Associate Professor at the University of Michigan
About
Before joining the University of Michigan, Mora previously taught history at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass. Mora teaches courses on Mexican American history, Latina/o history, and the history of sexuality.
Current Work:
Mora currently has two major research projects underway. The first explores the relationship between African Americans and Mexican Americans in the early-twentieth-century urban Midwest. He also is writing a history of the fictional character of Zorro from 1919 to the present. The iconic character serves as a means of tracing changing representations of Mexican Americans, historical memory, and US regionalism.
Research Area Keyword(s):
History, Chicano/ Studies, Latina/o Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Race, Popular Culture
