Michael Innis-Jiménez is a professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of American Studies at The University of Alabama. A historian by training, Innis-Jiménez has served as a consultant and team member with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s Latino New South Project and consultant with the Levine Museum of the New South (Charlotte, NC), the lead museum of the Latino New South Project’s three-museum consortium. Innis-Jiménez’ books include Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940 (NYU Press, 2013) and Made in Chicago: Mexican Food, Tourism, and Cultural Identity(under contract with the University of Texas Press, in progress).
