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Alina R. Méndez is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of California, San Diego. She received her B.A. in Latin American History with a minor in Spanish Literature from UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on Mexican migration to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the mid-twentieth century. Alina has received generous support from a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Research Grant, a University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States Dissertation Research Grant, and a Jack Henning Graduate Fellowship in Labor Culture and History. She was also the 2015 winner of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Graduate Student Blog Prize. Alina served as her department’s Graduate Diversity Officer for two years, time in which she organized a graduate student speaker series and outreached to potential applicants. She expects to complete her dissertation, entitled Cheap for Whom? Farmworker Migration and Social Reproduction in a U.S-Mexico Borderlands Region, 1942-1969, by June 2017.
