Dr. William D. Carrigan

Professor of History, Rowan University


Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928

At present, Dr. Carrigan is engaged in a collaborative research project with Dr. Clive Webb of the University of Sussex on the subject of mob violence against Mexicans in the United States. They have received funding for their research from the National Science Foundation, the Huntington Library, Rowan University, the University of Sussex, and the Clements Center for American History. Dr. Carrigan and Dr. Webb have published two award-winning articles on the subject and are working on a book-length treatment of the subject. In 2005, the British Association for American Studies awarded Dr. Carrigan and Dr. Webb, the Arthur Miller Prize for their article, “Mob Violence against Persons of Mexican Origin and Descent, 1848-1928” which was published in the Journal of Social History in 2003. In 2000, the University of Texas at Arlington awarded the two authors the Webb-Smith Essay Prize for “Muertos Por Unos Desconocidos (Killed by Persons Unknown): Mob Violence against African Americans and Mexican Americans.” The essay was published as chapter two in Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U.S. South and Southwest. A book length study on the subject is under contract with Oxford University Press and is due out in 2010.