Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas Institute for Social Transformation Center for Agroecology Anthropology Department
Merrill College Academic Building Merrill College
Wednesday, 12 noon to 2 p.m. (Zoom, by appointment.)
Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
Ph.D. Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego (USA) M.A. Area Studies (Latin America), ILAS, University of London (UK)
Media and communication; transnationalism and migration; race and ethnicity; consumer cultures; modernity; global Latinidades; El Salvador; Central America; Southern Mexico.
Professor Rivas teaches in the areas of national identity, nationalism, media, consumer cultures, and modernity. Some of her courses focus specifically on contemporary Central American societies.
"Beyond Borders and Remittances: Discussing Salvadoran Emigrant Voting Rights," Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development (UAS). Special issue: Salvadoran Migration to the United States. Vol. 39, No. 1-2 (2010): 149-174.
"'El Salvador Works': The Creation and Negotiation of a National Brand and the Transnational Imaginary," in Borders in Service: Enactments of Nationhood in Transnational Call Centers. Kiran Mirchandani and Winifred R. Poster, Editors. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.
"Julia's Liberation: Modernities and Trajectories of Salvadoran Women in Alberto Masferrer's Una vida en el cine," Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Dossier: Global Latinidades: Toward a Supra-Latinx Studies. Vol. 48, No. 2 (2023): 147-159.
