Catherine S. Ramírez
Catherine S. Ramírez is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Professor Ramírez is a scholar of Latinx literature, history, visual culture, and performance. Her expertise includes immigration and assimilation, historical memory and erasure, Mexican American women’s history, zoot suits and style politics, and Latinxfuturism. She is the author of Assimilation: An Alternative History and The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory and a co-editor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship and Public Books. She has also written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. Her current book project, Bioprecarity: Rethinking Migrant Life and Death, studies the figure of the child migrant and the value of time, youth, and vitality in racial capitalism and the postmigrant twenty-first century. A first-generation college graduate, she holds a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley.