Julie Weise

Julie Weise is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Oregon, where she has been a faculty member since 2013. She holds affiliations with Digital Humanities, History, IRES, and Latinx programs. Previously, she served as an Assistant Professor of International Studies at California State University, Long Beach. In 2022-23, she held the Fulbright-IMéRA-Aix-Marseille Université Chair in Migration Studies in Marseille, France.

Dr. Weise earned her Ph.D., M.A., and M.Phil. in History from Yale University, along with a B.A. with distinction in Anthropology and Ethnicity, Race, & Migration, also from Yale. Her educational background has informed her interdisciplinary approach to historical research.

Weise is an interdisciplinary historian specializing in migrations across the Americas and globally, with particular expertise in Latinx history in the U.S. South. Her research examines identity, citizenship, migration, race, and nation formation through historical lenses. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on race and immigration in the United States and globally, including Race & Ethnicity in the U.S. West and Migrants and Refugees in Modern World History. She co-developed a bilingual Latinxs in the Americas course with Claudia Holguín Mendoza, with teaching materials available at teachinspanglish.org.

Her acclaimed first book, Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), won the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians and established her as a leading scholar in Latinx history of the American South. She is currently working on Guest Worker: A History of Ideas, 1919-75, which examines temporary migrant worker programs across Mexico-U.S., Spain-France, and Malawi-South Africa contexts.

• Merle Curti Award for best book in U.S. social history (2016)
• CRL James book award (2016)
• Theodore Saloutos Book Award honorable mention (2016)
• Deep South Book Prize honorable mention (2016)
• George Washington Egleston Prize for best dissertation (2009)

Weise actively engages in public scholarship, having co-founded the Nuestro South public history project with support from the Whiting Foundation. She has written for Time.com, San Francisco Chronicle, and Los Angeles Times, and has shared insights on immigration with Univision.com and NPR. On campus, she led the development of UO's Dreamer Ally Training, which has trained over 400 faculty and staff. Prior to academia, she worked in Mexico's administration under President Vicente Fox (2001-2002) as a speechwriter and researcher.

She co-leads the Translations of Migration research group with Christoph Rass and Peter Schneck, and has collaborated on projects examining the Mexico-U.S. Bracero Program as a product of transatlantic conversations among intellectuals and policymakers.