In The Spotlight
Congratulations to Professor Lori Flores, whose book Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19 has won the International Labor History Association's Book-of-the-Year Award for the best book of working-class history for 2024. In the words of the ILHA, "Flores has written a creatively conceptualized, rigorously researched, and broadly accessible study....This is a book that ... greatly enriches our understanding of the contemporary moment of danger for immigrant workers."
Andrés Acosta de la Cruz (PhD student in Latin American/US history) was accepted into the prestigious Dominican Studies Institute's summer research internship at City College in New York. He will use the opportunity to continue his research on Puerto Rican-Dominican relations.
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In The Media
Jacques Coste-Cacho (PhD candidate, Latin American history) recently published an article in The Americas Quarterly on President Claudia Sheinbaum's anti-cartel strategies in Mexico.
Associate Professor Robert Chase was featured in an interview and Q & A on "The Past and Present of Prison Labor" in Bolts Magazine, a magazine dedicated to "the nuts and bolts of power and political change, from the ground up."
