Book Talk | Ray Suarez | We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Monday, February 3rd at 5:30 PM for a book talk with historian and author Ray Suarez. He will discuss his new book We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century with Dalton Conley and Maria E. Montoya.
Ray Suarez is a journalist and veteran broadcaster with decades of experience as a national chief correspondent covering national and international issues. Previously, Suarez was the host of Al Jazeera America’s daily news program and a correspondent and anchor on PBS NewsHour where he rose to become chief national correspondent covering the 9/11 attacks, four presidential elections, and more. Today, he hosts On Shifting Ground, a radio program syndicated on NPR that explores international fault lines and how they impact us all.
Dalton Conley is the Henry Putnam University Professor in Sociology and a faculty affiliate at the Office of Population Research and the Center for Health and Wellbeing. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and in a pro bono capacity he serves as Dean of Health Sciences for the University of the People, a tuition-free, accredited, online college committed to expanding access to higher education. Conley’s scholarship has primarily dealt with the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic and health status from parents to children. His books include Being Black, Living in the Red; The Starting Gate; Honky; The Pecking Order; You May Ask Yourself; Elsewhere, USA;Parentology; and The Genome Factor. His new book The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture will be published in March 2025.
Maria E. Montoya is a Global Network Associate Professor of History at New York University and the former Dean of Arts and Sciences at NYU Shanghai. She earned her BA, MA and PhD degrees at Yale University. She is the former President of the Western History Association, and a Fellow to the American Antiquarian Society. Her research explores how workers and families in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have used natural resources to earn a living and make their homes in particular places in the American West. She is the author of numerous articles on the History of the American West, Environmental, Labor and Latina/o history, including her most recent piece in the Western Historical Quarterly, “Viewing the American West as A Chicana in China.” She is also the author of the book, Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840-1900. She is the lead author on the U.S. History textbook, Global Americans: A Social and Global History of the United States. Her new book, A Workplace of Their Own: Progressive Management of Workers and their Families in Colorado’s Coal Fields, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. It focuses on John D. Rockefeller and Josephine Roche, and their roles in defining the spheres of work and home life during the early 20th century. She is also working on two other projects: One about the scarcity of water in the American Southwest, and the Rio Grande in particular; and another on the role of Protestant Boarding Schools on Mexican American families in Colorado and New Mexico.