Dr. Lori Flores, History, Columbia University: "Amnesic Landscapes of Labor: Latinx Food and Farm Workers' Invisibility and Hypervisibility"
Lori A. Flores is associate professor of history at Columbia University, where she specializes and teaches in modern U.S., Latino/x, labor, immigration, food, and borderlands history. She is the author of "Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement" (Yale, 2016) and "Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19" (UNC, 2025), which was named the International Labor History Association’s Book of the Year and the "Big Book" for LABOR Journal's annual forum. She is also the co-editor of the revamped edition of The Academic’s Handbook (Duke, 2020), a founding co-editor for UNC Press’s Latinx Histories book series, and the creator of "The Mexican Restaurants of New York City" digital history project. Her research and writing have been supported by institutions including the Russell Sage Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy. Her work and thoughts have been recently featured in outlets including The Guardian and Irish National Radio. She is currently serving as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (OAH), and researching a new book on Latino migration, labor, and foodways in Europe. For this workshop, Dr. Flores will speak about labor traumas, Latino workers and the invisibility of Latino workers and her theory, the amnesic landscapes of labor.
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Professor Vicki Schultz