University of California, Irvine
Post-Doc, History
University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow
Thesis Title: National Borders, Neighborhood Boundaries: Gender, Space and Border Formation in Chinese and Mexican Los Angeles, 1870s-1930s
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Postdoc mentor: Vicki Ruíz
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About
Isabela Seong-Leong Quintana earned her Ph.D. in History at the University of Michigan in 2010. She also holds an M.A. in History from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. from Oberlin College. She is currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC-Irvine in the Department of History.
Dr. Quintana’s current manuscript tentatively titled "Urban Borderlands: Neighborhood Boundaries and National Borders in Chinese and Mexican Los Angeles, 1870s-1930s" examines the relationship between national borders and neighborhood spaces in Chinese and Mexican Los Angeles from the 1870s through the 1930s. Los Angeles’ “Chinatown” and “Sonoratown” were sites within which expressions and experiences of segregation were particularly informed by simultaneous nation-building and border formation processes—U.S. conquest of Spanish-Mexican territories and policies of exclusion aimed at restricting Chinese immigration and later repatriating Mexicans. Using gender as an analytical lens along with race, class, and space, her study explores how children, women and men encountered the everyday practice of border exclusion in local geography, conflicted over space and limited resources, and confronted the overlapping of industry, neighborhood, and home.
Dr. Quintana’s general research and teaching interests are in the historical studies of Gender, Race, Work, and Space; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands and the Pacific World; Urbanization and Empire; U.S. History (Long Nineteenth Century and Post 1848); Asian American Studies, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, and Comparative Ethnic Studies.
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