Join us and Dr. Laura Muñoz to discuss her most recent work, Desert Dreams: Mexican Arizona and the Politics of Educational Equality.  Dr. Muñoz comes from a family of teachers, including her maternal great-grandmother who taught in the early 1900s in Texas public schools. She is the inspiration behind Dr. Munoz’s book, Desert Dreams a study of Arizona students and teachers in the territorial and early statehood days. Desert Dreams documents the unknown contributions of Mexican Americans in founding, shaping, and participating in Arizona education since 1871.

Dr. Muñoz is currently an associate professor of history and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She earned her Ph.D. in American History at Arizona State University.