MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

Sonia Hernández

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

Hernández, a native of the Rio Grande Valley, is currently the George T. & Gladys H. Abell Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. She specializes in the intersections of gender and labor in the U.S. – Mexican Borderlands. 

She has published in Spanish and English; her book, Working Women into the Borderlands (Texas A&M University Press, 2014) received the Sara A. Whaley Book Prize (NWSA), the Liz Carpenter Award (TSHA), The Jim Parish Award (Webb County Heritage Foundation) and was a Weber-Clements (SMU-Clement’s Center) prize finalist. A Spanish translation of this book was published as Mujeres, trabajo y región fronteriza (Tamaulipas: ITCA; Mexico City: INEHRM, 2017). Her book, For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 (University of Illinois Press, 2021) earned the Taft Labor History Book Prize (LAWCHA & Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations). 

She has published in the Journal of American History, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, among other places. Her work has been funded by the Texas Council for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Fulbright Foundation. Hernández’s current book project reexamines the 1901 case of the near lynching of Gregorio Cortez from a transnational and gender perspective. Her talk today is based on her current book project under contract with UNC Press.