Ph.D. Placement History
Upon graduating, all of our PhD graduates have found employment: in academia (e.g., as postdoctoral fellows and/or in tenure-track positions at institutions in the US & Latin America), in the corporate sector, and in the federal government.
Ismael Illescas
Ph.D. 2022
- Permanent faculty member of the Ethnic Studies Department at Chabot College
Candy Martinez
Ph.D. 2022
- University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA with the sponsorship of David Delgado-Shorter, professor of world arts and cultures/dance
- Assistant Professor in Latin American and Latinx studies at Vassar College, with a focus on race, injustice, and immigration
Emilia Valenzuela Vergara
Ph.D. 2021
- Research Professor, Sociology at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Mauricio Ernesto Ramirez
Ph.D. 2021
- University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at UC Davis
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Alina Ivette Fernandez
Ph.D. 2020
- UX Researcher for Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives, CITI Bank