Author Event: Juan Ignacio Mora

Historian and University of Illinois alum Juan Ignacio Mora (BA and PhD) will be in conversation to discuss his new book, Latinx Encounters: How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest (University of North Carolina Press, September 2026). 

He will be joined by Adrian Burgos, Jr. (Professor, UIUC Department of History). Latinx Encounters tells the story of how migrant farmworkers ​in the Midwest shaped the agricultural industry, contributed popular culture, and grassroots labor politics.