Notes on Contributors

Michelle Chen is a postdoctoral fellow in labor history at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She is also a contributing writer for The Nation, a contributing editor at Dissent magazine, and a co-host of the Asia Pacific Forum podcast and Dissent's Belabored podcast. Her research and journalism focus on migration, labor, and social movements.Ángel A. Escamilla García is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University. His research primarily uses qualitative methods and focuses on the international migration of vulnerable groups like children, LGBTQ+ individuals, and Indigenous migrants. He is especially interested in understanding how violence shapes these groups’ migration journeys.Nicole Greer Golda is Associate Professor of History at Ferrum College. She received her PhD in the joint program in History and Women's Studies from the University of Michigan. Her work utilizes the crucial northern border city of Detroit to explore immigration, Americanization, family order, and the industrial city in the first half of the twentieth century.Sonia C. Gomez is Assistant Professor of History at Santa Clara University, specializing in comparative race relations, migration, gender, and intimacy. Her first book project examines the ways in which marriage created pockets of legal and social inclusion for Japanese women in the United States during a period of racial exclusion.Sergio M. González is Assistant Professor of History at Marquette University. He is the author of Mexicans in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2017) and co-editor of Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 (NYU Press, 2022). His forthcoming project, Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in 20th Century Wisconsin (University of Illinois), explores the relationship between Latino communities, religion, and social movements in the Midwest.Martha Guerrero is a PhD student in the Department of History at Yale University. Her research focuses on US immigration restriction and migrant labor in the twentieth century. Guerrero was a Moors Cabot Prize Scholar and Jack R. Howard Fellow in International Journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. A bilingual journalist, she has written about undocumented workers, immigration politics, and gender violence in Latin America.Russell A. Kazal is Associate Professor in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, and the Graduate Department of History, University of Toronto. He is the author of Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity (Princeton University Press, 2004). Kazal's other publications include “Revisiting Assimilation: The Rise, Fall, and Reappraisal of a Concept in American Ethnic History,” American Historical Review 100, no. 2 (1995) and “The Lost World of Pennsylvania Pluralism: Immigrants, Regions, and the Early Origins of Pluralist Ideologies in America,” Journal of American Ethnic History 27, no. 3 (2008). His current research explores the regional and transnational roots of multi-culturalism in pluralist imaginings and mobilizations that emerged in mid-twentieth-century Southern California.Jon K. Lauck is Editor-in-Chief of Middle West Review, which is based at the University of South Dakota. His latest book is The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest (University of Oklahoma Press, 2022).Issay Matsumoto is a PhD student in the Van Hunnick History Department at the University of Southern California. He is writing a dissertation on twentieth-century Honolulu.Sarah R. Meiners is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Cornell University researching refugee and asylum policy in United States’ territories between 1938 and 2000. They question how relationships between federal and territorial policymakers—as well as resident and refugee opinions—mutually shaped migration and territorial status.Sophia Rouse is a graduate student at Texas A&M University. Her research centers on immigrant experiences, primarily Germans in New Orleans during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She examines the intersections of citizenship, ethnicity, and race among the diverse New Orleans population.Erica Toffoli holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, where she has taught courses on US and Latin American history. Her articles on migration and visual culture are published in the Radical History Review, Artefacto Visual, Photography and Culture, and the Journal of Social History.Monique Flores Ulysses is a postdoctoral fellow at the Dartmouth Society of Fellows in the Department of History. She is an interdisciplinary Latinx historian of race and immigration in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century United States, with a focus on Mexican migration, racial classification, and knowledge production.Micaela Wiehe is a history PhD candidate at Penn State University. She is a Latin American ethnohistorian whose dissertation centers the migration of Indigenous people during the colonial period. This research follows movement related to military service, religion, family, and labor, proposing long-term effects of colonial migration on the modern era.Leigh Ann Wilson is Associate Professor of History and Communications at University of Massachusetts Global. She serves as Secretary for the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) and is Vice President for Teaching and Learning for H-Net.Hannah Zaves-Greene, who received a PhD in American Jewish History from NYU, is a visiting professor at Sarah Lawrence College. Her book project, Able to Be American: Disability in U.S. Immigration Law and the American Jewish Response, explores how American Jews addressed discrimination premised on health, disability, and gender in federal immigration law.Shouyue Zhang is a history PhD student at the Institute of American Studies at the Northeast Normal University in China. He received an MA degree from Indiana University Bloomington. His research interests are US immigration history and Asian American history in the twentieth century.

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