The Center for Latino and Latin American Studies invites you to join us for "Strangers No Longer: Recovering the History of the Latino Midwest" with Professor Sergio M. González.

Sergio M. González is assistant professor of history at Marquette University. A historian of 20th-century U.S. migration, labor and religion, his scholarship focuses on the development of Latino communities in the U.S. Midwest. He is the author of "Mexicans in Wisconsin" (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2017), and the co-editor of "Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945" (New York University Press, 2022) with Felipe Hinojosa and Maggie Elmore. His most recently published book, "Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin" (University of Illinois Press, 2024), explores the relationship between Latino communities, religion and social movements in the 20th-century Midwest. González’s current research expands on these themes through two new projects. The first examines the history of sanctuary movements in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, exploring the pivotal role religious institutions and people of faith have played in developing contemporary social movements for immigrant and refugee justice. His second project analyzes the central role the Midwest has come to play in the country’s fraught immigration politics, studying the century-long record of anti-immigrant sentiment in the region and the social movements that have risen to combat it.