Alana de Hinojosa

Assistant Professor
Office: TMH 227
Email: alanadehinojosa@txstate.edu
Phone: 512.214.2142

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
Digital Public Humanities Certificate, George Mason University, 2024  
PhD Chicana/o Studies, UCLA, 2023   
American Indian Studies Certificate, UCLA, 2021  
M.A. Chicana/o Studies, UCLA, 2018 
Writing Pedagogy Certificate with Emphasis in Language Learners, UCLA, 2020
B.A. Latina/o Studies & Creative Writing, Hampshire College, 2015

Research Interests:
Chicana/o Studies, Mexican American Studies, American Indian Studies, Indigenous Studies, Borderlands Studies, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History, Urban History, Latinx Geographies, Human Geography, Environmental History, Archival Studies, Oral History, Public History, Digital Public Humanities

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 focuses on the Chamizal Land Dispute between the United States and Mexico and the landmark Chamizal Treaty of 1964. As a 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.