Mr. Ethen Peña
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
ethen peña is an instructor in the Department of Humanities & Fine Arts at Huston-Tillotson University and a PhD student in Mexican American & Latina/o Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
They teach across U.S., Latin American, and borderlands history (including Mexican American History and Texas–Mexico Borderlands History), and build courses around close reading, argumentation, and writing as public-facing skills. Their research sits at the intersection of history, ethnic studies, and critical theory, with interests in social movements, archives, and state power in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands.
Their writing includes reviews in Aztlán: Journal of Chicano Studies, E3W Review of Books, and South Texas Books in Review. They are currently reviewing Gloria Anzaldúa’s posthumous Prieta Is Dreaming: A CuentosNovela (forthcoming) in Aztlán (Spring 2026), and a book chapter currently under development for the edited volume Latinx Marxisms: Revolutionary Nationalism, Socialism and Communism in Latina/o/x History, Politics & Culture.
