Jessica Chiriboga is an MPhil candidate in History at the University of Oxford (Keble College), where she is studying as a Rhodes Scholar. Her research examines the entangled growth and development of Greater Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Mountains, including how race, class, and gender shaped access to outdoor recreation during the range’s ‘Great Hiking Era’ (1880s-1938). Beyond her dissertation, her research interests include the environmental history of the North American West and Latin America, U.S. constitutional interpretation, and freedom of speech. Jess is a postgraduate member of the Oxford Environmental History Working Group, the Oxford Cold War Reading Group, and the Oxford Union. She is also a member of the American Historical Association, the American Society for Environmental History, and the Western History Association.
Prior to Oxford, Jess received a BA in History from Dartmouth College. As an undergraduate, she served as Student Body President and President of the non-partisan Dartmouth Political Union and interned with the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. Jess enjoys backpacking and playing rugby with the Oxford University Rugby Football Club in her free time. She can be reached at jessica.chiriboga@history.ox.ac.uk.
