Biography

California State University San Bernardino - History

Assistant Professor Of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Oregon





Higher Education
Yvette J.
Saavedra
Eugene, Oregon
I am a historian specializing in 19th Century U.S. History, Borderlands History, History of the U.S. West, Chicana/o History, and Gender and Sexuality History. My research interests include issues of race, power, identity, colonialism, nationalism, gender and sexuality. After receiving my B.A. in History and Chicana/o Studies from Pitzer College I went on to earn my Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas El Paso. My recently released book Pasadena Before the Roses: Race, Identity, and Land Use in Southern California, 1771-1890 is a social and cultural history detailing how Spanish, Mexican, American and Indigenous groups’ competing visions of land use affected the formation of racial and cultural identity in Pasadena, California, during this period. I am currently working on several projects including my second full-length book tentatively titled Living la Mala Vida: Transgressive Femininities, Morality, and Nationalism in Los Angeles, 1810-1850, a study that (re)defines masculinity, femininity, gender, and sexuality within Mexican nationalism and concepts of political and social citizenship

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