Dr. Juan Mora-Torres is an Associate Professor of Latin American History at DePaul University. A former Teamster, he has worked in the agricultural fields, canneries, and as an adult education instructor. Dr. Mora-Torres has a long history of working with community organizations and cultural groups. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago. He teaches courses on Latin American, Mexican, Latina/o and Chicana/o history, including Discover Chicago. His research and writings focus on the history of the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, Mexican migration, popular culture, social movements, working class formations, and Mexicans in Chicago. The author of The Making of the Mexican Border, he is currently working on two book projects Mexicans in Babylon: Barrio Making in Chicago’s West Side, 1917-1983 and “Me voy pa’l norte (I’ m Going North)”: The First Great Mexican Migration, 1880-1940.”