Office Location:听Ketchum 146
Pronouns: she / her / hers
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Education
Ph.D., University of California, Davis - American History, 2017
M.A., University of California, Davis - American History, 2014
M.A., California State University, Fullerton - American Studies, 2011听
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara - History, Women's Studies, Global Studies, 2008
Research Interests
Chicanx/Latinx history, US/Mexico border studies, radical social movements, migration and migrant politics, labor history, the carceral state, the detention and deportation regime, food justice, and BIPOC veganisms
Jessica Ordaz is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the听精品SM在线影片. She grew up in Northern California to Mexican parents from Purepero, Michoac谩n. Ordaz became a first generation college student at UC Santa Barbara triple majoring in Women鈥檚 Studies, History, and Global Studies. She received her doctorate from the University of California Davis in American History. During the 2017-2018 academic year, Ordaz was the Andrew听W.听Mellon Sawyer Seminar postdoctoral fellow at the听University of Washington, which focused on comparative听racial capitalism. Her first book,听The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity, was released in March 2021. Her second project will explore the multifaceted history of veganism and plant based foods throughout the Americas, focusing on colonization, food politics, and social justice. This research will illuminate the wider and transnational history of Latinx veganism and how communities of color have engaged with questions of animal, human, and plant relations for centuries.
Selected Publications
Books
Ordaz, Jessica.听The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity听(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021).
Edited Volume
Arturo J. Aldama and Jessica Ordaz.听Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands: Confronting Trump鈥檚 Reign of Terror, Under contract with the University of Arizona Press.听
Refereed Articles
Ordaz, Jessica, 鈥淎IDS Knows No Borders鈥�: Testimonies of HIV/AIDS, Exclusion, and Migrant Detention.鈥� Radical History Review, Issue 140 (May 2021): 175-185.听
Ordaz, Jessica, 鈥淟a Lucha Obrera No la Para la Frontera (There Are No Borders in the Workers鈥� Struggle): Jose Medina, Transborder Organzing, and the Carceral State.鈥� California History 1, May 2021; 98 (2) 3-23.
Ordaz, Jessica, 鈥淢igrant Detention Archives: Histories of Pain and Solidarity.鈥澨齋outhern California Quarterly, Vol. 102, No. 3, pp. 250-273.
Ordaz, Jessica, 鈥淧rotesting Conditions Inside听El Corralon: Immigration Detention, State Repression, and Transnational Migrant Politics in El Centro, California.鈥澨齁ournal of American Ethnic History听38 (2): 65-93.
Book Reviews
Jessica Ordaz, "A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community.鈥� Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol 42, No. 4. University of Illinois Press, 2023.听
Jessica Ordaz, 鈥淐aging Borders and the Carceral States.鈥� Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 39 University of Illinois Press, 2020.听听
Jessica Ordaz, 鈥淲alling In and Walling Out,鈥� Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 52, Issue 3, Oxford University Press, 2021.
Other
Ordaz, Jessica. 鈥淭he Detention and Deportation Regime as a Conduit of Death: Memorializing and Mourning Migrant Loss鈥� in a听Field Guide to White Supremacy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021.听
Ordaz, Jessica. 鈥淟atinx Veganism.鈥� The American Historian: Food History, Winter, 2022.听
Op-Eds
Ordaz, Jessica. 鈥淢igrant Detention Centers have a Long History of Medical Neglect and Abuse.鈥� The Washington Post, 2020.
Ordaz, Jessica and Alejandra Portillos. 鈥淚mmigration and Customs Enforcement鈥檚 #Pride tweet conceals a violent history.鈥� The Washington Post, 2021.
