Eric Chavez

Education

B.A. in History, B.A. in Psychology, an M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Biography

Eric Chavez is a Ph.D. candidate and professor of history and philosophy at El Paso Community College (Northwest Campus). Born in El Paso, Texas, and raised between the U.S.-Mexico borderlands of Juarez, Chihuahua. He obtained his B.A. in History, B.A. in Psychology, an M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso.

His current research interests focus on how individual and group agency is historically informed, produced, and challenged via cultural expressions and artifacts such as graffiti within US-Mexico border cities across the 20th century. Chavez’s methodological approaches are inspired by a constellation of borderlands history, intellectual and social history, Latin American history, critical theory, phenomenology, and philosophy of liberation.