Professor José M. Alamillo: "Sporting Moments and Movements in the Mexican Diaspora"

José M. Alamillo, Ph.D, professor of Chicana/o Studies, California State University Channel Islands. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in comparative cultures at University of California, Irvine. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at University of California, Los Angeles’ Chicano Studies Research Center, he taught courses in Chicano/a Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Immigration and Labor for nine years in the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Washington State University.

Professor Alamillo’s research focuses on the ways Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans have used culture, leisure and sports to build community and social networks to advance politically and economically in the United States. His family’s experiences in the lemon industry inspired his first book, "Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1900-1960" (University of Illinois Press, 2006) He co-authored the first textbook on Latinos in sport titled "Latinos in U.S Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identity, and Acceptance" (Human Kinetics, 2011). He recently published, "Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora" (Rutgers University Press, 2020).