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Julia Camacho, PhD

Julia Camacho

Senior Teaching Professor, History

  • PhD, The University of Texas at El Paso, History
  • MA, The University of Texas at El Paso, History
  • BA, The University of Arizona, History and Women’s Studies

A historian and writer, Julia María Schiavone Camacho’s short fiction and nonfiction pieces appear in The Florida Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Coachella Review, The Hopper and an anthology, Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women, and she’s working on longer historical fiction based on her academic research. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net Anthology. Julia is Catholic and grew up traveling across the Arizona/Sonora borderlands.

Areas of Expertise

United States, U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Latin America, Chinese diaspora

Professional Experience

Julia has taught at the University of Texas at El Paso, Williams College, Sarah Lawrence College, Antioch College, and Goshen College.

Awards

  • Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) Excellence in Research Award, Antioch College, 2018.
  • Louis Knott Koontz Memorial Award for “Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland,” Pacific Historical Review, 2009.

Scholarly Work

Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960 (University of North Carolina Press, 2012).

“Asian Americans in the Heartland.” In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies. Ed. Maddalena Marinari. New York: Oxford University Press, April 2026. 14,700 words.

“Chinese Latinos and an Imagined Latin America: Transpacific Family, Identity, Culture, and Memory in Hong Kong, Macau, and Southern China,” Journal of Chinese Overseas, November 2024.

“Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to BecomingMexican, 1930s–1960s,” Pacific Historical Review 78, no. 4 (2009): 545–577.

Areas of Interest

History of Christianity, oral and public history and historical fiction.

Office Hours

Section 01
10/19 - 12/11 W 3:30 pm - 4:30 pmKIPJ 271
10/19 - 12/11 T TH 12:45 pm - 2:30 pmKIPJ 271
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