About
About
Born and raised in the East Los Angeles barrio of Boyle Heights, Chris Zepeda-Millán was the first Chicano to receive a Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Cornell University. His research on social movements, Latino politics, immigration policy and public opinion has been published in top political science and interdisciplinary academic journals. Professor Zepeda-Millán first book, Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism (Cambridge University Press 2017) received multiple national honors, including the coveted Ralph J. Bunche Award for best book on ethnic and cultural pluralism from the American Political Science Association (APSA), the Best Book on Race and Immigration Award from the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (REP) Section of the APSA, and the prestigious Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements. He is also the co-author of Walls, Cages, and Family Separation: Immigration Policy in the Trump Era (Cambridge University Press).
As a publicly engaged scholar, Professor Zepeda-Millán has been interviewed by several local, national, and international media outlets. His public intellectual work has included working with local and national community organizations, publishing op-eds in newspapers across the country, and being an invited contributor to NBC News, Latino Decisions, the London School of Economics’ USA blog, The Progressive magazine, and The Huffington Post. Professor Zepeda-Millan has also been involved in various social movements related to environmental and global justice, labor, student, indigenous and migrant rights. He currently holds appointments in the Departments of Public Policy, Chicana/o Studies, Political Science (by courtesy), and is the Director of Faculty Research for the Latino Policy & Politics Initiative (LPPI) at UCLA.
As a publicly engaged scholar, Professor Zepeda-Millán has been interviewed by several local, national, and international media outlets. His public intellectual work has included working with local and national community organizations, publishing op-eds in newspapers across the country, and being an invited contributor to NBC News, Latino Decisions, the London School of Economics’ USA blog, The Progressive magazine, and The Huffington Post. Professor Zepeda-Millan has also been involved in various social movements related to environmental and global justice, labor, student, indigenous and migrant rights. He currently holds appointments in the Departments of Public Policy, Chicana/o Studies, Political Science (by courtesy), and is the Director of Faculty Research for the Latino Policy & Politics Initiative (LPPI) at UCLA.