Sonia Hernandez

Research Interests

Dr. Sonia Hernández received the Ph.D in Latin American History from the University of Houston in 2006. She specializes in the intersections of gender and labor in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, Chicana/o history, and Modern Mexico. She is co-founder of the AHA, OAH, and WHA award-winning public history project, Refusing to Forget (refusingtoforget.org). She has published in Spanish and English; her first book, Working Women into the Borderlands (Texas A&M University Press, 2014), earned three book prizes and was translated and published by the INHERM (Mexico City) and ITCA (Tamaulipas) in 2017. Her book “For a Just and Better World”: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 (University of Illinois Press, 2021) earned the Philip Taft Book Prize and is in the process of translation to Spanish. Funded by a Fulbright García-Robles Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Hernández is at work on a book project recovering the gendered, racial, and transnational dimensions of the 1901 lynching attempt of the migrant cowboy Gregorio Cortez.

Areas of Speciality

• U.S.-Mexican Borderlands

• Chicana/o

• Gender and Labor

• Modern Mexico