Participant Info

First Name
Yuridia
Last Name
Ramírez
Affiliation
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Website URL
www.yuridiaramirez.com
Keywords
Migration, immigration, indigeneity, race, labor
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About Me

Yuridia Ramírez is a Ford Foundation Fellow and Assistant Professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ramírez earned her PhD in history from Duke University with a certificate in Latin American Studies. She also holds a BA in history and journalism from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and an MA in history from Duke University. Currently, Ramírez is working on her book manuscript, tentatively titled Indigeneity on the Move: Transborder Politics from Michoacán to North Carolina, a historic and interdisciplinary analysis of a diasporic indigenous community and their transforming sense of indigeneity.

Recent Publications
Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
Latin America, United States
Expertise by Chronology
20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Indigenous Peoples, Labor, Migration & Immigration, Public History, Race