AnnaRose, Ph.D. Faculty Profile

Anna  Rose, Ph.D.

Professor

What makes me unique

Rose is a first-generation scholar and award-winning teacher, she specializes in Mexican, Latin American, environmental, urban, and public history. She has written extensively about nineteenth-century Mexico and is particularly interested in the intersections of technology, risk, and social change.

Her first book, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), explores the technological modernization of Mexico’s capital and its unintended consequences. She is currently at work on her second monograph, which examines the 1984 San Juan Ixhuatepec (San Juanico) petroleum explosion outside Mexico City through the lenses of environmental history, restorative justice, and corporate negligence.

Anna Rose has co-edited two editions of the widely used textbook Problems in Modern Latin American History— and the . She teaches courses on public history, Latin America, and the history of sustainability.

Blending scholarship with service, Rose contributes to public history and civic initiatives in Chico, California, where she lives. She was appointed to the City of Chico’s Climate Action Commission and remains an active member of the historic preservation community, serving on the boards of and the Beautiful and Historic Chico Coalition.

  • Urban environmental history, particularly fires and disaster, in Mexico City and Latin America.

  • Ph.D. History- University of Arizona (2012)M.A. Latin American Studies- University of Arizona (2008)B.A. History- 黑料福利网, Chico (2006)

  • Not teaching this semester.

  • “One Fire, Two Songs: Óscar Chávez and El Tri Sing about the 1984 San Juanico Fire,” The Latin Americanist (December 2020): 377-392.

    “The Problem of Fire and the American City,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (September 2020),

    “My First-Generation Journey to History Professor,” in You Are Not Alone: Recipes to Obtain Success by Students for Students, edited by Lettie Ramirez (El Monte, CA: Velázquez Press, 2019). Awarded the International Latino Book Award.

    “Careers for History Majors: Study the Past, Find your Future,” in You Are Not Alone: Recipes to Obtain Success by Students for Students, edited by Lettie Ramirez (El Monte, CA: Velázquez Press, 2019). Awarded the International Latino Book Award.

    Amelia M. Kiddle y Anna Rose Alexander, “Historias de América Latina,” ISTOR año XVII, núm 67 (invierno de 2016): 3-12.

    “Safety by Design: Engineers and Entrepreneurs Invent Fire Safety in Mexico City, 1860-1910.” Urban History 41, no. 3 (August 2014): 435-455.

    “Incendiary Legislation: Fire Protection and Risk in Porfirian Puebla.” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 29, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 175-199.

  • Faculty Excellence Award, College of Letters Arts and Social Sciences, 黑料福利网, East Bay (2021)

    Award of Distinction in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Georgia Southern University (2015)