Michael Innis-Jiménez is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama. He has also served as a scholar for The Latino New South Project, a public history project sponsored by a three museum consortium consisting of the Levine Museum of the New South (Charlotte, NC), The Atlanta History Museum, and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Born in Laredo, Texas and educated at the University of Iowa with a PhD in history, his research has focused on Mexican immigrant and Mexican American communities in the American Midwest and South.