Professional Bio
Dr. Ana Elizabeth Rosas holds a B.A. in American Studies and Ethnicity and History and Ph.D. in History from the University of Southern California.
Dr. Rosas teaches courses that center on Chicana/o/x History, Emotive History, Film and Media Studies, Latina/o/x Studies, and US History.
She has published Abrazando El Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border (University of California Press, 2014), and articles in the Journal of American Ethnic History, Southern California Quarterly, BOOM: Journal of California, and Journal of American History. Dr. Rosas has also co-edited special issues for the Journal of American Ethnic History, Southern California Quarterly, and Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies.
Dr. Rosas has taught and supervised the following projects:
- “Borders, Emotions, and Imaginaries: Magnifying Immigrant Experiences and Immigration Histories,” University of California, Irvine.
- “The Material of Memory: Revisiting Our History of Immigration,” Exhibition, Viewpoint Gallery, University of California, Irvine.
She has been awarded the University of California, Irvine’s (UCI) Community and Civic Engagement Program’s Engaged Faculty Award, Dynamic Woman of the Year Award for Academic Achievement, School of Social Sciences Celebration of Excellence in Teaching Award, the Inaugural Dean of School of Social Sciences Mentor of the Year Award, and in 2018 the Chancellor’s Award for Faculty Mentor of the Year for her mentorship of undergraduate student researchers by both UCI’s School of Humanities and School of Social Sciences.
She has received fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, National Academies Ford Foundation Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs, Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West, and the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
Dr. Rosas teaches and mentors students participating in UCI’s research opportunities programs and her UCI Public Scholarship seminar course. These collaborative endeavors fuel her approach to contributing to the fields of Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Studies and US History.