Women on the Border Fireplace Chat
Fireplace Chat: Women on the Border
Saturday, March 2 at 2:00pm
Warren Peace Cafe, 123 Arizona Street, Bisbee, AZ
Register at: https://forms.gle/5bQNMA3GQmsAtBTy9
Join us for a Question & Answer session with Dr. Katie Benton-Cohen and Dr. Larisa Veloz to discuss the profound contributions of women in shaping the Arizona borderlands.
Larisa Veloz is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas, El Paso, where she teaches the histories of the U.S. and Mexico, Mexican Migration, Latin America and the Latinx diaspora, and the US-Mexico borderlands. She received an MA in Latin American and Iberian Studies from UC Santa Barbara and her Doctorate in History from Georgetown University, where she won the 2017 Glassmann Award for the best dissertation in the humanities.
Her work, supported by a Fulbright IIE Garcia Robles Fellowship to Mexico and a Mellon/IIE Graduate Fellowship for International Study, led to her book, 'Even the Women are Leaving': Migrants Making Mexican America, 1890-1965 currently out and published by University of California Press 2023. It explores the histories of Mexican migrant families, focusing on women and gender relations from the early decades of circular migrations, through depression era repatriations, to the rise of the bracero contracts and parallel family migrations from the 1940s into the 1960s. Her current project focuses on the oral histories of Mexican migrant women during the latter part of the twentieth century.
