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About Jonathan Cortez

Jonathan Cortez is currently the 2021-2023 César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. They received their Ph.D. from the Department of American Studies at Brown University in 2021. Cortez is a historian of 20th-century issues of race, labor, (im)migration, surveillance, space, relational Ethnic Studies, and Latinx Studies. You can follow Jonathan on Twitter @joncortz

Jonathan Cortez is currently the 2021-2023 César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. You can follow Jonathan on Twitter @joncortz

NBN Episodes hosted by Jonathan:

Latino Studies September 26, 2022

Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies

A Reader

Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Latinx Studies has long been overdue for a revamp – a different orientation to the questions with which we concern ourselves. Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader (New York …
Latino Studies April 25, 2022

Borderlands Curanderos

The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo

Jennifer Koshatka Seman

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Recent global events have unmasked inequitable healthcare systems that disproportionately affect poor Latinx populations along the U.S-Mexico border. Professor Jennifer K. Seman’s recent publication offers a brief insight into these …
Latino Studies February 28, 2022

The Succeeders

How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America

Andrea Flores

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Dr. Andrea Flores’ most recent book, The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America (University of California Press, 2021), is a detailed account of …
Latino Studies February 23, 2022

Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora

Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández once again engages in the fearless work of challenging structures of domination. In her most recent book, Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2021), Profesora …
Latino Studies October 25, 2021

My Book of the Dead

New Poems

Ana Castillo

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
“My poetry captures a moment,” remarked Dr. Castillo when asked about the process of writing her most recent collection of poems My Book of the Dead: New Poems (University of …
Latino Studies July 16, 2021

We Are Owed.

Ariana Brown

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Poet Ariana Brown searches for new origins in her debut book We Are Owed. (Grieveland Press, 2021). Brown has had over ten years of experience writing, performing, and teaching poetry that struggles …
Latino Studies May 19, 2021

Homeland

Ethnic Mexican Belonging Since 1900

Aaron E. Sánchez

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Ethnic Mexicans living in the United States have always struggled to understand their position within the fabric of the nation-state. The groups that fall under the banner of “ethnic Mexican,” …
Latino Studies April 16, 2021

Abstract Barrios

The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities

Johana Londoño

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
The rapid gentrification of Black and brown neighborhoods in urban areas by predominantly upper-class white and other white-adjacent peoples is largely facilitated by urban redevelopment and revitalization projects. These projects …
Latino Studies February 18, 2021

Decolonizing Diasporas

Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature

Yomaira C Figueroa-Vásquez

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez pens towards decolonial freedom. Her recently published book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2020), uses peripheralized (5) novels, visual/sonic works, poetry, essays …
Latino Studies July 20, 2020

Organizing While Undocumented

Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism Under the Law

 Kevin Escudero

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement. This is especially true surrounding the activism of the recent SCOTUS decision on DACA issued on June …
Latino Studies June 22, 2020

The Racial Politics of Division

Interethnic Struggles For Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami

Monika Gosin

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Over recent years, scholarship centering Afrolatinidad has pushed the bounds of the field towards greater forms of racial and ethnic understanding. Dr. Monika Gosin’s monograph, The Racial Politics of Division …
Latino Studies January 3, 2020

Border Land, Border Water

A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide

C. J. Alvarez

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Recent debates over the building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico divide have raised logistical and ethical issues, leaving the historical record of border building uninvoked. A recent book …
Latino Studies October 4, 2019

Aftershocks of Disaster

Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm

 Marisol LeBrón and Yarimar Bonilla

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Marking the two year anniversary of Hurricane María making landfall in Puerto Rico, the September 2019 release of the anthology Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm …
Latino Studies June 27, 2019

Suspect Freedoms

The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957

Nancy Mirabal

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
In Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 (NYU Press, 2017), Nancy Mirabal details New York Cuban diasporic history between the nineteenth and twentieth …