Educational Background

• Ph.D., student, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 2012-present.

• M.A. History, Texas Christian University, Dallas, 2012.

• B.A., History, Dickenson College, May 2008.

Zak is interested in the process of immigration, acculturation, and citizenship within the twentieth century American Southwest.  For his M.A. thesis, he wrote about the idea of citizenship among the Mexican immigrant, Mexican American, and Anglo communities from 1910 through 1940.

Last updated 9/12.