Kevan Malone

Dissertation: Borderline Unstainable: Urban Planning and Diplomacy at the Tijuana-San Diego Boundary, 1919-1999

Kevan Malone is a fellow in the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. His research examines the economic, political, and environmental relations of San Diego and Tijuana during the twentieth century, when these cities came to form the largest binational urban area along the U.S.-Mexico border and the location of the world's busiest international border crossing. He holds a PhD in history from the University of California, San Diego and an MA in American Studies from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Kevan's research has been funded by the American Historical Association, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Tinker Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, the UCLA Special Collections Library, and the Kenneth and Dorothy Hill Foundation for the UC San Diego Special Collections and Archives. His writings have appeared in the Washington Post, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and The Metropole (the blog of the Urban History Association).

Writings:

"How U.S. Prohibition Transformed Tijuana and Border," San Diego Union-Tribune, January 18, 2020

"Chicano Park is 50 Years Old..." San Diego Union-Tribune, April 23, 2020

"San Diego and Tijuana's Shared Sewage Problem has a Long History," Washington Post, June 2, 2020

"Trump's Border Wall Belongs to Biden Now," Washington Post, April 11, 2021

"Conflict and Cooperation at the U.S.-Mexico Border," (With Sarah Sears) IGCC Blog, May 3, 2023

"San Diego's South Bay Annexation of 1957," The Metropole, February 21, 2024