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Catherine Sue Ramírez, PhD

Scholar, Teacher, Mentor, Leader

  • About
    • Bio
    • CV
  • Research & Writing
    • Assimilation
    • Precarity and Belonging
    • The Woman in the Zoot Suit
    • Chicanafuturism
    • Undocutime and Bioprecarity
    • Selected Publications
  • Teaching
  • Honors & Awards
  • Media
  • Photography
    • Mexican Food of the World
    • My UCSC
    • The World of Letters
    • Murals & Street Art
  • About
    • Bio
    • CV
  • Research & Writing
    • Assimilation
    • Precarity and Belonging
    • The Woman in the Zoot Suit
    • Chicanafuturism
    • Undocutime and Bioprecarity
    • Selected Publications
  • Teaching
  • Honors & Awards
  • Media
  • Photography
    • Mexican Food of the World
    • My UCSC
    • The World of Letters
    • Murals & Street Art
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Honors & Awards

Selected Fellowships, Grants, Awards, and Honors

The view of the Stanford campus, San Francisco Bay, and the East Bay from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
  • 2025-2026 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
  • Co-principal Investigator (with Sylvanna M. Falcón and Jessica Taft), Archiving Dolores Huerta’s Legacy and Shaping the Future of Latinx Studies at an HSI Campus, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2024-2027)
  • Lead Principal Investigator, Expanding Latinx Studies at and beyond UC Santa Cruz, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2023-2024)
  • Lead Principal Investigator, Bioprecarity: Latinx Migrants, Captivity, and Resistance, Crossing Latinidades Collaborative, Cross-Institutional, and Comparative Research Working Group in Latino Humanities Studies Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant, Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative (2022-2024)
  • Honorable Mention, 2020 Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies for Assimilation: An Alternative History
  • Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship, Stanford University (2019-2020)
  • Lead Principal Investigator, Non-citizenship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures Grant (2016-2017)
  • University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) Faculty Grant (2015-2016, 2010-2011)
  • Co-principal Investigator (with Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Juan Poblete, and Manuel Martín-Rodríguez), Latino Cultures Network, University of California Humanities Network Multi-campus Research Group, University of California Humanities Research Institute (2011-2013)
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, University of California, Santa Cruz (2010)
  • Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2001-2002)

Related Links

  • From UC Santa Cruz’s Newscenter: “Professor Catherine S. Ramírez selected as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar”
  • 2025-2026 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Announced
  • Reminiscing about my 2019-20 fellowship at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
  • Awardees of Crossing Latinidades Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grants and fellowships at UC Santa Cruz
  • Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz’s first grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a John E. Sawyer Seminar

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Contact

Professor Catherine S. Ramírez
University of California, Santa Cruz
Merrill Faculty Services
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
cathysue@ucsc.edu

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