Pablo Mitchell
History Professor and Author
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Pablo Mitchell is a Professor of History at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, where he teaches courses on American History, Latina/o History, and the US-Mexico Borderlands. He is the author of a textbook on Latina/o History (Understanding Latino History: Excavating the Past, Examining the Present) as well as Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 and West of Sex: Making Mexican America, 1900-1930. He also recently completed a Queer Pasts digital history project, “Reclamation Projects: An Archive of Queer Latinidad."
He is currently completing a book titled Americans of Multiracial Heritage: People, Places, and Perceptions from 1500 to the Present (Bloomsbury Publishing) as well as conducting research on the history of Latino/as in US colleges and universities.