Dr. Sergio González

Dr. Sergio GonzálezMarquette University

Sensenbrenner Hall, 203B

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

Curriculum Vitae

Assistant Professor

History

Sergio M. González is Assistant Professor of History at Marquette University. A historian of twentieth-century U.S. migration, labor, and religion, his scholarship focuses on 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. González’s current research expands on these themes through two new projects. The first examines the history of sanctuary movements in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, exploring the pivotal role religious institutions and people of faith have played in developing contemporary social movements for immigrant and refugee justice. His second project analyzes the central role the Midwest has come to play in the country’s fraught immigration politics, studying the century-long record of anti-immigrant sentiment in the region and the social movements that have risen to combat it.

Along with his academic scholarship, González is engaged in several public humanities projects, including serving as a public historian developing Wisconsin's new public history museum with the Wisconsin Historical Society; co-writing and co-hosting The Look Back, a social studies show for middle school students on Wisconsin PBS; 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; Latinx Studies; and the Honors Program. His courses focus on Latinx 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; Latinx studies