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Jonathan Cortez

“How Did We Get Here” Panel 

October 29, 2025

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On Wednesday, September 10th, I moderated a webinar with notable immigration historians who situated the current presidential administration’s policing, detainment, and deportations of marginalized immigrants in conversation with the past.    “How Did We Get Here? U.S. Immigration Historians Respond” brought together leading scholars of U.S. immigration history to reflect on the current environment of fear among […]

River Depths, Bordered Lands, and Circuitous Routes: On Returning to Texas

August 19, 2024

Not Even Past republishes this moving and insightful article on returning to Texas by Jonathan Cortez to celebrate them joining the faculty of the Department of History at UT Austin as an Assistant Professor of Borderlands History. Dr. Cortez wrote this piece about returning to Texas to teach after 10 years on the East Coast […]

Recent Posts

  • Review of Beyond States. Powers, Peoples and Global Order (2024).
  • Understanding History Through Video Games: Europa Universalis IV and Causation 
  • The Politics of Catastrophe: A Brief History of FEMA
  • Beyond the Archive: Digital Histories and New Perceptions of the Past
  • Review of Malaria on the Move: Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890-2015 (2025).
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