Editorial

Editors

Romeo Guzmán is an assistant professor in U.S. and Public History at Fresno State, where directs the Valley Public History Initiative. He received his Ph.D. in Latin American history at Columbia University. He has published on migration, popular culture, and politics in both academic and popular outlets and collaborated with a number of cultural institutions and grassroots organizations, including La Casa de El Hijo del Ahuizote, Smithsonian, Vincent Price Art Museum, Arte Americas, FresCo, and others. Guzman’s public history projects have received regional and national awards and have been funded by California Humanities, Latino Americans: 500 Years of History, Los Angeles City Department of Cultural Affairs, National Performance Network, and American History Association. For more on his work visit romeoguzman.com

Photo Credit Vicent Ramos

Carribean Fragoza is a writer and artist from South El Monte, CA, currently living in Fresno, CA.  Her arts/culture reviews and essays have been published in online national and international magazines such as Aperture, the American Prospect, LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Letras Libres, Culture Strike, and Tropics of Meta. She has published fiction and poetry in publications such as BOMB Magazine, Huizache, Palabra Literary Magazine and Emohippus. Her chapbook, “K-12” was published by Eohippus Labs. She is founder and co-director of the South El Monte Art Posse (SEMAP), a multi-disciplinary arts collective. From 2014 to 2016, she was the managing editor at KCET Departures. Lastly, East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, an interdisciplinary edited volume, will be published in 2020. For more visit carribeanfragoza.com

Editorial Assistants                                                                                                                           

Anthony Cody, Marisela Hernandez, Adeline Rodriguez

Artist-in-Residence                                                                                                                       

Fernando Mendez Corona

Editor-at-Large
Jason S. Sexton
University of California, Los Angeles

Editorial Advisory Board
Miroslava Chávez-García
University of California, Santa Barbara

William Deverell
University of Southern California

Samantha Dunn
Coast Magazine

Alex Espinoza
California State University, Los Angeles

Lynell George
Los Angeles

Catherine Gudis
University of California, Riverside

Ursula K. Heise
University of California, Los Angeles

Jennifer Hughes
University of California, Riverside

Josh Kun
University of Southern California

James Kyung-Jin Lee
University of California, Irvine

Ralph Lewin
Mechanics’ Institute

Peter Richardson
San Francisco State University

Bidhan Chandra Roy
California State University, Los Angeles

Greg Sarris
Sonoma State University

Susan Straight
University of California, Riverside

David L. Ulin
University of Southern California

Allison Varzally
California State University, Fullerton