Ithaca College

Organization of American Historians Distinguished Speaker Maria E. Montoya will present “Creating an American Home: Gender, Geography, and Resistance in America’s Company Towns,” on Thursday, March 30, at 7:00 p.m. in Williams 225 (Please note that this is a room change).

Montoya, associate professor of history and American culture and director of the Latina/o studies program at the University of Michigan, is currently working on “I Owe my Soul to the Company Store: Race, Gender, and Space in America's Company Towns, 1915-1960." She is also working on "A National Park System for all Americans: Rethinking Nature and Wilderness."

She is also author of numerous articles and the award-winning book Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840 to 1920 (2002), an engaging examination of the Maxwell Land Grant, the most famous of roughly two hundred land grants in New Mexico and southern Colorado.

Montoya’s presentation, sponsored by the Provost’s Office and the Department of History, is part of the Women’s History Month celebration and is free and open to the public.