Ramona Perez
Professor and Graduate Advisor of Latin American Studies
College of Arts and Letters
Anthropology
SDSU
Bio
Ramona Pérez is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American studies at San Diego State University. She also is Chair of the Institutional Review Board at San Diego State University and graduate faculty in Global Health (SDSU/UCSD), Women’s Studies, and Chicana/o Studies as well as at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF). Dr. Pérez has worked for more than twenty years on migration and health, identity among Latinos on both sides of the US/Mexico border, gender and empowerment, and the formation of community among Oaxacan migrants in the US. Her publications are in English and Spanish and can be found in journals and manuscripts in the fields of anthropology, geography, public health, social work, criminal justice, and medicine. Dr. Pérez specializes in qualitative and mixed methods research and has published on the use and benefits of such methodologies.
Areas of Expertise
Anthropology, geography, public health, social work, criminal justice, and medicine. Qualitative and mixed methods research on the use and benefits of such methodologies. Binational youth identity and family composition, migration and the transmission of identity between mothers and their children, domestic violence, female empowerment, shifts in culinary food practices and nutrition, migrant youth in the context of deportation and survival, and the moral economy of lead poisoning in ceramic production.