Floridalma Boj Lopez

Floridalma Boj Lopez is an Assistant Professor in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. Her research employs a transborder framework to explore the experiences of Guatemalan Maya migrants navigating settler colonial borders and racial systems in the U.S., with a focus on Los Angeles-based communities.

• PhD, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California (2017)
• MA, Chicana and Chicano Studies, California State University, Northridge (2010)
• BA, Latin American and Latina/o Studies and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz (2008)

Her research examines:

• Intergenerational relationships in Indigenous migrant communities
• Gender dynamics within Maya diasporic cultural production
• Material culture as resistance (digital photography, traditional clothing)
• Challenging Latinidad frameworks through Indigenous identities
• Responses to state violence and colonial structures
• Transborder Indigenous epistemologies

Her forthcoming manuscript Mobile Archives of Indigeneity analyzes how Maya migrants preserve cultural memory through youth organizing. Publications span journals like Latino Studies Journal, International Journal of Human Rights Education, and edited volumes including U.S. Central Americans. While no formal awards are listed, her work contributes to decolonial methodologies and Central American studies.