John Mckiernan-González
Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies
Office: Brazos 214
Email: jrm259@txstate.edu
Phone: 512.245.2224
Educational Background
Ph.D. - The University of Michigan
M.A. - The University of Michigan
B.A. - Oberlin College
John Mckiernan-González is the Director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest, the Jerome and Catherine Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies, and an Associate Professor of History at Texas State University. His first book, Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942 (Duke, 2012), treats the multi-ethnic making of a U.S. medical border in the Mexico-Texas borderlands. He co-edited the volume, Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America (University of Minnesota, 2013) which examines the contradictions and complexities tying medical history and communities of color together. His broad takes on Latina/os in U.S. medical history can be found in American Latinos in the Making of the United States and in Keywords in Latina/o Studies (NYU, 2017). His next project, Working Conditions: Medical Authority and Latino Civil Rights tracks the changing place of medicine in Latina/o/x struggles for equality. Born in the U.S., he grew up in Colombia, Mexico, and the U.S. South and brings a migrant eye and experience to his projects in public history, medical history, and Latino studies.
Select Publications
Monographs:
John Mckiernan-González, Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas -Mexico Border, 1848-1942 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, August 2012).
Co-Edited Collection:
Martin Summers, Laurie Green, and John Mckiernan-González, co-editors. Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Forthcoming Spring 2014)
Peer Reviewed Articles:
“Building Austin, Building Justice: Immigrant Construction Workers, Precarious Labor Regimes and Social Citizenship.” Co-authors: Rebecca Torres, Rich Heyman, Solange Muñoz, Lauren Apgar, Emily Timm, Cristina Tzintzun, Charles R. Hale, John Mckiernan-González, Shannon Speed, Eric Tang. Geoforum, V. 45, 2013.
Book Chapters:
John Mckiernan-González, “Making the Nation’s Edge: African-Americans and Smallpox in the Mexican American Borderlands,” Making Race, Making Health: Race, Medicine and Public Health in Historical Perspective, under contract at the University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming Spring 2014.
John Mckiernan-González, “Science and Medicine,” American Latinos in the Making of the United States (Washington, DC: G.P.O. / OAH, August 2013)
John Mckiernan-González, “Going Public? Tampa Youth, Racial Schooling, and Public History in the Cuentos de mi Familia Project,” in Beyond El Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America, eds. Gina M. Pérez, Frank A. Guridy, and Adrian Burgos, Jr. (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2010), pp.189-210.
Courses Taught
Mexican American History
Latino Histories
Health and Illness in American History
Borderlands History
American Immigration Histories