About

Dr. Mauricio E. Ramírez, is an artist, curator, and professor. He received his Ph.D. in Latin American and Latino Studies, with an emphasis in Visual Studies, from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a previous American Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Fellow, a UC President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis, and a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies.

He is currently working on his book manuscript titled Painting Solidarity: US Central American Murals of San Francisco, which examines the politics of visibility, solidarity, and belonging as seen in the creation of US Central American community murals in San Francisco, California. In his creative work, Mauricio is developing a novel about the Salvadoran Civil War, inspired by actual events and personal histories. The novel examines how the conflict shaped identities across borders, interweaving memory, migration, and the legacy of political violence within Salvadoran and Salvadoran American communities.

His research has been supported by the University of California Office of the President, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council’s Dissertation Proposal Development Program, and UC Santa Cruz’s Research Center for the Americas and Department of Latin American and Latino Studies.

In addition, Mauricio has taught various classes relating to Latinx Visual Art, Central American Studies, and Latin American Studies at UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, and San Jose City College. From 2015 to 2018, he taught visual art classes to incarcerated youth in San Mateo and San Francisco as a Teaching Artist for the non-profit organization The Imagine Bus Project. 

Mauricio holds a Master’s in Teaching Visual Art from the University of the Arts and a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz.