Research

• Genomic Sovereignty and the Comparative Biopolitics of Race
  College of Letters and Science: Life Sciences
  • In this project, former UCLA postgraduate fellow Ruha Benjamin analyzes the geneticization of race and nationality in two countries - India and Mexico. Both countries have undertaken initiatives to genetically map and commercially market the bioethnic diversity of their populations.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Ruha Benjamin
    (Updated: Feb 23 2023)

• Autonomous and Indigenous Networks Across the World
  Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
  • Srinivasan explores ‘autonomous technology and infrastructures’ through collaboration with the Rhizomatica group in the Oaxaca region of Mexico. They have been able to develop indigenous and non-western local mobile phone infrastructures, showing how mobile phones can support people to connect with family, friends, and other people on the ‘margins’.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Ramesh Srinivasan
    (Updated: Apr 07 2023)

• Diversifying the Classics
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  • Diversifying the Classics promotes the vibrant, Spanish-language theatrical tradition developed on both sides of the Atlantic. The project seeks to foster awareness and appreciation of Hispanic classical theater in Los Angeles and beyond, expanding the canon to include the heritage of US Latino communities.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Barbara Fuchs
    (Updated: Apr 19 2023)

• Latin American Criminal Justice Project
  School of Law
  • The goal of this project is producing knowledge that can be used by researchers and policy-makers about how Latin American criminal justice systems are actually working.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Ingrid Eagly
    (Updated: Apr 26 2023)

• Ancient Agriculture and Paleoethnobotany Laboratory
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The Ancient Agriculture and Paleoethnobotany Laboratory (AAPL) is a collaborative research space dedicated to the investigation of agricultural systems and communities in the past, as well as the analysis of archaeological plant remains.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Sonia Zarrillo
    (Updated: Apr 28 2023)

• Undocumented Migration Project
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) is a long-term anthropological study of clandestine movement between Latin America and the United States that uses ethnography, archaeology, visual anthropology, and forensic science to understand various aspects of unauthorized border crossings including the many forms of violence and suffering.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Jason De León
    (Updated: Apr 28 2023)

• Mesoamerican Lab
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The lab's current project is The Origins of Social Inequality in Early Formative Mesoamerica, which is an investigation of sociopolitical dynamics in Mesoamerica’s earliest settled villages, dated from 1600 to 1000 BC.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Richard Lesure
    (Updated: May 03 2023)

• Rock Art Archive
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The Archive possesses extensive private collections, donated in the interest of research and conservation. A partial history of the archive and of rock art studies is discernible in our extensive correspondence records, site reports, site records, and research reports.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Jo Anne Van Tilburg
    (Updated: May 03 2023)

• Alternative Energy and Biodiversity
  College of Letters and Science: Physical Sciences
  • This project will work will develop a first-of-its-kind center at UCLA that will act as a sample repository and hub that solar facilities can utilize in order to identify unknown collected samples in the future.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Ryan Harrigan
    (Updated: May 03 2023)

• Culture, Neuroscience, and Psychosis
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • The main objective of this project is to develop an innovative research and research training program that integrates both sociocultural and neuroscience perspectives, in the study of psychosis and psychotic disorders among Latinos.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Alex Kopelowicz
    (Updated: May 17 2023)

• Studying Sociodemographic Trends Among Mexican Immigrants
  College of Letters and Science: Social Sciences
  • Anne Pebley and her coworkers analyzed sociodemographic trends among Mexican immigrants who were deported or voluntarily returned to Mexico over a nearly 20-year period spanning the presidential administrations of George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Anne Pebley
    (Updated: May 24 2023)

• The Ricardo Montejano Collection: Social Movements and Mexican Rural and Native Cultures
  UCLA Library
  • The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the preservation of 3,300 audio recordings that document Mexican social movements and indigenous cultures through the voices of social activists, peasants, indigenous Mexicans, musicians, traditional physicians, and guardians of traditional culture.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Rachel Deblinger
    (Updated: Oct 17 2023)

• Leaders and Militants of Mexican Anarchism: The Flores Magón Brothers
  UCLA Library
  • The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the digitization and publishing of five collections to further Casa del Ahuizote’s mission to recover neglected histories of Mexican emancipatory movements. Anarchism and other radical movements were repressed in Mexico, and materials documenting its history are both rare and fragile.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Rachel Deblinger
    (Updated: Oct 24 2023)

• Visualizing Memory: Indigenous Resistance in Chiapas, Mexico (1998-2009)
  UCLA Library
  • The Modern Endangered Archives Program of UCLA funds the cataloguing of videotapes from the Chiapas Media Project (CMP)/Promedios archive held in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas. CMP/Promedios facilitates the production and distribution of audiovisual works through regional media centers built by Zapatista communities in Chiapas.
    Project Contact:

    Project website	-		Rachel Deblinger
    (Updated: Nov 02 2023)

Education/Training

• UCLA Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center
  School of Medicine
  • Pacific AETC works to expand the number and ability of healthcare professionals and organizations in the Pacific region to provide high-quality HIV-related services to increase access to healthcare and decrease health inequities.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Tom Donohoe

• National Autonomous University of Mexico
  UCLA International Education Office
  • Popular subjects include anthropology, indigenous culture studies, psychology, economics, and US-Mexico relations. For more practical experience, add an internship related to art, marketing, or aiding refugees, women, and children.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Danilo Bonilla

Service

• Diversifying the Classics
  College of Letters and Science: Humanities
  • Diversifying the Classics promotes the vibrant, Spanish-language theatrical tradition developed on both sides of the Atlantic. The project seeks to foster awareness and appreciation of Hispanic classical theater in Los Angeles and beyond, expanding the canon to include the heritage of US Latino communities.
    Project Contact:

    Project website

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    Barbara Fuchs

UCEAP

• Contemporary Mexico
  • An intriguing experience with Mexico’s people and politics awaits in Mexico City, a mosaic of modern and historic culture. This five-week summer program mixes class time with a flurry of activities and trips.

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• Field Research In Mexico
  • Ready for adventure? Got a research topic in mind? Take your curiosity and ideas to Mexico, where a diverse population, rich ecology, and fascinating history provide compelling possibilities for research.

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• National Autonomous University of Mexico
  • Popular subjects include anthropology, indigenous culture studies, psychology, economics, and US-Mexico relations. For more practical experience, add an internship related to art, marketing, or aiding refugees, women, and children.

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• Leadership in Social Justice and Public Policy
  • Build leadership skills and explore social justice in the powerhouse political centers of Mexico City and Sacramento. Combining coursework and on-the-ground experience, learn how the politics and culture of Mexico inform California public policy-making.

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• Community Health in Mexico
  • Turn interests in health, human rights, and justice into a career path. In Puerto Escondido, speak with locals about health, nutrition, education, and access to care in their community.

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UCLA Travel Study Programs

• Spanish: Spanish in the Mexican Context
  • Spend a summer in Merida, Mexico, for your study of Spanish language or Mexican literature. In addition, you will participate in several cultural excursions to the most important Mayan ruins, the Yucatecan cenotes, and protected wildlife reserves.

    Website

EAP Students

• 2021-22: 7 students
  • Contemporary Mexico: 3 students
  • Global Health in Mexico: 4 students
• 2020-21: 7 students
  • Contemporary Mexico: 3 students
  • Global Health in Mexico: 4 students
• 2019-20: 6 students
  • National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM): 4 students
  • Field Research, UC Center Mexico City: 1 student
  • Leadership in Social Justice & Public Policy, Mexico (F) & Sacramento (W/S): 1 student
• 2018-19: 7 students
  • Contemporary Mexico, UC Center, Mexico City: 1 student
  • Global Health in Mexico: 2 students
  • National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM): 4 students
• 2017-18: 7 students
  • National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM): 5 students
  • Contemporary Mexico, UC Center, Mexico City: 1 student
  • Leadership in Social Justice and Public Policy, Mexico City & Sacramento: 1 student
• 2016-17: 7 students
  • Field Research, UC Center Mexico City: 2 students
  • National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM): 5 students
• 2015-16: 7 students
  • Field Research, UC Center Mexico City: 4 students
  • National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM): 3 students
• 2014-15: 8 students
  • Field Research, UC Center Mexico City: 1 student
  • National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM): 6 students
  • National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM): 1 student
• 2013-14: 3 students
  • Field Research, UC Center Mexico City: 2 students
  • National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM): 1 student
• 2012-13: 3 students
  • Field Research, UC Center Mexico City: 2 students
  • National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM): 1 student
• 2011-12: 5 students
  • Field Research, UC Center Mexico City: 1 student
  • National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM): 4 students
• 2010-11: 6 students
  • Field Research, UC Center Mexico City: 3 students
  • National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM): 3 students
• 2009-10: 5 students
  • Field Research, UC Center Mexico City: 2 students
  • Mexico-U.S. Comparative, UC Center Mexico City: 2 students
  • National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM): 1 student

Travel Study Students

• 2018-19 : 32 students
  • Mexican Identity: Literature & Culture: 13 students
  • Spanish Mexico (Elementary Spanish): 10 students
  • Spanish Mexico (Intermediate Spanish): 9 students
• 2017-18 : 32 students
  • Merida: 32 students
• 2016-17 : 32 students
  • Merida: 32 students
• 2013-14 : 24 students
  • Spanish - Merida, Mexico: 24 students
• 2012-13 : 19 students
  • Spanish - Merida, Mexico: 19 students
• 2011-12 : 28 students
  • Spanish - Merida, Mexico: 28 students
• 2010-11 : 32 students
  • Spanish - Merida, Mexico: 32 students
• 2009-10 : 24 students
  • Spanish - Merida, Mexico: 24 students