Founding Chicana/o Studies

June 24, 2022

Chicano activists rally in front of Campbell Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus, Vicki Ruiz (R) as a junior scholar interviewing Rosa Guerrero, Rudy Acuňa at Cal State University Northridge, Participants in the Chicano Movement march in LAA new oral history project documenting the founding of Chicano/a Studies includes oral histories of three of our community members: David Montejano, a long-time faculty affiliate who served as chair of two ISSI centers: Center for Latino Policy Research (now Latinx Research Center) and Center for Research on Social Change, as well as Tomás Almaguer and Patricia Zavella, two of our distinguished alumni.