Paul A Ortiz

Ortiz joins the ILR faculty after 15 years in the history department at the University of Florida, where he held affiliate faculty memberships in African American Studies, Latin American Studies, the Center for Gender, Sexualities and Women’s Studies, Art & Art History and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
At Florida, Ortiz served as the director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, which offers digital humanities production and experiential learning classroom and fieldwork opportunities year-round.
A third-generation U.S. military veteran, Ortiz has written several books, including An African American and Latinx History of the United States, which received the 2018 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence.
Before his time at Florida, Ortiz taught in the Department of Community Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, between 2001-2008. He was also a visiting assistant professor in history and documentary studies at Duke University between 2000-2001.