Carlotta Wright de la Cal is a Ph.D. student in History. Her research lies at the intersection of Indigenous history, labor, and migration policy. Carlotta's dissertation examines how railroad corporations in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands reshaped mobility, labor patterns, and border control in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The project centers the experiences and resistance strategies of transborder Indigenous communities who were displaced and incorporated into emerging systems of labor recruitment, surveillance, and territorial governance in both the United States and Mexico. Carlotta’s work has been supported by the Society for Historians of Foreign Relations, the American Philosophical Society, the John L. Simpson Research Fellowship for Global, Area, and International Studies, and the Berkeley Institute for International Studies.
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Ph.D. Student
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Department of History
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