Interim Director
Lorena Oropeza
History Department
Phone: (530)754-5774
lboropeza@ucdavis.edu
Lorena Oropeza is the Interim Director of the Chicana/Latina Research Center for 2009 (Winter, Spring and Fall quarters 2009). She served for several years on the C/LRC steering committee.
Lorena Oropeza is an associate professor of history at the University of California at Davis. She is the author of ¡Raza Sí! ¡Guerra No!: Chicano Protest and Patriotism During the Viet Nam Era and a co-editor of the anthology Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte. She is currently writing a history of the Alianza land-grant movement in New Mexico employing the theme of memory and history. Convinced that Chicana/o history is a central part of U.S. history, she serves on the editorial board of a new journal called The Sixties: A Journal of History, Culture and Politics where an article she wrote reassessing the role of land-grant leader Reies Lopez Tijerina appeared in the 2008 inaugural edition. At UC Davis, she has served on the Chicana/Latina Research Center steering committee for more than a dozen years.
When she is not at Davis, she lives in Richmond with her husband, John, and their two sons, Armando and Juan Miguel.