Welcome to Our Department

The mission of the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies is to train a new generation of scholars to research and analyze the life, history, and culture of Mexican-origin people within the United States, as well as of other Latino/a and indigenous populations in the Americas. Addressing local, national, and transnational contexts, the Chicana/o Studies curriculum at UCLA explores race, class, gender, and sexuality paradigms as they have shaped the history of the field, as well as new directions in the study of Chicana/os and Latina/os, including 

1. Border and Transnational Studies;
2. Expressive Arts;
3. History, Language, and Culture of the Americas;
4. Labor, Law, and Policy Issues

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Ph.D. Program in Chicana/o Studies