BLOG POSTS AND OP-EDs
“The 1943 Riot That Spotlights How Drag Show Bans Can Fuel Violence.” The Washington Post, June 15, 2023.
“The U.S. Must Do More to Care for Its Caregivers” (co-authored with Glenn Kramon). The Atlantic, January 24, 2021.
“Essential and Excluded: The Paradox of Assimilation in the United States,” USC Dornsife Equity Research Institute, November 13, 2020.
“For Hispanic Heritage Month–Why We Need to Build Toward a Latinx Future,” UC Press, October 8, 2020.
“What Does Assimilation Mean?” Public Books, February 27, 2020.
“The New Wealth Test for Immigrants is Un-American,” The New York Times, February 24, 2020.
“Hagar Court,” University of California, Santa Cruz, Institute of the Arts and Sciences Collective Museum (February 2016).
“Dichos: Tips for MALCSistas Seeking Tenure (Part One),” Latinxs Talk, April 29, 2013.
“From Pig Food to Haute Cuisine,” Latinxs Talk, March 25, 2013.
“Homeland Security,” First Person Singular, KUSP 88.9FM, Santa Cruz, CA, May 15, 2011.
INTERVIEWS
Catherine Ramírez: Production of Migration, Interdisciplinary Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Universität Osnabrück, November 16, 2024.
Faculty Spotlight: Catherine Sue Ramirez, Crossing Latinidades, University of Illinois, Chicago (n.d.).
“How the ‘Mob Wife’ Aesthetic Can Help Us Think about Latinidad,” by Aneliza Ruiz, The Los Angeles Times, February 27, 2024.
“AeroEspacial: El Dorado of Possibilities” (with Beatriz Cortez and Clarissa Tossin), Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, August 10, 2023.
“Catherine Ramírez, Redefining Assimilation,” Misma Project, July 2, 2023.
“Zoot Suit: How the Bold Look Made History and Continues to Influence Fashion,” by Carolina Miranda, The Los Angeles Times, June 13, 2023.
“80 Years Ago, the ‘Zoot Suit Riots’ Rocked Los Angeles. Why Did It Happen?” by Ronald Claiborn, Ron’s Newsletter, June 13, 2023.
“A Guide to How Words Like Hispanic and Latinx Came About,” by Samantha Chery, The Washington Post, October 1, 2022.
“What Is Fellowship at CASBS?” Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, August 2022.
“The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Emergency Remote Instruction on Higher Education,” by Chloe Meyers, Ohio University, May 2022.
“3 to 1: Mona Hatoum, Glass, Bottles, and Migration” (with Kathryn Wade and Tali Grinshpan), San José Museum of Art, August 20, 2021.
“America and the Zoot Suit” (with Jonathan Green), Blueprint, Australian Broadcasting Radio National, July 17, 2021.
“Public Thinker: Catherine S. Ramírez on Measuring the Unmeasurable” (with John Alba Cutler), Public Books, May 7, 2021.
“Catherine Ramirez on Missions, Monuments, Sites of Memory & Sites of Dispute” (with Chris Benner), The Cutting Edge, KSQD 90.7FM, Santa Cruz, CA, April 25, 2021.
First-Gen Faculty: Catherine “Cat” Ramírez, UC Santa Cruz First Generation Initiative, March 4, 2021.
“Catherine S. Ramírez Talks: Pachucas, Latinx Futurisms, Assimilation & Precarity” (with Frederick Luis Aldama), Latinx Pop Lab, March 3, 2021.
Catherine S. Ramírez, University of California FirstGen Stories (n.d.).
“Science Friday Book Club: Conjuring an Alternate History of Colonization” (with Aisha Matthews and Christie Taylor), Science Friday, October 16, 2020.
“Mujeres Rebeldes: A History of Latina Resistance in the United States,” by Raquel Reichard, Supermajority News, October 15, 2020.
“Octavia E. Butler, la escritora negra que rompió el techo de cristal de la ciencia ficción,” by Matías de Diego, elDiario.es (Spain), August 10, 2020.
Wartime Crime: The Zoot Suit Riots, directed by Tom O’Dell, Discovery Communications and Symmetrica Entertainment (United Kingdom), 2017.
“2015’s States Where Hispanics Are Most Assimilated,” by Richie Bernardo, Wallet Hub, September 24, 2015.
“Who’s That Woman in the Zoot Suit?,” by Olga García Echevarría, La Bloga. August 24, 2009.
PUBLIC TALKS
“In Conversation: Troy Montes Michie and Catherine S. Ramírez,” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, September 24, 2022.
“Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship” (with Sylvanna M. Falcón, Camilla Hawthorne, Steven C. McKay, Juan Poblete, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer), Research Center for the Americas, University of California, Santa Cruz, November 9, 2021.
“Assimilation: An Alternative History” (with Tomás Jimenez), Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, October 28, 2021.
“Assimilation: An Alternative History,” James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, Emory University, September 27, 2021.
“The Other Southland: Missions, Monuments, and Memory in Tovaangar,” Research Center for the Americas, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 13, 2021.
“Contesting the Nation” (with Kathleen Belew, Jefferson Cowie, and Margaret Levi), Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, February 25, 2020.
“Human Migration,” UC Santa Cruz Original Thinkers Friday Forum, Santa Cruz, CA, January 27, 2017.
“Home and Mobility.” Event Santa Cruz VI: Bridging the Gap between UCSC and Downtown Santa Cruz, March, 19, 2014.