Chair

Lorena Oropeza

Professor and Department Chair
Ethnic Studies

I mostly study people who during the 1960s raised hell because they wanted to stop a war, or fight racial injustice, or overthrow patriarchy. Inspired by these activists, my research and teaching reflect my desire to harness what I consider the subversive potential of history to prompt new ways of thinking among academics and members of the public alike.

Program: Chicanx Latinx Studies, Chicanx History, Gender, Oral History, Race and Empires