UO Today interview: Natalia Molina, American Studies and Ethnicity, Univ. Southern California

Natalia Molina is a Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Her research explores the intertwined histories of race, place, gender, culture, and citizenship. Molina is the author of three monographs: Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1940 (2006), How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts (2014), and A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (2022). On April 18th, 2023, Natalia Molina will give a talk “A Place in the Narrative: Telling Underdocumented Stories” as the Oregon Humanities Center’s 2022-2023 Cressman Lecturer and part of the “Belonging” series.