Women at the Los Angeles-Tijuana Border Project

FAIN: AC-284466-22

Mount Saint Mary's University (Los Angeles, CA 90049-1599)
Lia Roberts (Project Director: May 2021 to present)
Stephen Inrig (Co Project Director: December 2021 to present)

The development of a project to study and preserve the history and culture of Women at the Los Angeles-Tijuana (WALAT) border region, including the development of a Gender and Border Studies minor.

MSMU’s proposed Women at the Los Angeles-Tijuana Border Project (“WALAT Border Project”) is a three-year humanities initiative to study and preserve the history and culture of women at the Los Angeles-Tijuana border. The project will 1) Develop a new WALAT Border Project minor—“Gender and Border Studies”—highlighting women’s experiences at the border. This minor will include new multidisciplinary humanities courses and include undergraduate humanities research opportunities, co-teaching, and/or guest lectures. 2) Form a WALAT Border Project Working Group comprised of MSMU faculty and external faculty partners at other universities in Southern California and Baja. 3) Launch a WALAT Border Project Symposium in final year of the project. These activities ensure engagement in the content by a wide range of scholars and the public while also encouraging the participation of emerging undergraduate scholars.