MICRO-BIO

• Rudy Mondragón is a PhD Candidate in the Chicana/o Studies Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been featured in ESPN, Fox Sports, Bleacher Report, CNN, Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Times, Washington Post,...More

  Rudy Mondragón is a PhD Candidate in the Chicana/o Studies Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been featured in ESPN, Fox Sports, Bleacher Report, CNN, Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Times, Washington Post, USA Today, El Universal (Mexico), Reforma (Mexico), and written for LA Taco, Remezcla, and We Are Mitu. As an interdisciplinary critical sports scholar, Mondragón examines boxing and the ways in which professional boxers deploy forms of expressive culture in their ring entrances to perform their politics, multiple identities, and at times, resistance to dominant ideologies and power structures. Mondragón calls these acts sporting entitlements. Mondragón is a University of California Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellow, UCLA Gold Shield Alumnae Graduate Fellow, University of California, Berkeley Oral History Center Graduate Student Fellow, Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Program Fellow, and Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports-Scholar Awardee. Recently, he was presented with the American Studies Association Sports Studies Caucus Graduate Student Paper award.

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EXPERIENCE

• University of California, Los Angeles

  • Doctoral Candidate
  • Chicana/o Studies
  • Present

EDUCATION

• University of California, Los Angeles

  • PhD Chicana/o Studies
  • September 2016 to Present

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  • MA Chicana/o Studies
  • October 2014 to June 2016

• University of California, Irvine

  • BA Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies
  • September 2003 to September 2007

Links

• www.rudymondragon.com