Who is Michael Innis-Jiménez?

Michael Innis-Jiménez is Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama. Previous to accepting a position at the University of Alabama, he was an assistant professor of history at William Paterson University of New Jersey. He has also served as a scholar for The Latino New South Project, a public history project sponsored by a three-museum consortium consisting of the Levine Museum of the New South (Charlotte, NC), The Atlanta History Museum, and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Innis-Jiménez is a member of the Alabama State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He is co-editor of the Latinx Histories book series from the University of North Carolina Press.

His current research focuses on Mexican food, labor, and the environment in Mexican American communities in the American Midwest and South. Innis-Jimenez has served on the governing boards of the Latino/a Studies Association, Southeastern American Studies Association, the Labor and Working Class History Association, the Immigrant and Ethnic History Association, H-Net, and the Conference of Latin American History. He has also served on various committees for the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, American Studies Association, Southeastern American Studies Association, Latin American Studies Association, Urban History Association, and the Southern Labor Studies Association.