Teaching

My personal experiences inform my teaching and research. As a second-generation Mexican American raised around other immigrant groups, I have witnessed the contradictory immigration experience: we contribute to our communities while simultaneously undergoing marginalization. Thus, my teaching and research is unapologetically personal and champions the benefits of immigration, especially in our current political culture. As our society becomes ever more urban and globalized, where technology has eased the movement of people and information, but has also fueled anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation, we need to understand and chart the way our environments and rhetoric are evolving. As such, my teaching brings the focus back to the immigrant and other marginalized peoples and, in doing so, develops students into ethical, informed, and engaged global citizens.

Lead Instructor: Global Environmental History; Aztec Civilization; and Chicanx History.

Teaching Assitant: US Environmental History, Environmental History of Modern Africa, Women & Gender in Modern Chinese History, Colonial US History, and Digital Intelligence.