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Bryan Winston
Postdoc Fellow, Wesleyan University

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Postdoc Fellow, Wesleyan University
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Bryan Winston is an immigration historian and digital humanist who specializes in Latinx history, race and ethnicity, public history, and transnationalism. Winston is currently the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital and Visual Storytelling for the Carceral Connecticut Project at Wesleyan University and is completing his first book: Mexican Corridors: Migration and Placemaking in the Lower Midwest. The book is a transnational account and analysis of ethnic Mexican life in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska during the first half of the twentieth century. Complementing the monograph in progress is a digital history project, titled “Mapping the Mexican Midwest,” that visualizes Mexican migration routes, institutions, and social networks in the region.
Prior to his arrival at Wesleyan, Winston was the project manager and postdoctoral fellow for the Dartmouth Digital History Initiative, a digital humanities project that launched open-source tools that make oral histories more searchable and accessible. He was also the Associate Director for two oral history projects: Dartmouth Vietnam Project and Dartmouth Black Lives.
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Bryan Winston is an immigration historian and digital humanist who specializes in the study of Latinx history, race and ethnicity, oral history, and transnationalism. Winston received his PhD from Saint Louis University and is currently the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital and Visual Storytelling for the Carceral Connecticut Project at Wesleyan University.
Winston’s current book project, Mexican Corridors: Migration and Placemaking in the Lower Midwest, is a transnational account and analysis of ethnic Mexican life in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska during the first half of the twentieth century. Mexican Corridors uses Spanish- and English-language sources to argue that Mexican migrants created a regional community that connected urban and rural space through mobility, cultural adaptation, and transnational organizing. Complementing the book, Winston recently launched “Mapping the Mexican Midwest,” a digital history project that visualizes early-twentieth century Midwestern Mexican institutions and regional networks. “Mapping the Mexican Midwest” stresses the importance of mobility to community formation, while emphasizing to the public that dynamic Latinx communities have long viewed the Midwest as their home.
Prior to his arrival at Wesleyan, Winston was the postdoctoral fellow and project manager for the Dartmouth Digital History Initiative, a digital humanities project that creates open-source tools that make oral histories more searchable and accessible. Relatedly, he was the Associate Director for two oral history projects: Dartmouth Vietnam Project and Dartmouth Black Lives.
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