Nickolas P. Hernández is a Doctoral student in the History Department, and College of Arts and Letters Dean’s Fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year. Nickolas researches the relationship between new-arrival Latines and their relationship with their nation of origin and the ways in which new-arrivals influence U.S. politics. Nick wants to further understand the intersections of race, religion, and class between new-arrivals and U.S. born Latine groups in the American Midwest during the Cold War period. By looking at Latine transnational political institution building, domestic capital, and transnational community, Nick hopes to shed a new light on the conventional understanding of Latine politics in the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
Nickolas holds a B.A. in American Studies from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. While at Baylor, Nick was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar; his research investigated the connection between U.S. intervention in Central American civil wars in the Reagan years and was supervised by Dr. Felipe Hinojosa.