Verenize Arceo

Biography

My research interests center on the intersections of race and space in the North American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. My undergraduate research experience focused on Merced, California’s Chinese community between 1850 and 1920 and analyzed how spatial dynamics complicates our understanding of power relations and restores voices to historically silenced communities. Ultimately, it is my desire to focus on how minority groups take the “foreign” out of their segregated enclaves within small towns and make these marginalized spaces into homes and communities.

Education

B.A., History, University of California, Merced, 2018

Field

• U.S./North American History

Selected Publications

• “Bridging China with Merced: Chinese Economic and Spatial Development, 1870-1900.” Southern California Quarterly. (Submitted)