Jacqueline Lyon
Jacqueline Lyon, PhD earned her doctorate at Florida International University after graduating with a BA in political science and Latin American Latino/a Studies from DePaul University. Dr. Lyon is a sociocultural anthropologist whose teaching and scholarship explore the intersections between race and citizenship. Her book project, Inherited Illegality: Race, Reproduction and the Fight for Birthright Citizenship in the Dominican Republic examines how emergent Dominican activist movements articulate demands for racial and national belonging in the aftermath of policies revoking birthright citizenship. Her article, 鈥淧aj贸n power: styling citizenship and Black politics in the Dominican natural hair movement鈥 appears in Ethnic and Racial Studies. She is also co-writer and coexecutive producer for the Born & Raised webseries exploring different perspectives on gentrification in Chicago
Lyon, Jacqueline. Under Review. Engendering Illegality: Race, Reproduction, and the Fight for Birthright Citizenship. University Press of Florida.
Lyon, Jacqueline and Villegas, Mariana. Accepted. 鈥淟a Suciedad Persiste: Villano Antillano鈥檚 Transfuturistic Reggaet贸n. Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Lyon, Jacqueline. 2024. 鈥淓ngendering 鈥業llegality鈥: Blackness, Citizenship, and Dominico鈥怘aitian Motherhood.鈥 The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 29 (1): 103鈥13. 3.
Lyon, Jacqueline. 2019. 鈥淧aj贸n Power: Styling Citizenship and Black Politics in the Dominican Natural Hair Movement.鈥 Ethnic and Racial Studies vol. 43(2) 2120-2139. .
Ph.D. Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University
B.A. Latin American and Latino/a Studies and Political Science, DePaul University
- CHLS 119: Introduction to Ethnic Studies
- CHLS/ASAM 335: Asian and Latinx Migration Post-1945
- CHLS 310: Chicanx and Latinx Thought and Action
- CHLS 350/SOC 340: Latinx Population in the U.S.
- CHLS 330: Critical Issues in Chicana and Latina Studies
- CHLS 319: Racial and Ethnic Experience in the United Sates
- CHLS 498: Senior Colloquium
- CHLS 330: Latino Transnational Experience in the Caribbean
- CHLS 430: 1492 and Beyond
- Spanish-speaking Caribbean
- Migration, Racisms and Racialization
- Feminisms, Afro-Latinidad
