Mensa's World Gathering 2021

George Diaz
Associate Professor of History
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley


George is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where he teaches U.S. History, Borderlands, and Mexican American History. His award-winning book Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling Across the Rio Grande (University of Texas Press 2015) is a social history of smuggling in the borderlands. His current book project, Mañana Land: Life and Death in a Mexican Prison in Texas, considers incarceration and capital punishment transnationally by recovering the voices of those ensnared by the carceral state. Aside from working on his next monograph, George is Co-Editor of a collection titled Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America (University of Texas Press 2020). His research is informed by investigations in Mexican and U.S. archives, as well as a lifetime of living on the border.

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