Campus Administration

Mark Overmyer-Velázquez became Director of UConn Hartford as of August 23, 2017. A Professor of History at UConn and the founding Director of El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean & Latin American Studies, Dr. Overmyer-Velázquez trained at Yale University as a historian of Latin America and U.S. Latinos. He has dedicated his research and teaching to these intersecting fields. His books include, Global Latin(o) Americanos: Transoceanic Diasporas and Regional Migrations (Oxford, 2017), Beyond la Frontera: The History of Mexico-U.S. Migration (Oxford, 2011), Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico (Duke, 2006) and the two volume, Latino America: State by State (Greenwood, 2008).