Institution: Williams College
Position: Assistant Professor of History, US Latino Studies
Current Research: Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial and Zoot-Suit Riot in Los, 1942-1943
Career Interests: US history since Reconstruction, Latino Cultures in US, Intellecutal history of Chicanismo
Publications: "Unpacking History: A Revisionist Interpretation of the Zoot-Suit Riots," Heritage, Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research (Winter 1992-1993). "Razing Arizona: The Clash in the Mormon Church Over Evan Mecham," Sunstone 12 (March 1988). "Inside the Mecham Perspective," HGA Press (Fall 1987). Reprinted in Arizona Republic, "Probing Mecham's Mindset: Was Election a 'Divine Intervention?" 6 March 1988. Also reprinted in Salt Lake Tribune, "Mecham's 'Moral Agenda' of Blind Faith is Mormon Fundamentalist Ideology," 12 March 1988. An abridged version was published in Arizona Daily Wildcat, "Inside Mecham's Mind: Beliefs Colored Actions in Office," 6 April 1988.
Conferences and Papers: "Contested Identities: Race, Culture, and Protest," Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL, November 1995. Latino Studies Panelist, 1995 Diversity Symposium, "Liberal Arts for the Next Millenium: Diversifying the College Curriculum," Amherst College, April 1995. "The Rise of Latina and Latino Enrollments in Colleges and Universities on the East Coast," National Association of Chicano Scholars, Spokane, WA, April 1995. "The Meaning of Chicano History," Lecture sponsored by the Chicano Caucus, Columbia University, March 1995. "The Politics of Race and Culture in the Southwest," Little Three Colloquium, Amherst College, January 1995. "Proposition 187 and the Rise of Xenophobia in the US," Faculty lunch lecture, Multi-Cultural Center, Williams College, December 1994. "Nuestra Lucha Continua: Chicanismo for the 21st Century," East Coast Chicano Student Forum, Yale University, October 1994. "Who Are These Troublemakers?' The Mexican-American Middle Class Reacts to Pachucos, 1940-1944," Organization of American Historians, Anaheim, April 1993. "Patriarchs and Politics: The Struggle Over Voting Rights in Apache County, Arizona, 1960-1976," Sunstone Symposium XI, University of Utah, August 1989.
Other: Orale from Aztlán East!
Contact: Eduardo Pagán
Department of History
Williams College
Williamstown MA 01267
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