Biography
Alana de Hinojosa is an Assistant Professor of History at Texas State University. She holds a PhD in Chicana/o Studies from UCLA and certificates in American Indian Studies (UCLA), Writing Pedagogy with emphasis on English Language Learners (UCLA), and Digital Public Humanities (George Mason University). Alana is also an alum of Hampshire College where she studied Latina/o Studies and Creative Writing. She is a Ford Foundation Fellow and IUPLR/UIC-Mellon Latina/o Studies Fellow. Prior to joining TXST, Alana was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the School of Transborder Studies at ASU and a Digital Public Humanities Fellow at the ASU Hispanic Research Center. Alana's research is concerned with histories of displacement, diaspora, and refusal, and what these have to do with the Río Grande. Her current book project, under review with Duke University Press, focuses on the Chamizal Land Dispute between the United States and Mexico and the landmark Chamizal Treaty of 1964. As a historian, she specializes in U.S.-Mexico borderlands history (specifically, histories of the El Paso-Cd. Juárez borderlands), Chicana/o history, Texas history, and Latinx Geographies.
Research Interests
Chicana/o Studies, Mexican American Studies, American Indian Studies, Indigenous Studies, Borderlands Studies, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History, Urban History, Latinx Geographies, Human Geography, Environmental History, Archival Studies, Oral History, Public History, Digital Public Humanities