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Graduate Student Directory

Jose Chavez Ayala
  • Title
    • PhD Student
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • History Department
  • Email
  • Office Hours By Appointment
  • Mail Stop History Department

Research Interests

20th Century U.S. History 

U.S. History of Drug War, Law, and Policy

U.S. and Mexico Transnational History

History of Mezcal and its exploitation and commercialization into the 20th Century

Biography, Education and Training

Education

B.A., U.S. History, University of California, Irvine, 2020

M.A., World and U.S. History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 2024

Honors, Awards and Grants

UC Irvine, Chancellor’s Excellence Award Scholarship 2018-2019

Cal Poly Pomona, Chancellor Awards Scholarship 2022-2023

Cal Poly Pomona, Glenn & Dorothy Dumke Fellowship 2022-2023

Cal Poly Pomona, LOGRAR Fellowship 2024

UC Santa Cruz, Chancellor's Fellowship 2024-2025

UC Santa Cruz, THI Summer Research Fellowship

Selected Performances

Panels

Cal Poly Pomona – Latinx Students in Grad School: April 16, 2024