Francisco Beltrán is an assistant professor of history at Cal Poly Pomona. He is a U.S. historian that teaches classes in History and Ethnic and Women’s Studies on topics that include Chicanx and Latinx history, race and ethnicity, immigration, the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and oral history. He is co-author, along with Paul Spickard and Laura Hooton, of the revised edition of Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity (Routledge 2022), which examines U.S. immigration history through race and ethnicity lenses. He is currently working on two additional manuscripts; the first, titled Voices of the People: The Mexican American Community Press of San Diego, examines different forms of Mexican American-Chicana/o civil rights activism captured by community newspapers published in San Diego, California, during the 1960s and 1970s. The other, American Immigration: Facts and Fictions, co-authored with Rena Heinrich, is an upcoming entry in ABC-CLIO/Bloomsbury Publishing’s Fact and Fictions series focused on ten misconceptions about American immigration history. Dr. Beltrán completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2019. He has previously taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, San Francisco State University, the University of Michigan, Reed College, and Oklahoma State University.
