Meet Dr. Tom I. Romero
Tom I. Romero, II J.D. Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Law
Affiliated Faculty History and Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (in)Equality
The author of numerous articles, book chapters, and essays, Dr. Romero teaches and researches in the areas of the legal history of the American West, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between race and immigration law, school desegregation, property, land use, water law, and urban development and local government.
Currently, Dr. Romero is revising a book manuscript on the legal history of race and law in post-World War II Denver, Colorado. He also working on several projects related to the past history and current challenges of immigration and water law. Those projects include a book chapter that examines the intersection between developments in water and immigration law in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a community based participatory research project on water access and water quality issues impacting a Latinx neighborhood in Denver, Colorado.
Dr. Romero has served as the interim Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Associate Provost of Research and Curricular Initiatives for the university during the last eight years. He also is on the advisory board of History Colorado’s Lost Highways Podcast and was a featured expert in Season 2’s episode on the Colorado’s declaration of martial law against Mexican Americans during the Great Depression. He received his Ph.D and J.D. from the University of Michigan and is an undergraduate alum of the University of Denver
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