University of Colorado Boulder

Arturo Aldama

Associate Chair and Associate Professor

Education

  • B.A. Evergreen State College
  • M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley – Ethnic Studies

Bio

Dr. Arturo J. Aldama, born in Mexico City and grew up in Sacramento California, serves as an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Ethnic Studies at CU Boulder and recently served as Director of CSERA (Center for Studies in Ethnicity and Race in the Americas). He received  MA and PHD in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley in 1996. His publications include:

Selected Publications

  1. Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant and Native American Struggles for Representation Duke University Press (Latin American Otherwise Series).
  2. Ed, Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century, Indiana University Press, 2003.
  3. Violence and the Body:  Race, Gender and the State Indiana University Press, 2003.
  4. He also served as an associate contributing editor for Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art: Artists, Works, Culture, and Education. Executive Editor. Gary Keller. Bilingual Review Press, 2003.
  5. He served as the popular culture, art and film editor of Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Popular Culture (Greenwood, 2004), a 400,000 word, multi-volume project that is the first of its kind.
  6. He served as Editor for CU press book, Enduring Legacies: Colorado Ethnic Histories and Cultures (2011).
  7. Special issue, Biopower and Racial Politics in the Arizona Borderlands and beyond. Bad Subjects (UC Berkeley). Lead Editor and contributor. July 2011.
  8. “Cognition, Fear and Praxis: A Response to Children of Men.: World Narrative Fiction. Austin. UT Press, appeared in print October 30, 2011.
  9. Comparative indigeneities of the Americas. Ed. Introduction (co-author) and a single author chapter in book, not a reprint on US nativism and criminalization of immigrants. University of Arizona Press, 2012. Inaugural book in Critical Indigenous Studies.
  10. Performing the US Latino Borderlands. Principal Editor. Indiana University Press (2012).  Introduction and a single chapter will be published in this book.

 Office

Ketchum 30D

Contact

E-mail: arturo.aldama@colorado.edu

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