He/Him

Gustavo García was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. His family migrated from a Zapotec community in the Valles Centrales of Oaxaca, San Baltazar Chichicapam. As the first in his family to continue with higher education, he began his journey at Santa Monica College (SMC) where he received an AA in Social and Behavioral Sciences. He transferred to the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and double majored in Chicana/o Studies and American Indian Studies. After receiving an MA in American Studies at the University of New Mexico (UNM), he joined the inaugural cohort of Chicana/o Studies where he is currently pursuing a PhD. Gustavo has taught in the Chicana/o Studies department, mentored community college transfer student through the NM Humanities Now! Mellon Transfer Program and has worked with undergraduate students conducting research in the El Puente Research Fellowship. He has also received numerous fellowships that include Ford Predoctoral Fellowship, Crossing Latinidades Pre-Doctoral Mellon Fellowship, Center for Regional Studies Project Fellowship, El Puente Graduate Fellowship, and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship.

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Course(s) Offered

CCS 2110: Introduction to Chicanx Studies and CCS 460: Chicanx/Latinx in a Global Society

Research Interests

Gustavo’s dissertation project, “Constellations of Oaxacan Worldmaking,” analyzes subversive cultural expressions of Indigenous Oaxacan people across OaxaCalifornia. Through an analysis of contemporary forms of cultural expressions such as art, music, poetry, and zines, Gustavo brings together a rich archive of Indigenous Oaxacan cultural production to locate histories of dispossession, exploitation, and violence, while also revealing other ways of being, thinking, and existing.

Research Topics

Chicanx and Latinx Studies | Oaxacan Studies | Cultural Production | Indigeneity| Social Movements | Decoloniality