Guadalupe Arellanes Castro

Guadalupe Arellanes Castro serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Ethnic Studies at California Polytechnic State University while concurrently pursuing her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. As a first-generation college graduate, she brings critical perspectives to her academic work and teaching.

Her educational background includes:

• Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside (Current)
• M.A. in Latin American Studies and Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, California State University, Los Angeles (2019)
• B.A. in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, California State University, Long Beach (2015)

Her research centers on critical examinations of sexuality and gender in migration through diaspora studies and critical refugee frameworks. She employs queer of color critique to analyze globalization's impact on immigrant labor in the Americas, while developing abolition geographies as movements for environmental justice. Her work integrates environmental ecologies with critical race-gendered epistemologies to challenge neoliberal structures and envision alternative worlds.

Her advising focuses on intersectional feminist approaches to ethnoracism and misogyny, particularly evident in her master's thesis examining feminicide in Ciudad Juárez through the lens of neoliberalism and expressive death.