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Status: PhD Student

Adviser: Erik Gellman and Benjamin Waterhouse

Graduate Email: cristianrwalk@unc.edu Twitter

Education

A.A. Santa Barbara City College (2018): History and Political Science
B.A. University of California, Los Angeles (2020): History and the Study of Religion
Thesis: "Constructing a United Front Against Organized Labor and the New Deal:
Employer Associations, Civic Groups, and the Los Angeles Business Community, 1935-1941”
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2023): U.S. History
M.A. Thesis: "'The Eyes of California are on You': Mexican American Farmworkers, Agribusiness, and the New Deal State in the Ventura County Citrus Strike of 1941"

Research Interests

I am a historian of Latinx, labor, business, and environmental history. My research traces the changes and continuities to capitalist agriculture in Ventura County, California from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) to the end of the Bracero Program (1964). I am especially interested in topics like migration, state formation, food systems, ecology, capital accumulation, and (farm)worker resistance.

Notable Awards and Fellowships

  • Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2022
  • Courses Offered

  • HIST 128: American History since 1865, AT
  • HIST 101: History of Misinformation, TA
  • HIST 140: The World since 1945, TA
  • HIST 364/MNGT 364: The History of American Business, TA
  • HIST/MNGT 365: The Worker in American Life, TA
  • HIST 241: History of Latinos in the U.S., Instructor