Dominique Garcia

Dominique is a third year doctoral candidate in the Department of History, where she studies global capitalism and Latin America. Her dissertation is tentatively titled Carving Capital: Global Trade, Gendered Labor, and Meat Consumption in Buenos Aires, 1870–1930. Before joining UMD’s History Department, she taught for several years at Clovis Community College in Fresno, California, where she also designed student service programs aimed at increasing retention rates among the institution’s most academically at-risk students. She has also served as the Resident Historian of Latin America at the Regimes Museum in Orange County, California, an institution focused on the study and prevention of tyranny.