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Alexis Meza

Ph.D. in History

Alexis Meza
Alexis Meza is a candidate for the Ph.D. in the Department of History with a specialization in relational Race and Ethnic United States history at UC San Diego. Her research focuses on silence, memory, and politics in the Salvadoran diaspora in Los Angeles. Alexis has been recognized as a Ford Foundation Fellow, a UC San Diego Arts and Humanities Integrated Fellowship Initiative Fellow, a New York Faculty First Look Scholar, and received a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Distinguished Teaching Award from UC San Diego. She received a Bachelor of Arts with honors in History and Latin American and Iberian Studies from UC Santa Barbara, where she was a McNair Scholar. Alexis is committed to teaching and making scholarly contributions to Ethnic Studies, Latina/o Studies, and History. She is co-author of the chapter titled “No Estan Solxs: Mourning Migrant Suffering and Death through Commemorative Art at the US///Mexico Border” in the forthcoming anthology Violence, Migration, and Detention during Trump’s Reign of Terror and Beyond (University of Arizona Press, 2024). Through her community engagement, she draws on her academic training and knowledge to further community-responsive research and foster community-based learning spaces.