Experts Directory: History: United States

Melisa Galvan

Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-7356
email: mgalvan@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

• History of Mexico, especially the 19thcentury
• Borderlands history
• Latin American history
• History of Contraband
• Chicano/Latino history
• Political economy
• Port studies

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Peter J. Garcia

Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-3491
email: peter.garcia@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

• Latin American ethnomusicology
• Southwest borderlands culture
• Chicana/o folklore
• Member of the advisory board of the Encyclopedia of Latina/o Folklore
• Author: “Decolonizing Enchantment: Echoes of Nuevo Mexicano Popular Musics”