John Mckiernan-González

Biography

Research interests

Professor Mckiernan-González is fascinated by the intersection of public health, civil rights and transnational social movements. This variety of commitments translates into research on 19th and 20th popular mobilization and American public health policies at the Mexican border, race and cross-border labor politics, and Latino public history.

Courses taught

Professor Mckiernan-González teaches courses in Latino Social History, North American Borderlands, Health and Illness in North American History, Mexican American history, and the United States since 1865.

Awards/Honors

Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Mexican American Studies and Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, (2004-2005)

Rights, Recognition and Revolution: The United States Public Health Service and the Mexican Border, 1900-1930, Inaugural Hispanic American History Month Lecture, the National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health,

“Camp Jenner and Other Field Trials: Black Exodus, Agricultural Labor and Federal Smallpox Therapy in the New South - Northern Mexico Borderlands, 1895,” Distinguished Speaker Series in Ethnic Studies, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA (2001)

Latino Graduate Student Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution (1997)

Rackham Merit Fellow, the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor

Distinguished Service Award, Eisenhower Middle School

Latino Faculty and Staff Association, the University of South Florida, (2005)