
Biography
José Antonio (Tony) Lucero was born in El Paso, Texas and grew up on both sides of the imposed US-Mexico boundary. A graduate of Stanford (BA, Political Science) and Princeton (MA/PhD, Politics) Lucero teaches courses on Indigenous politics, critical university studies, international political economy, research methods, cultural theory, social movements, Latin American politics, and borderlands. Lucero is the author of Struggles of Voice: The Politics of Indigenous Representation in the Andes (University of Pittsburgh Press) and co-author with Mike Wilson of What Side Are You On? A Tohono O'odham Life Across Borders (forthcoming, University of North Carolina Press). He is also co-author of several works with fellow CHID Professor María Elena García (CHID), the most important of which is their son José Antonio Simón (Toño) Lucero-García (future UW Class of 2034).
Awards and Honors
Research
Selected Research
- Michael Wilson and José Antonio Lucero, What side are you on? A Tohono O’odham Life Across Borders. University of North Carolina Press, 2024. Open Access: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469675602_wilson
- Lucero, José Antonio. "“To Articulate Ourselves”: Trans-Indigenous Reflections on Film and Politics in Amazonia." Native American and Indigenous Studies, vol. 7 no. 2, 2020, p. 1-28. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/765046.
Courses Taught
Autumn 2025
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Autumn 2024
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Winter 2022
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Winter 2018
CHID 210 The Idea of the University
CHID Thesis Advising Areas
Indigenous Studies, Latin American Studies, Borderlands, Critical University Studies, Social Movements, and other fields that students come up with!