The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) is thrilled to announce PS alum Joshua Javier Guzmán (PhD '15), Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Affairs in the UCLA Department of Gender Studies, has been selected to be the next editor in chief of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Guzmán will begin his term January 1, 2026, succeeding current editor Charlene Villaseñor Black.
Professor Guzmán is a scholar of minoritarian performance, a cultural theorist, and a queer Latinx, first-generation college student from the Texas-Mexico border. He is the author of Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style (NYU Press, 2024). His scholarship has appeared in two award-winning collections —Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. (Prestel, 2017) and Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Routledge, 2018)—as well as journals, women and performance, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, English Language Notes, and Social Text. He co-edited a dossier for Afterimage: Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism on the work of the late performance studies scholar and critical theorist José Esteban Muñoz, and has extensive experience with peer review as it pertains to interdisciplinary academic research and publishing.
Congratulations, Professor Guzmán!
Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies is published by University of California Press (@uc_press) in collaboration with the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press. Aztlán has been the leading journal of Chicanx studies since 1970.