Scholar - Women Also Know History

Participant Info

Keywords: U.S.-Mexican Gendered Migrations, 20th Century U.S. Urban History, Chicanx Education in Urban America, Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Women's History

About Me: I am a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and my dissertation examines how the everyday social-cultural experiences of ethnic Mexicans, and in particular ethnic Mexican women, redefined the concept of gateway communities in California’s San Joaquin Valley from 1965 to 1995. I earned my master’s from UW-Madison where I situated the school’s Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program into the larger Chicanx Movement to explore the contours of race, space, and belonging in higher education. I have served as the Pedagogy Project Assistant for UW-Madison’s Department of History, as well as the Baldwin Project Assistant for the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective. All this to say, as a first-generation Chicana scholar, I am interested in opening up doors for future scholars of color to see this path as an avenue for themselves.

Recent Publications: D. Rouff and Verenize Arceo, “Communal Gardens, Defensive Design, and Urban Apartheid in Chinatown: Merced, CA, 1870-1910” in Segregation and Resistance of the Americas, ed. by Eric Avila and Thaïsa Way (Dumbarton Oaks: Harvard University Press, 2023): 235-261.

Verenize Arceo, Review of Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect. By Michelle Téllez, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 53, Issue 3, Autumn 2022, 316.

Media Coverage: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-undergrads-don-t-just-gain-knowledge-they-create-it https://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/local/education/uc-merced/article213551114.html

Expertise by Topic: Gender, Higher Ed, Labor, Local & Regional, Migration & Immigration, Race, Urban History