The University of Kansas Department of History welcomes Organization of American Historians Distinguished Speaker, Professor Lori A. Flores, to campus on September 19^th, at 4:00 pm in the Big 12 Room of the Kansas Union. Dr. Flores will speak about her upcoming book, “Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19,” which focuses on the intersection of Latinx food workers, labor, activism, and history.

Lori A. Flores is Associate Professor of History at Stony Brook University (SUNY), where she teaches courses in U.S., Latinx, labor, immigration, and borderlands history. She is the author of the prize-winning book Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement (Yale, 2016) and the forthcoming book Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19 (UNC, 2025). She is also co-editor of The Academic’s Handbook (Duke, 2020) with Jocelyn Olcott. Her research and writing have been supported by institutions including the Russell Sage Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy.

Visit the University of North Carolina Press website to learn more about her forthcoming book. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469679860/awaiting-their-feast/

Special thanks to the event sponsors: Center for American History, Center for Military, War, and Society Studies, American Studies, Office of Diversity Equity and Inclusion, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Museum Studies, The Commons, and the Western History Association for their gracious support.