Michael J. Alarid (History) was invited to visit the University of Alabama History Department and hosted a graduate student luncheon, where he talked about his research and gave remarks about the challenges that graduate students face in the evolving academic profession. Alarid's visit was made possible by the generosity of the Helen Delpar Endowment for Latin American Studies, established by the late Helen Delpar to support both graduate students and a lecture series at The University of Alabama.
Alarid also conducted a workshop for Steven Bunker's History 665 course, Historiography and Methodology, a graduate class in the History Department at The University of Alabama. As a guest, Alarid delivered a training session based on his book, "Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-60" (University of New Mexico Press, 2022), which was an assigned reading for the course. The training session was entitled, "Using Quantitative Methods to Measure Historical Moments." In this workshop, Alarid showed students how he gathered quantitative data from archival sources, how he processed these data, and how he utilized these data to contribute to the historiography of New Mexico.
