Prof. Dr. Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez

Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez is a guest in 2024 and 2025. Adriana is a Research Professor at the Research Center for Social Sciences at the University of Colima. She holds a Ph. D. in Cultural and Performance Studies from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research interests are: Anthropology of migration; transnational and return Mexican indigenous migration between Mexico and the United States; migration, gender and family; the intersectional analysis between gender, race and ethnicity; and the second generation of Mexican indigenous people in the United States.

She has worked with the indigenous Chichimec community of Guanajuato, México, the Zapotecs of Yalalag, in Oaxaca and California, and with three Mayan communities in southern Yucatan in Yucatan and California. She is a member of the two editorial boards: the journal of Maya America: A journal of essays, commentary and analysis and the journal of GénEroos: a journal of research in gender studies. Currently, she is preparing a book manuscript, entitled: Transnational indigenous returnees.