AnnaRose, Ph.D. Faculty Profile

Anna  Rose, Ph.D.

Professor

What makes me unique

Rose is a first-generation scholar and award-winning teacher, she specializes in Mexican, Latin American, environmental, urban, and public history. She has written extensively about nineteenth-century Mexico and is particularly interested in the intersections of technology, risk, and social change.

Her first book, City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860–1910 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), explores the technological modernization of Mexico’s capital and its unintended consequences. She is currently at work on her second monograph, which examines the 1984 San Juan Ixhuatepec (San Juanico) petroleum explosion outside Mexico City through the lenses of environmental history, restorative justice, and corporate negligence.

Anna Rose has co-edited two editions of the widely used textbook Problems in Modern Latin American History—the 5th edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and the 6th edition (Bloomsbury, 2026). She teaches courses on public history, Latin America, and the history of sustainability.

Blending scholarship with service, Rose contributes to public history and civic initiatives in Chico, California, where she lives. She was appointed to the City of Chico’s Climate Action Commission and remains an active member of the historic preservation community, serving on the boards of Save the El Rey Theater and the Beautiful and Historic Chico Coalition.