Heather Sinclair

Born and raised in Appalachia, Dr. Sinclair earned a BA in History from Duke University and a Ph.D. in History from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio University. 

Her research is focused on women, labor and the racial politics of reproduction and public health in the twentieth-century US-Mexico borderlands. 

She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “‘Birth City:’ Race, Nation, and Reproductive Violence in the Twentieth-Century Texas-Mexico Borderlands.” 

Her article, “White Plague, Mexican Menace: Migration, Race, and Gendered Contagion in El Paso, Texas, 1880-1930,” published in 2016 in the Pacific Historical Review, was awarded the W. Turrentine Jackson Prize by the Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association. Her public-facing writing has been published in The Washington Post. 

Her research has been supported by an AAUW Dissertation Fellowship, a UTEP Dissertation Fellowship, and a Just Transformations Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. She brings to her research a background in labor organizing, cross-border activism and midwifery.