Genevieve Carpio is the Cassius Marcellus Clay Fellow in the history of ethnicity, race, and migration at Yale University. She recently completed her dissertation “From Citrus Belt to Inland Empire” in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California under the advisement of George Sanchez. Prior, Carpio earned her masters in urban planning from the University of California Los Angeles where she specialized in community development and the built environment. 

Over the last decade, she has been involved in numerous public history projects in her roles as Vice President of the Historical Society of the Pomona Valley, a program coordinator at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, a coordinator of the Los Angeles and Metropolitan Studies Group at the Huntington Library, and a partner with Inland Mexican Heritage. While at Yale, she is planning a class in digital history that draws from her training at the Institute for Media Literacy at the USC Cinema School. Building on her academic training and experience in public history, her book project Racial Movements: Citizenship, Mobility, and the Making of the Inland Empire offers a cultural history of the global Inland Empire as she untangles the relationship between race, place, and mobility.