![]() Dolley Madison: A Case Study of Female Leadership in the Early Republic.Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation. ![]() She began her career as an actor and interpreter at Plimoth Plantation. Skotheim Director of Education at the Huntington Library, and taught at the University of California Riverside, Claremont McKenna College, Harvard University, and Simmons College. Allgor previously served as the Nadine and Robert A. She was appointed by President Obama to the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation. She is also the author of Dolley Madison: The Problem of National Unity (2012) and A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation (2006), and the editor of The Queen of America: Mary Cutts' Life of Dolley Madison (2012). Broussard First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic after having garnered the OAH Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize in its original form. Her first book, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (2000), won the James H. AlamilloĬatherine Allgor is the president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Francis Dam DisasterĬlick here for more information about José M. Flood of Memories: How Mexican Families Survived the St.A History of Sports and Latinx Communities.The Politics of Labor, Leisure and Sports in Mexican America.The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora.NEW IN 2020: Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora (Rutgers University Press) ![]() Alamillo is currently working on two projects: "Sports and the Chicano/a Movement" and the role of Spanish language newspapers and Mexican Blue Cross during and after the 1928 St. His family’s experiences in the lemon industry inspired his first book, Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1900-1960 (2006). He co-authored Latinos in U.S Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identity, and Acceptance (2011). His most recent book is " Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora. He is a consultant to the new exhibition "¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas" opening summer 2021 at Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. Alamillo’s research focuses on the ways Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans have used culture, leisure, and sports to build community and social networks to advance politically and economically in the United States and Mexico. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at University of California, Los Angeles’ Chicano Studies Research Center, he taught courses in Chicano/a Studies, Ethnic Studies, Sports Studies for nine years in the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Washington State University. in Comparative Cultures (Ethnic Studies) at University of California, Irvine. degrees in Sociology and Communication at UCSB. At middle school age, he took part in University of California, Santa Barbara's Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) and earned B.A. His family worked in the year-round lemon industry which allowed him to attend local public schools uninterrupted. Alamillo was born in Zacatecas, Mexico and raised in Ventura County, California.
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