Natalia Molina

Natalia Molina is an American historian and Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of ''Fit To Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939,'' ''How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts, and A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community''. In 2019, Molina co-edited a series of essays on the formation of race in the United States, ''Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method, and Practice'', in collaboration with Daniel Martínez Hosang and Ramón Gutiérrez. She has also published numerous articles in scholarly journals and contributes op-eds in nationally circulated newspapers. She received a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship for her work on race and citizenship. Provided by Wikipedia