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Enrique Davila, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
History


Education

Ph.D., History, University of Chicago 

M.A. Latin American Studies, University of Chicago 

B.A. History, The University of Texas at Austin 

Research Interests

U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Mexican American History, Texas History, Latin American Studies, Chicano/a History, Latino/a/x Studies, Migration Studies

Publications and Media Placements

Book Review

2020 Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire,1865-1941, by Jessica M. Kim, Southern California Quarterly, Vol. 102, No.2, pp.199-201.

Works in Progress

Book Manuscript: Bordering on Solidarity: Organizing Mexican and Mexican Americans in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands, 1880–1938 [Letters of Interest will be sent to University of North
Carolina Press and University of Texas Press, Winter 2024]

“Jovita’s Stand: The History Between the Myth of Jovita Idar and her Politics during the Mexican Revolution” [Will submit for consideration to Western Historical Quarterly or Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, Fall 2023]

“Border Populism: The (p)opulist Politics of Reform in South Texas and Northern Mexico, 1880-1910” [Will submit for consideration to the Journal of American History or Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Winter 2023]

Ethnic Studies Educators’ Academy Teaching Guide Group, Democratizing Racial Justice: Ethnic Studies Educators’ Academy 2022 Teaching Guide (co-author).