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MARY E. MENDOZA
EDUCATION:
University of Vermont
Department of History
304 Wheeler House
133 S. Prospect Street
Burlington, VT 05405
[email protected]
(802) 656-1407
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-DAVIS
Ph.D. History, Summer 2015
 Focus: U.S. Environmental History, Borderlands History, Chicano/a History, minor in Latin
American History.
 Dissertation: “Unnatural Border: Race and Environment at the U.S.-Mexico Divide.” Committee
Chairs: Ari Kelman, Lorena Oropeza, Louis Warren. Readers: Andres Resendez and Alan Taylor.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
M.A. History, Summer 2012.
 Focus: U.S. Environmental History, Borderlands History, Chicano/a History.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
M.A. History, August 2010.
 Focus: U.S. History, Borderlands History, Foreign Relations with Latin America.
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
B. A. International Studies, May 2006 (cum laude).
 Focus: Latin American History with Sociology Minor.
 Thesis in History: “If We Build it, They Won’t Come: The Physical Manifestation of the U.S.-Mexico
Border.” Thesis advisor: Kathryn Morse.
UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA
Middlebury Program Fall 2004.
 Focus: Cultural immersion program with coursework in International Studies, History, and Spanish.
INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY (www.uncfsp.org/iipp)
Fellowship consisting of a multi-year sequence of summer policy institutes, study abroad, intensive language
training, and internships. Completed work includes:
 Coursework in immigration policy, refugee policy, economics, and statistics at Clark Atlanta
University, Summer 2004.
 Coursework in homeland security policy, development and ethics, economics, and statistics at
University of Maryland at College Park, Summer 2005.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
University of Vermont. Harris Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History and Program in Critical Race
and Ethnic Studies, 2015-2016.
 Courses: “The Southwest Borderlands”
Middlebury College. Visiting Instructor, Department of History, 2013-2015.
 Courses: “Unnatural Border,” “The Southwest Borderlands,” “Expansion and Environment:
Readings in U.S. and Latin American Environmental History,” “Special Research Projects,” and
“Senior Independent Study.”
American University. Teaching Assistant, Department of History, 2008-2010.
 Courses: “Latin America Since Independence” and “The West In Crisis.”
TEACHING FIELDS:
U.S. History, Environmental History, U.S. West and Borderlands, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies,
Chicano/a History, Native American History, Latin American History.
PUBLICATION PROJECTS:
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Mary E. Mendoza, “Battling Aftosa: North to South Migration across the U.S.-Mexico Border, 19471954,” Journal of the West: State Power and Its Agents in the North American West (Special Issue) vol. 54 no.1
(winter 2015), 39-50.
Mary E. Mendoza, "Building Fences and Constructing Race," in Border Spaces: Arts, Built Environments,
and Landscapes, ed. Katherine G. Morrissey and John-Michael Warner, (Tucson: University of Arizona
Press, forthcoming).
Mary E. Mendoza, “The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border,” in Contemporary Issues for People of
Color: Surviving and Thriving in the U.S. Today, ed. Alvaro Huerta and Norma Iglesias, (Santa Barbara:
ABC-CLIO Books, forthcoming).
Mary E. Mendoza, “La Tierra Pica/The Soil Bites: Hazardous Environments and the Degeneration
of Bracero Health, 1942-64,” in Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: An Anthology, ed.
Sarah Jaquette Ray and JC Sibara, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming).
Mary E. Mendoza, “Nature Knows no Bounds,” in Mapping Nature Across the Americas, ed. James
Akerman and Kathleen Brosnan, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
Mary E. Mendoza, “Building a Carceral State: Nation-States, Nature, and Migration” in The Pacific
Historical Review, Special Issue on Carceral Borderlands, forthcoming.
PUBLIC HISTORY AND POPULAR WRITING:
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Process: A Blog for American History. Contributor, August 13, 2015.
The Borderlands History Blog. Contributor, 2014-present.
“Witnessing Presidential History,” The Washington Post, Inauguration edition, (January 23, 2009), A16.
AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS, AND FELLOWSHIPS:
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The Andrew Harris Postdoctoral Fellowship for Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the
Department of History, University of Vermont, 2015-1016.
Disability History Association Travel Grant, 2015.
The David J. Weber Fellowship for the Study of Southwestern America, Clements Center for
Southwest Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2015-2016 (declined).
The Newberry/National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “Mapping Nature
Across the Americas,” 2014.
The Newberry/National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar, “Bridging National
Borders in North America,” 2014 (declined).
The Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2013-2014.
The Huntington Library Andrew Mellon Short Term Research Fellowship, 2013-2014.
Clements Center for Southwest Studies and DeGolyer Library Research Grant, 2013-2014.
The Hemispheric Institute for the Americas Research Grant, UC Davis, Summer 2013.
The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History Latino Studies Pre-doctoral
Fellowship, 2012-2013.
Research Associate-ship, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Summer 2012.
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Judge’s Choice and Community Choice Award for the National Science Foundation’s Collaborative
IGERT Poster Competition for poster: “Trade-offs and Synergies in Floodplain Management: A
Historical-Ecological Approach” 2012.
UC-Davis Mellon Research Initiative, “Environments and Societies” Summer Research Grant
funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, 2012.
Gifford Center for Population Studies Summer Research Grant, 2011.
UC Davis REACH IGERT/ NSF Fellowship for Study on Environmental Change, 2010-2012.
Institute for International Public Policy Fellow, 2003-2006.
Departmental High Honors (International Studies, Middlebury College), 2006.
Public Service Leadership Award Middlebury College, 2006.
Madeline M. Kunin Public Service Award for the State of Vermont, Finalist, 2006.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS:
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“Women in the American West: Mapping Changing Landscapes and New Paths,” Roundtable
Participant, Annual Meeting for the Western History Association, Portland, Oregon 23 October
2015.
“Bound By Fences: Women in the Bracero Era” as a part of “Laying Down the Law: New Legal
Borderlands,” Annual Meeting for the Western History Association, Portland, Oregon, 24 October
2015.
“Borderlands, Culture, and the State: A Conversation Across Disciplines,” Roundtable Participant,
Annual Meeting for the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, DC, 25
June 2015.
“La Tierra Pica/ The Soil Bites: Hazardous Environments and the Degeneration of Bracero Health,
1942-1964” as a part of “Disability and Environmental Justice: Reckoning with Legacies of
Imperialism, Power, and Privilege” panel, Annual Meeting for the Society of Disability Studies,
Atlanta, Georgia, 11 June 2015.
“Building the Boundary: Race and the Environment on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” Howard E.
Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, 13
November 2014.
“Artificial Border: Control and Consequence at the U.S.-Mexico Divide” Annual Meeting of the
Western History Association, Newport Beach, California, 17 October 2014.
“Fencing the Line: Transforming the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Bracero Era” Annual Meeting of the
Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, Georgia, 13 April 2014.
“Unnatural Border: Changing the Nature of Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border” Annual Meeting
of the American Society for Environmental History, San Francisco, California, 15 March 2014.
“U.S. and Latin America: Organizing Across Borders” panelist, Middlebury College Immigration
Symposium, Middlebury, Vermont, 17 January 2014.
“Fencing the Gender Divide: Braceros, Women, and ‘Wetbacks’” Invited talk for the Smithsonian’s
Bittersweet Harvest Traveling Exhibit at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, 17
October 2013.
“Do Not Enter (Unless We Want Your Labor): Negotiating Citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico Border”
Paper Presentation at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR),
Washington, DC, 20 June 2013.
“From Bugs to Bodies” Presentation at the Borderlands Seminar for the Newberry Library Chicago,
Illinois, 27 April 2013.
“Building Fences, Constructing Race: Fortifying the U.S-Mexico Border, 1890-1920” Invited Talk,
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, 12 March 2013.
“If We Build It, They Won’t Come: The Physical Manifestation of the U.S.-Mexico Border” Annual
Meeting of the Western History Association, Denver Colorado, 5 October 2012.
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“The Nature of the Border: Why History Should Matter to Ecologists,” presentation at the annual
REACH IGERT Conference, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, 21 September 2012.
“Modifying River-Floodplain Systems: A Historical and Ecological Perspective,” Presentation of
Collaborative project at the annual REACH IGERT workshop at the University of California-Davis,
Davis, California, 14 September 2012.
“Ecological Barriers: A History of Border Fortification” Invited Talk at the Arizona-Sonora Desert
Museum, Tucson, Arizona, 11 July 2012.
“Trade-offs and Synergies in Floodplain Management: A Historical-Ecological Approach” NSF
National Poster Integrative Graduate Research Education Training (IGERT) Competition,
Washington, DC, 28 May 2012.
“Borderline Humans? Disease, Cattle, and Mexicans on the U.S.-Mexico Border” Annual History
Graduate Conference, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, 7 June 2012.
“Sifting Through the Gaps: Mobile Nature and Fences on the U.S.-Mexico Border” Fourteenth
Annual History Graduate Student Symposium, California State University, Fresno, California, 28
April 2012.
“The Implications of Border Fences for Immigration” Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop,
University of California, Davis, California, 15 March 2012.
“Filtering Bodies: Fences on the U.S.-Mexico Border” Workshop Participant, Stanford-UC Davis
Annual Workshop in Western History, Davis, California, 5 November 2011.
“The Rise of Border Fences in the Twentieth Century” Invited Talk, University of California, Davis,
Davis, California, 18 October 2011.
“When Social Constructions Take Physical Form: Fences and the U.S. Mexico Border.” Invited talk,
University of California, Davis, Davis, California, 1 March 2011.
“Within These Borders: Mexican Bodies on U.S. Soil” Middle Atlantic American Studies Conference,
La Salle University, Philadelphia, 20 March 2010.
LANGUAGES:
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Spanish (speaking, reading, writing).
French (reading).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
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American Historical Association.
Western History Association.
American Society for Environmental History.
Pimería Alta Historical Society.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
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Presidential appointee to the Diversity Committee for the American Society of Environmental
History, 2015-present.
Faculty Advisor, Alianza, a cultural organization that promotes community and celebrates plurality in
the Latino community, Middlebury College, 2014-2015.
Committee on Race in the American West (CRAW), Western History Association, 2012-present.
Mentor, National Science Foundation (NSF) for minorities applying to graduate school, 2012present.
Program Committee for the 2013 Annual Meeting for the Western History Association, 2012-13.
Appointee, University of California Delegation to Congress for Funding Graduate Education, 2013.
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REFERENCES:
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Kathleen Brosnan, Paul and Doris Eaton Travis Chair in Modern American History, History
Department, University of Oklahoma.
Ari Kelman, McCabe Greer Professor of History, History Department, Pennsylvania State
University.
Kathryn T. Morse, Professor of History and John C. Elder Chair in Environmental Studies, History
Department, Middlebury College.
Lorena Oropeza, Associate Professor, History Department, University of California, Davis.
Louis S. Warren, W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History, History Department,
University of California, Davis.
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