Mike Amezcua
is an Associate Professor
of History at Georgetown University and the Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. and Annette L. Nazareth Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.
He teaches and writes about 20th century U.S. history, Latinx history, urban studies, capitalism, race, inequality, politics, and immigration. He has written for The Washington Post, Teen Vogue, Chicago Sun-Times, and Zócalo, and has discussed his work on NPR, PBS, ABC, Univision, and other programs.
His first book, Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification (University of Chicago Press, 2022) examines the city-building efforts of Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans as they navigated the vagaries of real estate capitalism spanning the era of urban renewal to the era of neoliberal development. Amezcua has received numerous awards for Making Mexican Chicago, including the 2024 C.L.R. James Award from the Working-Class Studies Association, the 2023 Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American City and Regional Planning History, and the 2023 First Book Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.
Professor Amezcua has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and is a past fellow of the Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has served on a variety of national boards, program committees, and advisory councils including the Organization of American Historians, Urban History Association, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the Newberry Library, DC History Center, and the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University and his B.A. from UCLA. Before joining the Georgetown faculty, Amezcua was an Assistant Professor at NYU. He is represented by the Frances Goldin Literary Agency of New York City.
