Biography
Dr. Sonia Hernández received the Ph.D in Latin American History from the University of Houston in 2006. She specializes in the intersections of gender and labor in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, Chicana/o history, and Modern Mexico. She is co-founder of the AHA, OAH, and WHA award-winning public history project, Refusing to Forget (refusingtoforget.org). She has published in Spanish and English; her first book, Working Women into the Borderlands (Texas A&M University Press, 2014), earned three book prizes and was translated and published by the INHERM (Mexico City) and ITCA (Tamaulipas) in 2017. Her book “For a Just and Better World”: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 (University of Illinois Press, 2021) earned the Philip Taft Book Prize and is in the process of translation to Spanish. Funded by a Fulbright García-Robles Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Hernández is at work on a book project recovering the gendered, racial, and transnational dimensions of the 1901 lynching attempt of the migrant cowboy Gregorio Cortez.
Research Interests
- U.S.-Mexican Borderlands
- Chicana/o
- Gender and Labor
- Modern Mexico
Educational Background
- Ph.D., University of Houston 2006
Selected Publications
- For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 (University of Illinois Press, 2021)
- Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border; Sonia Hernández and John Morán González, eds. (University of Texas Press, 2021)
- Working Women into the Borderlands (Texas A&M University Press, 2014)