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Geraldo Cadava
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; Latina/o; Mexican American; United States
Office: 1800 Sherman #411
Phone: 847-491-3152
E-mail: g-cadava
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Geraldo Cadava (Ph.D. Yale University, 2008), a native of Tucson, Arizona, specializes in histories of the U.S.-Mexico border region and Latina and Latino populations in the United States. His current project is a history of the Arizona-Sonora border region since World War II, called "Corridor of Exchange: Culture and Ethnicity in Tucson's Modern Borderlands." It focuses on the cultural events, institutions, and phenomena--such as a rodeo, department store, university, and public art controversy--that have shaped that area's transborder interactions and rise as a focus of national immigration debate. This project has received support from Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Programs; the Ford Foundation; the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders; and a Huggins-Quarles Prize from the Organization of American Historians.
Current research projects include histories of the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall; memories of the U.S.-Mexico War between 1846 and 1916; and the movement of Mexican and Mexican American artists between Mexico and the United States, from 1920 to 2000.
He teaches courses on Mexican American History, Latino Studies, the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, and Race and Ethnicity in the United States.
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