±õ±¹Ã¡²ÔGonzalez-Soto
Dissertation Title:ÌýWater is King—Here is Its Kingdom: Race, Labor, and the Environment in California’s Imperial Valley, 1940-1999.
±õ±¹Ã¡²Ô is a Ph.D. Candidate and a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow with the Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group at the University of California, Merced. His dissertation situates the historical context and public cost of agricultural monopolies in southernmost California's Imperial Valley.