The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez a Border Story

Dr. Aaron Bobrow-Strain, is tha author of, "The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story." He is a professor of politics at Whitman College in Washington who is visiting the Quad Cities and will join us for a brief conversation about immigrant advocacy.

Dr. Bobrow-Strain teaches courses on food, immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border. He also is the author of "White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf" and "Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas."

In the 1990s, he worked on the U.S.-Mexico border as an educator and activist. He is a founding member of the Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition.

Along with academic journals in the U.S. and Mexico, his writing has appeared in The Believer, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, Salon, Gastronomica and The Huffington Post.

Dr. Bobrow-Strain has a B.A. in international studies from Macalaster College, an M.A. in Latin American studies from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. He’s received grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Social Science Research Council and won teaching prizes from UC- Berkeley and Whitman College.