Natalia Molina

Associate Professor
Graduate Program Advisor

Social Sciences Bldg. Room 226
Phone: 858.822.1580
Fax: 858.534.8194
E-mail: nmolina@weber.ucsd.edu

Fall 2008 Office Hours: TBA

2008-09 Courses

Fall 2008:
ETHN 289 - Topics/Ethnic Studies Research: Historical Methods and Archives
ETHN 189 - Special Topics: Race, Motherhood, Adoption, & Foster Care

Winter 2009:
ETHN 105 x USP 104 - Ethnic Diversity and the City

Education:

Ph.D. – History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2000
M.A. – History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1996
B.A. – Double Major, History and Women’s Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993

Current Project:

My first book, Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939, explored ways in which race is constructed relationally and regionally. In that work, I argued that race must be understood comparatively. My current book project, Racial Amnesia: The Search for a Usable Past, extends that argument to a different site, immigration. I investigate how Americans from various regions and disparate backgrounds went about creating and understanding racial categories during a period of peak immigration in the early twentieth century.

Publications

Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1940, University of California Press, Spring 2006

“Medicalizing the Mexican: Immigration, Race, and Disability in the Early Twentieth Century United States,” Radical History Review, December 2005 [pdf version attatched]

“Inverting Racial Logic: How Public Health Discourse and Standards Racialized the Meanings of Japanese and Mexican in Los Angeles, 1910-1924,” in Racial (Trans)Formations: Latinas/os and Asians Remaking the United States, Duke University Press, Spring 2006

with Anne-Emanuelle Birn, “In the Name of Public Health,” (Editorial), American Journal of Public Health, July 2005, Volume 95, Issue 7

"Illustrating Cultural Authority: Medicalized Representations of Mexican Communities in Early Twentieth Century Los Angeles," Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Spring 2003 [pdf version attatched]