{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:50:31","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/benny-andres\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p>Latino\/a History; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; 20th century U.S. West; Environmental History; Labor History; Food Studies<\/p>\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<p>Ph.D. University of New Mexico, 2003<\/p>\n<h3>Current Book Project<\/h3>\n<p><em>Indispensable River: La Compa\u00f1\u00eda de Terrenos y Aguas de la Baja California Shaping the Lower Colorado River Region, 1895-1962<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>2024 <strong>Andr\u00e9s, Jr., Benny<\/strong> and Jos\u00e9 M. Alamillo, eds., <em>1924-2024: One Hundred Years of Border Patrol<\/em>, a special issue of Journal of <em>California History<\/em>, 101, no. 4 (2024). https:\/\/online.ucpress.edu\/ch\/issue\/101\/4<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>2024 <strong>Andr\u00e9s, Jr., Benny J.<\/strong> and Jos\u00e9 M. Alamillo, \u201cLetter from Special Guest Editors,\u201d <em>1924-2024: One Hundred Years of Border Patrol<\/em>, a special issue of Journal of <em>California History<\/em>, 101, no. 4 (2024): 1-6.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u201cColonial Care: Medicalizing Latino\/a Bodies in the United States, 1894-1970s,\u201d in <em>Healthcare in Latin America: History, Society, Culture<\/em>, edited by David S. Dalton and Douglas J. Weatherford, 91-116. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2022.<\/li>\n<li><em>Power and Control in the Imperial Valley: Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900-1940<\/em> Connecting the Greater West Series. College Station: Texas A&amp;M University Press, 2015.\u00a0 <u>Published in paperback April 2016<\/u><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Invisible Borders: Repatriation and Colonization of Mexican Migrant Workers along the California Borderlands during the 1930s,&#8221;\u00a0<em>California History\u00a0<\/em>88, no. 4 (September 2011): 5-21, 63-65.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;I Am Almost More at Home with Brown Faces than with White&#8217;: An Americanization Teacher in Imperial Valley, California, 1923-1924,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Southern California Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>93, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 69-107.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Chicano\/a movement,&#8221; in <em>Encyclopedia of American Environmental History\u00a0<\/em>vol. 1, edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan, 268-270. New York: Facts on File, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Chac\u00f3n, Soledad Ch\u00e1vez (1890-1936),&#8221; in <em>Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia\u00a0<\/em>vol. 1, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia S\u00e1nchez Korrol, 143-144. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Mendoza, Mar\u00eda Estela Altamirano (1948-),&#8221; in <em>Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia\u00a0<\/em>vol. 2, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia S\u00e1nchez Korrol, 448-449. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;La Plaza Vieja (Old Town Albu<em>r<\/em>querque): The Transformation of a Hispano Village, 1880s-1950s,&#8221; in <em>The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico<\/em>, edited by Erlinda Gonzales-Berry and David R. Maciel, 239-268. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Courses Taught<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Latino History Since 1900<\/li>\n<li>History of the American West<\/li>\n<li>U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Since 1900<\/li>\n<li>US Food History Since the Colonial Era<\/li>\n<li>Graduate colloquium U.S. History Since 1865<\/li>\n<li>Survey U.S. History Since 1865<\/li>\n<li>Immigration &amp; Americanization during the Progressive Era<\/li>\n<li>Environmental Justice in the U.S. &amp; Latin America<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/benny-andres\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/501\/2026\/04\/Andres_CV-April_2026.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Andres_CV April_2026.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-8f81dfc4-8fc5-4f75-9ef7-d686efdcf6f8\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/benny-andres\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/501\/2026\/04\/Andres_CV-April_2026.pdf\">Andres_CV April_2026<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/benny-andres\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/501\/2026\/04\/Andres_CV-April_2026.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-8f81dfc4-8fc5-4f75-9ef7-d686efdcf6f8\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Interests Latino\/a 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 Compa\u00f1\u00eda de Terrenos y Aguas de la Baja California Shaping the Lower Colorado River Region, 1895-1962 Publications 2024 Andr\u00e9s, Jr., Benny and Jos\u00e9 M. 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