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  Cecilia M. Rivas

Cecilia M. Rivas

Associate Professor

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Social Sciences Division

Latin American & Latino Studies
Merrill College

Associate Professor

Faculty

Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
Anthropology Department
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems
Feminist Studies Department

Regular Faculty

Latin American and Latino Studies

Merrill College Academic Building
Merrill College

Thurs., 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (Zoom, by appointment.)

Merrill/Crown Faculty Services

Ph.D. Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego (USA)
M.A. Area Studies (Latin America), ILAS, University of London (UK)

Media and communication; transnationalism and migration; race and ethnicity; consumer cultures; modernity; global Latinidades; El Salvador; Central America; Southern Mexico.

Professor Rivas teaches in the areas of national identity, nationalism, media, consumer cultures, and modernity. Some of her courses focus specifically on contemporary Central American societies.

  • "Beyond Borders and Remittances: Discussing Salvadoran Emigrant Voting Rights," Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development (UAS). Special issue: Salvadoran Migration to the United States. Vol. 39, No. 1-2 (2010): 149-174.
  • Salvadoran Imaginaries: Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2014.
  • "'El Salvador Works': The Creation and Negotiation of a National Brand and the Transnational Imaginary," in Borders in Service: Enactments of Nationhood in Transnational Call Centers. Kiran Mirchandani and Winifred R. Poster, Editors. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.
  • "Julia's Liberation: Modernities and Trajectories of Salvadoran Women in Alberto Masferrer's Una vida en el cine," Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Dossier: Global Latinidades: Toward a Supra-Latinx Studies. Vol. 48, No. 2 (2023): 147-159.

     

LALS 194H CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE UNITED STATES (SENIOR SEMINAR)
LALS 194R VIOLENCIA EN AMERICA (SENIOR SEMINAR)
LALS 80J RACE, NATION, WAR
LALS 80X CENTRAL AMERICAN PEOPLES AND CULTURES
LALS 122 MEDIA AND NATIONALISM
LALS 135 EL SALVADOR: EXPRESIONES CULTURALES
LALS 152 CONSUMER CULTURES
LALS 202 LATIN/O/X AMERICAN SPACES AND MODERNITY
LALS 200B CULTURE/S AND SUBJECTIVITY/IES IN THE AMERICAS

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