American Studies

Jonathan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Studies completing their dissertation, “The Age of Encampment: Labor, Race, and Surveillance along the Southern U.S. Border, 1933-1975.” Jonathan’s dissertation charts a history of federally-funded encampment – the concentration of populations – throughout the twentieth century by arguing that it was under the auspice of New Deal liberalism that the structure and function of the camp became a mechanism for control, especially over threatening bodies (i.e., racialized laborers, enemies of the state, and refugees). Similar to Natalia Molina’s concept of racial script, Jonathan’s dissertation offers scholars the notion of spatial script in order to analyze the way the physical and material aspects of encampments came to be used towards multiple populations.

Education

• B.A., Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2015
• B.A., Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2015
• M.A., Public Humanities, Brown University, 2017

Courses Taught

• Spring 2018, Race and Space: Segregation, Suburbanization, and Sites of Encampment, Department of American Studies, Brown University

Teaching Assistantships

• Fall 2017, Introduction to Ethnic Studies, Dr. Elizabeth Hoover, Department of American Studies, Brown University
• Spring 2017, Introduction to Latinx History, Dr. Monica Muñoz Martinez, Department of American Studies, Brown University
• Fall 2016, Introduction to Ethnic Studies, Dr. Elizabeth Hoover, Department of American Studies, Brown University