Remembering Herbert Gutman's Work, Culture, and Society Fifty Years On

MATT GARCIA is Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of History, Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, and Human Relations at Dartmouth College. He previously taught at Arizona State University, Brown University, the University of Oregon, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of A World of Its Own: Race, Labor and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970, which in 2003 won the Oral History Association's award for best book. In 2013 his book From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement won the Philip Taft Award for the Best Book in Labor History. He is the coeditor of Food Across Borders with Melanie DuPuis and Don Mitchell, published in 2017. Garcia served as the outreach director and coprimary investigator for the Bracero Archive Project, which received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant in 2008 and was the recipient of the Best Public History Award by the National Council for Public History in 2009–10. He received an American Council for Learned Societies Fellowship in 2020 for his book, Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World's Most Notorious Corporations, published in April 2023.