Lilia Fernández is Professor in the Department of History at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She is a historian of the twentieth-century U.S. whose work focuses on Latinos, urban inequality, and class politics. Her first book, Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago (University of Chicago, 2012) examines the migration, settlement, activism, and racial formation of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in the city’s central neighborhoods. Her second book project focuses on the diverse range of Latino Chicagoans in the late twentieth century including industrial workers, students, and elites, and their class politics and efforts at panethnic coalition. Fernandez is the author of many journal articles and book chapters as well and is the founder and former director of the Latino New Jersey History Project, a student-led, community-based, public humanities research initiative. Dr. Fernandez is working on a similar initiative to gather and record oral histories and archival materials on Latinos in the Chicago area.