Chris Zepeda-Millán, Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY (LMU)
Born and raised in the East Los Angeles barrio of Boyle Heights, in 2011 Chris Zepeda-Millán became the first Chicano to receive a Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Cornell University. His dissertation won the 2012 national "Best Dissertation Award" from the American Political Science Association's Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics.
Dr. Zepeda-Millán’s interdisciplinary research interests include Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, and Urban Politics. He is currently working on several single- and co-authored research projects, including submitting his book manuscript for review this fall. Titled Dignity’s Revolt: Threat, Identity, and Immigrant Mass Mobilization, the manuscript utilizes case studies of episodes of large-scale collective action in different geographic (on the West Coast, East Coast, and U.S. South) and demographic (among different racial and ethnic groups) settings to analyze the historic 2006 nationwide immigrant rights protest-wave and its effects on the national electorate and policy-making process.
Dr. Zepeda-Millán has received several fellowships and awards, including: a LaFeber Research Grant, a Cornell Provost Fellowship, Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, and in 2011 was inducted into the Yale University Bouchet Graduate Student Honor Society. He spent the 2011-2012 academic year in the Department of Political Science and Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago as a Provost’s Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Scholar (PCEPS), a prestigious two year fellowship he left a year early to accept a tenure-track position at his alma mater (LMU).
As a publicly engaged scholar, Dr. Zepeda-Millán has been interviewed by several local, national, and international media outlets, including: Vietnamese-language news, Canadian public television, La Opinion (the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the U.S.), Univision (the largest Spanish-language television network in the U.S.), Colorlines magazine, several Pacifica Network radio stations, and PBS ("Race 2012", a prime-time, nationally televised documentary that examines race in the U.S. through the lens of the 2012 Presidential Elections). His public intellectual work also includes working with local community organizations, publishing op-eds in local newspapers across the country, being an invited contributor to NACLA [North American Congress on Latin America] Report, and frequently writing for The Progress magazine and The Huffington Post.
Dr. Zepeda-Millán’s interdisciplinary research interests include Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, and Urban Politics. He is currently working on several single- and co-authored research projects, including submitting his book manuscript for review this fall. Titled Dignity’s Revolt: Threat, Identity, and Immigrant Mass Mobilization, the manuscript utilizes case studies of episodes of large-scale collective action in different geographic (on the West Coast, East Coast, and U.S. South) and demographic (among different racial and ethnic groups) settings to analyze the historic 2006 nationwide immigrant rights protest-wave and its effects on the national electorate and policy-making process.
Dr. Zepeda-Millán has received several fellowships and awards, including: a LaFeber Research Grant, a Cornell Provost Fellowship, Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, and in 2011 was inducted into the Yale University Bouchet Graduate Student Honor Society. He spent the 2011-2012 academic year in the Department of Political Science and Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago as a Provost’s Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Scholar (PCEPS), a prestigious two year fellowship he left a year early to accept a tenure-track position at his alma mater (LMU).
As a publicly engaged scholar, Dr. Zepeda-Millán has been interviewed by several local, national, and international media outlets, including: Vietnamese-language news, Canadian public television, La Opinion (the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the U.S.), Univision (the largest Spanish-language television network in the U.S.), Colorlines magazine, several Pacifica Network radio stations, and PBS ("Race 2012", a prime-time, nationally televised documentary that examines race in the U.S. through the lens of the 2012 Presidential Elections). His public intellectual work also includes working with local community organizations, publishing op-eds in local newspapers across the country, being an invited contributor to NACLA [North American Congress on Latin America] Report, and frequently writing for The Progress magazine and The Huffington Post.
