ABOUT
Dr. Luis Sánchez-López is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
Dr. Sánchez-López is a Zapotec scholar who was born in Tlacolula, Oaxaca. He earned a Ph.D. in Latin American History at the University of California, San Diego. He is a member of the Critical Latinx Indigeneities Working Group and co-founder of the Oaxacan College Initiative, a community-based project that aims to increase the number of Indigenous Oaxacan students in college.
He can be reached at sanchezlopez.luis@uci.edu
RESEARCH
Dr. Sánchez-López’s research interests include race, Indigeneity, settler colonialism, state violence, customary law, autonomy, and Oaxaca.
PUBLICATIONS
Colonial Concessions: Zapotec Indigeneity and Settler Colonial Statecraft in Oaxaca, book manuscript.
“Policing the Pueblo: Vagrancy and Indigenous Citizenship in Oaxaca, 1848-1876.” Ethnohistory 70, no. 3 (2023): 385-404.
“Learning from the Paisanos: Coming to Consciousness in Zapotec L.A.” Latino Studies 15, no. 2 (2017): 242-246.
Review of We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements, by Lynn Stephen. Biography 37, no. 3 (2014): 830-832.
(Co-Authored) “Future Academics of Color in Dialogue: A Candid Q&A on Adjusting to the Cultural, Social and Professional Rigor of Academia.” In Beginning a Career in Academia: A Guide for Graduate Students of Color. Edited by Dwayne A. Mack, Elwood Watson, and Michelle Madsen Camacho, 89-100. New York: Routledge, 2014.
“Oaxacalifornia en Califaztlán: Descolonizando la idea de lo indígena.” El Tequio no. 8 (2010): 6-7.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
“A History of Settler Colonialism in Oaxaca.” In Sage Video. SAGE Publications, Ltd, 2024. Video, 00:14:32. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529695939.
TEACHING
Latinx Indigeneities
Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies
Introduction to Chicanx and Latinx Studies
Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
History of Latin America
History of the Mexican Revolution
COMMUNITY WORK
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