Courses I've Taught
Chicana & Chicano Studies 350A: Chicana & Chicano History (Fall 2023)
This course focused on Chicana/o/x history from the early history of the Mexica to the end of U.S. Reconstrucion. My lectures, discussions, and class activities focused on understanding themes like Indigeneity, Asian and Black enslavement, the caste system, and the colonization of today's U.S. Southwest. Towards the end of the course, I particularly observed the history of the Imperial-Mexicali Valley.
Chicana & Chicano Studies 350B: Chicana & Chicano History (Spring 2023)
This course focused on Chicana/o/x history from 1830 to the turn of the twenty-first century. My lectures focused on understanding themes like indigeneity, Juan Crow, immigration, the Chicana/o movement, and political power. Towards the end of the course, I particularly observed the history of the Imperial-Mexicali Valley.
History 3324: Mexican Americans, 1848-Present (Fall 2022)
My class traced the history of Mexican Americans beginning in 1810 and ending at the turn of the twenty-first century. My presentations centered themes like Mexican identity, Juan Crow, labor rights, political power, immigration, and the U.S.-Mexico border. I integrated the history of ethnic Mexicans in Dallas throughout the twentieth century in lectures.
Chicana and Chicano Studies 355: The United States-Mexico International Border (Spring 2021)
This course looked at the creation of the United States-Mexico Border from pre-contact to the turn of the twenty-first century. My lectures placed great emphasis on the transition from the frontier, to borderlands, and the modern U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The presentations focused on themes like Indigeneity, conflict over perceived spaces, carceral systems, free trade, and immigration enforcement.
