Expertise

Research Interests:

  • U.S. Latina/o histories and cultures
  • Americanization in Puerto Rico and New Mexico
  • Seminar on History of Latinas/os in the United States
  • Latinos and the American Dream: Frist-Person Narratives of Migration and Community

Keywords:

  • 19th century
  • 20th century
  • Latin American History
  • U.S. History
  • Borderlands
  • Citizenship and Belonging
  • Cultural History
  • Empire and Colonialism
  • Public History and Memory
  • Race and Ethnicity

For the past twenty years, I’ve been researching and teaching transnational histories involving Latinas and Latinos. I am especially interested in ways that race, language, and education have shaped changing notions of U.S. citizenship and identity.

I am especially interested in ways that race, language, and education have shaped changing notions of U.S. citizenship and identity.


Subject Area: History

Communities
North American Studies, Chicano/a Studies, History
Degrees
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997
MA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992
BA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987