Participant Info
- First Name
- Maria Angela
- Last Name
- Diaz
- Country
- United States
- State
- UT Utah
- angela.diaz@usu.edu
- Affiliation
- Utah State University
- Website URL
- https://history.usu.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/angela-diaz
- Keywords
- nineteenth century American history, Civil War era, American South, Gulf South, territorial expansion, southern imperialism, slaveholders, Latin America, Gulf Coast
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Maria Angela Diaz is Assistant Professor of Nineteenth Century U.S. history at Utah State University. She graduated from the University of Florida with her Ph.D in 2013. Dr. Diaz’s recent publications include “To Conquer the Coast: Pensacola, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Construction of American Imperialism, 1820-1848,” in the Florida Historical Quarterly, and a forthcoming chapter in Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power entitled “To Carry that Burden: The Texas Cart War and the Place of Mexican Laborers in the Southern Landscape, 1854-1857.” Her current book project is entitled Saving the Southern Empire: The Gulf South, Latin America, and the Civil War.
- Recent Publications
“To Carry that Burden: The Texas Cart War and the Place of Mexican Laborers in an Antebellum Southern Landscape,” in Reviving Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power, eds. Keri Leigh Merritt and Matthew G. Hild (Under contract with University of Florida Press, 2018).
“To Conquer the Coast: the Florida Frontier and the Construction of American Imperialism, 1820-1848,” Florida Historical Quarterly 95, 1 (Summer 2016) 1-25.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States of America
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Local & Regional, Migration & Immigration, Slavery
