Xavier Fitzsimmons Cruz

ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow

Xavier Fitzsimmons Cruz studies Latinx migration, labor, and public history, with a focus on archives, oral histories, and community memory in post-industrial Upstate New York. He is a second-year Ph.D. student in history at the CUNY Graduate Center and is committed to building community-centered archives that document the stories of Latinx communities in the United States. Xavier is a 2026 ERI/PS2 Summer Fellow.