Faculty and Staff
Adrian Burgos, Jr.
Associate Professor of History
Associate Professor Adrian Burgos Jr. specializes in U.S. Latino history, African American Studies, sport history, and urban history. His research is concerned with the intersections of race, nation, and culture between the United States and the Spanish-speaking Americas. He is currently finalizing his book manuscript, Playing America’s Game(s): Baseball, Race, and Latinos, 1868-1959 (University of California Press), that examines the tensions that developed regarding the incorporation of individuals from the Spanish-speaking Americas in U.S. professional baseball circuits. Among other research projects in progress, he is co-editing an anthology with Gina Pérez and Frank Guridy entitled Tensions of Caribbean Diasporas that explores the historical and continuing impact of the intersecting and overlapping waves of the African Diaspora among U.S. Latino communities and in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. The recipient of the Latin American Studies Association Latino Studies Section 2001 Dissertation Award, his selected publications include chapters ““The Latins from Manhattan”: Confronting Race and Building Community in Jim Crow Baseball, 1906-1950,” Mambo Montage (2001); “Learning America’s Other Game: Baseball, Race, and the Study of Latinos,” in Latina/o Popular Culture: Cultural Politics into the Twenty-First Century (forthcoming), and articles “Jugando en el Norte: Caribbean Ballplayers in the Negro Leagues, 1910-1950,”Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies(Spring 1996); and “Playing Ball In a Black and White Field of Dreams: Afro-Caribbean Ballplayers in the Negro Leagues, 1910-1950,” Journal of Negro History(Winter 1997). Professor Burgos received his doctorate in US History from the University of Michigan in 2000.