Fellow Seminars

Break up your week with USMEX as our fellows present their ongoing research on Mexico and U.S.-Mexico relations. Each seminar features an engaging conversation around current policy, social and economic challenges shaping both countries.

Seminars take place in hybrid format (in person and via Zoom) on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the GPS Dean’s Conference Room, unless otherwise noted.

If you are interested in attending, please contact Karla Tirado.

2025–2026 Seminar Dates

Nov. 12, 2025
Fernando Jiménez
Analysis of police and intelligence collaboration in the CaliBaja region.

Dec. 3, 2025
Zaith López
Exploring the experiences of male addicts in institutional drug recovery across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Dec. 10, 2025
Adriana López Acle
Mapping urban informality and the spatial distribution of stranded migrants in Tijuana.

Jan. 14, 2026
Deborah Boehm
Abolitionist acts and everyday resistance within the U.S. immigrant prison system.

Jan. 28, 2026
Martha Guerrero
Understanding public health dynamics and community responses to health challenges at the border.

Feb. 4, 2026
Pedro Orraca
Do minimum wages affect the employment and earnings of undocumented workers? Evidence from Mexican immigrants in the U.S.

Feb. 11, 2026
Francisco Guerrero
A decade of turmoil and transformation: U.S.-Mexico relations and hemispheric democracy, 2015–2025.

Feb. 18, 2026
Martha Balaguera
Examining the struggle to restore asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border through legal accompaniment.

Feb. 25, 2026
Iván Sanchis
Exploring Mexico’s energy relationship in the post-NAFTA era: challenges and opportunities in a shifting global landscape.

March 4, 2026
Guadalupe Salmorán
Judicial elections in Mexico’s Supreme Court: democratic legitimacy or judicial subordination?

March 11, 2026
Paul Sánchez
Assessing the U.S.-Mexico energy relationship and its policy implications for sustainable development.

March 18, 2026
Jesús Villa
Necroatravesados: an ethnography of forensic environments in the borderlands amid mass migrant deaths.

April 1, 2026
María Cervantes
Localizing NAFTA: urban governance and border city transformations in North America.

April 8, 2026
Katrina Burgess
Why do they keep coming? The hopes and fears of U.S.-bound migrants.

May 7, 2026
Jordán Mosqueda
Domestic trade frictions and road insecurity in Mexico.

May 14, 2026
José E. Múzquiz
Latino politics in flux: the evolution of Latino voter consistency in the U.S.