Maria Plascencia

Maria Jose “MJ” Plascencia is from the Tijuana-San Diego border region and received her B.A. in American Studies from the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on Tijuana’s tourism industry in the early 20th century and its relationship to the urbanization and culture of the Southern California U.S.-Mexico border region. She is currently a Yale-Smithsonian intern, focusing on the project “Borderlands and American Histories.”