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Eduardo Contreras

Associate Professor

Dr. Eduardo Contreras is an associate professor in the History Department at Hunter College.

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Eduardo Contreras is Associate Professor of United States history. He is the author of Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco (Penn Press). He’s now at work on "Central American Labor and U.S. Empire: From the Gold Rush to the Early 1930s," an investigation of working people’s responses to U.S. corporate enterprises in Central America since the mid-nineteenth century. His research and teaching interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history; U.S. Latina/e/o/x histories; labor, race, and migration; the U.S. empire; and modern Central America.

Educational Background

  • The University of Chicago (PhD)

Selected Publications

  • Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).
  • “LatinX Metropolitan Pasts: A Hemispheric and Speculative Approach,” in Metropolitan Latinidad: Transforming American Urban History, ed. Andrew Sandoval-Strausz (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025), 205–219.
  • “Voice and Property: Latinos, White Conservatives, and Urban Renewal in 1960s San Francisco,” Western Historical Quarterly 45, no. 3 (Autumn 2014): 253-76.

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Eduardo Contreras

History
68th Street West 1506
(212) 772-5346
econtre@hunter.cuny.edu

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