Chris Zepeda-Millán

Dissertation Fellow

jcz5@cornell.edu

Chris Zepeda-Millán is LCSLA’s Graduate Research Fellow, as well as a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government at Cornell University, where he has received a number of grants and fellowships, including a LaFeber Research Grant, a Latino Studies Program Graduate Research Grant, and a Provost Diversity Fellowship. He also recently received a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.  

His primary academic focus is on the politics of immigration, but on a broader scale, Zepeda-Millán’s research interests include social movements, labor, and race and ethnic politics. His dissertation examines the development of the U.S. Immigrant Rights Movement and the historic 2006 multi-ethnic/racial immigrant protest wave. He received his B.A. from Loyola Marymount University with a double major in Political Science and Chicana/o Studies.