Delia Fernandez-Jones

Dr. Fernández-Jones is a historian of Latinx life whose work focuses on intra-ethnic Latinx communities and pan-ethnic subjectivities among Latinx in search of greater political, social, and economic rights in the twentieth century. Her publications include “Finding MexiRican Placemaking in Michigan,” in Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest (University of Illinois Press, 2022), 86-108.  Her own book Making the MexiRican City: Migration, Placemaking, and Activism in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is forthcoming in 2023.