Alicia Nuñez

Alicia V. Nuñez was raised in Los Angeles, California, and holds both a B.S. and a B.A. from California Lutheran University. She earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern University, where her research focused on Central American migrant children and the survival strategies they develop within systems of detainment.

She teaches courses—such as “Latin American and Latinx Childhoods”, “Migration and Borders”, and “Diasporas of Resistance: Central Americans in the U.S.”—to reflect her transnational commitment to migration, childhood, and resistance across the Americas.

Professor Nuñez held teaching appointments at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Cook County Jail. She also served as Director and Program Coordinator for the Northwestern Prison Education Program, where she worked in partnership with Cook County Jail and youth detention centers under the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice.