Profile
Eduardo Contreras is Associate Professor of United States history. He teaches survey classes as well as courses on U.S. Latina/o/x histories, labor, race, and migration. He is the author of Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco (Penn Press). He’s now at work on “North American Capital, Central American Labor: From the Gold Rush to the Early Cold War,” an investigation of working people’s responses to U.S. corporate enterprises in Central America since the mid-nineteenth century. Eduardo’s research and teaching interests include 20th-century U.S. history; 19th and 20th-century U.S./Latin American Relations (Central America); U.S. Latinos; urban politics; race and ethnicity; feminist/queer communities; liberalism and conservatism; the United States since 1865; U.S. Latino Histories; U.S. Social and Political History; History of Sexuality; Labor; and Immigration/Migration.