In The Spotlight
Professor Lori Flores' new book, Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19, is hot off the press. Awaiting Their Feast traces how our dual appetite for Latinx food and Latinx food labor has evolved from the World War II era to the COVID-19 pandemic, using the US Northeast as an unexpected microcosm of this national history.
Congratulations to Professor Mohamad Ballan, who has been awarded the "Best Article in Critical Race Studies" Prize by the Medieval Academy of America for his recent article in the MAA flagship journal: "Borderland Anxieties: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 1374) and the Politics of Genealogy in Late Medieval Granada", Speculum 98, no. 2 (2023): 447-495.
News and Announcements
In The Media
Jacques Coste-Cacho (PhD candidate, Latin American history) recently published an article in The Mexico Brief about the impact President Trump's foreign policy has had on Mexican policymakers.
Professor Nancy Tomes is participating in a public conversation on "Health Care in Historical Perspective," as part of a larger discussion on US health care under the Trump administration, Thursday Jan. 23 6pm-7:30, hosted by Villanova's LaPage Center for History in the Public Interest. Registration here.
