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Meet the New Editor of "Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos": Matthew Butler
Feb 28 2025
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos incoming editor is interested in continuing the journal's foundational mission, while finding new ways to increase MSEM’s visibility throughout Mexico and to intensify interdisciplinary dialogue within the pages of MSEM.
Q&A with Kevin Lewis O'Neill, author of "Unforgivable"
Feb 25 2025
Author Kevin Lewis O'Neill discusses his new book "Unforgivable," the first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders.
Q&A with Camilo Sanz, author of "Cancer Intersections"
Nov 25 2024
Author Camilo Sanz discusses his book "Cancer Intersections," on access to neoliberal, market-based oncological treatments in Colombia, a country where all patients are legally guaranteed access to medical services.
Free trade’s legacy of grief for families of the disappeared in Mexico
Nov 11 2024
In Mexico today, thousands of families are searching for loved ones who have disappeared amid the violence associated with “the war on drugs.” Trade agreements like NAFTA created conditions that allowed criminal organizations to thrive—and ordinary people have paid the price.
One Hundred Years of Border Control
Nov 01 2024
A special issue of California History commemorates the centennial of the Border Patrol and the Immigration Act of 1924, and offers important historical perspective on our current political moment.
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month through Poetry
Oct 08 2024
We honor Hispanic Heritage Month through poems by South American poets from the upcoming THE SERPENT AND THE FIRE, the final poetry anthology from Jerome Rothenberg and co-edited with Javier Taboada.
Q&A with Stephanie L. Canizales, author of Sin Padres, Ni Papeles
Sep 04 2024
First-gen scholar and author Stephanie L. Canizales discusses the inspiring stories of the migrant youth at the center of her work, the research and writing process for Sin Padres, Ni Papeles, and how to better support first-gen scholars.
No Age Limit for Justice: A Q&A with Jennifer Robin Terry, winner of the 2024 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize
Jul 08 2024
Jennifer Robin TerryThis year's Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize was awarded to Jennifer Robin Terry for her article, "Niños por la causa: Child Activists and the United Farm Workers Movement, 1965–1975," published in Pacific Historical Review. Drawing on a wide variety of
Reflections on 25 years of Refried Elvis (Part 1 of 2)
Jun 12 2024
Celebrating 25 years of REFRIED ELVIS with the first of two posts focusing on the monumental book.
An Interview with Yvette J. Saavedra, winner of the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize
Jun 12 2024
Every year the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) awards the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize to recognize historical scholarship that examines the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality, as it relates to Chicana/Latina and/or Native/Indigenous women. This year, hist