Jesus Jaime-Diaz
Chavez, Room 207A
Jesus Jaime-Diaz Ph.D. is a first-generation Mexican American/Chicano activist-scholar. He earned a Ph.D. in Language, Reading & Culture with a Minor in Mexican American Studies from The University of Arizona. He is originally from the rural community of Hermiston, Oregon in the Pacific Northwest with cultural roots in the regions of Nayarit & Durango, Mexico. He is the oldest of six children, his parents having been agricultural workers, and then laborers in potato factories in rural northeastern Oregon.
His current role is Recruitment/Outreach Coordinator & Instructor in the M.Ed. Secondary Education Humanizing Culturally Affirming Teacher Program (HCAT) in The College of Education at The University of Arizona.
His research has previously focused on testimonio and critical ethnographic methods in exploring how Mexican American community college students in Oregon use their lived experiences to serve as a catalyst to “empower” them to pursue higher education. His current research interest is focused on racialized social class as a unit for analysis in the schooling experience(s) of Mexican American students along the borderlands of Arizona.
Jesus has assisted & taught lower & upper-division undergraduate courses in Ethnic Studies, Mexican American /Bicultural Bilingual Studies, Critical Multicultural/ Language Minority Education, and Speech Communication at Oregon State University, University of Tejas at San Antonio and at the University of Arizona.
He also holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies and a BA with a double major in Ethnic Studies & Speech Communication from Oregon State University. Jesus is also an AA and a GED recipient from Blue Mountain Community College in rural Northeastern Oregon.