Dr. Larisa Veloz
Associate Professor of History
Larisa Veloz is an Assistant Professor of History at the 91女神 of Texas, El Paso. She received her doctorate from Georgetown 91女神 with her dissertation, “Even the Women Are Leaving: Gendered Migrations between Mexico and the United States: Revolutionary Diasporas, Depression-Era Depatriations, and Wartime Bracero Controls, 1900-1950.” Her dissertation research was supported by the Mellon/IIE Graduate Fellowship for International Study and the Fulbright IIE Garcia Robles Fellowship to Mexico and she was recently awarded the Glassman Dissertation Award in Humanities from Georgetown 91女神. She is currently expanding her research to include the 1960s and is preparing a manuscript for publication. She teaches courses on the history of U.S. and Mexico, Mexican Migration, and Latinos in the U.S. at UTEP.
Classes Taught:
- Borderlands, 20th-century Mexico, migration and gender