EDUCATION
B.A. Latin American & Latino Studies and Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz (2010)
M.A. Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (2014)
Ph.D. Chicana, Chicano, and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (2019)

Dr. Jack Cáraves (he/him/they/them/el) is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside. He was previously a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2022-2023 academic year in the same department. Prior to this, he was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate in Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2021-2022 AY). Jack is also a former assistant professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at San José State University. 

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Jack's research examines the role of transgender identity and gender variance in shaping migration, family relationships, identity formation, spirituality, and world-making for transgender Latinxs in southern California. Jack is currently working on his book manuscript Trans Power: Illegality, Identity Formation, and Communities of Care in Trans Immigrant Lives. He has published in Latino Studies, The Journal of LGBT Youth, the Association for Mexican American Educators Journal, Transgender Studies Quarterly and in the anthology: Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention and Deportation. His research has been funded by the University of Illinois, the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the Latino Center for Leadership Development-Southern Methodist University, the Institute of American Cultures, and The Center for the Study of Women at UCLA. 

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Jack is also co-creater and co-host of the podcast, Anzaldúing It, along with Dr. Angélica Becerra—a podcast grounded in Chicana and Women of Color Feminisms and dedicated to navigating the borderlands of queer Latinidad. With over half a million listens, the podcast has been used as a teaching tool for underrepresented students and has been featured on Hiplatina, Autostraddle, PRIDE.com, GOMAG, and was featured in the 2019 Google Youth Tech Summit.

Jack also enjoys running, hiking, being near the ocean, journaling, eating yummy food, talking astrology, and spending time with his loved ones. He is also very active member within the Soka Gakkai International (SGI-USA), a lay organization rooted in the practice of Nichiren Buddhism.