Alejandro GuardadoGraduate Student
I am the son of Mexican immigrants and have earned degrees from Santa Ana College, The University California Irvine, and California State University, Los Angeles. My research has been supported by the Fulbright-Hays and the Conference for Latin American History.
I research Self Determination Movements in Zapotec and Mixe communities in the Sierra Norte of the Mexican state of Oaxaca (1970s-1990s). I analyze how Indigenous intellectuals and activists developed networks with micro-regional political coalitions, anthropologists, liberation theologians, and NGOs as a means of renegotiating their relationship to the Mexican government and market forces.
Education
A.A. Santa Ana College
B.A. University of California Irvine
M.A. California State University – Los Angeles
Research Interests
Modern Mexico
Oaxaca
Indigenous Self-Determination Movements
Dissertation Topic
"Building a New World: Reimagining Catholicism in Late 20th Century Oaxaca"
