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Álvaro Huerta
Associate Professor
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Education/Degree:
1 City and Regional Planning City and Regional Planning City and Regional Planning City and Regional Planning (University of California, Berkeley)
About
Dr. Álvaro Huerta is an Associate Professor at Cal Poly Pomona. From 2021 to 2024, Dr. Huerta was a Religion and Public Life Organizing Fellow at Harvard Divinity School (HDS). He’s the author of the forthcoming book, Jardineros/Gardeners: Cultivating Los Angeles’ Green Landscapes with Rugged Brown Hands, Migrant Networks and Technology (The MIT Press). He’s also the author of the award-winning book, Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities: The Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond (Rowman & Littlefield). Raised in East Los Angeles’s notorious public housing projects, he's a son of Mexican immigrants and first-generation university graduate. As a Ford Foundation Fellow (pre-doc), he holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley. He also holds an M.A. in Urban Planning and a B.A. in History from UCLA.
Current Work
As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Álvaro Huerta's research on the intersecting domains of urban planning and ethnic studies. Dr. Huerta is interested in the relationships between people and place, especially in the case of marginalized and racialized groups. More specially, he conducts research on economic and community development, immigration, social networks, social movements and informality.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Urban planning, ethnic studies, Informal Economy, Social Networks / Migrant Networks, immigration