Research Interests
Latinx History; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; 20th century U.S. West; Environmental History; Labor History; Food Studies
Education
Ph.D. University of New Mexico, 2003
Current Book Project
Indispensable River: La Compañía de Terrenos y Aguas de la Baja California Shaping the Lower Colorado River Region, 1895-1962
Publications
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2024 Andrés, Jr., Benny and José M. Alamillo, eds., 1924-2024: One Hundred Years of Border Patrol, a special issue of Journal of California History, 101, no. 4 (2024). https://online.ucpress.edu/ch/issue/101/4
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2024 Andrés, Jr., Benny J. and José M. Alamillo, “Letter from Special Guest Editors,” 1924-2024: One Hundred Years of Border Patrol, a special issue of Journal of California History, 101, no. 4 (2024): 1-6.
- “Colonial Care: Medicalizing Latino/a Bodies in the United States, 1894-1970s,” in Healthcare in Latin America: History, Society, Culture, edited by David S. Dalton and Douglas J. Weatherford, 91-116. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2022.
- Power and Control in the Imperial Valley: Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900-1940 Connecting the Greater West Series. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2015. Published in paperback April 2016
- “Invisible Borders: Repatriation and Colonization of Mexican Migrant Workers along the California Borderlands during the 1930s,” California History 88, no. 4 (September 2011): 5-21, 63-65.
- “‘I Am Almost More at Home with Brown Faces than with White’: An Americanization Teacher in Imperial Valley, California, 1923-1924,” Southern California Quarterly 93, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 69-107.
- “Chicano/a movement,” in Encyclopedia of American Environmental History vol. 1, edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan, 268-270. New York: Facts on File, 2011.
- “Chacón, Soledad Chávez (1890-1936),” in Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia vol. 1, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, 143-144. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.
- “Mendoza, María Estela Altamirano (1948-),” in Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia vol. 2, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, 448-449. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.
- “La Plaza Vieja (Old Town Alburquerque): The Transformation of a Hispano Village, 1880s-1950s,” in The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico, edited by Erlinda Gonzales-Berry and David R. Maciel, 239-268. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.
Courses Taught
- Latino History Since 1900
- History of the American West
- U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Since 1900
- US Food History Since the Colonial Era
- Graduate colloquium U.S. History Since 1865
- Survey U.S. History Since 1865
- Immigration & Americanization during the Progressive Era
- Environmental Justice in the U.S. & Latin America