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Curriculum Vitae

Below are some recent academic highlights.
For details, please download my full CV. 

Education

2026 (expected)

Ph.D. in Feminist Studies

Department of Feminist Studies

University of California Santa Barbara

2022

M.A. in Feminist Studies

Department of Feminist Studies

University of California Santa Barbara

2017

B.S.B.A in Business Administration, cum laude

School of Business

Simmons College, Boston

Publications

2024

Peer Reviewed

Eileen Boris, Sara M. Butler, and Alex Mireles, “Engendering Carcerality: An Introduction,” Gender  & History 36, no. 3 (October 2024): 807–23, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12822.

2024

Public Scholarship

Hinojos, Sarah and Alex Mireles, “Sonic Homes: The Sonic/Racial Intimacy of Black and Brown Banda Music in Southern California,” Sounding Out! (blog), October 7, 2024, https://soundstudiesblog.com/2024/10/07/26336/.

Awards and Fellowships

2024-2025

Graduate Division Central Fellowship

Division of Social Sciences and Humanities. University of California Santa Barbara.

2023-24

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Crossing Latinidades Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship

Research working group on Latinx Sound Culture Studies.

University of Illinois, Chicago

2022

Western Association of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Master’s Thesis Competition

Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at University of California Santa Barbara nominee.

Conference Presentations, Invited Talks and Lectures

April 2024

“Queer Paisa Sounds: Mexicanidad and Queer Affect in a New Generation of Corridos and Rancheras.” 

Panel. Latina/o Studies Association Conference

Arizona State University 

February 2024

“Performing Race, Performing Space: Opening Roundtable ’24.”

Roundtable. Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the University of California Santa Barbara

March 2024

“Vaquero Softness: Paisa Aesthetics in Digital Space and Queering the Algorithm as Utopian Praxis.” 

Panel at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Conference

Denver, CO.

Teaching Experience and Interests

Experience

  • Introduction to Gender and Power

  • Global Feminisms and Social Justice 

  • Women, Representation, and Cultural Production

  • Introduction to LGBTQ Studies 

  • Women of Color Feminisms 

  • Sex, Love, and Romance 

  • Introduction to Gender and Power 

  • Women’s Labors

Topics I love to rant about ;)

  • Aesthetics, Popular Culture, and Theories of Excess

  • Queer of Color Critique, BIPOC Queer Histories and Futures

  • Cultural Production, Labor, and Capitalism

  • Los Angeles and Southern California History

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