Alana de Hinojosa

Alana de Hinojosa is an Assistant Professor of History at Texas State University. She holds a PhD in Chicana/o Studies from UCLA and certificates in American Indian Studies (UCLA), Writing Pedagogy (UCLA), and Digital Public Humanities (George Mason University). She is also a Ford Foundation Fellow and IUPLR/UIC-Mellon Latina/o Studies Fellow. Prior to joining TXST, Alana was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the School of Transborder Studies at ASU and a Digital Public Humanities Fellow at the ASU Hispanic Research Center.  Alana's research is concerned with histories of displacement, diaspora, and refusal, and what these have to do with the Río Grande. Her current book project (forthcoming with Duke University Press in 2027) focuses on the Chamizal Land Dispute between the United States and Mexico and the landmark Chamizal Treaty of 1964. As an interdisciplinary public historian, she specializes in U.S.-Mexico borderlands history (specifically, histories of the El Paso-Cd. Juárez borderlands), Chicana/o history, Texas history, and Latinx Geographies. She is also currently Co-Chair of the Latinx Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers.