Dr. Bobadilla's dissertation, "‘One People without Borders’: The Lost Roots of the Immigrants’ Rights Movement, 1954-2006,” was awarded the Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association in 2020. His forthcoming book, "No More Back Doors: Latinos, Nativists, and the Struggle for Immigrants’ Rights," is based on that dissertation.
Bobadilla is currently working on two new projects: One is a history of community armed defense, which lays out a broad synthetic history of how historically marginalized groups in the U.S. — people of color, women, queer folks, antifascists — at various points in in numerous ways employed guns, gun rights, and a philosophy of self- and collective defense to protect themselves and their communities; and the other is a history of soccer supporter culture in the U.S., which argues that the rise of soccer fandom in the U.S. since the 1960s represents the backdrop of several parallel counter-cultural social movements, where radicals, outcasts, and marginalized people found community, expressed a vibrant political identity, and organized, even as the sport became increasingly mainstream.
