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
8, 9
Expertise by Topic
Indigenous Peoples, Labor, Migration & Immigration, Public History, Race