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María Ibarra, Ph.D.

María IbarraProfessor (Spring semester only)
Office: AL-396
Phone: (619) 594-0316
Email: [email protected]

María Ibarra is a Chicana feminist scholar who now celebrates 29 years in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at SDSU. She received her Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara (1997).

Dr. Ibarra is nationally recognized as a pioneering scholar of private care work and she writes about ethics, violence, kinship making, subjectivity, and meaning making in relation to this important labor. Her articles are published in journals such as Urban Anthropology, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Chicana/Latina Studies, Anthropology of Work Review, as well as anthologies, including Hidden Lives and Human Rights in The United States: Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration and Careworkers, Working Mothers, and Activists: New Research About Women in the Neoliberal Age.  She is currently working on two manuscripts: Blood, Law, and Choice: Making Chicana/o/x Familias in Southern California as well as The Burrito Chronicles: Stories of Love, Life, and Identity in the Borderlands.