Research. Teaching. Service.

Xochitl Chavez, Ph.D.

Dr. Xóchitl C. Chávez
Assistant Professor
Department of Music at the University of California, Riverside.

Dr. Xóchitl C. Chávez is the first tenure track Chicanx assistant professor in the Department of Music at the University of California, Riverside. She is a scholar of expressive culture and performance, specializing in Indigenous communities from southern Mexico and transnational migration. Her current work focuses on second-generation Zapotec brass bands in Los Angeles, California and transborder relationships with their communities of origin in Oaxaca, Mexico.