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Social Sciences Division
Latin American & Latino Studies
Ph.D. Student
Teaching Assistant
Graduate
History of Consciousness Department
Crown College Faculty Wing
212
By appointment
Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
Brianne Cotter is a Ph.D. student in Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She has work experience in elementary education and language pedagogy.
Surfing in the Americas, beach culture, modernity, colonialism, Colombia
LALS 1: Introduction to Latin American/Latino Studies
LALS 5: Introduction to Human Rights and Social Justice
LALS 15: Truth, Justice and Statistics
LALS 56: The Right to Health: Social Medicine in Latin America
LALS 100: Bridging Latin American and Latinx Studies
LALS 134: Fashioning Latinidades
LALS 194: Latinx Science Fiction
LALS 194G: Chile Social and Political Change
Jessica Roy Memorial Award, Sociology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz (2026)
Research Fellow, Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2025-2026)
Research Grant, Latin American and Latino/a Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz (2025, 2026)
Graduate Student Grant, The Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, University of California, Santa Cruz (2025)
Writing Fellow, Summer Publishing Institute, Hispanic Serving Institution Doctoral Diversity Initiative, University of California, Santa Cruz (2025)
Regents Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz (2023)
March 2026, “Latine Surfing: Histories, Media Cultures, and Innovators of California’s Global Surf Industry,” Latina/o Studies Association, University of Texas, Austin
February 2026, “Cultural Commodities, Regional Identities and Surfer Subjectivities on Colombia’s Caribbean Coast,” Winter Conference: Feminist Practice in these Times, Sociologists for Women in Society
October 2025, “Surfing Colombia’s Caribbean: Political Economies, Regional Commodities, and Beach Ecologies,” The Stoke Sessions 2.0: A Conference on the Culture, History, Science and Politics of Surfing and Skateboarding, San Diego State University
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