Department of History

I am an historian of Latinx migration, labor, and politics in the 20th century United States. I received my PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2021, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship with Indiana University, Bloomington’s Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES). In 2025, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History (NMAH) and National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL). Currently, I am the Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History and an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Latino Studies Program.

My book, Latinx Encounters: How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest , will be released in September 2026 with the University of North Carolina Press' Latinx Histories series. Elsewhere, my writing can be found in The Nation and the Journal of American Ethnic History .