ALCH Aims & Values
The Association for Latinx Culture and History will gather, support, and accelerate historical work related to Latinx communities in the United States. It will promote scholarship, expand academic and professional opportunities, enrich pedagogy, and develop projects that advance understandings of Latinx culture and history.
Created by and for students, scholars, public historians, archivists, and other practitioners, this national association will draw members from colleges and universities, museums and public history institutions, libraries and archives, and other organizations and communities around the country.
There is enormous hunger for Latinx history, but this moment is also defined by growing misinformation about the Latinx past, cutbacks that threaten educational and public history efforts, and the loss of critical archives and other Latinx historical resources. We need a national association that educates the public; supports students, researchers, teachers, and other practitioners; promotes collaboration; and shares strategies related to historical documentation, preservation, research, teaching, and programming.
-Stephen Pitti, George J. Sánchez, Cathleen Mejico
Advisory Board
Emma Amador, Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut
Julio Capó, Professor of History at Florida International University
Lilia Fernández, Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Michael Innis-Jiménez, Professor of History at the University of Alabama
David-James Gonzales, Associate Professor of History at BYU
Tiffany González, Associate Professor of History at University of Kansas
Sergio González, Associate Professor of History at Marquette University
Stephanie Huezo, Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University
Sarah McNamara, Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University
Sehila Mota-Casper, Executive Director of Latinos in Heritage Conservation
Raúl Ramos, Professor of History at the University of Houston
Oliver Rosales, Professor of History at Bakersfield College
Margaret Salazar-Porzio, Executive Director of Oatlands, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio