Nora Salas
Associate Professor of History
Mackinac Hall D-1-126
[email protected]
(616) 331-3134

Fields:  Latino/Latina, U.S. Women, Social Movements, 20th Century U.S., Agriculture, Anti-Colonialism

Degrees:
Ph.D., M.S.W.,  Michigan State University
B.A., University of Michigan

Nora Salas teaches courses in U.S. History, especially those focused on Women’s history and Latinx history. She emphasizes active learning and student research in her courses. Her initial academic research examined the intersections of political thought, class, region, and gender on the Chicano Movement in Michigan. Currently Professor Salas is working on a comparative study of Mexican and Cuban immigrants residing in Michigan before 1920. This project examines the racialization of these groups in smaller cities and rural areas outside of Wayne County. In addition to her role as an Associate Professor, Dr. Salas has been the Director of the Kutsche Office of Local History since 2021. 

Selected Publications: 

Salas, Nora. “Pablo’s Problem’:  Michigan Chicano Movement Anti-Colonialism and the Farm Bureau’s Peasant Menace, 1962-1972.” Michigan Historical Review 45, no. 2 (Fall 2019): 1-38. 

Salas, Nora. “We are a Distinct People,” Defending Difference in Schools through the Chicano Movement in Michigan, 1966-1980.” In The Chicano Movement: Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Mario T. Garcia.  New York:  Routledge, 2014.