Miroslava Chávez-García is a Professor in the Chicana & Chicano Studies Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She received her doctorate in History from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1998. She is author of States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California’s Juvenile Justice System (University of California Press, 2012) and Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s (University of Arizona Press, 2004) as well as articles on gender, patriarchy, the law, and juvenile justice in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is currently working on a family memoir.
Sponsored by: Latina/o Studies at OSU, Comparative Studies, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Justice for Children Project at Moritz College of Law, Moritz Office of Diversity and Inclusion
