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Education
- B.A., Columbia College
- M.A., University of Iowa
- Ph.D., University of Iowa
About
Faculty Research
- Latinos/Latinas in the U.S.
- Transnational migration and immigration
- U.S. social, cultural, urban, and labor history
- Food studies
- The American West
- Race and ethnicity in the Americas
Selected Publications
Books
Book Chapters
- “No Cheerful Patches of Green: Pollution, the Build Environment, and the Early Mexican Community on the Far Southeast Side of Chicago” in City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago’s Environmental History, ed. William Barnet, Kathy Brosnan, and Ann Keating, editors. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
- “Chicago Steel, Latino Workers, and Midwestern Environmental History” in The Latino Midwest Reader, ed. Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, and Claire F. Fox. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017
- “Engaged Learning in the Anti-Immigrant South: Building Bridges in a Hostile Environment” in Civic Labors: Class, Community, & the Challenge of Engaged Scholarship, ed. Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, and John McKerley. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016)
- “Beyond the Baseball Diamond and Basketball Court: Organized Leisure in Interwar Mexican Chicago” in More Than Just Peloteros: Sport and U.S. Latino Communities, ed. Jorge Iber (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2015)
Articles