Rate My Professor Jim Ross-Nazzal

Ross-Nazzal is an accomplished author and editor, with key publications including "Our Story: An Ancillary to US History: From Pre-Contact to Post-Factual America" (2018), an Open Educational Resource textbook co-authored with his students; "The Spirit of Magnolia Park: Ethnic Pride in a Mexican Community, 1909-2009" (Pearson, 2012); "A Pax Americana: The US Veto in the United Nations Security Council on the ‘Question of Palestine’ 1972-2007" (Edwin Mellen Press, 2008); contributions to "History in Dispute: The Middle East since 1945" (St. James Press, 2003), such as chapters on Israel’s nuclear weapons, the Gulf War, the Intifada, and the Oslo Accords; and "Progressivism and Civil Rights Movement, Environmentalism, Labor Movement, Populism, Public Education Reform, Socialism/Political Radicalism, Temperance, and Women's Rights" in the "Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements" (2013). A Webb-Smith award-winning author and West Houston Institute Innovation Fellow, he has served on the editorial board of the Journal of International Women's Studies since 2005 and edited Fronteras Unidas. His research interests encompass U.S. intelligence and counterinsurgency operations in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, women's history, ethnic studies, U.S. foreign policy, and diplomacy. Ross-Nazzal has presented public lectures on Mexican American music in the 1950s, African Americans and World War I, women and Blaxploitation movies, Houston and the Great Depression, the 1970s, and pre-9/11 Hip Hop. He teaches courses in US History, Mexican American history, Texas history, Cold War pop culture, and the 1970s through ethnic and gender studies perspectives.