Professor of History

Burgos is a historian that specializes in US Latino history, Sport history, Urban history, and African American history. His teaching, publications, and public engagement have focused on the migration and immigration experience of Latinos within the United States as it illuminates processes of racialization, identity formation, urbanization, and labor. In particular, he examines the manner Latinos have become part of U.S. society while simultaneously engaging in transnational practices wherein many strove to retain their cultural identities.

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