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Sonia Hernández received her Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Houston in 2006. She specializes in the intersections of gender and labor in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, Chicana/o history, and Modern Mexico. Hernández is the co-founder of the award-winning public history project 'Refusing to Forget', recognized for its contributions to public historical discourse. Her publications include 'Working Women in the Borderlands', published by Texas A&M University Press in 2014, which earned several book prizes, and 'For the World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938', released by University of Illinois Press in 2021. She has received both the Fulbright García-Robles Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, which have funded her research on the gendered, racial, and transnational dimensions of the 1901 lynching attempt of migrant cowboy Gregorio Cortez.
Department: Department of Communication and Journalism. Ph.D. program only currently admitting. GRE is test-optional.