Cathleen Mejico

Dr. Cathleen Mejico is a Postdoctoral Associate within the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration supporting research that engages Latinx histories. An interdisciplinary historian and community-based scholar, Cathleen's research focuses broadly on questions of racialized geographies, community institutions, and collective well-being across the twentieth century to present day. Her current book project, Neighborhoods and Livelihoods: Using and Creating Public Space in the Northeast San Fernando Valley, investigates how working-class, migrant communities use everyday spaces to create relationships of mutual support, cultural affirmation, and political strength in the face of civic neglect and racialized subjugation. Cathleen is also the Project Manager for The First 100: Chicanas Changing History initiative which documents how Chicana historians have transformed the way we do and understand history, as well as who is included in U.S. history.

Cathleen obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California. A Yale alumna, Cathleen proudly holds a B.A. in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and cheers on the Moose. She calls the Northeast San Fernando Valley home.