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).