Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana

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PhD Student

  • Spanish
  • Portuguese

Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana is a fourth year Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California Davis working towards a Ph.D. in Spanish with an emphasis on Human Rights. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Fresno State. 

While studying at Fresno State she was the senior editor for Revista Literaria Austral, Editor-in-Chief for The Collegian’s La Voz de Aztlán, graduate student representative in the President's Commission on Human Relations and Equity, Media Director for Caravana 43 Fresno and an active member and officer of various student clubs and organizations.

In UC Davis, as part of her dissertation work, De La Cruz inquires on the deportation and deportability of Childhood Arrivals to the U.S. with a focus on human rights and affect theory. 

Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana 's content

Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana for CUNY
Undocumented Youth Activist Consciousness on the Legal Violence of Waiting: ‘We are immigrants and not saints’
Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge: Building a Community Archive
Lisbeth de la Cruz Santana has essay featured by Zocalo Public Square
Lizbeth De La Cruz featured in Podcast Series
Stories from the Border: A Conversation with Community Storytellers on the Deportation of Childhood Arrivals and Family Separation
New Migrant Narrative: Criminalization of Childhood Arrivals
Article by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana featured in Nexos Migrant Observatory
Robert Irwin and Lizbeth De La Cruz featured in KPBS' Only Here Podcast
Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana Interviewed on her Interactive Mural Along US-Mexico Border on Slate News
The mural is a community project conceived by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana, as part of her dissertation at UC–Davis. Santana said she wanted specifically to tell stories of those who had been removed by President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, which set records for the number of deportations that even the Trump administration has not surpassed. “Anyone is vulnerable to deportation if you’re a noncitizen,” Santana said.
Mellon Public Scholar Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana: Making Immigration Discourse More Inclusive through Art
Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana, PhD candidate in Spanish at UC Davis, took her research on U.S./Mexico migration to the literal border this summer. As a 2019 Mellon Public Scholar, she conceived of, orchestrated, and painted her digitally interactive Playas de Tijuana Mural Project directly on the border wall.
Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana's Interactive Mural Along US-Mexico Border Featured on USA Today and Fox 40
Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana returned to the Mexican beach where her father entered the U.S. illegally before she was born to put final touches on a mural of adults who came to the U.S. illegally as young children and were deported. The project blends Mexico’s rich history of muralists with what can loosely be called interactive or performance art on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana's Interactive Mural Along US-Mexico Border Featured on The Fresno Bee
A mural completed Friday at Playas de Tijuana, south of the border, is an effort spearheaded by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana to bring awareness around immigration and deportation.