Education
Ph.D., Yale University
B.A., History, Political Science, and Italian Studies, University of California Berkeley
Regional and Thematic Interests
Transnational/Comparative
History
Profile
Professor González specializes in the history of modern Latin America. His research focuses on the Chinese community in Mexico during the twentieth century. His dissertation, “We Won’t Be Bullied Anymore: Chinese-Mexican Relations and the Chinese Community in Mexico, 1931-1971,” won the Arthur and Mary Wright Prize for outstanding dissertation. He has published an article, “Chinese Dragon and Eagle of Anáhuac: The Local, National, and International Implications of the Ensenada Anti-Chinese Campaign of 1934” (The Western Historical Quarterly 44:1 (Spring 2013), pp. 48-68), which won the Bert M. Fireman Award from the Western History Association.
Selected Publications
2013 "Chinese Dragon and Eagle of Anáhuac: The Local, National, and International Implications of the Ensenada Anti-Chinese Campaign of 1934." The Western Historical Quarterly 44, no. 1: 48-68.