Natalia Molina

Natalia Molina is an American historian, author and Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is most prominently known for writing Fit To Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939, How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts, and A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community. She has also published numerous journal articles, op-eds and essays. Her works have touched on topics of race formation, gender, citizenship, culture and migration. She received a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship for her work on race and citizenship.