Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Minnesota

B.A., University of Minnesota

 

1041 Flanner Hall

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN  46556

Phone: (574) 631-2168

Fax: (574) 631-4399

jason.ruiz@nd.edu

Jason Ruiz, Assistant Professor of American Studies, teaches courses in Latino history and culture, critical race theory, popular culture, and U.S.-Mexican cultural relations. He is also a Faculty Fellow in Latino Studies at Notre Dame and a member of the Radical History Review editorial collective.  Ruiz co-edited an issue of the Radical History Review (Issue 100, Winter 2007) and Queer Twin Cities: History, Culture, Community (University of Minnesota Press), and has contributed essays to several anthologies.  Ruiz earned his Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2008.  He is currently revising his thesis, which won the 2009 prize for “Best Dissertation in Latino Studies” from the Latin American Studies Association, into a book manuscript, titled "Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Mexico in the Popular Imagination of the United States, 1876-1920."  Professor Ruiz has held fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Museum of American History (a Smithsonian institution), and Macarthur Program at the University of Minnesota.

 

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