Alfredo M. Mirandé
Chair and Professor
INTS 4033C
(951) 827-1822
A native of Mexico City, coming to this country as a child. and the father of three children, Alfredo Mirandé is Professor of Sociology and Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He received a B.S. in Social Science from Illinois State University, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from the University of Nebraska and a JD, Juris Doctorate, from Stanford University. Mirandé has also taught at the Texas Tech University School of Law.
He is a full-time teacher and researcher, and has a limited, largely pro bono law practice, specializing in criminal law and employment discrimination.
Professor Mirandé has been a National Research Council Fellow in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; a Rockefeller Fellow in Sociology at Stanford University.
Mirandé's teaching and research interests are in Chicano Sociology, Gender and Masculinity, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, and Law, Race, Class, and Gender. He is co-author of La Chicana; The Mexican American Woman, University of Chicago Press; The Chicano Experience, University of Notre Dame Press; Gringo Justice, University of Notre Dame Press; Hombres y Machos: Masculinity and Latino Culture, Westview Press; and The Stanford Law Chronicles: Doin' Time on the Farm, University of Notre Dame Press. He has published numerous journal articles in sociology, law, and ethnic studies.