Ángela Vergara is a professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles, where she has been a faculty member since 2006.  She obtained her BA in history at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile (1994) and her Ph.D. at the University of California San Diego (2002).  Before moving to Los Angeles, she taught at the University of Texas Panamerican in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.