±õ±¹Ã¡²ÔÌýGonzalez-Soto

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Dissertation Title:ÌýWater is King—Here is Its Kingdom: Race, Labor, and the Environment in California’s Imperial Valley, 1940-1999.

±õ±¹Ã¡²Ô is a Ph.D. Candidate and a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow with the Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of California, Merced. His dissertation situates the historical context and public cost of agricultural monopolies in southernmost California's Imperial Valley.