Stephen Pitti (b. ca. 1969) is a

Mexican American Mexican Americans ( es, mexicano-estadounidenses, , or ) are Americans of full or partial Mexican heritage. In 2019, Mexican Americans comprised 11.3% of the US population and 61.5% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans. In 2019, 71% of Mexic ...

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

currently on the faculty of

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. In 2003,

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published his first major book, ''The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans''. He currently directs the Latina/o History Project at Yale, which studies the history of Mexican Americans,

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Dominican Americans Dominican Americans ( es, domínico-americanos, ) are Americans who trace their ancestry to the Dominican Republic. The word may refer to someone born in the United States of Dominican descent or to someone who has migrated to the United Stat ...

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, and other

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in the United States.

Life

Pitti grew up in

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. He graduated from

in 1991 and earned his Ph.D. in history in 1998 from Stanford University. His dissertation adviser was Albert Camarillo. He is married to Alicia Schmidt Camacho, who is the current head of Ezra Stiles College.

Works

References

1960s births 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American academics of Mexican descent American writers of Mexican descent Living people Yale University alumni American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub