José G. Villagrán, Ph.D.
Former Post-Doctoral Fellow, Democratizing Racial Justice
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I was born and raised on the migrant farmworker circuits between Northern California, South Texas, and Wisconsin and claim the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas as home. I completed an undergraduate degree in 2007 at Michigan State University in Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Science with minors in anthropology and Chicano/Latino Studies. I then attained an M.A. in Mexican American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012 and a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the same university in 2019. I studied migrant and seasonal farmworkers of the “Midwest stream” between South Texas and the U.S. Midwest for my doctoral dissertation and continue to study migratory Latinx labor in the U.S. Overall, I am interested in migration, labor, race, gender, social movements, anthropological theory, borderlands studies, and U.S.-Mexico relations.
