Izul de la Vega

Izul de la Vega is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and a Lecturer in the UCLA Political Science Department, where she focuses on racial and ethnic politics. She earned her MA in History from the University of Texas at El Paso with a research emphasis on the Chicanx and Black Power Movements, followed by both an MA and PhD in Political Science from UCLA. Her doctoral research investigates the intersection of race and space, particularly exploring the conditions that foster Latinx political resistance. Dr. de la Vega’s interdisciplinary work engages with Human Geography, Sociology, and Critical Race Theory to analyze spatiality, collective practice, and racialized resistance within a settler colonial framework. Her previous projects include contributions to the Urban Humanities Initiative at UCLA, where she examined gentrification and urban change in Los Angeles, Tijuana, and Mexico City, as well as research on voting rights development in California with the Luskin Center for Research and Policy.