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Lori Flores, Director

lori.flores@stonybrook.edu

Fall 2022 Office Hours: 

Tuesdays 1:30-2:30 and 5:30-6:30 pm, SBS Bldg, 3rd Fl, Rm S-333

Wednesdays 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, SBS Bldg, 3rd Fl, Rm. N-333

An Associate Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of History, Professor Flores specializes in the history of Latino/x life, labor, and politics in the United States from the post-WWII era to the present day. Her first book  Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement  (Yale University Press, 2016) examined the working and social relationships between Mexican Americans, braceros, and undocumented workers in the agricultural empire of California's Salinas Valley, and told the story of how a diverse farmworker community fought for its labor rights against powerful agribusiness interests. 

She is also the co-editor of  The Academic's Handbook (Duke University Press, 2020). This completely revised anthology is full of wise, accessible essays about navigating academia from a diverse array of scholars across disciplines and career stages/paths. 

Dr. Flores's current book project Starved for Respect: The Many Hungers of Latinx Food Workers (UNC, 2024) examines the labor and lives of Latinx food workers in the US Northeast from the 1940s to the present day. From agricultural fields to processing factories to restaurants to street vending, Latinx people have historically and currently powered the US food industry in ways that often go unacknowledged. In the process, they have also changed the culinary landscape of the country through their entrepreneurship and creativity. Traversing the states of the Northeast from Pennsylvania to Maine, this book explicitly connects the fields of US labor history, Latin/x American and immigration history, and food studies. 

 

Nicolas Allen

Nicolas Allen, Assistant to the Director

nicolas.allen@stonybrook.edu

Spring 2023 Office Hours: By appointment.

Office: SBS Bldg, 3rd fl, Rm. N-335

Nicolas is a student at the History PhD program at Stony Brook where he studies the rise of the early music industry in Latin America, specifically in Cuba and Brazil. Nicolas is interested in the ways that U.S. recording companies contributed to the development of consumer markets in those countries and how, in doing so, they participated in the consolidation of national cultures in Vargas-era Brazil and Batista-era Cuba.