Julia María Schiavone Camacho is a cradle Catholic from a Mexican-Italian family in Tucson and grew up traveling across the Arizona/Sonora borderlands. She is a historian and writer whose research focuses on the Chinese diaspora in Latin America and mixed families in modern China. Her academic work includes Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960, and she has published short nonfiction and fiction.
As a professor of history and writing at a small college in the Midwest, Julia finds particular joy in her history of world Christianity course, with its special ties to her faith and growing interest in Catholic and Christian lay apologetics. In her other classes, she’s always looking for new ways to integrate Christian faith and history.
Julia and her husband make their home in both Southern California and Michiana. Parts of her faith journey have been winding and painful; every day she thanks the Lord for his great grace.