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Pedro A. Regalado

Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Yale University (2019)
B.A., Loyola University Chicago (2013)

Pedro A. Regalado researches and teaches the history of race, immigration, planning, and capitalism in urban America. His first book, Nueva York: Making the Modern City, is a history of New York City’s Latinx community during the twentieth century, from the “pioneers” who arrived after World War I to the panoply of Latinx people who rebuilt the city in the wake of the 1975 fiscal crisis. Across a range of topics, from urban renewal to the rise of Latinx bankers, US military operations in Central America to drug workers who repurposed tenement buildings, Nueva York demonstrates how the democratic ideals of the city hinged, in large part, on the experiences of Latinx New Yorkers.

Regalado’s work has been featured in The Journal of Urban History, Boston ReviewThe Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Before coming to Stanford, Regalado was a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Born in the Dominican Republic, he was raised in New York City’s Washington Heights.

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Subfield
Cultural History
Economic and Financial History
Labor History
Race and Ethnicity
Urban History