Join Courtney M. Cox, assistant professor in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies for a conversation with Dr. Rudy Mondragón and a screening of the documentary La Guerra Civil: Chavez vs. De La Hoya, directed by Eva Longoria Baston. Mondragón is UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA and is an authoritative voice on boxing.

Dr. Rudy Mondragón is a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his PhD in Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. As an authoritative voice in boxing, he has been featured in ESPN, Fox Sports, Bleacher Report, CNN, Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Times, Washington Post, USA Today, El Universal (Mexico), Reforma (Mexico), and written for LA Taco, Remezcla, and We Are Mitu. As a photographer, his photos and writing have been featured in The Streets Magazine and Indian Country Today. In 2021, he was interviewed by actress, producer, and director Eva Longoria for “La Guerra Civil,” a DAZN documentary about Mexican and Mexican American identity and the epic boxing matches between Oscar De La Hoya and Julio César Chávez. 

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies, the Department of Media & Cinema Studies, and the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures.