Meet Dr. Elizabeth R. Escobedo

Elizabeth R. Escobedo, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of History

Elizabeth Escobedo is an associate professor of Latinx history, with a specialization in 20th century Mexican American history, at the University of Denver. She enjoys teaching a wide-range of topics in U.S. history, including modern America, the Latinx and Chicana/o/x experience, women and gender, and the history of race and ethnicity. Her award-winning book, From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives on Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front, was published with University of North Carolina Press in 2013, and this research is featured in two PBS documentaries, “Zoot Suit Riots” and “Latino Americans.” Her current book project is a relational history of Mexican American and Puerto Rican women in the World War II U.S. military.

If we as a nation are going to recognize that diverse perspectives are important and they help to tell us a more accurate and inclusive history of our nation, then we need to include those stories of the Mexican American population.
Elizabeth Escobedo

Projects & Publications

Latinx woman mechanic working on a plane

From Coveralls to Zoot Suits

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