The Department of History’s Connelly Lecture Series is pleased to announce a lecture with Sara Fingal, PhD. Fingal will examine the history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, emphasizing Mexico’s portrayal as a frontier in the mid-twentieth century. She will discuss how, in the 1960s and 1970s, the borderlands expanded informally into the Baja California peninsula due to increased American property purchases along the coastline. This history reveals American challenges to Mexican constitutional laws prohibiting foreign land ownership, extending the scope of American gatekeeping beyond the international boundary.
Sara Fingal is an assistant professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Her research centers on environmental history, U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and Latinx environmentalisms. Her book A Right to the Beach: Battles for California’s Coast and Making Postwar Environmentalism is under review with the University of Washington Press.
March 18, 2024, 4:30-6:00 p.m., Brian J. Doyle Auditorium
For ADA or event information please contact: Blair Woodard, Ph.D. UP History Department woodard@up.edu – 503-943-8765
