Doctoral Student in History
About
Robert Diaz is a doctoral student whose research focuses on the intersections of Spanish and American imperialism; the history of science, medicine, and technology; and subaltern studies in the Pacific World in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Robert earned his B.A. 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 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 incoming Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Graduate Student Research Fellow ('21-'22 academic year).
