Maria Daniela Z. Jimenez
Biography
Daniela’s dissertation focused on Japanese and Japanese American influences on Chicana/o/x Art from 1990 to the present and how such influences push for discussions of Chicana/o/x cultural productions beyond a rhetoric of nationalism. She currently works as an archivist of U.S. Latina/o/x history and culture at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.
Education
- Ph.D., Chicana/o Studies, UCLA (2020)
- MLIS, UCLA (2018)
- Graduate Certificate, Urban Humanities, UCLA (2017)
- MA, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA (2016)
- MA, American Studies, Purdue University (2014)
- BA, Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley (2011)
- AA, Anthropology, Fullerton College (2008)
Research
- Archival Theory and Practice
- Cultural Heritage Institutions
- Cultural Studies
- History of Medicine
- Relational Ethnic Studies
- Transnational Chicana/o/x and American Studies
- Visual Culture
- Youth Subcultures
