Anita Huízar-Hernández (she/her/ella) is Associate Director of the Hispanic Research Center and Associate Professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University.
Her research focuses on the historical roots of Latino religious, political, and cultural expression. She is currently working on her second book, From Cristero to Chicano: Mexican Catholic Nationalism and the Making of Latino Identity, which traces the transnational impact of the Cristero War (1926-1928) — an armed conflict between a group of conservative Catholic revolutionaries and the Mexican government on U.S. Latino identity.
Huízar-Hernández’s essays have appeared in a wide variety of journals and edited volumes, and she is the author of Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West (University of Chicago Press, 2019). She is also part of the project team for multiple digital humanities projects, all of which focus on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. In 2023, she received the Arizona Humanities Public Scholar award.
Research Area: Immigration and Migration
