Julia Schiavone Camacho

Julia teaches history and writing, including an introductory academic writing course and a research and writing seminar on the history of world Christianity, for which she has developed a special passion. Julia is Catholic. From Tucson, she grew up traveling across the Arizona/Sonora borderlands. Julia writes nonfiction and fiction. She is the author of Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960 (North Carolina, 2012). A spinoff set on a broader canvas, her current project is, Chinese Latinos: Forging the Transpacific Family, Diasporic Community, and Memory. A related article was published in the Journal of Chinese Overseas in November 2024. This year, Julia was invited to write an entry on “Asian Americans in the Heartland,” submitted at the end of May 2025. Julia’s short historical fiction piece, “Misinterpretation,” appears in the Women’s Fiction Writers Association Historical Fiction anthology, Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women, published in the summer of 2024, and has since won several awards. Inspired by the life of Afong Moy, the first known Chinese woman in the U.S., Julia’s story is told from the perspective of her companion and interpreter, Atung. Julia’s other short fiction and nonfiction appears in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Florida Review, The Hopper, and The Coachella Review, and has been nominated for Best of the Net Anthology. Julia previously taught at Antioch College, Sarah Lawrence College, Williams College, and the University of Texas at El Paso. See Julia’s website.

Ph.D., University of Texas El Paso