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Yuridia Ramírez
Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Yuridia Ramírez
Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Immigration During the 21st Century, Labor Migration, Latin American Migration, Nativism and Xenophobia, North American Migration, Race and Ethnicity
AREAS OF TEACHING
Latina/o/x History, (Im)migration history, oral history
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Yuridia Ramírez is a Ford Foundation Fellow and an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and affiliated faculty in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Ramírez earned her PhD and MA 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. She is currently at work on her first book, 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. Her work has received support from the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, among others.
Dr. Ramírez’s work in racial and indigenous histories, as well as in diasporic communities and decoloniality, also have informed her dedication to community organization efforts. In 2017, she served as the North Carolina organizer with United We Dream and has organized in refugee and immigrant communities in both Minneapolis, MN, and Durham, NC. She has worked with K-12 students, young adults, and families, thinking critically about racism, violence, and injustice, while developing a vision for a collective community. As an oral historian whose parents have been Mexican immigrant factory workers for more than thirty years, Ramírez has personal experience with and an intellectual commitment to migrant workers and their families.
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