Marcela Mendoza joined CSWS in the fall of 2006 as a research associate for the Women in the Northwest’s Gender, Families, and Immigration Project. Since the fall of 2007, she is also a research associate for the proposed Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS), housed at CSWS. Marcela teaches on indigenous peoples of the South American Lowlands, and on international migration in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. She brings to CSWS her strong commitment to collaborative research and community service partnerships, and the lessons learned during her previous research and advocacy work with Latino immigrants in Memphis, Tennessee.
For more information about her work on the immigration project please click here.
Marcela Mendoza joined CSWS in the fall of 2006 as a research associate for the Women in the Northwest’s Gender, Families, and Immigration Project. Since the fall of 2007, she is also a research associate for the proposed Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS), housed at CSWS. Marcela teaches on indigenous peoples of the South American Lowlands, and on international migration in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. She brings to CSWS her strong commitment to collaborative research and community service partnerships, and the lessons learned during her previous research and advocacy work with Latino immigrants in Memphis, Tennessee.