Doctoral Student in History
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 current work explores the ways that Filipino youths interpreted and played active roles in the American colonial project in the Philippines between 1898 and 1946.
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. He is the 2022-2023 Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (EIHS) Graduate Student Liaison and was an EIHS Graduate Student Research Fellow during the 2021-2022 academic year. He is also a Graduate Student Research Assistant with ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippines Collections at the University of Michigan.
Fields of Study
- U.S. in the World
- Pacific World
- Science and Technology in Society
Courses Taught
- FA 2021 History of the U.S. West
- WN 2022 Minds and Brains in America
