TEACHING INTERESTS
I teach a wide variety of classes for both undergraduate and graduate students. Topics include: Mexico, Historical Research and Writing, Historiography, Gender and Sexuality, Research Seminars, and Teacher Preparation courses (among others).
RESEARCH
Professor Ford specializes in modern Mexico and transnational U.S. History. Currently, she is working on a project on labor and leisure in early 20th century Southern California.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Book: Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City (London: Bloomsbury Academic, United Kingdom, February 2018).
Chapter: “Insurgent Citizenships: Armed Rebellions and Everyday Acts of Resistance in the Global South” in World Histories from Below: Disruption and Dissent from 1750 to the Present, Antoinette Burton and Tony Ballantyne, editors. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, United Kingdom, 2016).
Article, “Childhood and Modernity in Mexico City: Print Media and State Power during the ‘Mexican Miracle’” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth Vol. 9 no 1 (Winter 2016).
Digital Exhibit, co-curator, Fall 2020
“The Ground Beneath Our Feet: One Hundred Years of Earthquakes in Los Angeles” Photography exhibit usingLos Angeles Times archives
https://ahundredyearsofearthquakesinlosangeles.org
Visit the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth webpage for an interview about my book:
https://shcy.pinecast.co/episode/4bf351b3abb64087/childhood-and-modernity-in-cold-war-mexico-city
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D. in History, University of Illinois