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About Adriana Briscoe

Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe is a Distinguished Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. She is also a recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

I'm a biologist. Here's why I wrote about U.S. history (1929-1939)

I was one of those Mexican American elementary school children in California who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s not knowing about the deportation or forced expulsion of 350,000-500,000 people of Mexican descent, including U.S. citizens, in the 1930s.

Adriana Briscoe

Jul 12, 2025

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