Ana Guerrero Gallegos is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Princeton University. Her dissertation “‘Unrecognized Citizens’: Undocumented Families and Immigration Politics, 1965 - 1986,” combines social and legal history to examine how federal and state immigration legislation affected mixed-status families during the late twentieth century. While policymakers excluded undocumented and mixed-status families from achieving the nuclear family norm, Ana’s dissertation examines how certain Chicana/o activists during the Chicano Movement continued to rely on the right to family unity to advocate for the belonging of undocumented individuals.

Ana graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Chicana/o Studies with a minor in History