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Ariana Ruiz received her Ph.D. in English with a graduate minor in Latina/o Studies from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2015. She has been involved in major grant projects funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, serving as a co-principal investigator for the Sawyer Seminar Comparative Study of Cultures Grant on 'Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging.' Ruiz also participated in the Humanities Walls Consortium Grant, 'Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest.' Her research and teaching focus on Chicanx/Latinx literary and cultural studies, cultural citizenship, feminist gender studies, critical race theory, and cultural geography, with particular interest in travel mobility and Latina/x cultural expression. Ruiz has an extensive publication record including articles and book chapters, and she actively contributes to public humanities projects such as those celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month in San Diego. Ruiz is fluent in both English and Spanish, and her scholarly work continues to contribute significantly to the fields of cultural studies and literary criticism.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).