August 2024 Ph.D. History, University of Texas at El Paso Fields: Borderlands History, Latin American History, Public History Dissertation: "Modern Agricultures, Traditional Appetites: The United States, Mexico, and Binational Mutual Aid, 1940-1965."
December 2018 M.S. Professional Science, University of Texas at El Paso Concentration: Geospatial Information Science & Technology
August 2016 M.A. History, University of Texas at El Paso Concentration: Public History
May 2014 B.A. History, University of Texas at El Paso Summa Cum Laude
Research & Professional Interests
Public History; Latinx History; Indigenous History
Professional Experience
2024 - Present Heritage for All Community Engagement History/Research Fellow History Colorado
2022 - 2024 Museum Consultant Rio Vista Bracero Museum, City of Socorro Community Initiative
2018-2023 Digital Curator/Archivist Association of Applied Border History, University of Texas at El Paso
Publications
Journal Articles 2021 “Powerful Disruptions: Braceros, Campesinos, and the Green Revolution in Mexico, 1940-1970.” Agricultural History, vol.95 (3), p.472-499. (Published as José Miguel Chávez Leyva.)
Book Reviews 2021 Enrique M. Buelna, Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice (University of Arizona Press, 2019). The Oral History Review, vol.48 (2), p.298-299. (Published as José Miguel Chávez Leyva.)
Invited Talks
2021 “Resistance & Rebellion: The Rarámuri and Early Contact with the Spanish, 1607-1652.” Emerging Scholarship on the Borderlands of New Spain. LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the University of Texas at Austin and the C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department at the University of Texas at El Paso. April 14.
2021 “Far from Isolated: Resilience and Adaptation Among the Rarámuri in the 20th Century.” Amerind Museum, Dragoon, AZ. February 20.
Conferences
2018 “Between Memory and Forgetting: The Bracero Archives of the Border Farmworker Center.” Power Lines: Annual Meeting of the National Council on Public History, Las Vegas, NV. April 19.
2016 “Foreign Labor, Model Lives: Braceros, Agriculture, and the American Plan to Modernize Mexico, 1940-1969.” Thirteenth Annual Conference in Citizenship Studies: Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship. Wayne State University, April 2.
2015 “‘Civilizing’ Traditional Agriculture: Colonialism and Resistance of Native Foodways in the Spanish Borderlands.” UTEP Graduate Student Research Expo. UTEP Graduate School, Nov. 13.
2015 “The State of Latino Heritage Conservation in the US: A National Roundtable.” Inaugural conference and workshop. Latinos in Heritage Conservation National Summit, University of Arizona, May 22-23.
2014 “Fiends, Addicts, and Ethnics: Racializing Drugs in America and on the Border.” UTEP Graduate Student Research Expo. UTEP Graduate School, November 14.
2014 “Between Three Nations: Tohono O’odham and the U.S.-Mexico Border.” Phi Alpha Theta NMSU-UTEP Paper Conference. NMSU Department of History, March 1.
Departmental Talks
2021 “Resilient by Nature: Landscapes, Identity, and Rarámuri Ethnogenesis.” UTEP Department of History, February 26.
2016 “From Out of the Archives: Taking Historical Research into the Public Sphere.” UTEP Department of History, September 9.
2015 “Practical Preservation: Archives, Archaeology, and CRM for Public History Professionals.” UTEP Department of History, April 28.
Fellowships
2018-2019 Mellon Doctoral Teaching Fellowship, The Humanities Collaborative
2017 Tom Lea Research Fellowship, Tom Lea Institute
Awards & Honors
2023 Dissertation Completion Award, UTEP College of Liberal Arts
2021 Dodson Research Grant, UTEP Graduate School
2020 Harper Dissertation Research Award, Department of History, UTEP
2019 Timmons Research Award, Department of History, UTEP
2018 Turrentine Jackson Scholarship, Department of History, UTEP HSF Scholar, Hispanic Scholarship Fund
2017 Outstanding MA Extended Seminar Paper Award, College of Liberal Arts, UTEP
2016 Graduate Student Marshal, Liberal Arts, UTEP Commencement Outstanding Graduate Certificate Recipient, Women’s & Gender Studies, UTEP Outstanding Graduating MA Student, Department of History, UTEP Frank B. Cotton Trust Scholarship
Teaching Experience
University of Texas at El Paso (As Instructor) Intro to Public History Indigenous Women’s History History of the U.S. to 1865 El Paso Community College (As Instructor) World History to 1500 History of the U.S. to 1877 History of the U.S. Since 1877
University of Texas at El Paso (As Teaching Assistant) History of the U.S. Since 1865 History of the U.S. to 1865 World History to 1500 World History Since 1500
Service
2014 – 2021 Judge, National History Day, UTEP Dept. of History. 2018 Panel Chair, Borderlands History Conference, UTEP Dept. of History. 2017 Volunteer, Borderlands History Conference, UTEP Dept. of History. 2017 Volunteer, History Department table, Orange & Blue Day, UTEP. 2016 Volunteer, Familias Unidas del Chamizal, La Mujer Obrera 2014 – 2016 Organizer, Friends of the Braceros, Border Farmworker Center. 2013 – 2016 Volunteer, Museo Urbano, UTEP Dept. of History. 2015 Volunteer, Borderlands History Conference, UTEP Dept. of History. 2014 Volunteer, Liberal Arts Honors Program table, New Student Orientation, UTEP.
Professional Affiliations
National Council on Public History Latinos in Heritage Conservation