Mark Overmyer-Velazquez

Mark Overmyer-Velazquez serves as Dean and Chief Administrative Officer of UConn Hartford and Professor of History and Latino & Latin American Studies at the University of Connecticut. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a Faculty Associate at the Human Rights Institute.

His research focuses on urban dynamics in Latin America, transnational migration patterns, and racial/national identity formation along the US-Mexico border. Key works examine visual cultures in Porfirian Oaxaca, Peruvian migration in post-Pinochet Chile, and comparative race formation across the Americas.

Awards and fellowships recognizing his scholarship include:

• Fulbright Visiting Scholarship (2011)
• Howard Foundation Fellowship (2010)
• LASA Outstanding Article Award (2014)
• Harvard's Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar (2009)