Faculty by Undergraduate Concentration
All history majors select a geographic region of concentration as their primary area of study: Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe and the Mediterranean World. Majors are encouraged to get to know the faculty in their region of concentration as early as possible.
History majors are also encouraged to carve out their own unique thematic research pathway — religion, social movements, science and environment, and gender, to name a few — and to get to know the history faculty who specialize in those research areas.
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- Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Affiliations Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, Kresge College, Merrill College, Stevenson College
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 542
- Office Hours Spring 2024--Weds. By appointment via Zoom; email in advance to set up Zoom meeting at your convenience.
- Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95003
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Nationalism, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sexuality, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Mexico
- Courses History 12: Introduction to Latinx History; History 128: Chicanx History; History 190D: An Undergraduate Seminar in US Migration History; History 190E: Topics in Chicanx History: Chicana Feminism and the Open Borders Debate; History 201: Directed Research Colloquium in the Masters Essay; History 204E: Transnationalism, Borderlands, and History; History 222: Global Sexualities: A Seminar on Queering Historiographies; History 280B: Grant Writing and Academic Conferencing; History 280C: The Academic Job Market
- Advisees, Grad Students, Researchers Aaron Anthony Aruck,
Summary of Expertise
North American Borderlands (Canada-U.S.-Mexico)
Immigration--Mexican, Asian
Gender and Sexuality
Race and Nationalism
Chinese in Mexico
Research Interests
North American border-making processes
Chinese in the Americas
Sexuality and Morals Policing
Diasporas and Transnationalism
Nationalism
Biography, Education and Training
Grace Peña Delgado is Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a historian of borderlands and migration in nineteenth and twentieth-century North American. She is the author of Making the Chinese American: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the US-Mexico Borderlands (Stanford: 2012), distinguished as a CHOICE Academic Title. Delgado is also co-author of Latino Immigrants in the United States (Polity: 2011) Professor Delgado has also published numerous articles in the Journal of Social History, Journal of American History, and Western Historical Quarterly, where her piece, “Border Control and Sexual Policing” received numerous best article awards. She is currently completing two books: States Against Sex: Morality and Migration in the Policing of America's Borderlands; and To Open Our Borders: America's New Conversation About Immigration.
Delgado participates on the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (UK) Project on Trafficking, Smuggling and Illicit Migration in Historical and Gendered Perspective at Cambridge University and also collaborates with Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition working group on Modern Day Slavery. In addition to her research, Delgado has received an Excellence in Teaching Award from UCSC’s Academic Senate and is co-lead administrator of UCSC’s Dissertation Proposal Development Program with the Mellon-SSRC Foundation. Delgado received her Ph.D. from UCLA in American History.
Honors, Awards and Grants
UCSC, Academic Senate, recipient, Excellence in Teaching Award
Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Exclusion, and Localism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Stanford University Press: 2012) was distinguished as a CHOICE Academic Title.
"Border Control and Sexual Policing: White Slavery and Prostitution along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1903-1910," Western Historical Quarterly (Summer 2012): 157-178, has won four awards for outstanding scholarly article:
Oscar O. Winther Award (2012) -- best article published in the Western Historical Quarterly in that year
Judith Lee Ridge Award (2012) -- best article in history published by a member of the Western Association of Women Historians
Jensen-Miller Award (2013) -- best article in the field of women and gender in the North American West
Bolton-Cutter Award (2013) -- best article on Spanish Borderlands history
Selected Publications
- 2012 - Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Stanford University Press)
- 2012 - Latino Immigrants in the United States (Polity Press, Cambridge, England)
- 2011 - “Neighbors by Nature: Relationships, Border Crossings, and Transnational Communities in the Chinese Exclusion Era,” Pacific Historical Review 80, no. 3: 401 - 429.
- 2004 - “At Exclusion’s Southern Gate: Changing Categories of Race and Class among Chinese Fronterizos, 1882 - 1904” in Continental Crossroads: Remapping the History of the U.S.-Mexico Border, eds. Samuel J. Truett and Elliot Young, Duke University Press, 183-208.
Teaching Interests
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Chicano/a History
Latino American History
Nationalism
Asian and Latino Immigration
