Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Mark Ocegueda is Assistant Professor of History. His research and teaching specializations include Latino and Mexican American history, labor, race, ethnicity, recreation, and public history. His current book project is under contract with the University of California Press and examines the development of Mexican American communities in Southern California’s Inland Empire with a focus on civil rights, race, urban renewal, culture, social movements, and labor. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Irvine. Prior to joining Brown University, he was Assistant Professor of Mexican American History at California State University, Sacramento, from 2017 to 2019 and the César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellow in the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies program at Dartmouth College in 2019–20.