Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (Huerta Center)

The Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (Huerta Center) is the first in the University of California system to advance a broad program of interdisciplinary research that brings together Chicanx/Latinx and Latin American studies, including over 90 faculty and hundreds of students at UC Santa Cruz. We have hosted scholars from Latin America, collaborated with Mexican institutions and individual scholars across the Americas, and are a member of Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (Latin American Council of Social Sciences).

Since its founding in 1992 by faculty in Latin American and Latino Studies, the Huerta Center’s scope has been hemispheric. The Huerta Center advances three core areas in higher education that fulfill the University of California’s mission: supporting multidisciplinary research and community initiatives, mentoring and creating professional development opportunities for primarily under-represented and/or first-generation students, and hosting thought-provoking public events about issues and questions that matter to both scholars and the communities in which we live and work.