Campus Directory

Division Social Sciences Division

Department/ College/ Unit Latin American & Latino Studies

Title PhD Candidate

Affiliation Graduate

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Primary Office Location Merrill College Academic Building

Additional Location(s) 19

Mail Stop Merrill/Crown Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

An interdisciplinary scholar of migration and Central America. 

Dissertation: Migratory Justice: Borders, Enforcement, and Central American Mobility.
Explores struggles for migratory justice, and the critical and emancipatory discourses produced through these struggles, among rural and Indigenous communities in Cental America's bordlerlands from the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

This dissertation has been supported by the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Américas, a Crossing Latinidades Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, and a Dissertation Fellowship from the UCSC Social Sciences Division.

Faculty research projects supported as a graduate student researcher:

- Indigenous Borderlands 

- Global Latinidades 

Research Interests

Central American and Indigenous bordlerlands; migration; border enforcement; migratory justice. 

Teaching Interests

Courses taught as an Instructor of Record:

LALS1: Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies

LALS33: Central American Migration (original design)

Selected Presentations

“Searching for Justice in the Central American Archive: Ignacio Ellacuría and migration as historical reality.” Latina/o Studies Association, April 2024.

Selected Publications

Urdan, T. & Argueta-Vogel, A. (2018), Student Attitudes and Academic Achievement: Antecedents and Consequences. In: D. Albarracín & B.T. Johnson (Eds). The Handbook on Attitudes, Volume 2: Applications, Second Edition (pp. 527-561). New York, NY: Routledge.