Congratulations to Veronica Martinez-Matsuda, who recently received tenure and a promotion to associate professor in Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and teaching faculty in Latina/o Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Martinez-Matsuda joined Cornell in December 2009 and received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in United States History and Mexican American Studies. Before joining Cornell she was a Pre-Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Department of History at Bryn Mawr College and Visiting Lecturer in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell.
Martinez-Matsuda's book, Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program (June 2020) examines the history of the FSA's Migratory Labor Camp Program and its role in the lives of diverse farmworker families across the United States, describing how the camps provided migrants sanitary housing, full on-site medical service, a nursery school program, primary education, home-demonstration instruction, food for a healthy diet, recreational programming, and lessons in participatory democracy through self-governing councils.
She has published in the Journal of American History, and The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. She currently is working on a new book manuscript, Farmworkers' Sweat Equity: The Self-Help Housing Movement and the Investment Against Migrant Poverty.
Veronica is teaching faculty in Latina/o Studies and a member of the Graduate Faculty in the minor field of Latinx Studies as well as American Studies and Latin American Studies at Cornell. She is active in each of her academic communities across Cornell. In particular, she values service that involves student and public engagement.
Dean Colvin announced last week that the board of trustees has approved the promotion of professor Veronica Martinez-Matsuda to the rank of associate professor with tenure. Congratulations to Veronica! Her research and teaching on the new deal and immigration are more relevant than ever!
