Stephen Pitti '91
Professor of History and American Studies
Director of the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program
Master, Ezra Stiles College
Note: we are short on time, so we have cribbed biographies of each of these professors from a few sources; links are below.
Professor Pitti, who was raised in Sacramento, California, and received his PhD from Stanford University in 1998, is the author of The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race and Mexican Americans and is currently working on The World of Cesar Chavez, now in process with Yale University Press. In April 2007, he testified before Congress on the issue of immigration reform.
He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Latino Studies, Ethnic Studies, Western History, 20th-century immigration, civil rights, and related subjects. He currently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies of Yale's American Studies Program. And he directs the Latina/o History Project, which explores ethnic Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, and other Latino histories in the United States, their links and divisions, their diversity, and their cultures and politics.