James Garza
James A. Garza () is a native of Laredo, Texas. He earned his Ph.D. from Texas Christian University and joined the Department of History and the Institute for Ethnic Studies in fall 2001. Dr. Garza is a specialist on nineteenth Century Mexico and his book, The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City, 1876-1911 will be published by the University of Nebraska Press. In addition, he has an essay "Dominance and Submission in Don Porfirio's Belle Epoque" due shortly from the University of New Mexico Press in the upcoming volume Men' s Rooms: Masculinity, Sexuality and Space in Modern Mexico. Currently, Dr. Garza is researching the historical impact of Mexican immigration to the rural Midwest for an upcoming issue of Journal of the West and the intersection of popular memory and official history in the South Texas and Northeastern Mexican borderlands. Dr. Garza also teaches several courses on Latin American, Mexican, and Mexican-American history during the year and serves as the History Department's representative to the Academic Senate.