Darrel Enck-Wanzer

Dr. Darrel Wanzer-Serrano is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at The University of Iowa. His books include The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation (Temple University Press, June 2015) and The Young Lords: A Reader (New York University Press, 2010). Darrel was born and raised (largely by his Boricua mother) in western Washington state, where he remained until graduate school. He attended the University of Puget Sound for a B.A. in the Department of Communication Studies (1999), where he was an active participant on the university's policy debate team. After four years there, he made the difficult decision to leave the Pacific Northwest and pursue graduate studies at Indiana University in the (then newly formed) Department of Communication and Culture. At Indiana, Darrel received an M.A. in Rhetoric and Public Culture (2001). In 2007, he received his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Public Culture under the directorship of John Louis Lucaites. After stints at the University of Georgia, the University of Illinois, and the University of North Texas, Darrel made his way to Iowa. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in rhetorical theory and methods, critical theories of race/ethnicity, decoloniality, and Latin@ studies; and he has a research focus on the same topics.