Miguel Angel Castañeda

College of Liberal Arts and Social SciencesLatin American and Latino StudiesSTRC Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Race and Ethnicity StudiesFaculty
DegreesPhD in US History from UC San Diego

BIO

​​Dr. Miguel Castañeda recently joined DePaul as the Social Transformation Research Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies. His work has focused on how Mexican American youth, men, and women from immigrant and farmworker families, alongside Black, Filipina/o, and feminist students, have transformed universities in the United States. As a postdoctoral fellow, he will be writing about the Young Lords Organization and their relationship to the Chicana/o student movement.