Michael Innis-Jiménez
Professor
Interim Director of Graduate Studies
Interim Director of Graduate Studies
- (205) 348-9768
- ij@ua.edu
- ten Hoor Hall 106E
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
- Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
- Made in Chicago: Mexican Food, Tourism, and Cultural Identity (in progress)
- The Latino South: A History of Migration and Race in Pursuit of the American Dream (in progress)
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
- “Mexican Chicago’s Colonia Hull House: Food, Tourism, and Belonging in the 1930s” In Global Food History vol. 4 no. 1 (April 2018).
- “Beyond the Baseball Diamond and Basketball Court: Organized Leisure in Interwar Mexican Chicago.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 26, no. 7 (June 2009): 906-923.
- “Organizing for Fun: Recreation and Community Formation in Mexican South Chicago, 1919-1936.” The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 98, no. 3 (Autumn 2005) 144-161.
- “Beyond Bread and Butter: Graduate Student Organizing in a Right-to-Work State.” In Perspectives: Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association vol. 40 no. 2 (February 2002).