On Tuesday, November 17, we are pleased to host Dr. Laura Hooton for a talk on her most recent book, Little Liberia: A Dream of Black Freedom in the US-Mexico Borderlands.

Her lecture will begin at 2:00 pm in the History Department Common Room in Mesa Vista Hall.

Dr. Hooton is an assistant professor of history at New Mexico State University. She studies race, ethnicity, and identity in the United States and Latin America. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on African Americans in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, immigration and migration, social movements, and race and ethnicity in the American West. Dr. Hooton is especially interested in the intersection of Black studies and borderlands studies.

We are so excited for Dr. Hooton’s talk and to invite everyone to the event.