Dr. Larisa Veloz
Associate Professor of History
Larisa Veloz is an Assistant Professor of History at the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Texas, El Paso. She received her doctorate from Georgetown Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é 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 Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é. 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