Laura Hooton
Contact Info:
Breland 240
Student Hours:
Wednesdays 1-3 pm and by appointment
Education:
B.A., UC San Diego 2009
M.A./Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, 2018
Research and Teaching Interests:
Professor Hooton is an historian of race, ethnicity, and identity in the United States and Latin America. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on African Americans in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, immigration and migration, social movements, and race and ethnicity in the American West. She is especially interested in the intersection of Black studies and borderlands studies.
Professor Hooton teaches courses in United States history and comparative race and ethnicity in the Americas, including topics such as civil rights, immigration, borderlands, African American history, and Mexican American history. She is interested in public history, especially the ways that oral history and conversations about memory and memorialization can connect students and the larger community.
Selected Publications:
Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity, Revised Edition. Co-author with Paul Spickard and Francisco Beltrán (2023, Routledge).
“Little Liberia, the African American Agricultural Colony in Baja California” in Farming across Borders: Transnational Agricultural History in the North American West, ed. Sterling Evans (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2017).
“Black Angelenos with the ‘Courage to Do and Dare’: African American Community Organizers in Lower California,” California History, 94.1 (Spring 2017), 43-54.
