Kris Klein Hernández

Kris Klein Hernández is a Postdoctoral and Faculty Fellow at Yale's Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM), and Lecturer in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration (ERM). His scholarship, which explores comparative radicalization within the nineteenth-century American Southwest, is situated at the nexus of Latinx Studies and Borderlands History. Klein Hernández teaches courses on nineteenth and twentieth-century Latinx history; U.S. Imperialism and empire; race and gender from the early republic to World War I; and the history of the military.

Klein Hernández's research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Organization of American Historians, the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, and a Predoctoral Fellowship in History at Bowdoin College. Klein Hernández received his PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan, a MA in History from the University of Texas, El Paso, and his A.B. in Latin American Studies cum laude and Spanish from Bowdoin College. 

Faculty Fellow, 2020-2021