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BELS Fellow
Bio/CV:
Carlotta Wright de la Cal is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the historical intersections of corporate power, infrastructure expansion, Indigenous sovereignty, and immigration law. Focusing on railroad corporations in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, her dissertation project examines how Indigenous and migrant workers navigated, repurposed, and resisted overlapping systems of legal and corporate control. Prior to Berkeley, she received a B.A. in History and an M.Phil. in American History from the University of Cambridge.
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