Nancy Katz, Ph.D.: The Memory of Being Hidden

Why it surfaced

The site centers on a specific and compelling research project: how Crypto-Jewish descendants preserved and publicly articulated memory across the twentieth-century U.S.–Mexico borderlands. Its combination of archival research, oral histories, teaching materials, publications, and conference work gives this otherwise straightforward profile unusual human and scholarly texture.

A historian’s academic profile focused on Atlantic World history, Jewish and Sephardic history, borderlands, migration, and oral history.