TEACHING

Michael Has Taught These Courses:

University of Alabama

(2008-present)

  • Latino/Latina Lives
  • Latino/Latina Experience
  • American Experience II (Graduate)
  • U.S. Labor and the Working Class in Film
  • American Protest Movements (Graduate Seminar)
  • Working Lives
  • Dirty Jobs  (large lecture course)
  • Latinos/Latinas in the South (Service Learning)
  • Immigrants in a Disaster Zone (Service Learning)
  • American Studies Colloquium
  • The American War on Drugs Through Film
  • The Drug War and American Culture (seminar)
  • Introduction to Urban Studies
  • The American Drug War

William Paterson University (2004-2008)

[Department of History, Department of Geography and Urban Studies (affiliated faculty), Latin American and Latino Studies Program (affiliated faculty)]

  • Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Labor History (graduate)
  • Seminar: Latinos in the United States
  • Seminar: United States Labor History
  • United States Labor History Survey
  • American Ethnic History (face-to-face and online)
  • The Latino Experience, 1898 to the Present (face-to-face and online)
  • The Mexican Revolution
  • United States History Survey I (online)
  • United States History Survey II (face-to-face and online)
  • Western Civilization II (face-to-face, online, and cluster program)
  • Introduction to Urban Studies (face-to-face and online)
  • Introduction to Latin American Studies (hybrid)

Public Humanities Appointments

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s Latino New South Public Humanities Project

Consultant and Team Member

(2012-2014)

Consultant and local team member for the BCRI’s Latino New South project.  Duties included building community connections between the BCRI and the Latina/o community and facilitating public “listening sessions” that solicited community input.

Michael Innis-Jiménez

Michael Innis-Jiménez is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama.

Research Interests

Latinos/Latinas in the U.S.;

U.S. social, cultural, urban,

and labor history, food studies,

the American West; race and

ethnicity in the Americas

 

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