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Mireya Loza is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University, affiliated with the Department of History and the American Studies Program within the College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on Latinx History, Social Movements, Labor History, and Food Studies, with a particular emphasis on migrant workers' struggles for freedom and transnational organizing. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Brown University.
Her first book, Defiant Braceros, explores how guest workers navigated racial, sexual, and political challenges within the Bracero Program. She is currently researching her second book project, The Strangeness and Bitterness of Plenty, which examines the intersections of food production and race in American agriculture over the 20th century.
- Research Funding: Supported by the Ford Foundation, Mexico-North Research Network, and National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Awards: Theodore Saloutos Book Prize, Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Prize, Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians.
Before joining Georgetown, Loza served as a curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and held an Assistant Professor position in Food Studies at New York University. Her work bridges historical analysis with contemporary social issues, highlighting themes of labor rights, migration, and cultural identity.
