Robert Torres

Originally from the Boyle Heights district of East Los Angeles, California, Robert Torres earned a Bachelor’s Degree in journalism from California State University, Fresno in 1988 and worked his way through graduate school as a news and feature writer for area newspapers.

Torres went on to obtain a Master’s Degree in History at CSUF in 1994 and was awarded Honorable Mention for his thesis on the cotton workers strike of 1933, which was the basis for his first book, “San Joaquin Valley Cotton War.”

Robert Torres has spent the last twenty five years studying and writing about Mexican-American issues. He has taught California History, Latin American History and Chicano Studies at Bakersfield College and has also served as a visiting lecturer at California State University Bakersfield.