Position Title
Associate Professor
Position Title
Associate Professor
- Chicana/o/x Studies
Bio
Maurice Rafael Magaña is an urban anthropologist and ethnic studies scholar who studies social movements, migration, bordering, and the construction of social difference. His work focuses on understanding how everyday people collectively envision and enact more just, liberatory horizons. He has worked extensively with activists and artists in the United States and Mexico and collaborated with applied research teams working with the labor movement in Honduras, South Africa, and Costa Rica. His first book, Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico, published by University of California Press, won the Anthony Leeds Prize for outstanding book by the Critical Urban Anthropology Association. His work has also been published in Ethnic & Racial Studies, American Anthropologist, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, American Studies, Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology, Social Justice, and Political & Legal Anthropology Review, among others.
Maurice is an Associate Editor of the Cultural Anthropology section of American Anthropologist. Before joining the faculty at the University of California, Davis, Maurice held academic appointments at the University of Arizona, the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a Fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego.