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Nancy Rios-Contreras

Dr. Nancy Rios-Contreras

Assistant Professor

Sociology, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Office Location:

Roosevelt Hall

Office Hours: Wed: 1-3pm, Zoom: https://chapman.zoom.us/j/8512006568

Email: rioscontreras@chapman.edu

Education:: California Lutheran University, Bachelor of Arts
California Lutheran University, Bachelor of Science
University of Colorado Denver, Master of Criminal Justice
University of Delaware, Ph.D.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications: Rios-Contreras, N. (2024). “Visualizando Los Feminismos Desde La Espera” in La Cabaret Migrantx Group Exhibition. Curated by Patricia Díaz and Andrea Padilla at Seminario Narrando Historias de Frontera desde los Feminismos. La Perra Casa Cultural, Bogotá, Colombia. June.; Rios-Contreras, N. (2024) Seeing Migration and Border PAR. Photo Essay. American Sociological Association Contexts: Sociology for the Public.; Rios-Contreras, N. & Hernández Mateo, L. F. (2024) Caravanas in Tijuana: A Qualitative Account of Women in the 2018 Central American Migrant Caravans. Humanity & Society, 1–25.; Zavala, E., Perez, G., & Rios-Contreras, N. (2022). Delinquent Behavior and Dating Violence among Latinx Youth: A Test of Gover’s Theoretical Model of Violent Victimization. Journal of Family Violence, 1–13.; Rios-Contreras, N. (2023). Digitizing transit and borders: Social media use during a forced migration through Mexico to the United States. In D. Dalton & D. Ramírez Plascencia (Eds.), Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants. Boston, MA: Brill.; Rios-Contreras, N. (2021). Desastre Migratorio en el Tránsito México-Estados Unidos: Control de la Migración, Racismo y Covid-19. Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres REDER, 5(2), 168- 181.; Wachtendorf, T., Tharp, C., and Rios-Contreras, N. (2021). Covid-19: Impacts on Delawareans Living with HIV. Disaster Research Center Report. Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware: Newark, DE.; Rios-Contreras, N. (2020). Forced Displacement of Migrants from Countries of Origin and Their Transit Migration Through Mexico to the US. In H. Kara & S. Khoo (Eds.), Creativity and Ethics: Research Methods in a Global Crisis (pp. 70–79). Bristol, England: Policy Press.