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Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies | El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Ernesto Zarco is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Cultural Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. A former UC MEXUS postdoctoral fellow at the Global Migration Center, he holds a doctorate in Regional Studies and a masters degree in Cultural Studies, both from Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas. His research focuses on the analysis processes of cross-border migration and displacement of LGBTQ people, specifically those migrating from Central America into Mexico en route to the United States. He has published articles in scholarly journals and academic book chapters on the processes of territorial migration and corporal transitions of Central American transgender women who cross Mexico's southern border. He has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Cultural Studies, Migration and Border Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, among other areas. He has also collaborated in collective research projects such as "Body as Territory of Peace" at Universidad de los Llanos (Colombia); "Assessment of the Current Situation of Women Domestic Workers in Chiapas State," sponsored by National Institute of Women and Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas; as well as "Humanizing Deportation," coordinated from University of California Davis's Global Migration Center, in which he has contributed to the production of digital stories in Tijuana, Baja California and Tapachula, Chiapas.