Edward Escobar is professor emeritus in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. Born and raised in East Los Angeles, Professor Escobar received his PhD in history from UC Riverside. He held administrative positions at UC Irvine and Stanford University before joining the faculty at Indiana University Northwest, where he taught some of the first courses in Latino studies. He came to Arizona State in 1993 tasked with developing the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, of which he served as founding chair. In the years that followed, he would become one of the leading architects of ASU's renowned School of Transborder Studies. In addition to his administrative achievements, he is the author of many publications within the field of Chicana/o Studies, such as: History, Culture, and Society: Chicano Studies in the 1980s (1983); Forging A Community: The Latino Experience in Northwest Indiana, 1919-1975 (1987); "The Dialectics of Repression: The Los Angeles Police Department and the Chicano Movement," (1993); Race, Police, and the Making of Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945 (1999); and "The Unintended Consequences of the Carceral State: Chicana/o Political Mobilization in Post-World War II America" (2015). In this interview, Professor Escobar discusses: his family background and upbringing; his educational journey from high school to attending California State University Dominguez Hills; his affiliation with the Chicano movement and efforts to bring the Mexican American experience into education; his graduate experience at UC Riverside; his reflections on the state of Chicana/o studies during the early years and how the field evolved over the decades; the aims and contributions of his scholarship in the field; the reception of Chicana/o studies at the universities he served; the Chicana/o Studies and Transborder programs at Arizona State; as well as his thoughts on important works, themes, and high points in the field's development over the last fifty years.