Dr. Sergio González

Dr. Sergio GonzálezMarquette University

Sensenbrenner Hall, 203B

MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America(414) 288-7506sergio.gonzalez@marquette.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor

History

Sergio M. González is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University. A historian of twentieth-century U.S. migration, labor, and religion, his scholarship explores the intersections between faith and social movements as well as the development of Latino communities in the U.S. Midwest. He is the author of Mexicans in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2017) and the co-editor of Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 (New York University Press, 2022) with Felipe Hinojosa and Maggie Elmore. His most recently published book, Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin (University of Illinois Press, 2024), explores the relationship between Latino communities, religion, and social movements in the twentieth century Midwest. In 2025, Strangers No Longer was awarded the American Catholic Historical Association’s John Gilmary Shea Prize for the most original and distinguished contribution to the history of the Catholic Church.

González’s current research examines the contentious battles over sanctuary movements in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, exploring the pivotal role people of faith have played in developing contemporary social movements for immigrant and refugee justice as well as the opposing political movements that have risen to criminalize these forms of solidarity. That work has produced two forthcoming manuscripts with co-author Lloyd Barba – Sanctuary in America: How Activists Defied the Federal Government—And Why It Still Matters (Oxford University Press, 2026) and Sacred Refuge: New Histories of the US Sanctuary Movement (New York University Press, 2026) – and will be the focus of current González’s research sabbatical.

Along with his academic scholarship, González is a committed public historian. He's engaged in several public humanities projects, including co-writing and co-hosting The Look Back, a social studies show for middle school students on PBS Wisconsin; serving as a founding member of the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective; and, co-writing and co-hosting Sanctuary: On the Border Between Church and State, a limited podcast series with Axis Mundi Media.

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Courses Taught

González teaches across a variety of departments and programs, including in History; Languages, Literatures, Arts, & Culture; Latino Studies; and the Honors Program. His courses focus on Latino belonging and community formation, activism and civil rights movements, urban settlement, faith and religiosity, and the historical development of citizenship in the United States.

Specialization

• U.S. immigration, labor, religious, and urban history; Latino studies