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ABOUT
Who is Michael Innis-Jiménez?
LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
Speaking Topics:
"Made in Chicago: Mexican Food, Tourism, and Cultural Identity"
“Chicago's Latinx Workers and Midwestern Environmental History”
"Mexican Chicago's Colonia Hull House: Food, Tourism, and Belonging"
“Mexican Work, Mexican Workers: Life in Early Mexican Chicago"
“The Latinx South Today”
“Navigating the Steel Barrio: the Making of Mexican South Chicago.”
TEACHING
Michael Innis-Jiménez is a professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama
University of Alabama
(2008-present)
William Paterson University
(2004-2008)
NEWS
Latest News & Updates
Steel Barrio reviewed in the June 2017 edition of American Quarterly
Steel Barrio (NYU Press, 2013) was reviewed in the June 2017 edition of American Quarterly as part of a review essay titled "Latinx History outside the American Southwest and Borderlands" by Jennifer Macias.
Innis-Jiménez was recently named to the Alabama State Advisory Committee of the USCCR
Dr. Michael Innis-Jiménez was recently named to the Alabama State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is an independent, bipartisan agency charged with advising the President and Congress on civil rights...
Dr. Michael Innis-Jiménez is appointed distinguished lecturer of the Organization of American Historians
As speaker for the Distinguished Lectureship Program, Innis-Jiménez will give talks about various aspects of food, environment and cultural tourism in Mexican immigrant neighborhoods during the first half of the 20th century. “Being selected to participate in this...
Michael Innis-Jiménez
Michael Innis-Jiménez is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama.
Research Interests
Latinos/Latinas in the U.S.;
U.S. social, cultural, urban,
and labor history, food studies,
the American West; race and
ethnicity in the Americas