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Michelle A. Holling, Ph.D.
Program Director, Ethnic Studies (760)750-8576 | mholling@csusm.edu | SBSB 2136
- Michelle A. Holling Biography
Dr. Holling has been intimately involved with the Ethnic Studies Program since her
arrival at CSUSM. She is Program Director currently (2020-2023). Her areas of expertise
are Chican@-Latin@ vernacular discourse; testimonio and gendered violence; womyn of
color, academe, and intersectional microaggressions. For a listing of her publications, visit her faculty profile Her course Chican@s-Latin@s in Film and Television supports the Identities and Representation
curricular theme.
In collaboration with Drs. McGuire (former Program Director) and Moon (Steering Committee
member), they created the ETST major which was approved for implementation in AY 2017-2018.
Previously she served on the Steering Committee (2017-2020), as Co-Coordinator (2013-2017),
Member of Advisory Committee (2012-2013), Coordinator (2010-2011), and Co-Coordinator
(2009-2010).
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Domenique Maj
Administrative Support Coordinator, Ethnic Studies dmaj@csusm.edu (760)750-8054 | SBSB 2222
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Marcelo Garzo Montalvo, Ph.D. (he/they)
Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies mgmontalvo@csusm.edu | SBSB 3204
- Marcelo Garzo Montalvo Biography
Dr. Marcelo Garzo Montalvo (he/they) is a musician, dancer, and Ethnic Studies scholar-activist.
He is a first-generation Chilean-Canadian-American of Mapuche and Spanish descent.
They hold a B.A., M.A. and PhD in Comparative Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley, and
were a community college transfer student from Mira Costa, Cabrillo and San Diego
City Colleges. Their teaching and research focus on comparative and critical approaches
to Black, Indigenous, Latinx and Xicanx Studies as well as Dance and Performance Studies.
Before coming to CSUSM, Dr. Garzo Montalvo served as Visiting Assistant Professor
of Latinx Studies in Harvard University’s Committee on Ethnicity, Migration and Rights,
and as the Coordinator of Indigenous Technologies at the Berkeley Center for New Media.
They have published articles on abolition, decoloniality and social movements for
food, healing and ecological justice. His current book project, Armas Milagrosas/Miraculous Weapons, is a study of embodied knowledge, cultural decolonization and Xicanx indigeneities
in the practice of Anahuacan ceremonial dance (Danza Azteca, Danza Mexica, Danza Chichimeca-Tolteca).
They are also working on an experimental and collaborative research project called
Conversations con Xochipilli, exploring questions of creativity, sexuality, science and consciousness through
Queer and Two Spirit ceremonial knowledge.
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- Scholarly and Creative works
- Garzo Montalvo, Marcelo. “Within and Without the Settler University: Reflections on
Decolonization, Spirituality, and Research as Ceremony.” Agitate!: Unsettling Knowledges, Spring 2022.
- Garzo Montalvo, M. F. (2015). To the American food justice movements: A critique that
is also an offering. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 5(4), 125–129. http://dx.doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2015.054.017
- BadAss Visionary Healers (Tieraney Carter, Rico Kleinstein Chenyek, M’kali-Hashiki,
Marcelo Felipe Garzo Montalvo, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Jonah Aline Daniel). “A Babe-ilicious Healing
Justice Statement: from the BadAss Visionary Healers (BAVH).” nineteen sixty nine: an ethnic studies journal 2.1 (2013): 1-13. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1z61z54j
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Jason Magabo Perez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies (760) 750-8258 | jmperez@csusm.edu | SBSB 3134
- Jason Magabo Perez Biography
Dr. Jason Magabo Perez blends poetry, prose, performance, film/video, ethnography,
and oral history to investigate Filipina/o/x American histories, state violence, colonization,
migration, memory, and intimacy. Perez is the author of two hybrid collections of
prose and poetry: Phenomenology of Superhero (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016); and This is for the mostless (WordTech Editions, 2017). Perez’s writing has also appeared in Witness, TAYO, Entropy, and Feminist Wire. Perez has written, developed, and performed three live multimedia performance works:
The Passion of El Hulk Hogancito (2009); You Will Gonna Go Crazy (2011), which was commissioned by Kularts, Inc. and funded by a Challenge America
Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; and Blue Bin Improvisations (2018), which was commissioned and presented by MexiCali Biennial and Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions. Formerly a featured artist at the New Americans Museum and
community scholar-in-residence at San Diego Public Library, Perez has, for over 15
years, performed, lectured, and convened dialogues, panels, and workshops in public
libraries, community centers, and K-12, college, and university classrooms. Perez
has performed at notable venues such as the National Asian American Theatre Festival,
International Conference of the Philippines, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and
La Jolla Playhouse. Alumnus of the VONA Writing Workshops, Perez holds an M.F.A. in
Writing and Consciousness from New College of California and a dual Ph.D. in Ethnic
Studies and Communication from UC San Diego. Dr. Perez previously served as Assistant
Professor of English at CSU San Bernardino (2016-2019) and currently serves as Assistant
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Allison Monterrosa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies amonterrosa@csusm.edu | SBSB 3202
- Allison Monterrosa Biography
Dr. Allison Monterrosa’s areas of specialization addresses racialized gender-based violence, the criminal-legal
system, state violence and the health implications of racism. As a community-based researcher who centers the experiences of racial-ethnic marginalized
communities, her research emphasizes structural and cultural competence and intersects with community
and service work to promote social justice and health equity. Her work has been published
in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Feminist Criminology and Rutgers Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books.
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Phonshia Nie, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Ethnic Studies pnie@csusm.edu | SBSB 3203
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