Benny Andres

Related People
Steven Sabol
Gregory Mixon
Sequina DuBose
Erin Eldridge
Kathleen Hogan

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

  • “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

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