Name: Natalia Molina
Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies and Urban Studies & Planning
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2000
M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1996

Field of Expertise: Molina is an expert on comparative ethnicities, Latina/o history, and public health attitudes toward immigrants.

Region of Interest: Mexico, U.S.

Media Interview Topics: Prof. Molina is an expert on comparative ethnicities, Latina/o history, and public health attitudes toward immigrants.

Selected Publications:

Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1940. University of California Press, 2006.

"Medicalizing the Mexican: Immigration, Race, and Disability in the Early Twentieth Century United States." Radical History Review, December 2005.

"Inverting Racial Logic: How Public Health Discourse and Standards Racialized the Meanings of Japaneze and Mexican in Los Angeles, 1910-1924," in Racial (Trans)Formations: Latinas/os and Asians Remaking the United States. Duke University Press, 2006.