Rosina Lozano, Associate Professor of History, was one of 23 scholars recently appointed to the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program. The announcement was made by OAH President Philip J. Deloria.

Lozano is a historian of Latino/a/x history with a research and teaching focus on Mexican American history, the American West, migration and immigration, and comparative studies in race and ethnicity. Her first book, An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States (University of California Press, 2018), is a political history of the Spanish language in the United States from the incorporation of the Mexican cession in 1848 through World War II, with some discussion of the following decades and present-day concerns.