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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a presentation by Romeo Guzmán, PhD, assistant professor in history at Claremont Graduate University. Guzmán’s presentation will focus on his current research, which seeks to bridge Chicanx historiography and scholarship on modern Mexico by offering transnational histories of Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans. Transnational histories offer a unique perception of Hispanic migration to the United States, particularly as it pertains to what is often referred to as the “repatriation” of Mexicans during the Depression years. Guzmán’s book in progress, Orphans of the Nation: Mexican Americans, Transnational Citizenship, and Belonging, the 1920s to 1940s, examines how migrant families used formal politics and daily and cultural practices to engage U.S. and Mexican citizenship. His presentation will focus on his current research.

Guzman earned his doctorate in history at Columbia University. Before teaching at Claremont Graduate University, Guzmán was an assistant professor at CSU Fresno, where he founded and directed The Valley Public History Initiative: Preserving our Stories. Since 2012 he has co-directed, with Carribean Fragoza, the South El Monte Arts Posse’s public history project “East of East: Mapping Community Narratives in El Monte and South El Monte,” which has resulted in the publication of East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte (Rutgers 2020).

For more information, email Michaela Reaves at reaves@callutheran.edu.