Associate Professor
About
Professor Mora's research focuses on the historical construction of race, gender, and sexuality in the United States. His book Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848-1912 explores how the first generations of Mexicans living in the United States grappled with the racial and national ideologies that circulated along the nineteenth-century border.
His current book project, Zorro and the Curse of History: A Swashbuckling History of Mexican Belonging in the United States, uses the history of the iconic character to trace changing representations of Mexican Americans, historical memory, and U.S. regionalism from 1919 to the present. His next project examines the relationship between African Americans and Mexican Americans in the early-twentieth-century urban Midwest.
Mora has served in a number of departmental administrative positions and on the Executive Council of the National Latina/o Studies Association. Before joining the University of Michigan, he taught history at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass. Mora teaches courses on Mexican American history, Latina/o history, the U.S. West, and the history of sexuality.
Affiliation(s)
- Faculty: Department of History
- Faculty: Department of American Culture (AC), Latina/o Studies (LS)
Award(s)
- Individual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education in Race & Ethnicity Instruction, College of LSA, University of Michigan, 2019
- Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award, University of Michigan, 2017
- Woodrow Wilson Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship for 2010-2011
Field(s) of Study
- Mexican-American history
- 19th-century United States
- 20th-century United States
- Race, gender, and sexuality in the U.S.
- U.S. popular culture
- Latinx/Latino/Latina/Latine history
- The history of sexuality
