- Assistant Professor, Career Track
Biography
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Education
- PhD, University of California Merced, 2024
- MA, University of California Merced, 2022
- BA, Humboldt State University, 2016
- AA, Coastline Community College, 2013
Research Interests
- benevolence of public memory
- racial geography
- environmental segregation
- 20th Century American West
Biography
Shiloh Green Soto is a historian of the US West. Her scholarship centers the experiences of racialized workers and critically examines the interplay of race, class, and place in the structuring of suburban and rural environments through manufactured public memory, social movement & legal advocacy, and constructed forms of nature. Emersed in critical university studies, her first book manuscript, The Community Engaged University: Benevolence, Silence, and Power at the Land-Grant Archives, demonstrates the ways land grant universities both shape and disown rural communities of color in the US West, and mobilizes university archives toward abolition of the systems which exploit, imprison, and silence farmworkers, prisoners, and indigenous communities. A first-generation college student, Green Soto received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from the University of California Merced, where her research encompassed urban history, critical race and ethnic studies, racial geography, critical archival studies, and critical university studies.