Jimmy Lizama
Ph.D. Student
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Area of Study
PhD in Rhetoric
Bio
My research interests include race, rhetoric, and migration; security discourses; and racial rhetorical criticism. Most recently I have focused on how the Trump administration's framing of the gang MS-13 supports nativist ideology and politics. Broadly, then, my latest research centers the ways in which race is created, mobilized, and used as a rhetorical resource by conservatives in the American public sphere.
Education
B.A. in English Language and Literature with Honors from the University of Maryland, College ParkResearch
Race, Migration, Security, Racial Rhetorical Criticism