Miroslava Chavez-Garcia

Miroslava Chávez-García is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and holds affiliations in Chicana/o, Feminist, and Latin American and Iberian Studies. She is currently the Faculty Director of the UCSB McNair Scholars Program. She has published three books, her most recent is "Migrant Longing: Letter Writing Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Chapel Hill, 2018). Her soon-to-be published "Is Grad for Me? Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen BIPOC Students" (Berkeley, 2024), co-authored with Yvette Martinez-Vu, will appear in winter.