Faculty
- Title
- Chair, LALS Department
- Chair, Merrill Faculty Fellows
- Associate Professor of LALS
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Latin American & Latino Studies
- Merrill College
- Research Center for the Americas
- Affiliations Research Center for the Americas, History Department, Feminist Studies Department, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Merrill College
- Phone 831-459-5319
- Fax 831-459-3125
- Website
- Office Location
- Merrill College Academic Building, 33
- Office Hours Winter 2019 Wednesdays 1:00-3:00 pm & by appt.
- Mail Stop Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
- Mailing Address
- LALS Dept., Merrill Faculty Services, 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration; Latin American and Latino Studies; Race; Mexico; Latino/a Studies; US History; Archives, Archival Practices; Feminist Studies; Social Justice
- Courses LALS 100: Concepts & Theories in Latin American and Latin@ Studies; LALS80H: Comparative Latina/o Histories; LALS144: Mexicana/Chicana Histories; LALS180: Borders: Real and Imagined; LALS194: Migration Histories in the Americas; LALS200: Graduate: Concepts & Theories in LALS; LALS225: Graduate: Comparative Race in the Americas; LALS143: Migrations, Race, Ethnicity in the U.S.
Summary of Expertise
Migration histories of the Américas; Latina/o/x studies; social history - U.S./Mexico; Chicana/o history; critical race and ethnicity studies; Chicana and Mexicana feminisms; “borderlands” studies; history of modern Mexico.
Research Interests
Current research interests in cross-ethnic and cross-racial cooperation, diversity in coalitions, and processes of racial "mixing" in historical contexts of struggles for social justice.
Biography, Education and Training
Chair, LALS Dept; Associate Professor LALS; Chair, Merrill College Faculty Fellows; Current UCSC EVC Fellow 2018-19; former director Chicano Latino Research Center; author Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-1939 (2008); co-editor Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader (2003). PhD (History), The University of Chicago; CIC Fellow: University of Michigan; MA (History) SFSU; BA (History) Reed College.
Honors, Awards and Grants
- Fellowship, UCSC Executive Vice Chancellor's Academy
- Distinguished Speaker, Organization of American Historians
- Golden Apple Teaching Award, Social Sciences Division, UCSC
- Research Fellowship, Stanford University: Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity
Teaching Interests
Dr. Arredondo's teaching and research interests include briding Latin American and Latina/o Studies, comparative Latina/o/x histories, gender and racial formations, U.S./Mexico histories, comparative immigration/migrations in the Américas, and Chicana/o/x histories.
