Lourdes Gutierrez Nájera, Ph.D., M.S.W.
she/hers/ella, Associate Professor of Latinx and Interdisciplinary Studies
Office
Location
312 Academic West (enter thru 310 AW)
Hours
MW 2-4 p.m. and by appointment
About
Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera is associate professor of Latinx and Interdisciplinary Studies. She teaches courses Citizenship & Belonging, Borders & Boundaries, Globalization and Migration. Her primary research has produced a hemispheric approach to Indigeneity and migration bridging the fields of Latinx, Latin American, Indigenous, and Migration Studies. Her essays highlight the ways that Zapotec Indigenous people negotiate exclusionary practices of belonging, as well as the role of settler colonialism in Latinx Indigenous formation in the U.S. Her research have been published in numerous journals including: American Anthropologist, the Association of Mexican American Educators (AMAE) Journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Practicing Anthropology, and American Quarterly. She is also a co-edtior (with M. Bianet Castellanos and Arturo Aldama) Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas: Toward a Hemispheric Approach (University of Arizona Press 2012), a collection of essays examining indigenous experiences across the Américas.