Here are a few syllabi from previous course I have taught:

History 110

Eating Cultures

Mexican American History Since 1900

Current Students

  • Aaron Bae, Ph.D. student in History, Arizona State University.
  • Rio Hartwell, Ph.D. student in History, Arizona State University.
  • Sara Fingal, Ph.D. student in History, Brown University.
  • Felicia Salinas, Ph.D. student in American Civilization, Brown University.
  • Thomas Chen, Ph.D. student in American Civilization, Brown University.

Former Students

  • Mireya Loza, Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University, 2010. “Braceros on the Boundaries: Activism, Race, Masculinity, and the Legacies of the Bracero Program.”  Primary Advisor. Hired, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
  • Mario Sifuentez, Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University, 2010. “By Forests or By Fields: Organizing Immigrant Labor in the Pacific Northwest, 1940–1990” Primary Advisor. Hired, Visiting Assistant Professor  University of California, Merced.
  • Sarah Wald, Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University, 2009. “The Nature of Citizenship: Race, Citizenship, and Nature in Representations of Californian Agricultural Labor.” Committee. Recipient of two year postdoctoral fellowship in Environmental Studies, Drew University, New Jersey.
  • Matt Delmont, Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University, 2008. “‘American Bandstand’ and School Segregation in Postwar Philadelphia” Co-Primary Advisor. Hired, Scripps College, Claremont, California.
  • Marcia Chatelain, Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University, 2008. “‘The Most Interesting Girl of this Country is the Colored Girl’: Girls and Racial Uplift in Great Migration Chicago, 1899–1950” Committee. Hired, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
  • Marisela Ramos, Ph.D. in History, Brown University, 2008. “Black Mexico: Nineteenth-century Discourses of Race and Nation.” Committee. Hired, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California.
  • Celestino Limas, Ph.D. in Educational Leadership, University of Oregon, 2004. “White Scholars, Black and Brown Studies: Ten Academic Lives.” Committee. Hired, Vice President for Campus Life and Student Diversity, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania.
  • Luis Velarde, Ph.D. in Spanish, University of Oregon, 2004. “Abrasive Dreams: Latino Writers and the Ethnic Paradigm.” Committee. Hired, Northern Texas University.
  • Alisha Deen, M.S. in Environmental Studies, University of Oregon, 2002. “Conservation as an IndoCaribbean Cultural Value: Immigration, Globalization and Multicultural Environmental Education in South Florida.” Primary Advisor.
  • Guisela La Torre, Ph.D. in Art History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2002. Committee. “Indigenizing the Subject: Chicana/Chicano Muralism and Identity Politics.” Thesis Committee. Hired, Fall 2002, Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
  • Christa Orth, M.A. in History, University of Oregon, 2002. “Brothers and Sisters (And Everyone In Between): Sexuality and Class in the Pacific Northwest, 1970-1995.” Primary Advisor.
  • Veta Schlimgen, M.A. in History, University of Oregon, 2002. “Filipino American ‘Nationals’ and Transnationals: Forging Community and Citizenship During the Interwar Period.” Thesis Committee.
  • Kathleen Mapes, Ph.D. in History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2000. “Defining the boundaries: Family farmers, migrant labor, industrial agriculture, and the state in the rural Midwest, 1898-1938.” Thesis Committee. Hired, Assistant Professor of History, SUNY, Geneseo.
  • Eric A. Burin, Ph.D. in History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1998. “The Peculiar Solution: The American Colonization Society and Antislavery Sentiment in the South, 1820-1860.” Thesis Committee. Hired, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Dakota.

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