Julio Fernando Salas is a third-year PhD student in the department. Centering Latin-American origin immigrant families, his research interests lie at the intersections of immigration, culture, emotion, race & ethnicity, inequality, and health. He is interested in the most intimate aspects of immigrant family life and how members navigate society’s, their family’s, and their own ambivalence taking into account their race and ethnicity, class, age and generation, and family structure.

He’s the son and grandson of Mexican and Colombian immigrants who immigrated to NYC in the mid-to-late 1980s from Puebla, Mexico, and Bogotá, Colombia. Raised in Corona, Queens, he got his degrees at Queensborough Community College and Cornell University and everything else from Queens.