Miroslava Chávez-García, PhD is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and holds appointments in the Departments of Chicana/o Studies and Feminist Studies as well as Iberian and Latin American Studies. She received her PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles, since which time she has served as UCSB’s Faculty Director of the McNair Scholars Program, Faculty Director of Graduate Diversity Initiatives, and Vice Chair of the Department of Chicana/o Studies. She is the author or editor of books published by Taylor & Francis, University of California Press, University of North Carolina Press, and University of Arizona Press. Dr. Chávez-García has also published over 30 book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in leading journals such as Pacific Historical Review, Journal of American Ethnic History, and Journal of Scholarly Publishing. Further, she has served as an Editorial Board Member of journals including Journal of American History, Western Historical Quarterly, and Latinx Talk (among others). A popular keynote speaker at both domestic as well as international conferences, she is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships from bodies including the Western Association of Women’s Historians, the Western History Association, the Ford Foundation for Diversity, and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University,