Name: Felipe Lopez
Instructor, CILAS
Ph.D., Candidate,University of California, Los Angeles

Field of Expertise: Felipe Lopez teaches Zapotec, an indigenous language spoken in Southern Mexico. He is working on his Ph.D. at UCLA in Urban Planning entitled “Transnationalizing Development? The Role of Social Capital in Oaxacan Indigenous Immigrant Organizations in Southern California.”

Region of Interest: Southern Mexico, Indigenous Communities in Southern California

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Selected Publications:

• with David Runsten. Mixtecs and Zapotecs Working in California: Rural and Urban Experiences. In Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States. Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD/Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UCSD, 2004.
• with Pamela Munro, Rodrigo Gracia and Olivia Mendez. Di'csyonaary X:tèe'n Dìi'zh Sah Sann Luu'c (San Lucas Quiaviní Zapoteco Dictionary / Diccionario Zapoteco de San Lucas Quiaviní). UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. September 1999.