Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!

Thursday, January 31 - Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!

Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series! features Hector Tobar on January 31, an award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter and best-selling author. An LA man through and through, Tobar's OC resume is impeccable: a graduate of UC Irvine's legendary MFA program in writing and his latest novel, The Barbarian Nurseries, is set in Orange County.

Thursday, February 28 - Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!

Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series! welcomes USC sociology professor Jody Agius Vallejo, author of Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican-American Middle Class. She and Gustavo will chat about her book, and her other research projects.

Thursday, March 28 - Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!

Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!welcomes authors from the soon-to-be-released photo book Images of Baseball: Mexican-American Baseball in Orange County. Gustavo wrote the foreword!

Thursday, April 25 - Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!

Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series! welcomes Pilar Marrero, political reporter for La Opinion and author of Killing The American Dream: How Anti-Immigration Extremists are Destroying the Nation.

Thursday, May 30 - Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!

Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series! welcomes UCLA professor Otto Santa Ana. Gustavo will discuss the professor's career, focusing on his latest book, Juan in a Hundred: The Representation of Latinos on Network News.