Rate My Professor Kevan Aguilar

Aguilar is currently completing his first book manuscript, titled “Revolutionary Encounters: Race, Ideology, and Exile in Mexico and Spain,” which explores the interactions between Mexico’s laboring classes and political refugees from the Spanish Civil War, drawing on archives in Mexico, Spain, the United States, and the Netherlands. He is also developing a second project tracing Mexican and Mexican American anarchists from the 1920s to the 1970s. His scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Latin American Studies, Hispanic American Historical Review, Radical History Review, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Mexican History and Culture. Notable publications include “From Comrades to Subversives: Mexican Secret Police and ‘Undesirable’ Spanish Exiles, 1939-60” (Journal of Latin American Studies, 2021), which earned the Paul Vanderwood Best Article Prize in Mexican History awarded by the Conference on Latin American History in 2023; “Decolonizing Refuge: Indigenous Solidarity toward Spanish Exiles, 1936-1939” (Radical History Review, 2025); and “The ‘Indios’ of Spain and the Mexican Revolution: Racial Ideologies and the Labor of Internationalist Solidarity” (Hispanic American Historical Review, 2024). Aguilar’s research has received support from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright-Hays Program, Social Science Research Council, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, University of Maryland President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, and others. In 2026, he was awarded a UC Alianza MX Research & Innovation: Latino Studies Project seed grant for “Sin Fronteras: Mapping Radical Histories in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” aimed at documenting community organizing in the border region.