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Research
Omar Valerio-Jiménez joined the History Department in 2006. He is currently completing his first book, Rio Grande Crossings, which combines his research interests in the histories of Chicana/os, the American West, and borderlands. The book explores state formation and cultural change along the Mexico-United States border during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It traces changes in ethnicity, citizenship, and gender relations among borderland residents as jurisdiction over the area passed from native peoples to Spain, Mexico, and finally the United States. His research is based on Spanish- and English-language archives in each of these countries.
He received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2001.
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Teaching
He has taught courses on the history of immigration, comparative borderlands, ethnic relations, the American West, Latina/os, and Chicana/os at universities in California, Texas, and New York. Courses recently taught at Iowa include:
- 16A:112 Chicana/o History
- 16A:113 Latina/o Immigration
- 16:280 Readings in Latina/o History
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Publications
- Rio Grande Crossings: Identity and Nation along the Mexico-Texas Border, 1749-1890 (under contract with Duke University Press).
- "Strategies for Teaching the American West in a Global Context," in America on the World Stage: Essays on the Teaching of the United States History Survey, eds. Gary Reichard and Ted Dickson (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming April 2008).
- "Race and Immigration in Nineteenth-Century California," in A Companioon to California History, eds. William Deverell and David Igler (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming 2008).
- "Latinos in the American West," in The West: Perspectives on American Social History, ed. Benjamin H. Johnson (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007), 47-70.
- "Spanish-Mexican Women in Texas," in Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, eds. Virginia Sánchez Korrol and Vicki L. Ruiz ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 716-719.
- "Spanish in Florida and the Southwest," in The Atlas of the U.S. and Canadian Environmental History, ed. Char Miller ( New York: Routledge, 2003), 16-17.
- Co-author with Tracy McNulty and Mark Patrick, The Popol Vuh: Sacred History of the Maya (textbook and curriculum for intermediate school students; Irvine: Humanities Out There, University of California, Irvine, 2003).
- "Neglected Citizens and Willing Traders: The Villas del Norte (Tamaulipas) in Mexico’s Northern Borderlands, 1749-1846," Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 18:2 (summer 2002), 251-296.
- "From Island to Mainland: Caribbean Migration, 1952-1995," in The Settling of North America, ed. Helen H. Tanner (New York: Macmillan, 1995), 170-171.
- "El Norte: Spanish-Speaking Americans Come North, 1910-1995," in The Settling of North America, ed. Helen H. Tanner (New York: Macmillan, 1995), 172-173.
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Awards
& Service
- Old Gold Summer Fellowship, 2007
- Huntington-WHA Martin Ridge Fellowship, Western History Association, 2001-2002.
- Summerfield Roberts Postdoctoral Fellowship, Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, 2001-2002.
- Faculty Grant, University of California Institute for Mexico & the United States, 2001-2002.
- Institute of American Cultures Predoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997-1998.
- Visiting Research Fellowship, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1996-1997.
- Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Ford Foundation and National Research Council, 1996-1997 (declined).
- Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project Grant, University of Houston, 1996.
- Short-Term Resident Fellowship, The Newberry Library, 1996.
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