Miguel Girón
Postdoctoral Fellow in Public History
Curriculum Vitae
Interests
Geographic Field(s): American History, Since 1900
Thematic Field(s): Urban History; Economic and Labor History
Principal Research Interest(s): Borderlands History, Chicano/a/x History
Biography
Miguel Girón (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2026) is a historian of borderlands and urban history in the twentieth century United States. His dissertation, “Gateway or Barrier?: Neoliberalism and the Origins of Border Politics at the San Diego-Tijuana Borderlands,” explores the role of urban poverty in shaping the politics of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Girón serves as the Assistant Director for Native Bound Unbound, a digital humanities organization creating an archive of Indigenous Slavery in the Americas.
Teaching Interests
- S.-Mexico and Comparative Borderlands
- Chicano/a/x & Latinx History
- Urban History
- Labor History
- History of the American West
Awards and Honors
- 2025-2026: Mellon Fellowship in Latinx Studies, Resident Scholar & Fellow, School for Advance Research, Santa Fe, NM
- 2022-2025: Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- 2022: NYU Cities Collaborative-Mellon Summer Institute on Urbanism, Fellow, New York University