Romeo Guzmán is an assistant professor in US history at Claremont Graduate University. His research and writing focus on Chicano/a/x history, Mexican migration, and California. Before arriving at CGU, Guzmán was an assistant professor at California State University, Fresno (2016 to 2020), where he founded and directed The Valley Public History Initiative: Preserving our Stories. Since 2012 he has co-directed, with Carribean Fragoza, the South El Monte Arts Posse’s public history project “East of East: Mapping Community Narratives in El Monte and South El Monte,” which has resulted in the publication of East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte (Rutgers 2020), bike rides, Ethnic Studies curriculum, and a new mural. His public history projects have received funding from California Humanities, Los Angeles City Department of Cultural Affairs, National Performance Network, National Endowment for the Humanities, Whiting Foundation, and have been reviewed or featured on NPR, KCRW, The California Report, The Metropole, KCET, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Fresno Bee, and others. Guzmán co-edits Boom California, an open-access and public facing online journal of UC Press.
