Doctoral Candidate in History
About
ToniAnn Treviño is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History, a Latina/o Studies Graduate Certificate student, and a research assistant in the Eugenic Rubicon project under Professor Alex Stern. ToniAnn has a BA in Mexican American Studies and International Relations from UT Austin and completed an Honor’s thesis on representations of gender, sexuality, and family in Mexican Narco Cinema. ToniAnn serves on the Latina/o Studies Advisory Board as a graduate student representative and is currently the co-chair of the Latinx Studies Workshop.
Her dissertation, “The War on Narcotics and Mexican Americans: Racialized Policing Practices and Community Responses in Postwar Texas” uses narcotics policing as a lens to examine the myriad of state institutions involved in the surveillance, detainment, deportation, and incarceration of Mexican and Mexican American populations in San Antonio, Texas. This research includes Latinos in literature related to the war on drugs, mass incarceration, and racialized policing, and balances an examination of state agencies and community responses.
Affiliation(s)
- American History Workshop, 2014-15 Co-Chair
Presentations
- "Never Go Against the Family": Narco Cinema, Patriarchy, and Scale This portfolio plática discussed Narco Cinema as an emerging genre, as well as its portrayals of traditional and queer Narco families. This talk, presented to the Center for Mexican American Studies, utilized examples from relevant films to consider structures of patriarchy as they operate at scales from the transnational to the local.
Field(s) of Study
- U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
- Mexican American History
- Immigration and Legal History
- U.S.-Mexico Diplomatic Affairs
- Latina/o History
