Patricia Zavella
Patricia Zavella is an American
anthropologist and
professor at the
University of California, Santa Cruz in the Latin American and Latino Studies department. She has spent a career advancing Latina and
Chicana feminism through her scholarship, teaching, and activism. She was president of the
Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists and has served on the executive board of the
American Anthropological Association. In 2016, Zavella received the American Anthropological Association's award from the Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology to recognize her career studying
gender discrimination. The awards committee said Zavella's career accomplishments advancing the status of women, and especially Latina and Chicana women have been exceptional. She has made critical contributions to understanding how
gender, race, nation, and class intersect in specific contexts through her scholarship, teaching, advocacy, and mentorship. Zavella's research focuses on
migration, gender and health in Latina/o communities, Latino families in transition, feminist studies, and ethnographic research methods. She has worked on many collaborative projects, including an ongoing partnership with
Xóchitl Castañeda where she wrote four articles, some in English and others in Spanish. In 2010, the Society for the Anthropology of North America awarded Zavella the Distinguished Career Achievement in the Critical Study of North America Award. She has published many books including, most recently, ''I'm Neither Here Nor There, Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty'' (Duke University Press, 2011), which focuses on working-class
Mexican Americans' struggle for agency and identity in Santa Cruz County.
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