Email: nellstrand@luc.edu
Website: https://nathanellstrand.com/
Twitter: @nellstra
Office: Crown Center 557
Faculty Advisor: Benjamin Johnson
Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
Ph.D. Candidate in United States History, Minor in Public History
Expected Date of Completion: May 2021
Dissertation - "Reclaiming La Patria: Sinarquismo in the United States, 1937-1946"
Committee: Benjamin Johnson (chair), Gema Santamaría, Geraldo Cadava
2020 – Certificate in Ignatian Pedagogy
University of California (UC), San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2011 – M.A. in Latin American Studies
Thesis – “Las Anarquistas: The History of Two Women of the Partido Liberal
Mexicano in Early 20th Century Los Angeles”
Committee: Everard Meade (chair), Luis Alvarez, Shelley Streeby
University of California (UC), Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
2009 – B.A. in History, Highest Honors
2009 – B.A. in Politics, Honors
Nathan Ellstrand is a PhD candidate in History at Loyola University Chicago. Among various topics, he is interested in United States-Latin American transnational history, ideology, and borderlands. He is currently writing his dissertation on the political activities of the Unión Nacional Sinarquista, a right-wing Mexican Catholic organization, in the United States during World War II. His work for his Masters in Latin American Studies at the University of California, San Diego covered women's leadership in the Partido Liberal Mexicano while the party was in exile in early twentieth century Los Angeles. Nathan has also conducted research and presented on the sanctuary movement of the 1980s.
Apart from academia, Nathan is passionate about education and social justice. Nathan enjoys eating (he’s a foodie!), traveling and riding his bike in his free time.
Please feel free to contact him with any questions.
Catarino and Evangelina Hernández Research Fellowship in Latino History, Texas State Historical Association, 2020
Conference Travel Award, Graduate School, Loyola University Chicago, 2020
5th Annual Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) Graduate Student Blog Competition Winner, “The transnational Sinarquista movement,” 2020
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Graduate School, Loyola University Chicago, 2016 to 2021
Plan 2020 Student Innovation Fund Grant for the Immigration Advocacy History Project, Loyola University Chicago, 2017
Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity and Community, UC Davis, 2015
English Teaching Assistant Recipient, Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Colombia, 2012
Tinker Field Research Grant, Tinker Foundation, 2010
Graduate Student Research Travel Grant, UC San Diego Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), 2010
Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago, 2016 to 2019, 2020 to 2021
Teacher of Record, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago, 2019 to 2020
Co-Instructor, Department of Education, UC Davis, 2012 to 2016
Teaching Assistant, Dimensions of Culture (DOC) Writing Program, UC San Diego, 2009 to 2011
Writing Assistant, Learning Support Services, UC Santa Cruz, 2006 to 2009
Oral History Interviewer and former Co-Chair, Immigration Advocacy History Project (oral histories, panel, speaker event and exhibit), Loyola University Chicago, 2017 to Present
Co-Creator, Voices from Mundelein: Media Portal web project, Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago, 2018 to 2020
Volunteer, Share Your Stories, Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago, 2020
Research Assistant, Proyecto Solidaridad: Mapa de Esperanza, 2020
Project Assistant, Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure Chicago Jewish Oral History Library, Chicago Jewish Historical Society, 2020
Research Assistant, Dr. Holly Guise, 2020
Guest Tweeter, #TakeOverTuesday, Arizona Historical Society (@AZHistSociety), 2020
Author, Reflection: “Essential Resource to Understand the Mexico-United States Border Region,” United Fronteras US-Mexico Exhibit, 2020
Summer Staff, Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago, 2018 to 2019
Intern, Theodore Roosevelt Center, Dickinson State University, Dickinson, ND, 2019
Author, Blog Post: “Theodore Roosevelt and Racial Diplomacy: Part I,” Theodore Roosevelt Center, 2019
Author, Blog Post: “Theodore Roosevelt and Racial Diplomacy: Part 2,” Theodore Roosevelt Center, 2019
Creator, Wystawa cyfrowa Legionu Młodych Polek (Polish version of the Legion of Young Polish Women digital exhibit), Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago, 2019
Education and Curatorial Intern, Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Chicago, 2017 to 2018
Co-Creator and Researcher, Peace Studies Origins: From Mundelein College to Loyola University Chicago digital exhibit, Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago, 2017 to 2018
Planning Committee Member, Open Houses of Worship Weekend, Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society, Chicago, 2018
Author, Blog Post: “Acting Up: Mercedes McCambridge and Sister Mary Leola Oliver,” Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago, 2018
Volunteer, Loyola University Chicago Public History Lab, Folded Map exhibition, Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Chicago, 2018
Researcher, Loyola University Chicago Public History Lab, 10 That Changed America, PBS Series, 2018
Researcher, Cesar Chavez: Loyola and Mundelein web project, Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago, 2018
Co-Organizer, “Monuments and Memory” Panel, Loyola University Chicago, 2017
Independent Contractor, Digitization and Fact-Checking, The History Factory, Chicago, 2017
Architecture and Digitization Intern, Archives and Records Center, Archdiocese of Chicago, 2017
Participant, Chicago Studies and the Archive Seminar, Newberry Library, 2017
Interviewer, Oral Histories, American Society of Environmental Historians (ASEH) Conference, Chicago, 2017
Author, Digital Historical Fiction: “A Young Fan Imagines a Night Out at Kelly’s,” Happy Medium Ventures, Chicago, 2017
Interviewer, Oral History, Happy Medium Ventures, Chicago, 2016
Co-Coordinator, "Activist Histories” program, UC Davis, 2014
Intern and Volunteer, Riverside Metropolitan Museum, 2006 to 2009
Social Media and Fundraising Consultant, Burnham’s Dream: The White City Musical, Lost and Found Productions, Chicago, 2017 to 2018
Office Coordinator, Cross Cultural Center, UC Davis, 2012 to 2016
Published
“Ranchos,” in Alexandra Kindell, ed., The World of Antebellum America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, Volume 1 (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2018).
“Interview with the Artist: Gregory Beals,” The Lumanary: News, Exhibitions, & Events from The Loyola University Museum of Art 24:1 (Spring 2018): 8-9.
“Resilience amidst Upheaval: Raphael and Mathilda’s Letters, 1872-1878,” Chicago Jewish History 41:4 (Fall 2017): 6-9.
“From the D’Arcy to the Rijksmuseum: The Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon,” The Lumanary: News, Exhibitions, & Events from The Loyola University Museum of Art 23:3 (Winter 2017): 12-13.
Unpublished or Presentations
Organizer and Panelist, “Mexican Fifth Columnists in the U.S?: The Unión Nacional Sinarquista in World War II Era Los Angeles,” Paper Presentation for the Panel, “Transnational Latin American Politics in the 20th-Century United States West,” Western History Association Conference, Presented via Zoom, October 2020.
“Crisis and the Growing Importance of Women in the Partido Liberal Mexicano, 1915-1922,” Paper Presentation, Newberry Library Borderlands and Latino/a Studies Seminar, Presented via Zoom, September 2020.
“Mexican Right-Wing Politics in 1940s Chicagoland,” Paper Presentation, Latina/o Studies Association Conference, South Bend, IN, June 2020 [postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19]
“The Mexican Right in Greater Chicago of the 1940s,” Paper Presentation, Midwestern History Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, May 2020 [cancelled due to COVID-19]
Chair and Panelist, "The Spread of Sinarquismo in the United States, 1937-1940,” Paper Presentation for the Panel, “Transnational Histories of Mexican Catholic Activism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries,” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Las Cruces, NM, April 2020 [cancelled due to COVID-19]
“Crisis and the Growing Importance of Women in the Partido Liberal Mexicano, 1915-1922,” Newberry Library Borderlands and Latino/a Studies Seminar, Chicago, IL, April 2020 [postponed due to COVID-19]
Co-presenter (with Janette Clay), “Voices from Mundelein: Media Portal,” Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, November 2019
“Politicized Refuge: The Rise of the Sanctuary Movement in Chicago,” Paper Presentation, Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies Graduate Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2019
Co-presenter (with Kristin Jacobsen), “Presentation on Loyola University Immigration Advocacy History Project (IAHP),” Poster Presentation, Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies Graduate Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2019
“What Everybody Needs to Know About Central America in an Age of Deportation: Views from the United States,” Roundtable Discussion, American Historical Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 2019
“Empowered while Gendered?: The Emergence of Women Leaders in the Exiled Partido Liberal Mexicano,” Paper Presentation, Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, IL, 2017
“Chicago’s St. Augustine College: Education, Language and Race at a Crossroads,” Paper Presentation, Conference on Illinois History, Springfield, IL, 2017
Co-author (with Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, James Manos, Dan Cooper and Soulit Chacko), “The Illinois TRUST Act: Welcoming Families and Enhancing Security for All,” Research Brief, 2017
“Las Anarquistas: The History of Two Women of the Partido Liberal Mexicano in Early 20th Century Los Angeles,” Paper Presentation, UC San Diego Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS) Graduate Symposium, La Jolla, CA, 2011
Professional
Co-Coordinator, Historians of Catholic Mexico Virtual Network, 2020 to Present
Co-Chair, Dissertation Writing Group, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago, 2019 to Present
Panel Co-Facilitator and Volunteer, History Graduate Student Association Conference, Loyola University Chicago, 2016 to 2019
President, Vice President, and Department Representative, Loyola University Chicago Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC), 2016 to 2019
Volunteer, Midwest Conference on British Studies, Chicago, 2019
Co-Coordinator, Historians for a Just Society, Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Association, 2017 to 2018
Publicity Committee Member, Digital Accessibility Conference, Loyola University Chicago, 2017 to 2018
Graduate Representative, Department of History Latin American Faculty Search Committee, Loyola University Chicago, 2017
Volunteer, English as a Second Language Course, Loyola University Chicago, 2016
Volunteer, Urban History Association Conference, Chicago, 2016
Membership Chair and Member, Staff Assembly, UC Davis, 2012 to 2016
Member, Diversity & Inclusion Working Group, UC Davis, 2015 to 2016
Member, Equity Summit Task Force, UC Davis, 2015 to 2016
Member, Social Justice and SPARC (Student Promoting Advocacy and Redefining Community) Awards Committee, UC Davis, 2014 to 2015
Department Representative, UC San Diego Graduate Student Association, 2009 to 2010
Community
Member, Fund Development Committee, Howard Area Community Center, 2019 to Present
Judge, Chicago Metro History Fair, 2017 to Present
English as a Second Language Tutor, Vietnamese Association of Illinois, Chicago, 2017
Participant, Global Mentorship Program, Loyola University Chicago, 2016 to 2017
Co-Chair and Member, City of Davis Human Relations Commission, 2012 to 2016
Board Member, Yolo [County] Interfaith Immigration Network (YIIN), 2012 to 2016
Founding Member, Davis Phoenix Coalition, 2013 to 2016
Spanish
Knowledge and utilization of the Digital Humanities (including experience with Omeka, Omeka S, Preservica, and Timeline JS)
Trained in oral history methods
Event/Program planning experience
Administrative expertise
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