1 December 21, 2009 Josephine Méndez-Negrete____________________________________________
University of Texas at San Antonio
Division of Bilingual-Bicultural Studies
Mexican American Studies Program
501 West Durango Blvd.
San Antonio, TX 78207
E-mail: [email protected]
Office: (210) 458-2637
Home: (210) 731-8779
Academic Training
1995, Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Areas of emphasis: Chicana/ Latinos and Leadership /Activism, Sociology of the Family,
and Social Problems Theory Dissertation: “¡No es lo que haces!”: A Sociohistorical
analysis of relational leadership in a Chicana/Latino community. Chair, Professor Patricia
Zavella
1991, MA, Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Thesis: “What are you? What can I call you?” A study of Chicana and Chicano ethnic
identity, Chair, Professor Pamela Roby
1981, MSW/BASW, San Jose State University
Developed a vocational education curriculum as a special project: Human development
within skills training: A bilingual training packet, School of Social Work, San Jose State
University. Adviser, Professor Howard Winant
Academic Experience
2005 – Present
1999 – 2005
1997 – 1999
1994 – 1997
1992 – 1994
1989 – 1991
1989 – 1991
Associate Professor of Mexican American (MAS) Studies and Chair of MAS
Program Committee
Assistant Professor of MAS Studies
Chair of (MAS) Program Committee
Assistant Professor of Social Work and Mexican American Studies, San José
State University
Assistant Professor of Social Work, Worden School of Social Service, Our
Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX
Lecturer, San José State University, College of Social Work
Instructor, Summer Bridge Program, Student Affirmative Action and Equal
Opportunity Office, University of California, Santa Cruz
Teaching Assistant for Community Studies and Sociology, University of
California, Santa Cruz
2 December 21, 2009 Publications
Book(s)
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2009). Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. Re-print Edition. Durham,
NC: Duke University Press. 2nd Printing forthcoming 2010.
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2006). Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. Re-print Edition. Durham,
NC: Duke University Press.
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2002). Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. San José, CA: Chusma
House Publications.
Refereed Articles
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2010). Memory as methodology: Chica(na)s Remembering Violence, in
Chicana Studies: An introduction, Vol 2, Rosalía Solórzano Torres and Francisca L. James
Hernández, (Eds.) Dubuque, IA: Kendall and Hunt. (In press.)
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2010). Nopales, Amor y Corazón: Legacies of Food through love, in
Moctezuma’s Table, College Station, Texas: A&M Press, 99-116. September 2010.
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2007). César Chávez, a contribution to the International Encyclopedia of the
Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, Farmington Hills, MI: Thomas Gale a subdivision of
MacMillan Reference USA.
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2006). Epilogue: Purging the Skeletons Bone-by-Bone, Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, in Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed, 185-198.
Méndez-Negrete, J., Saldaña, L.P., & Vega, A. (2006). Can culturally-informed after school
programs make a difference in teen pregnancy prevention?: Preliminary evidence of San
Antonio’s Escuelitas. Journal of Families in Society, 87(1), 95-104.
Saldaña, L.P. & Méndez-Negrete, J. (2005). Hablando Spanish, English and Tejano: Bilingualism
and its practices. Teacher Education & Practice, 18(3), 333-345. Volume was not published
until Summer 2006.
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2004). Incest. Encyclopedia of Latinos/as in the United States. (ISBN 0-1951560000-5, nominated to write an entry on incest, June 2004. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Méndez-Negrete, J. & Saldaña, L.P. (2004). Bridging a continuum: Normalistas and
paraprofessionals speak about culture. Journal of Latinos & Education, 3(4), 209-225.
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2002). Learning in times of war: A semester of 9/11. Families in Society: The
Journal of Contemporary Human Services, 83(2), 122 - 123.
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2000). The never-ending story: Robert’s lament, Reflections: Narratives of
Professional Helping 6(4), 58-66. Long Beach, CA.
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2000). Dime con quién andas: Notions of Chicano and Mexican American
families, Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services, 81(1), 42-48.
Méndez-Negrete, J. (1999). Accreditation. Affilia: Journal of Feminist Social Work, 14(4), 499.
Méndez-Negrete, J. (1999). Awareness, consciousness, and resistance: Raced, classed, and
gendered leadership interactions in Milagro County, California. Frontiers: A Journal of
Women Studies, XX (1), 25-44.
Méndez-Negrete, J. (1994). We remember César Chávez: A catalyst for change. San José Journal
Studies, 20(2), 71-83.
3 December 21, 2009 Book Manuscript
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2009) A life on hold: La Historia de Tito. Durham, NC: Duke University
Press. (Under review.) Completed the last chapter and an epilog in 2009.
Book Chapters
Saldaña, L.P. and Méndez-Negrete, J. (2007). Conocimientos of bilingual pre-service teachers:
Identity and consciousness. Manuscript accepted as a chapter for a book in Teacher Identity
and the Struggle for Recognition: Meeting the Challenges of a Diverse Society, edited by
Patrick M. Jenlink. Under review.
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2002). Awareness, consciousness, and resistance: Raced, classed, and
gendered leadership interactions in Milagro County, California. In Chicana Leadership:
The Frontiers Reader, University of Nebraska Press, 239-258, Flores Niemann, Y., with
Susan H. Armitage, Hart, P., and Weathermon, K. (Eds.) (Reissued).
Under Review
Méndez-Negrete, J. Healing Incest: A process from a Hispana/Latina Perspective. Invited
submission for a book project in Latina Spirituality for Notre Dame University Press.
(With Bretting, J., and Saldaña, L. P.) Tourism of field research in the borderlands: Insiders,
outsiders, and spectators. Aztlán: Journal of Chicano Studies (Revise and resubmit).
Reclaiming myself: Changing self, carving change, submitted to Bearing Witness Reading Lives:
Imagination, Creativity, and Cultural Change, Anthology in progress by Gloria E.
Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating (Under review).
Non-Refereed Publications
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2007). Excerpt from Las hijas de Juan in Colorlines: The National
Magazine in Race and Politics, March/April Volume, 39-42.
Méndez-Negrete, J. (2002). ¡Mojada! ¡Mojada! ¡Mojada! In Cantos al Sexto Sol: An anthology
of Aztlanahuac writing, García-Camarillo, Rodríguez and Gonzales (Eds.), Wings Press,
San Antonio, TX, 280-286.
Non-Refereed Publications and Publications of Related Interest
Méndez-Negrete, J. November 2007. Frida Kahlo, 1907 to 2007: Homenaje Nacional, La Voz de
la Esperanza, 20(9).
Méndez-Negrete, J. November 2007. Juventud Huesuda, La Voz de la Esperanza, 20(9).
Méndez-Negrete, J. June 2006. Caras vemos, corazones no conocemos: Latina American art in
San Antonio, La Voz de Esperanza.
Méndez-Negrete, J. November 2003. Cala-Vero and Calacalicia, La Voz de la Esperanza, 17(9).
Méndez-Negrete, J. September 2003. Chicana anthology offers many voices, narratives. Review
of Chicana feminisms: A critical reader, San Antonio Express-News.
4 December 21, 2009 Méndez-Negrete, J. July 2003. Memoirs lack depth into tensions of being a revolutionary.
Review of We took to the streets: Fighting for Latino rights for the Young Lords, San
Antonio Express-News.
Méndez-Negrete, J. October 2002. Borrachera, La Voz de Esperanza, 15(8).
Méndez-Negrete, J. June 2002. Review of Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings, San Antonio
Express-News.
Méndez-Negrete, J. June 2002. Randy Garibay: Chicano Blues Man His Words and His Music,
La Voz de Esperanza, 4, 5, and 10.
Méndez-Negrete, J. March 2000. Canciones p’al Emigrante: A legacy of resistance, La Voz de
Esperanza, 13(2), 3-8.
Méndez-Negrete, J. November 2000. Los Dones conservadores, La Voz de Esperanza, 12(9).
Méndez-Negrete, J. April 1998. En sus propias voces! Chicana leaders and activists’ notions of
feminism, La Voz de Esperanza, San Antonio, Texas.
Books in Progress
Struggle, resistance, and change: Leadership and activism in two Mexican American
communities. Book manuscript with targeted completion of 2010. In progess.
Politics of culture and the power of artistic expressions: Cultural tensions in San Antonio, Texas,
article manuscript, Méndez-Negrete, J, & Vega, A. Still working on this project without faculty
member who became employed at another local University.
Reviews, Commentaries, and Newspaper Articles on Las hijas de Juan: Daughters
Betrayed:
Lydia Otero, (Book Review) Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed, Journal of the Western
Historical Association, May 2008.
DeLuca, S. (Book Review) Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed, Families in Society, 2007,
88(4), 666-667.
McMahon, M. R. (Book Review) Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed. Women’s Studies,
36:555-558, December 2007.
LA Teacher, la necesidad de las hijas de escribir un inglés mejor! August 23, 2007, Los Angeles,
California United States.
Strauss, M. Bookslut Review. August 2006,
http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2006_08_009651.php
Jiménez, G. Latin American Review of Books, 2006.
Gaspar de Alva, A. Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed. Journal of Latino Studies, 1, 468470, November 2003.
Perez, A. More than you realize: Local Latina author confronts the prevalence of family
violence, San Antonio Current, February 12 ╨ 18, 2004.
Gervaís, L. Relato de una traición, Nuevo Mundo, Eye en Español, June 6, 2003.
Villagrán, N. Latina rises from abuse, become uplifting author. San Jose Mercury News,
Thursday, June 5, 2003.
Potdar, S. The literary song and dance: Author includes song and acting in lecture of her novel,
Northern Star, NIU, DeKalb, Illinois, Thursday, March 6, 2003.
5 December 21, 2009 Gonzales, P. & Rodriguez, R. Las hijas de Juan ends the silence “downthere,” Hispanic Link
Weekly Report, 20(42), October 21, 2002.
Silva, E. Taboo topic explored by “eagle-eyed” academic, San Antonio Express-News, October
9, 2002.
Gonzales, P. & Rodriguez, R. The silence “downthere,” Column of the Americas, Universal
Press Syndicate, September 2002.
Announcements by University Presses:
Women’s History Month: An overview, Women’s Studies Bulletin, Women’s History Month.
March-April 2003.
International Women’s Day Luncheon, NIU Women’s Studies Program Bulletin, March-April
2003.
NIU slates events for Women’s History Month, NIU News Release, February 17, 2003.
Announcement of readings from Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed, The Argonauta, 22(2),
University Resources for Women Newsletter, February 2003.
UTSA sociologist writes about family and unmasks myths, UTSA Today, November 18, 2002.
Newspapers:
Tijerina, E. Around the Town. San Antonio Express-News, October 24, 2003.
________ . UTSA Professor to be honored. San Antonio Express-News, October 13, 2003.
Interviews with Print Media:
Interviewed for BBC Mundo -- Enlace radio program for Latin American listeners in the globe,
July 10, 2007.
Espinoza, J. N. Cultural event takes place today, Saturday at UTB-TSC, The Brownsville Herald,
November 7, 2003.
Religion Link in the Southwest, identified as a specialist in Latino leadership and activism in
urban communities, San Antonio Express-News, July 18, 2003.
Garza, S. Hispanics official are No 1: Census Bureau says the group now is the biggest minority,
San Antonio Express-News, May 27, 2003.
Garza, S. Jose is No. 1 name given boys in Texas. In U.S., it’s Jacob. Emily leads the girls both
state and nationwide, San Antonio Express-News, May 3, 2003.
Garza, S. Cinco de Mayo not just a party: Some fear the real meaning of holiday from Mexico
being lost in the U.S., San Antonio Express-News, February 7, 2003.
Teaching
Graduate Courses.
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Directed Doctoral Research
Seminar in Latino Biculturalism
Majority-Minority Settings: Creating Comm. Leaders
Cultural Studies Research
Res Des and Inq in BBL Studies
Masters Thesis (Supervised 3 theses)
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Independent Study Course
Communications in a Bilingual Classroom
Latino Biculturalism in the United States
Psychosocial Processes in Bic.-Bil. Environments
Multicultural Groups in the United States
Foundations for Bicultural Studies
Undergraduate Courses.
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Language, Culture and Society
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Introduction to Chicano/a Studies
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Latino Cultural Expressions (HON)
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Latino Cultural Expressions
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Bilingual Families, Communities, and Schools
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Mexican Americans in the Southwest
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Psychosocial Processes in Bic.-Bil. Environments (HON)
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HonS:Soc Psyc & Mex Americans
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Race&Ethn:Soc Psy Mexican-Am
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Mexican American Family
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Women and Gender Studies Topics Course
Administrative Service
1999 – 2019
Mexican American Studies Program Coordinator and MAS Committee Chair –
Responsible for coordinating and providing leadership in the continued
implementation of a multidisciplinary Bachelor of Arts in Mexican American
Studies with eight disciplinary options as areas of emphasis. I convened
meetings, procured and coordinated appropriate data dissemination about
students and program progress. Addressed other student and programmatic
needs regarding recruitment and retention of prospective students, in
collaboration with faculty affiliates and members of the MAS Committee.
Under my leadership, the MAS major continued to grow. During my tenure,
about thirty students went to graduate school. At UTSA, eight in Public
Administration and twelve in our BICU concentration in BBL. Others applied to
PhD programs at UTSA and other universities.
1994 - 1994
Summer Bridge Program Coordinator
Student Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunities Program
Responsible for designing, implementing, and supervising a transition to college
program for special admission students at the University of California, Santa
Cruz. Assisted and facilitated the development of program curriculum.
Instructed in critical thinking. Carried out personal, academic, and cultural
support agenda for the program.
7 December 21, 2009 1991 - 1993
Field Coordinator
University of California, Santa Cruz
Designed, implemented, and coordinated a leadership program. As coordinator,
I identified, procured, and selected and supervised interns at their internship
sites. Using critical pedagogy and a field education approach, instructed
organizational and community theory, leadership, and field research.
1989 - 1990
Coordinator and Instructor
Institute for Undergraduate Student Training in Research
University of California, Santa Cruz
Organized and developed an academic and research summer program. Using the
Summer Bridge Program as the core for data collection, students received
hands-on research application and instruction. Student prepared and presented
formal papers in a panel format at the end of their program experience.
Research Experiences
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With conocimiento as a methodology, I continued to examine the ways in which Tejanas/os
engage personal and social identity formation.
Continue to develop an autoethnography of performance based on reading presentations on
Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed.
Continued to examine the ways in which memory facilitates healing in the context trauma,
proposing a methodology of memory for understanding the ways in which survivors of
sexual trauma retain, sublimate, and re/member their experiences.
Continue collecting oral histories focusing a cultural work as a form of social power and
creative expression.
Conducted a longitudinal evaluation research project for Hispanas Unidaa’ Escuelitas
Project, submitting an evaluation report each of the four years of the project.
Replicated a gender/ethnic identity study in San Antonio, Texas, 1996.
Collecting ethnographic biographies for a study on Chicana/Latino leadership formation.
Research Related Activities
1999 – Present
Activism and Leadership in San Antonio
• I have continued to collect data that will allow me to theorize or expand upon my notions of
activists and leaders in the Mexican American community. Expanding my oral history data, I
have secured interviews and have completed life histories of local activists. This is a
geographic expansion of the study I completed for my dissertation.
Cultural and Social Power
• Using the everyday practices of living in the borderlands, I am exploring the ways in which
those indigenous to that space understand power and the ways in which its presence is
expressed in the context of various structures of domination, including race /ethnicity, class,
gender, and sexuality. Identify formation through conocimiento methodology facilitates the
collection of data I will analyze for this project.
• Co-Investigator, Escuelitas Evaluation Project Hispanas Unidas Institute
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8 December 21, 2009 Assisted in the development of program documentation and data collection for an Hispanas
Unidas pilot project targeting the teen pregnancy, and delinquency and dropout prevention
for 3rd through 8th grade girls at various elementary and middle schools in the San Antonio
Independent School district. As lead investigator, I completed an evaluation of the pilot
project. Out of these efforts, I have continued to assist with the development of evaluation
instruments and program design.
Title VII Program Research Activities
• Aiming to understand how the culture of teaching in Mexico and Latin America translates
into those of the US, I designed and distributed mixed surveys to examine educational
training, immigration and employment history, along with cultural mores, values, and beliefs
of normalistas and paraprofessional educators. To supplement the data collected, I conducted
and taped in audio and video interviews that expanded the participants╒ cultural
understanding of their participation in their educational experience.
Invited Presentations
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July 23, 2010. Keynote Speaker: 2010 Arizona MALCS Institute, Arizona State University,
Phoenix, AZ.
November 16, 2009. Public reading of Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed, activism and
social change in the context of cultural and social violence, University of Texas at San
Antonio.
October 17, 2009. Poetry Reading: A conversation about social and cultural violence, with
Josie Mixon for Domestic Violence Month. Viva Bookstore, San Antonio, TX.
October 15, 2009. Skype interview/conversation with the author on Las hijas de Juan:
Daughters Betrayed. California State University, Northridge.
October 14, 2009. Skype interview/conversation with the author on Las hijas de Juan:
Daughters Betrayed. California State University, Northridge.
April 30, 2009. Methodologies of Memory: A Public Conversation with Josie MéndezNegrete on Violence, Memory, Activism, and Healing. University of California, Riverside.
April 29, 2009. Memory as Methodology in the writing of Las hijas de Juan: Daughters
Betrayed. California State University, Northridge.
November 14, 2008. Invited to read and to discuss of my work and Mexican American
Studies, South Texas College, Mid-Valley Campus, Weslaco, Texas.
November 14. 2008. Invited to meet with the NACCS student organization as a recruitment
strategy, followed by a reading at the Cooper Center, South Texas College, Pecan Campus,
McAllen, Texas.
September 17, 2008. Invited to open Author’s Series for the Authors Guild and Associated
Students, Evergreen Valley College, San José, California.
November 24, 2007. La autoetnografia como instrumento de justicia social: Valorando lo
vivido, Congreso Internacional de Mujeres en el Arte: El Arte de las mujeres como agente de
cambio y desarrollo social, Madrid and Almagro, Spain.
September 19, 2007. Las dos Josies: Mixon and Méndez-Negrete, Ph.D., read their books
about domestic and sexual violence, at Barnes & Noble Fiesta Trails, I-10 and De Zavala.
November 8, 2006. Women’s Studies Institute, Selected readings and question and answer
session, Southwest Conference, Downtown Campus, University of Texas at San Antonio.
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9 December 21, 2009 October 2006. Selected readings and question and answer session, Ethnic Studies Library,
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
October 2006. Selected readings and question and answer session, National Hispanic
University, San José, California.
November 2006. Reading and discussion on autoethnography, Chicana Biography, English
Topics course for Norma Cantú.
March 4, 2004. Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed.
Evergreen Valley College, San José, California.
November 13, 2003. Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters
Betrayed. San José State University, College of the Humanities and Arts, Department of
Foreign Languages, San Jose, California.
November 9, 2003. Claiming spaces of healing: Autoethnography of survival. National
Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies (NACCS), Tejas FOCO Regional Conference,
November 9, 2003.
October 14, 2003. Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed.
BBL 2023 - Latino Cultural Expressions – A reading and discussion with UTSA students.
October 12, 2003. Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed.
Books in the Barrio Reading, Central Park Mall, San Antonio, Texas.
October 8, 2003. Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed.
BBL 2023 - Latino Cultural Expressions – A reading and discussion with UTSA students.
September 21, 2003. Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters
Betrayed. Barnes and Nobles, San Antonio, Texas.
September 16, 2003. Selected readings, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed. Celebrating
Hispanic Heritage Month, First Annual Literatura and Arte, Art and Literature Event,
Valenzuela Latino Bookstore, San Antonio, Texas.
August 11, 2003. Selected readings, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed. Mujeres Activas
en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) Conference, University of Texas at San Antonio.
June 7, 2003. Presentation on violence against children and selected readings, Las hijas de
Juan: Daughters Betrayed, Center for Employment Training, San José, California.
June 6, 2003. Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed.
Catellano Foundation Authors’ Series, Biblioteca Latinoamerican, San Jose, California.
April 10, 2003. Guest speaker on activism and leadership: A relational model in Mexican
American communities. Introduction to Chicano Studies Course, St. Cloud, Minnesota.
April 9, 2003. Presentation on violence and selected readings, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters
Betrayed to observe Domestic Violence Month, St. Cloud, Minnesota.
April 4, 2003. Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed. Tia
Chucha Bookstore, Sylmar, California.
April 3, 2003. Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed,
McArthur Park Bookstore, Los Angeles, California.
March 27, 2003. Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed.
University of Texas at El Paso.
January 13, 2003. Selected Readings, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed. Women’s
Center, University of California, Santa Cruz.
November 2002. Reading from Cantos al Sexto Sol: Anthology of Aztlanahuac writing,
Latino Leadership of the Library and San Antonio Public Library Foundation, San Antonio,
Texas.
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Peace and Justice Center, San Antonio, Texas.
September 2002. Presentation on writings and readings from Las hijas de Juan: Daughters
Betrayed, Providence High School, San Antonio, Texas.
Other Creative Activities
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Corrido 1070 placed among finalists of over 300 submitted in the Song for Hope and Justice
national songwriting contest, in collaboration with Dr. Rachel Y. Cruz, who composed the
music. Performed live, Friday, September 24, 2010, Restoration Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Wrote, Produced, and Directed Cancionera Naci: Toña La Negra, which premiered March
24, 2010 for Women’s History Month.
Produced and directed a six-and-a-half minute clip to recruit students into Mexican American
Studies (MAS) at UTSA and posted it on YouTube,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTT5R-Srydo.
Produced and directed a three-and-a-half minutes clip to introduce Marco Cervantes to the
community as a new faculty member, at the MAS faculty welcome at the Esperanza Peace
and Justice Center and posted it on YouTube,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdgG4LqIsIM&feature=relateda
Produced and directed three clips from the 2009 Summer MALCS Summer Institute of the
workshop by Teatro Chicana, and two undergraduate student presentations.
Produced Women of Color in the Academy – A photographic exhibit documenting the
presence of women scholars, University of Texas at San Antonio, Durango Art Gallery,
March through July 2005.
Chicanas/Latinas in the Academy – Traveling exhibition of Women of Color in the
Academy, MALCS Summer Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Clark Kerr
Auditorium, August 2005.
Selected readings and multimedia presentation, with letter excerpts responding to Las hijas
de Juan: Daughters Betrayed. A Celebration of Women: Honrando a lo Nuestro, Guadalupe
Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas, October 13, 2003.
Mexican American Studies (MAS) Video – Video taped, scripted and edited for use in the
recruitment of students into the MAS program, 2002.
Mujeres Escritoras – A video testimony about the writing process for Chicanas/Latinas.
Presented at the National Association of Chicanas and Chicanos Studies, Tucson, AZ, 2001.
An Altar for Emma. Played Emma Tenayuca the elder in a one-hour play by Beva SanchezPadilla. Performances of October 27 and November 3, 2000. Esperanza Center, San Antonio,
Texas.
Conference Papers
Invited Lectures and Professional Activities
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Memory as Methodology: Chica(na)s Remembering Violence, Berkshire Conference on the
History of Women, June 12 – 15, 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Narratives of Memory, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) National
Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 30 – August 2, 2008.
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11 December 21, 2009 For the love of learning: First generation scholars in the academy. Co-presented keynote
speech with Dr. George Negrete, Our Lady of the Lake University, MacNair Scholars
Program, 10th Annual Banquet, October 28, 2005, San Antonio, Texas.
Keynote Speaker for Las Hermanas 25th National Asamblea, Dichosa Mujer: Celebrating
the strength of Latinas, October 8, 2005, San Antonio, Texas.
MALCS Plenary Speaker – Reflections of the past and visions of the future, University of
California, Berkeley, August 6, 2005.
Remembering our roots. Keynote Speaker for the 35th Annual Chicano Commencement, San
José State University, May 29, 2005, San José, California.
Sexual abuse in our familias: Purging the skeletons bone-by-bone, Latina
Theologian/Pastoralist Conference, April 16, 2005, San Antonio, Texas.
A ventana into race and class in a Texas classroom: Aquí y ahora. National Association for
Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), April 2005, Miami, Florida.
Home is not a haven: Methodology of testimonio and the autoethnography of telling. Chicana
Plenary at the National Conference for the Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
(NACCS), April 3, 2004.
Claiming spaces of healing: Autoethnography of survival, National Association for Chicana
and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Tejas FOCO Regional Conference, November 9, 2003.
Visibility and difference: Coming to self in education, invited Keynote for the San Antonio
SAAABE Chapter Conference, University of Texas at San Antonio, April 12, 2003.
Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed. Panel presentation and discussion on violence
against women, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), April 4,
2003.
Teaching and field research: Travels in the borderlands: Saber es poder, Annual Meeting of
Western Political Science Association, Denver, Colorado, March 27 – 28, 2003, with John
Bretting.
Writing as healing: Testimoniando stories of betrayal, Keynote Speech for International
Women’s Day, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. March 5, 2003.
Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed. Women’s History Month, invited reading by Gamma
Phi Omega and University Resources for Latinos/Latina Assistance, Northern Illinois
University, March 5, 2003.
La educación and education of Chicanas and Latinos in Milagro: Legacies and trajectories of
a leadership class, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, March 6, 2003.
Writing as healing: Testimoniando stories of betrayal, invited presentation for the Sociology
Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, January 12, 2003.
Freedom of thought and liberation, Keynote Speech for Downtown 16 de septiembre
Program sponsored by the United Methodists Student Movement, September 16, 2002.
Resistance, alliances, and coalitions: Chicanas negotiating the academy: Oppositional
tensions and identity tribulations in the academy, panel presentation. TAChE National
Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 17, 1999.
Ethnic identity: A comparative analysis of the social construction of Chicano/a and Mexican
American identity in a Texas and California city, research presentation Department of
Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, November 7, 1997.
Experiences and reflections: Entering the academic job market, Department of Sociology,
University of California, Santa Cruz, October 27, 1997.
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12 December 21, 2009 Ethnic identity: A feminist analysis of Chicana/o ethnicity, Mexican American Studies
Department, San Jose State University, October 23, 1997.
Caught between two worlds: Chicana feminism and liberation, Hispanas Unidas, 6th Annual
Leadership Conference for Young Women, San Antonio, Texas, October 10, 1997.
Different sides of the same coin: Marianismo and machismo, Hispanas Unidas, 6th Annual
Leadership Conference for Young Women, San Antonio, Texas, October 10, 1997.
Breaking barriers: A first generation Chicana’s reflection on college survival, panel
presentation, Orientation of the Class of 1997, SAA/EOP, University of California, Santa
Cruz, September 29, 1997.
Ethnicity and gender and the construction of consciousness, organizer and moderator with
undergraduate mentees (2) and one graduate mentee for the National Association of Chicana
and Chicano Studies, Tejas FOCO, San Antonio, Texas, January 31 - February 2, 1997.
Education and change: Community investment through education, Keynote Speech, Sacred
Heart Church Graduation Celebration, San Jose, CA, June 15, 1996.
Urban Sociology: Methodological and theoretical approaches, Discussant, Southwestern
Social Science Association, Houston, Texas, March 1996.
Leadership formation: A Chicana/o relational leadership model, Department of Latino and
Latin American Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, November 1994.
Making the transition to college: Bridging community and university experiences. Keynote
Speech, SAA/EOP Orientation, University of California, Santa Cruz, October 1994.
Policy makers and politicians debate the welfare issues: Assumptions and implication for
AFDC reform, Keynote Speech, ESO Women’s Program, Santa Clara County, CA, August
1993.
Chicana identity and the politics of ethnic identity, Guest Lecturer, Ethnic and Status Groups
Course, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, August 1992.
Professional social work and social location: Implications for practice, Keynote Speech,
College of Social Work, San José State University, August 1992.
Workshops Conducted
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Memory and Trauma: Living In-Between, one-and-a-half day workshop for parents
participating in the services of Puente de la Costa del Sur, San Mateo, California,
May 1, 2008.
Communication in the Academy, Casa Magdalene Mora, University of Berkeley, California,
Berkeley, California, October 2006.
Workshop on sexual abuse: Speaking / listening to the silence, Las Hermanas 25th National
Asamblea, Dichosa Mujer: Celebrating the strength of Latinas, October 19, 2005.
Women’s Studies Institute, Domestic Violence Month events at the University of Texas at San
Antonio, Breaking the Silence: Speaking truth to power, Workshop, October 19, 2005.
Conociendonos in silence: Speaking incest/listening without fear Workshop, MALCS National
Summer Institute, April 5, 2005, University of California, Berkeley.
University of Texas at San Antonio. Conducted a workshop to demonstrate the logic and
facilitation of focus groups for PAD 5333 Program Evaluation, November 2002.
Centro Alameda and Museo Americano. Designed and assisted in the implementation of a
strategic planning retreat, San Antonio, TX, Spring 2002.
Plazita Clinic, Watsonville, CA. Staff development organizational retreat, March 2000.
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13 December 21, 2009 Hispanas Unidas. Assisted in the development of curriculum and the implementation of a
planning and board retreat, San Antonio, TX, Fall 2001.
Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio. Facilitated retreat
on vision and mission statements San Antonio, TX, Spring 2000.
Esperanza. Staff development and organizational workshops, San Antonio, TX, Fall 2000.
Esperanza. Facilitated strategic planning, and board development, San Antonio, TX, 1999.
Teatro Vision. Conducted team building and leadership formation workshop with Teatro
Vision, San Jose, CA, August 7, 1999.
Santa Clara County CalWorks Program and Alcohol and Mental Health Focus Groups for
Program Planning and Policy Implementation. Assisted in the development of guiding
questions and facilitated focus groups, San Jose, CA, July 17 - 18, 1999.
Mexican Heritage Corporation. Organizational and board development retreat, San José, CA,
November 21 – 22, 1998.
Mexican Heritage Corporation. Community skills training and organizational development
workshop, San Jose, CA, August 17 – 18, 1999.
Mexican American Studies Department, San Jose State University. Organizational
development workshop and communication skills, San José, CA, April 25 - 27, 1996.
Latino and Latin American Studies, Northern Illinois University. Multi-departmental strategies
in leadership: A community and university partnership, DeKalb, IL, November 1994.
Santa Cruz County, Human Resources Agency. Transcultural practice, and public
employment: Strategies for working in diverse environments, Santa Cruz, CA, March 1994.
Community Learning and Organizational Development Retreat, Santa Clara County, Mexican
American Community Service Agency, San Jose, CA, January 1993.
Oakes College, University of California, Santa Cruz. Rebuilding community and un-learning
the “ism” (with Lillian Roybal Rose), Santa Cruz, CA, August 1993.
Federal Women’s Program. Women and leadership: Building the link for social change,
Oakland, CA, October 1991.
Research Reports
2007 – 2008 Designed and implemented an evaluation project, focusing on services to women
and children who are experiencing domestic abuse and violence, for Puente de la
Costa del Sur, Pescadero, California.
2005 – 2007 Designed and implemented an evaluation for Teatro Visión’s Instituto de Teatro,
San José, California, and submitted recommendations.
2004 – 2005 The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Sciences
(SACNAS). I completed an organizational evaluation and submitted a report,
including an executive summary of recommendations.
2002 – 2003 Escuelitas Project Evaluation: A Report to Hispanas Unidas, Inc., August 31, 2003,
with Arturo Vega.
2001 – 2002 Escuelitas Project Evaluation: A Report to Hispanas Unidas, November 8, 2002,
with Arturo Vega.
2000 – 2001 Escuelitas Project Evaluation: A Report to Hispanas Unidas, Inc., August 31, 2003,
with Arturo Vega.
University Services
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2008 – 2009 Served as a member of the Operationaliztion Committee to explore the
implementation of a School of Social Transformation to the Provost.
2007 – 2008 Appointed to the Provost’s Inclusiveness Task Force (PITF) and Elected CoChair
2007 – 2009 Mentored Trio McNair student, Jennifer Ojeda
2005 – 2007 Served as a member of the University Standing Committee on University
Scholarship.
2004
Co-Chaired Mexican-American Studies Field of Study Advisory Committee,
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
1999 – 2001 Building Advisory and Design Review Committee (BADR)
1999 – 2000 Public Service and Outreach Committee
1999 – 2000 Roadrunner Camp, Informal Discussion on Discipline for Incoming Freshmen
Service to the College
1999 – 2009 Chair for Mexican American Studies Search
2004
Professional Search Committee for Senior Program Coordinator
2004
Reading Search Committee Member
1999 – 2007 Scholarship Review Committee
2000 – 2003 Served as Graduation Marshall for three graduations and as greeter for two
ceremonies
Service to the Department
1999 – 2009
Served as Chair of the Mexican American Studies Committee
2000 – 2006
Scholarship Review Committee
2000 – 2002
Adjunct and Lecturer Review Committee
1999 – 2001
Catalog and Course Review Committee
1999 -- Present Graduate Studies Committee, have also served as parliamentarian and chair of
the now defunct research committee.
2003
Search Committee Member for linguistic and cultural diversity in schools
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Assigned time as Co-Chair Practice Sequence Committee, in preparation for self-study
document for accreditation (SJSU)
Served on the Teacher of the Year Selection Committee (SJSU)
Co-Chair of the Bilingual Proficiency Exams Committee (SJSU)
Member of the Research Sequence Committee (SJSU)
Member of the College Curriculum Committee (SJSU)
Member of the Planning Committee for the African American
Latina Women’s Summits I & II (SJSU)
Finance and Facilities Committee Member (OLLU)
McNair Scholar Selection Committee (OLLU)
Human Behavior and Social Environment Member, Chair F96 – F97 (OLLU)
Research Sequence Member (OLLU)
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• MacNair Undergraduate Research Mentor (OLLU)
• Staff, Faculty, and Student Relations Committee (OLLU)
• Worden School Undergraduate Student Organization Adviser (OLLU)
• Field Education Committee Member
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• Practice and Research Sequence Committees Member (SJSU)
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Re-Nominated by the Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies Piper Teaching Award.
Re-Nominated by the Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies Faculty and the College
of Education and Human Development for the University of Texas Chancellor’s
Teaching Award
Received Excellence in Teaching Recognition Award from the Bilingual Education
Student Organization / BESO
Nominated for Premio Aztlán by Duke University Press
Invited to participate in the Oxford Roundtable, Harris Manchester College, University
of Oxford
Received the University of Texas, San Antonio, University Life Awards, Student
Alumni Association’s Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, April 25, 2005
Nominated and selected as the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education
(TAChE) Distinguished University Faculty Award for 2005, January 27, 2005, at its
National Conference in Austin, Texas
Nominated by the Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies Faculty and the College of
Education and Human Development for the University of Texas Chancellor’s Teaching
Award
Recognized for contributions toward the prevention of violence against women and
children and the publication of Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed MANA,
Hispanas Unidas, Casa Guadalupe, and other organizations
Received the 25th Annual Diana Abdo Outstanding RSO Advisor Award
Received the City of San Antonio 16 de Septiembre Commission Cultural Awareness
Award
HACU/HHS, Professions Capacity Building Fellowship
Nominated for Teacher Scholar, College of Social Work, San Jose State University
Tomas Rivera Center, Dissertation Completion Project Participant
UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship
Mentoring Research Assistant Fellowship
California State University Forgivable Loan Recipient
Graduate Opportunity Program Fellowship
Professional Service
2009 – 2014
2008 – 2009
Antonio,
2007 – 2008
Lead Editor, Chicana/Latina Journal: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y
Cambio Social
Co-Chair for the NACCS Tejas FOCO Regional Conference, UTSA, San
Texas.
Outgoing Chair National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)
2006 – 2007
2005 – 2006
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16 December 21, 2009 Chair, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)
Chair-Elect and Program Chair for the 2006 National Conference, San José,
California
Past Chair, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS)
Reviewer for the social and behavioral sciences submissions for SACNAS
Reviewer for Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies
Chair Elect and Chair, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS)
Community Tejas FOCO Representative, National Association of Chicana and
Chicano Studies (NACCS)
Tejas NACCS FOCO, Organized and Co-Chaired the November 7 - 8, Regional
Conference at the University of Texas at Brownsville. About 100 members and
graduate and undergraduate students attended
Reviewer for Families in Society
Families in Society (FIS) Member of the Editorial Board
Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
(SACNAS). Poster Judge for Undergraduate Poster Awards and Reviewer for the
Graduate Oral Presentation Awards, October 2 – 5, 2003
Committee Member of the MALCS Summer Institute Site Committee at the
University of Texas at San Antonio, August 10 – 12
Tejas NACCS FOCO, Organized and Co-Chaired the November 8 – 9, Regional
Conference in San Antonio, Texas. About 150 professionals participated. Theme
of the conference was Chicano/a Studies Across the Educational Spectrum
Co-Founder, Mujeres Escritoras, An Interdisciplinary Writing Group of UTSA
Chicana/Latina Faculty, graduate students, and non-UTSA faculty
Professional Memberships
1989 – Present
SACNAS, Life Member for the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and
Native Americans in Sciences
1995 to Present The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)
1999 to Present Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS)
Other Professional Work Experience
1972 – 1988
Employed as a social worker.
Community Service
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Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, San Antonio, TX, co-chair and member of the Board of
Directors
Hispanas Unidas Institute, San Antonio, TX, board member and evaluation consultant
Plazita Medical Clinic, Watsonville, CA, staff retreat and organizational consultant
Centro Alameda and Museo Americano, San Antonio, TX, consultant
Mexican Heritage Corporation, San Jose, CA, program consultant
Hispanas Unidas, San Antonio, TX, planning and consultation
Defensa de Mujeres, a domestic violence program, Watsonville, CA, founding member
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Family Service Association of Santa Clara Valley, Inc., San Jose, CA, board member and
past president
Santa Clara County, San Jose, CA, founding member of Youth Defense Coalition
Santa Clara County, San Jose, CA, president of the Delinquency Prevention Task Force
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Caitlin D. Solis, Oscar Wao and Literary Blackness: Decoding the Ghettonerd. Thesis
completed December 2009
Sandra D. Garza, Unpacking colorism: Women of Mexican-descent and skin color, thesis in
process. To be completed Spring 2010.
Lilliana Patricia Saldaña, ¡De mi barrio no me voy!: The identities and consciousness of
Mexican American teachers in a dual language school. Dissertation to be defended Spring
2010.
As a result of my academic mentoring in the field and with her ethnographic project, I was
appointed Co-Chair Fall 2009, by the University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate school,
and I am now serving as co-chair with Professor Uttal.
Amalia “Maya” Guirao, Hidden Narratives of Un/Documented Mejicanas. Thesis
completed May 2009.
Gabriela DeLaRosa Burwick, Reproductive Health of Mexican-descent women in San
Antonio, TX.
Sylvia Mendoza, Presence, process, and persistence: Chicanas voicing education. After
receiving IRB approval, Mendoza opted out of thesis option to graduate early.
Lisa Cortez Walden, Compromisos: Strategies of Transformative Media in the Latino
Community, Ph.D. thesis completed May 2007.
Served as main professor and chaired qualifying exams for Monica Alaniz who received an
HPLNR three-year fellowship with my assistance and support as her mentor.
Norma L. Cárdenas, Ph.D., Decolonizing Representations; Mexican American Food
Interpretation of Identity in San Antonio, Texas, November 2006. Graduated in December
of 2006. Served as her Dissertation Chair and her mentor for her HPLNR Fellowship with
the Department of Agriculture.
Sarah. J. Farris, Disparities: Exploring Hispanic Health and Mental Health:1995 –2006,
Chaired her thesis committee and supervised her work. She employed as a Project
Coordinator with UTHSC.
Acuña, Nino Alejandro, studying the contributions of Mexican Americans in the history of
Brownsville, Texas, UTSA 2003.
Perez, Alejandro Wolbert, “No Tenemos Hambre de Comida, Tenemos Hambre de
Justicia,” UTSA, 2001 – 2002. Supervised and chaired thesis committee.
Saldaña, Lilliana Patricia, An Examination of Bilingual Educator’s Teaching Approaches
and the Pedagogical Frameworks that Inform their Practices, UTSA, 2001 – 2002,
Supervised MA Thesis and chaired committee.
Torres, Judith, thesis in progress on the educational and identity formation of first
generation Chicanas in San Antonio, Texas, UTSA 2002 – 2003 (Opted to graduate before
completing study)