Bobby Cervantes
Bobby Cervantes is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of American Studies at the University of Kansas. His dissertation analyzes the demands and strategies of poor Americans’ activism in the twentieth century in order to examine the nature of their solidarity in the nation’s modern history. His research has been supported by the Hall Center for the Humanities, the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation, the Society for U.S. Intellectual History, and the Middlebury Language Schools. He is also assistant editor of American Studies, the quarterly interdisciplinary journal sponsored by the Mid-America American Studies Association and the University of Kansas Libraries. Bobby’s journalistic work has appeared in the Houston Chronicle, the San Antonio Express-News, Politico, and The Texas Tribune.
