Current Projects
My first book project has emerged out of the research I conducted for my dissertation, "Categorizing Mexican Migrant Race and Citizenship in the United States, 1910s-1930s," where I demonstrated how government officials and academics attempted to redefine what it meant to "be Mexican" in the early-to-mid-twentieth century. The dissertation charts four separate spheres of race and immigration expertise that shaped understandings of Mexican racialization in the United States from the 1910s through the late-1930s: immigration bureaucracy, anthropology, economics, and eugenics. The dissertation project was generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), among other sources.