About
Robert Diaz is a doctoral student whose research focuses on the intersections of transnational U.S. history in the Pacific World; the history of science, medicine, and technology; and subaltern studies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. His research in STS emphasizes the dialectics between professional Western science and epistemological systems in the Pacific World.
Robert earned his B.A.s in political science and history and his M.A. in history from the University of Texas at El Paso. In 2018, he was the youngest president elected to the board of the El Paso County Historical Society, a nonprofit archive and education center founded in 1954. Between 2019 and 2020, he served the Student Conservation Association/Americorps at Chamizal National Memorial in El Paso, working on two permanent exhibits. He is an Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Graduate Student Research Fellow for the '21-'22 academic year, and a Graduate Student Research Assistant with ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippines Collections at the University of Michigan.
