Felipe Hinojosa

John and Nancy Jackson Endowed Chair in Latin America & Professor of History

Areas of Specialization

Latina/o, Chicana/o, Religion, The Civil Rights Movement

Education

Ph.D., University of Houston
M.A. in History, University of Texas Pan American
B.A. in English, Fresno Pacific University

Academic Interests & Research Narrative

Born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, Felipe Hinojosa is Professor of History and the Jackson Family Chair for Baylor in Latin America. His research areas include Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, American Religion, Comparative Race and Ethnicity, and Social Movements. His work has appeared in Zócalo Public Square, Western Historical Quarterly, American Catholic Studies, Mennonite Quarterly Review, and in edited collections on Latina/o Studies. Prof. Hinojosa serves on the Advisory Board for the interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, and online moderated forum Latinx Talk. He also serves on the Editorial Board for Eerdmans Publishing Company; the Historical Committee for Mennonite Church USA; and on the Executive Board for the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.

He is the author of two award winning books: Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith, and Evangelical Culture (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), which won the 2015 Américo Paredes Book Award for the best book in Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio (University of Texas Press, 2021), which was awarded the 2022 Outstanding Book Award by the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education. His most recent book, Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 (New York University Press, 2022), is an edited collection that he co-edited along with Maggie Elmore and Sergio González.

Dr. Hinojosa is currently working on a book on the Latinx civil rights movement and its role in shaping American democracy in the post-World War II era.