial and ritual history in the Mesoamerican ballgame
Chodon Sass, Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Chelsea D. Specht)
Population genetics and biogeography of the Central American clade of Aechmea (Bromeliaceae)
Meradeth H. Snow, Anthropology, UC Davis
(Advisor: David G. Smith)
Ancient DNA in the Southwest United States and Mesoamerica
Pamela J. Stoddard, School of Public Health, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Anne Pebley)
Increasing inequality? The relationship between additional schooling and chronic health conditions in the
Mexican-origin population in the United States
SCR 43
Dana Velasco-Murillo, History, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Kevin Terraciano)
Migration, urbanization, and ethnicity in a silver mining town: Zacatecas, 1550-1830
Silvia Ventura Luna, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Michael Kearney)
Community governance within a transnational context: The case of San Miguel Cuevas
Judith I. Villanueva, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Jacobo Sefami)
Exiled poets of the Southern Cone in comtemporary Mexico's cultural scene
Todd W. Wahlstrom, History, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: John Majewski)
Colonization against the Borderlands: Southern migration to Mexico after the Civil War
Christopher J. Wisniewski, History, UC San Diego
Eric Van Young, Changing habits: Franciscan adaptations in Mexico, 1763-1859
April A. Anderson, History, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Jaime Rodriguez)
Scandalous impiety: Religious practice, gender, generation, and the politics of religion in Nineteenth Century Mexico
Molly Harbour Bassett, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Rudy Busto)
De(i)fying classification: The proliferation of Aztec Teteo and the challenges they pose to deity taxonomies
Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez, Economics, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Emmanuel Saez)
Inequality in Mexico
Michael K. DeSalvo, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced
(Advisor: Monica Medina)
A genomic and physiological approach to the study of coral bleaching resistance
Ricardo A. Fagoaga Hernández, History, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Eric Van Young)
"En medio de una y otra América": Regions, markets and indigenous economic participation in Guatemala and Chiapas, 1750-1850
Lisa A. Goldman, Environmental Health Science, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Brenda Eskenazi)
The effects of U.S.-Mexico migration on childhood obesity: A binational approach
SCR-43
Omar G. Gudiño, Psychology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Anna S. Lau)
Exposure to violence and adjustment in immigrant and non-immigrant Latino youth
SCR-43
Salomé Guitérrez Morales, Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Marianne Mithun)
Grammatical change in Sierra Popoluca: The effects of Spanish and Náhuatl
Niles J. Hasselquist, Center for Conservation Biology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Michael F. Allen)
The importance of water for seedling establishment and tree growth in a seasonally dry tropical forest in Quintana Roo, Mexico
Matthew B. Hufford, Plant Sciences, UC Davis
(Advisor: Paul Gepts)
Laying the foundation for in situ conservation of teosinte (Zea mays) ssp. Parviglumis Iltis & Doebley), the wild progenitor of maize
Chelsey A. Juarez, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Alison Galloway)
Geolocation: A pathway to identification for deceased undocumented border crossers
Julio C. Leal, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Norma Klahn)
Reclaiming Chicano/a poetics and spatiality: Central California geographies and the literary and cultural imagination
SCR-43
Hsiu-Chin Lin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Philip A. Hastings)
Intra-specific biodiversity of blennioid fishes within the Gulf of California: Implications for conservation
Sarah L. Lopez, Architecture, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Paul Groth)
Migrating Mexico: A material history of remittance space in Los Altos de Jalisco, Mexico and the Bay Area, California, U.S.A.
Victoria I. Lyall, Art History, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Cecelia Klein)
Place and landscape in terminal Classic Maya mural painting of the northern lowlands
Michael D. Mathiowetz, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Karl Taube)
Macaws, plumed serpents and the diurnal path of the sun: An ideological complex in Mesoamerica and the Greater Southwest
Anita D. Milman, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Isha Ray)
Bordering on cooperation-water use and recharge in Arizona and Sonora
Jessica L. Petersen, Animal Science, UC Davis
(Advisor: Bernie May)
Does scallop aquaculture influence the genetic structure of proximate natural populations?
Lisa Marie Pfeiffer, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
(Advisor: J. Edward Taylor)
Sustainability, equity and growth: The role of water markets in Mexico
Lesliam Quirós, Environmental Health Science, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Brenda Eskenazi)
Characterization of exposure to organophosphate pesticides in Mexican migrant farmworker and low-income urban children
SCR-43
Paul F. Ramirez, History, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: William B. Taylor)
Science, medicine and miracles: Contexts of epidemic disease in the Valleys of Mexico and Oaxaca, 1736-1833
Laurel K. Salzman, Center for Conservation Biology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Michael F. Allen)
Ecophysiology of epiphyte establishment in the Yucatan Peninsula
Esperanza Sánchez, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Kurt C. Organista)
Food sovereignty among Mexican campesinos: Food choice in the context of migration and remittances
Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada, Sociology, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Frank D. Bean)
Gendered educational incorporation experiences for third and fourth generation Mexican-Americans
SCR-43
Karen E. Thome, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
(Advisor: Richard Sexton)
Contracts and crop choice: Impacts of agroindustry and changing supply chains in rural Mexico
Zeb J. Tortorici, History, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Kevin Terraciano)
Contra Natura: Sin, crime, and the regulation of 'unnatural' sexuality in Colonial Mexico, 1600-1800
Mariana Razo Wardwell, Visual Studies, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Fatimah Tobing Rony)
The enigma of Ichcateopan: A Messianic archive of the nation
María Barbara Zepeda Cortés, History, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Eric Van Young)
Empire, reform and corruption: José de Balvez and political culture in Bourbon, Mexico, 1759-1787
Jody A. Agius, Sociology, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Jennifer Lee).
Brown picket fences: The Mexican-origin middle class.
SCR 43
Ana R. Alonso Minutti, Music, UC Davis
(Advisor: Beth Levy).
Internationalism in Mario Lavista's bridging of the past and future of Mexican concert music.
Christopher N. Anderson, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Gregory F. Grether).
Competitor recognition and the evolution of coloration in Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerina spp.).
Zachary A. Brittsan, History, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Eric Van Young).
In faith or fear: Fighting with Lozada.
Gabriela Caballero-Hernández, Linguistics, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Andrew Garrett).
Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) documentation and description.
José Castillo-Garza, Physics, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Umar Mohideen).
Precision measurements of the Casimir force at low temperature.
Veronica Castillo-Muñoz, History, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Heidi Tinsman).
Divisive communities: Agrarian struggles, transnational migration and families in Northern Mexico 1917-1952.
Virginia Chaidez, Nutrition, UC Davis
(Advisor: Lucia Kaiser).
Child-feeding practices in Latinos: An early start in obesity prevention.
SCR 43
Roberto G. Gonzalez, Sociology, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Ruben G. Rumbaut).
The children of post-industrial America: How the sons and daughters of unauthorized migrants make ends meet.
SCR 43
Rebecca Hester, Politics, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Patricia Zavella).
Public health promoters: Changing practices of everyday life.
SCR 43
Kraig H. Kraft, Plant Sciences, UC Davis
(Advisor: Paul Gepts).
Early and contemporary effects of humans shaping the genetic diversity of chile pepper (Capsicum annuum): Inferring historical processes from genetic patterns.
Stephen A. Nuño, Political Science, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Louis DeSipio).
California Statewide Election Exit Poll 2006.
SCR 43
Tracey N. Osborne, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Daniel Kammen).
Fixing carbon, losing ground: Carbon markets and land politics in Chiapas, Mexico.
Lee M. Panich, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Kent G. Lightfoot).
Cultural persistence at Mission Santa Catalina, Baja California, Mexico.
S. Hoyt Peckham, Center for Ocean Health, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Donald Croll).
Foraging ecology and conservation of the critically endangered North Pacific loggerhead turtle.
Alexis E. Racelis, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Deborah Letourneau).
Plant population dynamics along a tropical forest chronosequence: Implications for the harvest of polewood in central Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Sara K. Sanders, History, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Michael Monteon).
Cocineras y compañeras: Men, women and the Mexican student movement of 1968.
Hugo Santos-Gomez, Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Juan-Vicente Palerm).
California rural communities, farmworker settlement and citizenship practices.
SCR 43
Kevin D. Schwartz, Plant Sciences, UC Davis
(Advisor: Alison Berry).
Nitrogen utilization in traditional maize varieties.
Elizabeth N. Shapiro, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Lynn Huntsinger).
The Mexican National Payment for Environmental Service Programs: Impacts on forest management practices and rural livelihoods.
Kevin P. Smith, History, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Sarah Cline).
Ecological conquest: The death of the Aztec lake system and the drying up of indigenous space in the Basin of Mexico.
Stella Villegas Amtmann, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Daniel P. Costa).
How do California and Galapagos sea lions cope with a changing environment? Implications for diving behavior, physiology, thermoregulation and conservation.
Kenneth C. Welch, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Raul K. Suarez).
Metabolic fuel use in a hovering nectarivorous bat.
Angélica J. Afanador, Art History, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Cecelia F. Klein).
The politics of ethnicity: Reimagining indigenous identities in sixteenth-century Michoacán, México.
James Barsimantov, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Alan Richards).
Examining the role of community forestry in conserving Mexico's pine-oak forests.
Martha Bonilla-Moheno, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Karen D. Holl).
Vegetation succession in swidden agriculture in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
Virginia Chaidez, Graduate Group in Nutrition, UC Davis
(Advisor: Lucia L. Kaiser).
Child-feeding practices in Mexican-Americans with a history of gestational diabetes: An early starting point in obesity prevention.
SCR 43
Francisco J. Dóñez, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Ann Keller).
Air quality and development in the Big Bend: The politics of knowledge.
SCR 43
Oscar F. Gil, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Denise Segura).
Deconstructing gender relations in forced migrant communities.
SCR 43
Gloria Gonzalez, Sociology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Vilma Ortiz).
Body image and Mexican origin girls.
SCR 43
Tina R. Green, Economics, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Edward Miguel).
The political economy of a poverty alleviation program: the case of PROGRESA in Mexico.
Xiaohui Hou, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Paul Gertler).
Can conditional cash transfers mitigate the impact of natural shocks on food consumption? Evidence from rural Mexico.
Michelle A. Johnson, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Julian Chow).
Perinatal health and the context of immigrant reception: does place matter?
SCR 43
Mark A. Leach, Sociology, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Frank D. Bean).
The incorporation of Mexican immigrants in new destinations within the United States.
SCR 43
Aubrey N. Manack, Environmental Health Science and Policy, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Chad Garner).
Comparison study: Can targeting antibiotic resistance education within Latino and multiethnic elementary school student-parent populations overcome cultural bias about antibiotics?
SCR 43
John E. McCormack, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Thomas B. Smith).
The Sky Islands of Northern Mexico as generators of diversity in a bird species.
Rani F. McLean, Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Juan-Vicente Palerm).
Wine country: Mexican livelihoods in a highly stratified society.
SCR 43
Imelda Nava, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Robert K. Wayne).
Systematics of Porichthys and speciation in the New World.
Alejandro Nettel-Hernanz, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
(Advisor: Richard S. Dodd).
Mating at the extreme, comparison of black mangrove mating system between Pacific Ocean's northern range-limit and Central American populations.
Gabriela Nuñez, Literature, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Rosaura Sánchez).
Crossing borders and investigating spaces: Contemporary Chicana/o and Mexican detective fiction.
SCR 43
Christopher Osovitz, Biological Sciences, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Gretchen E. Hofmann).
Investigating the role of physiological tolerances in setting marine species' biogeographic boundaries.
Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos, Anthropology, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Sondra Hale).
Arab migrants to Mexico: Making/marking status in global postcoloniality.
Analola Santana, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Irvine
(Advisor: Juan Bruce-Novoa).
Mass culture in current Mexican theatrical trends.
Hirokazu Sasabu, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Scott L. Fedick).
Ancient Maya wetlands manipulation in the Yalahau region of Quintana Roo: A functional analysis of constructed rock-alignment features.
Amara L. Solari, History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Jeanette F. Peterson).
Processing the ancestral past: intercultural Maya identity and Catholic ritual at early colonial Izamal, Yucatan.
Kathryn Ann Sorenson, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Scott L. Fedick).
Ancient Maya site planning principles: A case study for the preclassic/classic transition.
Jun U. Sunseri, Anthropology, UC San Diego
(Advisor: Judith Habicht-Mauche).
Ethnic scales of practice-historic archaeology of an Indo-Hispano buffer settlement in Colonial Northern New Mexico.
Molly A. Talcott, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(Advisor: Kum-Kum Bhavnani).
Plan Puebla Panama and its alternatives: Transnational movements for sustainable development.
Hector Valdes-Conroy, Economics, UC Los Angeles
(Advisor: Duncan Thomas).
The role of attitudes toward risk in the decision to migrate.
Rodrigo Vargas, Center for Conservation Biology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Michael F. Allen).
Soil carbon dynamics in a tropical seasonal forest: From natural succession to ecological restoration.
Lance K. Wollwage, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Advisor: Scott L. Fedick).
Water level fluctuations and Maya wetland agriculture in the Northeastern Yucatan, Mexico.
John N. Williams, Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis
(Advisor: Mark Schwartz).
Tree diversity in Mexican dry forests: Do local patterns predict global ones?
Natale A. Zappia, History, UC Santa Cruz
(Advisor: Lisbeth Haas).
The Old Spanish Trail: Indigenous trails, Mexican caravans and American commemoration.
Araceli Aguilar Melendez, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
(Mikeal L. Roose and Seung-Chul Kim).
Evolutionary relationships between wild and cultivated chili peppers (Capsicum annuum L.) in Mexico using a DNA sequence of low copy nuclear gene and microsatellite data.
Tania C. J. Barham, Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
(Elisabeth Sadoulet).
The impact of conditional cash transfers on infant and neonatal mortality: the case of Mexico.
Matthew A. Barreto, Political Science, UC Irvine
(Bernard Grofman).
Ethnic cues: the role of shared ethnicity in Latino political participation.
SCR 43
Mauricio Benitez-Iturbe, Political Science, UC Berkeley
(David Collier).
Federalism and interest intermediation in Mexico.
Joan M. Brunkard, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz
(Brent M. Haddad).
Dengue fever and binational cooperation for public health on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Michele L. Buckhorn, Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis
(Steven G. Morgan).
Enhancing fishery management of leopard grouper (Mycteroperca rosacea) using life history characteristics as a basis for no-take Marine Protected Area (MPA) design in the Gulf of California.
Kimberlee J. Chambers, Geography Grad. Group, Environmental Design, UC Davis
(Stephen Brush).
Conservation of traditional varieties of maize (Zea mays L.) in the Bajío of Mexico: the role of human seed exchange networks.
Jonathan Chevrier, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
(Brenda Eskenazi).
Prenatal exposure to thyroid hormones disrupters, maternal thyroid hormones levels during pregnancy and children's neurodevelopment in a predominantly Latino farmworker community.
SCR 43
Guadalupe Adriana Cruz Manjarrez, World Arts and Cultures, UC Los Angeles
(Colin Quigley).
Transnational identities and the performance of culture.
SCR 43
David G. Garcia, History, UC Los Angeles
(Juan Gómez-Quiñones).
The evolution of a critical race theater: Culture Clash and Chicana/o performance art, 1965-2004.
SCR 43
Claudia García-Des Lauriers, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Karl A. Taube).
Proyecto arqueológico Los Horcones.
Victor M. Gonzalez, School of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine
(Gloria Mark).
A software framework to integrate high and low level perspectives in the management of multiple activities.
Natividad D. Herrera-Castro, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Maria L. Cruz-Torres).
Gender and social change in the coffee groves of Totonacs of Veracruz, Mexico: a political ecology approach.
Seth M. Holmes, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UC San Francisco
(Philippe Bourgois).
The violence continuum in transnational context: structure, symbol and health among diasporic Triqui laborers.
Owen H. Jones, History, UC Riverside
(Robert W. Patch).
The colonial Maya region, a comparative ethnohistory, 1521-1825.
Edward S. Levine, Economics, UC Riverside
(David H. Fairris).
Explaining the decline in union density in Mexico: neoliberal policy reform and the stocks and flows of union density change.
Marissa K. López, English, UC Berkeley
(Marcial Gonzalez).
Nationalism, narrative, and history: the formal case for Chicana/o literature.
SCR 43
Alejandro J. Lopez-Feldman, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
(J. Edward Taylor).
Extraction, conservation and Development: a bioeconomic analysis of Xate palm.
Pesach Lubinsky, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
(Arturo Gómez-Pompa).
Natural history and economic botany of vanilla (Vanilla planifolia Jacks. Ex Andrews) in Mexico.
Sebastian W. Martinez, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
(Paul J. Gertler).
The effect of government cash transfers on productive investments in rural Mexico.
Susan M. Materer, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
(Stephen R. Boucher).
Disentangling the multiple motivations of migration: rural Mexican migration as a credit and income substitute.
Dolores D. Mena, Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
(Catherine R. Cooper).
Beyond cultural deficit view of low-income Mexican-descent families: exploring variations in high school students' and parents' aspirations and expectations, educational involvement and "college knowledge."
SCR 43
Jennifer C. Miller, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez).
The transnational political ecology of health at the U.S.-Mexican border.
Roberto E. Montenegro, Sociology, UC Los Angeles
(John Heritage).
Parent expectations, Spanish-speaking doctor-parent communication, and pediatrician antibiotic over-prescribing for upper respiratory infections.
SCR 43
Mitchell C. Provance, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
(Giles Waines).
Studies on the native persimmons of West Central Mexico: towards a revision of the genus Diospyros (Ebenaceae) in Mexico.
John E. Richert, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, UC Davis
(A. Peter Klimley).
Trophic ecology of pelagic fishes in the Gulf of California: implications for marine resource.
Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez, Anthropology, UC Los Angeles
(Russell Thornton).
Captivity and adoption among the Comanche Indians, 1700-1875. Archival research in Mexican repositories.
Ruby E. Rodriguez, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
(Lisa Rofel).
Religious institutions, social services and borders: migrant and immigrant experiences in the American Midwest.
Laura F. Rodriguez, Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis
(Susan Williams).
Ecological impacts of an invasive marine invertebrate in an economically important system.
SCR 43
Erika M. Sánchez-Killian, Sociology, UC Irvine
(Rubén Rumbaut).
Mexican mothers in higher education: negotiating family, gender ideology and ethnicity.
SCR 43
Lia T. Schraeder, History, UC Davis
(Andrés Reséndez).
Controversial devotion in modernizing Mexico City.
Manisha B. Shah, Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
(Ethan Ligon).
Regulating sex work: evidence from Mexico.
Christina A. Sue, Sociology, UC Los Angeles
(Edward Telles).
Race and national ideology in Mexico.
Jessica M. Vasquez, Sociology, UC Berkeley
(Ann Swidler).
Being Mexican-American from generation to generation.
SCR 43
Guadalupe T. Vidales, Social Ecology, UC Irvine
(John Dombrink).
A comparative trans-national ecological study of Latina domestic violence: barriers to seeking services in Mexico City and Orange County, California.
Robert G. Weis, History, UC Davis
(Andrés Reséndez).
"Las Chusmas Reaccionarias": popular conservatism in nineteenth-century Mexico, 1857-1867.
Pamela A. Cantine, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Juan-Vicente Palerm).
Balancing Life: Women, Family and Work in California Agribusiness.
SCR 43
Socorro Castañeda, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(Denise A. Segura).
Another Book on La Virgen?: Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Cultural Politics of Interpretation.
SCR 43
Gloria E. Chacón, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
(Norma Klahn).
Entering and Exiting Hybridity: Mesoamerican Writers and the Making of an Indigenous Literary Tradition.
Gabriela Chavira, Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
(Catherine R. Cooper).
Latino Adolescents' Academic Achievement: The Roles of Family Involvement.
SCR 43
Jose Refugio De la Torre, History, UC Berkeley
(William B. Taylor).
Conquering the Frontier. Contests for Religion, Survival, and Profits in Northwestern Mexico, 1768-1835.
Luis M. Estrada, Political Science, UC San Diego
(Samuel L. Popkin).
Party Identification in Mexico: Meaning, Developments and Findings from a Comparative Perspective.
Sylvanna M. Falcón, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(Denise Segura).
Transnational Feminist Social Movements at the United Nations World Conferences.
David S. Fitzgerald, Sociology, UC Los Angeles
(Roger Waldinger).
A Nation of Emigrants? Nation-State Building in Mexican Migrant Sending Communities.
Jeffrey B. Glover, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Scott L. Fedick).
Ancient Maya Settlement Patterns in the Yalahau Region, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., History, UC Santa Barbara
(Zaragosa Vargas).
"Mexipino": Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, 1900-1965.
SCR 43
Rufina Hernandez-Martinez, Plant Pathology, UC Riverside
(Donald A. Cooksey).
Gene Expression Profile of Putative Pathogenicity and Virulence Factors in Xylella fastidiosa Causing Pierce's Disease.
Jason L. Hlebakos, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
(Arturo Gómez-Pompa).
An Ethno-Ecological Investigation of the Sacred Sinkholes of the Maya.
Pablo Ibarrarán, Economics, UC Berkeley
(David Card).
The Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico.
Brian M. Kemp, Anthropology, UC Davis
(David Glenn Smith).
Mitochondrial DNA Variation of Mexican Populations: Investigation of Human Interactions between Mesoamerica and the Southwest.
Alison E. Lee, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Thomas C. Patterson).
Transnational Migration and Ecological Transformation: The impact of rapid social change on natural resource management in rural sending communities, Puebla, Mexico.
David E. Machledt, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
(Olga Nájera-Ramirez).
Moving Risk: Binational Bureaucracies, Tuberculosis, and the "Foreign Born" at the United States/Mexico Border.
SCR 43
Borja Mila, Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution, UC Los Angeles
(Thomas B. Smith).
Evolution of Songbird Migration in the Mexican Highlands: Implications for speciation, Taxonomy and Biodiversity Conservation.
(Mildred Mathias Award Winner)
Melissa H. Morris, Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis
(Caroline S. Bledsoe).
Ecology and Diversity of Mycorrhizal Fungi in Oak Forests in Mexico.
Andrew J. Olaharski, Graduate Group of Environmental Toxicology, UC Riverside
(David A. Eastmond).
Elucidating the Mechanism of Micronuclei Formation During Cervical Carcinogenesis.
Fernando Purcell, History, UC Davis
(Louis S. Warren).
"Too Many Foreigners For My Taste." Mexicans, Chileans and Irish in Northern California, 1848-1880.
SCR 43
Julie Rodgers, Psychology, Institute for Personality and Social Research, UC Berkeley
(Kaiping Peng).
Risk and Resilience: The Dual Effects of Minority Status among Mexican-Americans.
SCR 43
Gabriela Toledo-Ortiz, Plant and Microbial Biology and Plant Gene Expression Center, UC Berkeley
(Peter H. Quail).
Dissecting the Role of the PIF3-like Basic-Helix-Loop_Helix (bHLH) T61 and HLH Proteins in Phytochrome Signal Transduction in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz, Literature, UC San Diego
(Rosaura Sanchez).
The Figure of the Peladita/Peladito and the Pachuca/Pachuco in Chicana/o and Mexican Cultural Production from 1920-1980.
SCR 43
Rachel S.Washburn, Social and Behavioral Sciences, UC San Francisco
(Adele E. Clarke).
Managing Transboundary Air Pollution: An Examination of Power Plant Development Along the United States-Mexico Border.
SCR 43
John M. Ackerman, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
(Walter Goldfrank).
The struggle for accountability in Mexico: Explaining uneven political development.
Heriberto Avelino, Linguistics, UC Los Angeles
(Pamela Munro).
Topics in Yalálag Zapotec grammar, dictionary and texts.
Friederike D. Baumann, History, UC Davis
(Arnold J. Bauer, Andrés Resendez).
At what price progress: The formation of a capitalist coffee economy in Soconusco, Chiapas, 1870-1950.
Karen D. Blair, Geological Sciences, UC Santa Barbara
(Phillip Gans).
Neogene sedimentary basin development in east-central Sonora, Mexico.
Christopher B. Busch, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
(Michael Hanemann).
Technological change in agriculture in the Southern Yucatán Peninsula region of Mexico: Implications for land use, deforestation and climate change policy.
David M. Carballo, Anthropology, UC Los Angeles
(Richard G. Lesure).
Labor, ideology and the state at Teotihuacan, Mexico: A view from the Moon Pyramid.
Mathew C. Coleman, Geography, UC Los Angeles
(John Agnew).
Free trade debordering or national security rebordering? Interrogating post-September 11 U.S. foreign policy border geographies in the US-Mexico border region.
Julia A. Cottle, Anthropology, UC Davis
(Roger Rouse).
Canning workers: Mexicanos' experiences of restructuring in California's agro-industrial sector.
SCR 43
Matthew T. Craig, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
(Philip A. Hastings).
Intra-specific biodiversity in fisheries important species: Implications for management and conservation.
Matthew R. Des Lauriers, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Philip J. Wilke).
Broadening Horizons: A comparative archaeological study of Isla Cedros, Baja California and the Channel Islands of Alta California.
Fredrick J. Fodrie, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
(Lisa A.Levin).
Application and validation of a trace element approach for investigating nursery habitat utilization by the California halibut.
Shannon L. Fowler, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz
(Daniel P. Costa).
Ontogeny of diving physiology and behavior in the California sea lion.
Rita A. Gonzalez, Film, Television and Digital Media, UC Los Angeles
(Chon Noriega).
In transito: Journey, itineraries and historical turns in contemporary Mexican and Latino media art.
SCR 43
Joseph H. Green, History, UC Riverside
(Robert Patch).
Obreros, campesinos and politics during the institutional phase of the Mexican revolution: The case of Jalisco, 1929-1940.
Todd A. Haney, Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution, UC Los Angeles
(David K. Jacobs).
Systematics and ecology of leptostracan Crustacea from the Pacific Coast of Mexico.
Sharon F. Lean, Political Science, UC Irvine
(Alison Brysk).
The transnational politics of democracy promotion: Election monitoring in Mexico.
Mark J. Mairot, History, UC Los Angeles
(Jose C. Moya).
Mexican provincial society during the age of revolution: A social and economic history of Toluca, 1770-1840.
Maher Memarzadeh, History, UC Los Angeles
(Kevin Terraciano).
Medical practitioners in early colonial Mexico: The influence of Mediterranean scientific traditions on medicine in New Spain.
Guillermina Gina Nuñez, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez & María Crúz-Torres).
The political ecology of households and communities on the U.S.-Mexico border: A case-study of colonias in Southern New Mexico.
SCR 43
Francisca A. Olaiz, Anthropology, UC Los Angeles
(Carole Browner).
How Latinas' social and economic experiences and their social networks influence their constructions of sexuality and preventative health behaviors.
SCR 43
Rodolfo A. Otero, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Michael Kearney).
Espiritualismo on the U.S.-Mexican Border.
SCR 43
Christopher M. Rodriguez, History, UC Davis
(Andres Resendez).
Fashioning Mexico's soul: Identity, festival and tourism in Southern Mexico.
David S. Torres-Rouff, History, UC Santa Barbara
(Paul Spickard).
Race and the making of Los Angeles, 1840-1930.
SCR 43
Joseph A. Turner, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara
(Tania Israel).
Cultural factors that influence Latino siblings' anticipated support of a gay male brother.
SCR 43
Eric A. Verhoogen, Economics, UC Berkeley
(David Card).
Trade liberalization, product market structure and employment practices in the Mexican manufacturing sector.
Helen A. Violi, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
(Carol J. Lovatt).
Identification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for the restoration of Persea spp. to montane cloud forests in Mexico.
Martin S. Wong, Geological Sciences, UC Santa Barbara
(Phillip Gans).
Timing and magnitude of extensional deformation in the Sierra Mazatlan metamorphic core complex: Results from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology.
Maria F. Zermoglio, Environmental Design-Geography, UC Davis
(Stephen Brush).
The impact of climate change on maize (Zea mays) genetic resources in the state of Chiapas, Mexico.
Miriam A. Anaya, Nutrition, UC Davis
(Lyndsay H. Allen).
Prevalence, Causes, Consequences and Treatments of Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Mexican Elderly.
Juan A. Avila, Native American Studies, UC Davis
(Stefano Varese).
"Tu'I Voo'ota Weiya/Follow the Good Road": Yoeme (Yaqui) Transationalism during the Modernization of Mexico (1876-1910) and the Formation of Contemporary Yoeme Societies.
Nielman M. Barnes, Sociology, UC San Diego
(Steven Epstein).
Binational Collaboration between the US and Mexican HIV/AIDS Sectors: An Exploration of the (re)Construction of National, Organizational and Epistemological Boundaries.
Jennifer K. Browder, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Karl Taube).
Painting Teotihuacan Ritual and Worldview: Creating Fineline Drawings from Multispectral Images of the Portico 2 Murals at Teotihuacan, Mexico.
Jose Luis Cardenas, Food Science and Technology, UC Davis
(Norman F. Haard).
Purification and characterization of cysteine cathepsins from Jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas) mantle muscle.
Guadalupe Chapa, Environmental Health Sciences, UC Los Angeles
(John R. Froines).
Quantification of Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticides in a Mexican Agricultural Community.
Bonnie J. Clark, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
(Laurie A. Wilkie).
The Archaeology of Abandoned Settlement in Mexicano Colorado.
Jill L. Deppe, Biology, UC Riverside
(John T. Rotenberry).
Ecology of Trans-Gulf Neotropical Migrant Landbirds in Yucatan, Mexico During the Fall Migration.
Sheila E. Desai, Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Davis
(J. Edward Taylor & Scott Rozelle).
Integrating the environment, population and migration: modeling interactive relationships.
Travis A. Du Bry, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Juan-Vicente Palerm).
Socioeconomic Change in a Desert Farm Laborer Community.
SCR 43
Subhadra Ganguli, Economics, UC Riverside
(Prasanta Pattanaik).
"Pollution Havens" in Mexico: An Econometric Analysis of Industrial Relocation Before and After NAFTA.
Blanca E. Gordo, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
(Manuel Castells, Karen Christensen, & AnnaLee Saxeni).
Community Economic Development in the Information Age: The Potential Role of the Community Technology Access Center in Addressing the Digital Divide.
SCR 43
Christopher D. Hulsey, Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis
(Peter C. Wainwright).
Functional evolutionary ecology of Cichlasoma minckleyi, a trophically polymorphic fish.
Juliette Levy, History, UC Los Angeles
(William Summerhill, UCLA & Eric Van Young, UCSD).
Arrested Development: Credit Markets, Networks and Economic Growth; Merida, Yucatan 1850-1895.
Kristina D. Louie, Organismic Biology, UC Los Angeles
(David K. Jacobs).
The Effect of Different Reproductive Strategies on the Genetic Variation of Three Eastern Pacific Eelgrass Dependent Species.
Nicole D. Peterson, Anthropology, UC San Diego
(Roy D'Andrade & Joel Robbins).
Information exchange in collaborative conservation efforts in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Alexandra M. Puerto, History, UC Davis
(Andrés Reséndez).
The Maya, Medicine, and Modernization in Yucatan, Mexico.
Andrea H. Reyes, Chicano Studies, UC Los Angeles
(Guillermo Hernandez).
Los Ensayos de la extraordinaria Rosario Castellanos.
Russell C. Rodriguez, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
(Olga Nájera Ramírez).
The Political Aesthetics of Mariachi Transmission and Performance.
SCR 43
Mario L. Tinoco-Herrera, Education, UC Davis
(Patricia Gandara).
Skilled Transnational Migration: The Circuit of Mexican Researchers in the Agricultural Sciences between Mexico and the United States.
SCR 43
Olivia Treviño, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Los Angeles
(Adriana Bergero).
From "Cardenismo" to "Alemanismo": Modernization and Marginalization in the Mexican Short Story and Photography, 1930-1960.
Edward N. Wright-Rios, History, UC San Diego
(Eric Van Young).
Piety and Progress: Catholic Activism, Local Politics, and Religious Practice in Oaxaca, 1870-1930.
Narda Alcantara-Valverde, School of Social Sciences, UC Irvine
(Douglas R. White).
Kinship and Friendship Networks in Mexican Politics: Between Elite Interlocking and Faction Formation.
Arthur L. Corea-Mason, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
(Nelson Graburn).
"Eski-Mex" Identities in Transition.
Rebecca E. Dolhinow, Geography, UC Berkeley
(Allan Pred).
Borderlands Justice: Women's Leadership in the Colonias of Dona Ana County, New Mexico.
Kenneth F. Greene, Political Science, UC Berkeley
(Ruth Berins Collier).
Shaping Democracy: Party Strategy and Political Representation in Mexico.
Karen V. Holliday, Anthropology, UC Irvine
(Leo R. Chávez).
Botanicas in Orange County: A Therapeutic or Risky Healthcare Alternative for the Latino.
SCR 43
Kathleen A. Lytle, History, UC Los Angeles
(Eric Monkkonen).
Cowboys and Mexicans: the U.S. Border Patrol and the Evolution of a 20th Century Indian War, 1924-1954.
SCR 43
Ernesto Salazar Martínez, Film and Television, UC Los Angeles
(Chon Noriega).
Latina/o film festivals and Latina/o independent film practices: An Alter-Native mode of cultural production.
SCR 43
Konane M. Martínez, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Michael Kearney).
Health Beyond Borders: Mixtec Utilization of Clinical Health Care.
SCR 43
Margarita Mauro Herrera, Agronomy and Range Science, UC Davis
(Paul Gepts).
Wild Bean Populations as a Source of Genes to Improve the Yield of Cultivated Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).
Gabriel R. Nemogá, Human and Community Development, UC Davis
(Stephen B. Brush).
Variation of Pharmacopoeias of Immigrant People in the Tropical Forest of Calakmul.
Lina Y. Newton, Political Science, UC Irvine
(Helen Ingram).
The Success of Laws that Fail: U.S. Immigration Policy and the Social Construction of Mexican Immigration.
SCR 43
Matthew D. O'Hara, History, UC San Diego
(Eric Van Young).
Dividing the Flock: Race and Religious Symbolism in Mexico, 1740-1867.
Catha Paquette, History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara
(Ramon Favela).
Mexican Art at New York's Museum of Modern Art, 1935-1954.
Haley M. Seif, Anthropology, UC Davis
(Roger Rouse).
A "New Beginning"? The Incorporation of Mexican (Im)migrant Labor, Trade and Foreign Capital in California Legislative Politics.
Gabriela M. Soto Laveaga, History, UC San Diego
(Eric Van Young).
Root of Discord: Commoditization of Barbasco and the Mexican People, 1968-1998.
Debora R. Vargas, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
(Herman S. Gray).
Las Tracaleras: Tejanas, Tex-Mex Music, and the (En)Gendering of Tejano Cultural Production.
SCR 43
Jennifer L. Watts, Animal Science, UC Davis
(Douglas E. Conklin).
Measuring the Flux of Nitrogen Uptake in Natural Phytoplankton Assemblages in a Subtropical Estuary near La Paz, Baja California Sur.
Randall J. Williams, Literature, UC San Diego
(Rosaura Sánchez).
Immigration Prisons: Detention and Resistance in the Borderlands.
SCR 43
Manuel Barajas, Sociology, UC Riverside
(Alfredo Mirande).
Xaripus in Northern California in the Late 20th Century: A Bi-national Case Study of Migration/Immigration, Labor, Community, and Family.
Ernest Bustillos, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
(Walter Goldfrank).
Labor Market Strategies and the Stage Migration of Mexican Migrants.
Megan R. Crowley, Anthropology, UC Irvine
(Arthur J. Rubel).
Culture, Class and Bodily Meaning: An Ethnographic Study of Organ Transplantation in Mexico.
George A. Dyer, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
(J. Edward Taylor).
The role of markets in the management and conservation of maize land-races in Central Mexico.
Sherry Fields, History, UC Davis
(Arnold J. Bauer).
Ailing Bodies: Towards a History of Sufferers in Mexico.
Ann Aurelia López, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz
(Patricia Zavella).
From the Farms of West Central Mexico to California’s Corporate Agribusiness: The Social Transformation of Two Binational Farming Regions.
Martha Lopez-Forment, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
(Jere Lipps).
DNA phylogeny and biogeography of the corals Porites and Pocillopora in the Gulf of California.
Karl James Lorenzen, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Karl Andreas Taube).
Recycling the Sacred Landscape: The Ritual Re-use of Cultural Geography among the Late Postclassic Maya.
Kara L. Nelson, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
(Jeannie Darby).
The Detection, Degradation, and Inactivation of Ascaris eggs in Mexican Wastewater Stabilization Ponds.
Loretta M. O’Connor, Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara
(John W. Du Bois).
Images of figure and ground in Chontal expressions of motion and transformation.
Tanalís Padilla, History, UC San Diego
(Michael Monteón).
Continuing the Revolutionary Tradition: Campesino Struggles in Morelos, 1940-1970.
Antonio Polo, Psychology, UC Los Angeles
(Steven R. Lopez).
Mental Health Outcomes of Mexican American Youth: Socio-Cultural/Family Correlates.
Horacio N. Roque, Comparative Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
(Evelyn Nakano Glenn).
Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Latino Community Formations in San Francisco, 1975-1995.
Robert Ketner Ream, Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara
(Russell W. Rumberger).
On the move: Student mobility as a contributing factor in achievement stratification between Mexican-Americans and non-Latino White Americans.
Tara J. Yosso, Graduate School of Education, UC Los Angeles
(Daniel G. Solorzano).
Critical Race Theory and Visual Microaggressions: The Influence of a Critical Media Literacy Curriculum on Chicana and Chicano Community College Students.
Susan Algert, Social Sciences, UC Irvine
(Leo R. Chavez).
Adolescent Mexican American Females’ Perceptions of Pregnancy, Sexuality and Early Motherhood.
Maylei Blackwell, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
(Sonia E. Alvarez).
Geographies of Difference: Mapping Multiple Feminist Insurgencies and Transnational Public Culture in the Americas.
Lesley Blancas, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
(Norman C. Ellstrand).
Characterization of Naturally Sympatric and Allopatric Populations of Teosinte with Maize: Implications for the Risk of Extinction by Hybridization.
Eric Boime, History, UC San Diego
(William Deverell).
Fluid Boundaries: Southern California, Baja California and the Conflict over the Colorado River.
Victoria Carlton, Psychiatry, UC San Francisco
(Nelson B. Freimer).
Finding a Gene for Phytosterolemia.
Tim Clary, Geography, UC Los Angeles
(C. Cindy Fan).
Mexico’s Border Industrialization Program and Its Effects on Communicable Diseases along the Northern Mexican Border.
Kanan Patel Coleman, ESE Program, School of Public Health, UC Los Angeles
(Irwin Suffet).
Disinfection Management Implications and Human Health Impacts of Trihalomethanes in a Mexico City Drinking Water Supply.
Theresa Delgadillo, English, UC Los Angeles
(Sonia Salvidar-Hull & Valerie Smith).
Revolutionary Gods: Hybrid Spirituality in Chicana and Chicano Cultural Productions.
Grace Delgado, History, UC Los Angeles
(Juan Gómez-Quiñones).
Borderland Crucible: The Implications of Chinese and Mexican Immigration for Development along the Far Western Frontier States, 1882-1942.
Virginia Escalante, Communications, UC San Diego
(Daniel C. Hallin).
Sites of Power and Communities of Difference: Latinos and the Politics of U.S. Media Production.
Sylvia Escarcega-Judge, Anthropology, UC Davis
(Carol A. Smith).
Transnational Cultural Politics: Nation-Making and Ethnicity-Making among Mixtec Migrants.
Liette Gilbert, Urban Planning, UC Los Angeles
(Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris).
Socio-Spatial Manifestations of Ethnonational Identities; A Study of Chicano and Québécois Movements in Los Angeles and Montréal.
Linda Heidenreich, History, UC San Diego
(David Gutiérrez).
History and Forgetfulness in Napa County.
Judith Huacuja Pearson, History of Art, UC Santa Barbara
(Ramón Favela).
California Chicano Collectives and the Development of a Liberatory Artistic Praxis in America.
Judith A. Kessler, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, UC Santa Barbara
(Richard Appelbaum).
The Global Apparel Industry and Transnational Production Networks: North American Integration and the Southern California/Mexico Connection.
Barbara Reyes, Ethnic Studies/History, UC San Diego
(Ramon Gutiérrez).
Nineteenth-Century California as Engendered Space: The Public/Private Lives of Californio Women.
Gillian Schultz, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
(Arturo Gómez-Pompa).
The Modern Pollen Rain and Flora of the El Eden Ecological Reserve, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Eduardo Serafin, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
(Margaret W. Conkey).
The Social Geography of Central Baja California, Mexico. A Landscape and Geoarchaeological Approach.
Diana L. Steller, Biology, UC Santa Cruz
(Pete T. Raimondi).
Importance of Rhodolith Beds as Shell Fish Recruitment Habitats.
Zulelma Valdez, Sociology, UC Los Angeles
(Vilma Ortiz).
What is "Ethnic" about Ethnic Entrepreneurship?: The Intersection of Ethnicity and Class in Self-Employment Opportunities.
Eric Van Dusen, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
(J. Edward Taylor).
In Situ Conservation of Farm Level Biodiversity: The Case of the Milpa.
Irene Vasquez, History, UC Los Angeles
(James Lockhart).
Gender and Interethnic Relations in Colonial Durango: The Creation of a Multi-Ethnic Society, 1600-1750.