Vanessa Madrigal-Lauchland

Vanessa Madrigal-Lauchland earned her PhD in US History from the University of California, Davis, with a Designated Emphasis in African American Studies. Dr. Madrigal-Lauchland’s dissertation, “The Eugenic Barrio: Housing, Policing, and Education in Stockton, CA, 1900-1958,” explores the shift from the pathologization to the criminalization of Black and Mexican communities and how they resisted and engaged in place-making in Stockton, California.

Her current research focuses on Black-Chicano youth resistance in education in the late 1960s. She is contributing a chapter entitled, “Stockton Solidarity: Black and Brown Power in the Struggle for Educational Justice,” in the forthcoming anthology, Arriba Aztlan, edited by Dr. Lauren Araiza.

Dr. Madrigal-Lauchland holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, and lectures in the Chicana/o/x Studies Department at the University of California, Davis.