DR. ALAN SHANE DILLINGHAM
Dr. Dillingham is a historian and associate professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. During the 2024-2025 academic year, he is serving as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Dillingham’s research focuses on the history of Native and Indigenous peoples across the Americas. He has published on twentieth-century Mexico, the intersection of anti-colonial politics and development policy, and labor and youth-led social movements.
His first book, Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2021) won two awards; the American Society for Ethnohistory's Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award and the Conference on Latin American History's María Elena Martínez Prize in Mexican History.
Dillingham serves on the editorial boards of the Radical History Review and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History. He also serves on the international collective of the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Maryland. His writing has been featured in The Washington Post, NACLA Report, Animal Político, and Jacobin.
Read more about Dr. Dillingham's fascinating work by visiting his website.
