Dr. Delgado is currently working on a book, Making the Chinese Mexican: Identity, Race, and Power at the US-Mexico Border, 1882-1943. This work extends her dissertation study both geographically and conceptually. Professor Delgado examines family formation, citizenship, class, and national identity while highlighting the consequences of exclusion laws on Chinese borderlanders and later, Mexicans. Her most recent publication, “At Exclusion’s Gate: Changing Categories of Race and Class among Chinese Fronterizos, 1890-1900” brings together the stories of two groups, Chinese merchants and laborers, to show how U.S. immigration law extended into Mexican border society and created new categories of citizenship and identity. The work will appear in, Continental Crossroads: Frontiers, Borders, and Transnational History, Duke University Press in 2003. This anthology, edited by Samuel J. Truett and Elliott Young, focuses on the formative years of the modern borderlands history, from 1821, when U.S.-Mexican frontier relations began, to the mid-twentieth century, when economic development and state-formation gave the borderlands their current legal, political, and social shape.

Dr. Delgado is also working on an article, “Of Kith and Kin: The Origins of Chinese family life in El Barrio, 1880-1930.” She will present her work in Tucson, Arizona on July 30, 2003 at the Arizona Historical Society. "Of Kith and Kin" underscores the economic and political environment of the Arizona-Sonora borderlands while highlighting the origins of Chinese family life in Tucson. This study is among the first to rigorously examine the contours of Chinese kith and kin relations in the Old Pueblo from the early era of Chinese exclusion to the beginning of the Great Depression. Daily interactions and transactions between Chinese entrepreneurs and their Mexican clientele nurtured friendship and kinship--relations that were engendered because of social integration, not isolation. The composition of Chinese families and relationships among neighbors were imbued with flexibility and accommodation from Chinese and Mexicans alike. By the turn of the nineteenth century, the Chinese population in Tucson grew in number, and after 1900, the community flourished in an area of town both Chinese and Mexicans called El Barrio.

Professor Delgado enjoys teaching courses on the Chicano and Latino experience, US social history, US-Mexico Border history, Asian and Latino immigration, and women's studies. Her courses combine traditional face-to-face instruction with multimedia and e-learning environments. Dr. Delgado resides in Long Beach, California.