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Assistant Professor
I am an assistant professor in U.S. History at Claremont Graduate University. From 2016 to 2020, I worked at Fresno State, where I directed the Valley Public History Initiative. I received my Ph.D. in Latin American history at Columbia University. I am currently writing a book that examines how migrant families used formal politics and daily and cultural practices, to engage U.S. and Mexican citizenship during the twentieth century. I have conducted archival research in Mexico and the U.S. and presented it in France, Mexico and the U.S.
My essays on migration, popular culture, and public history have appeared in a range of outlets, including Tropics of Meta, UC Press’s Boom Magazine, KCET, the encyclopedic volume, Icons of Mexico, and The History of the Family. I chill pretty hard with the academic blog, Tropics of Meta. With Carribean Fragoza I co-edit Boom California, a public-facing and open-access journal of UC Press.
As a child of Mexican migrants and first generation college student, I have worked on initiatives to increase racial and social diversity at Columbia University, Fresno State, and CGU, and sought to build a transnational community of thinkers and cultural workers at La Casa de El Hijo del Ahuizote in Mexico City. As the South El Monte Arts Posse co-director, I have worked on building a new archive for and with South El Monte and El Monte community members. Our book, East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte. I currently reside in the San Gabriel with Carribean Fragoza, the writer, and Aura and Cami.