Dr. Sonia Hernández is Professor of History at Texas A&M University. She is a core faculty member and former director of the Latino/a & Mexican American Studies Program at Texas A&M. Hernández received her PhD in Latin American History from the University of Houston in 2006; she worked as an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Texas-Pan American from 2007 through 2014. She joined the History Department faculty at Texas A&M in fall 2014. She is a former UT Board of Regents' Teaching Excellence awardee and former Fulbright Fellow. She is a Texas A&M University Chancellor EDGES Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and most recently the holder of the George T. & Gladys H. Abell Professorship of Liberal Arts Endowment II at Texas A&M University. Her research focus is on women, gender, and labor and teaches courses on Texas & the Southwest, Modern Mexico, Mexican American History, among others.