Lisa Y. Ramos
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
Department of History
201 Melbern G. Glasscock Building
4236 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4236
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Columbia University
Ph.D. in U.S. History, October 2008
Columbia University
B.A. in U.S. History, May 1996
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Texas A&M University
Assistant Professor, Fall 2008-Present
John Jay College of
Criminal Justice
Adjunct Instructor, Fall 2006-Spring 2007
Barnard College
Adjunct Instructor, Fall 2006-Spring 2007
RESEARCH FIELDS
Social and Cultural U.S. History with emphases on the history of race and ethnicity, Mexican
American history, Latino history, and civil rights history
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Article:
“Dismantling Segregation Together: Interconnections between
the Méndez v. Westminster (1946) and Brown v. Board of
Education (1954) School Segregation Cases.” In Equity &
Excellence in Education: A Special Theme Issue on Brown v.
Board of Education +50, 37:3 (Sept. 2004): 247-254.
Refereed Book Chapter:
“Not Similar Enough: Mexican American and African
American Civil Rights Struggles in the 1940s,” In
The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and
Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era
Brian D. Behnken, ed., Justice and Social Inquiry Series,
Jeremy I. Levitt and Matthew C. Whitaker, series eds.
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Jan. 2012): 29-54.
Book Review Essay:
“She’s Stylin’: La pachuca, Chicana resistance, and the
politics of representation.” Review Essay of The Woman In
The Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural
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Politics of Memory, Catherine S. Ramírez. In Reviews in
American History 38:3 (Sept. 2010): 562-568.
Book Reviews:
Review of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights
Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, Shana
Bernstein. In Planning Perspectives 27:2 (April 2012):
325-326.
Review of Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of
the U.S. South, Mary E. Odem and Elaine Lacy, eds.
In the Journal of Southern History 76:4 (Nov. 2010): 10811083.
Review of White But Not Equal: Mexican Americans, Jury
Discrimination, and the Supreme Court, Ignacio M.
García. In the Western Historical Quarterly 41:3 (Autumn
2010): 393-394.
Encyclopedia Entries:
“Mexican American Civil Rights Movement.” In The Oxford
Encyclopedia of American Social History, Lynn Dumenil, ed.
(New York: Oxford University Press, March 2012).
"McCarran-Walter Act," “Immigration Act of 1990,” and
"New York" encyclopedia entries. In Latinos and Latinas in
US History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Carmen LugoLugo and David J. Leonard, eds. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe,
Inc., 2009).
“King’s College,” “New York,” “New York City,”
“Language,” and “Exploration.” In Colonial America
Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural,
and Economic History, James Ciment, ed. (Armonk, NY:
M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2006).
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Book Manuscript:
“Dirty Whites: Mexican Americans, the Race Question
and Civil Rights in the United States, 1930-1971,” under
contract with University of Texas Press (revising)
Journal Article:
“Perpetuators and Resisters: Mexican Americans and the
‘Race’ Question,” Journal of Social History (revise and
resubmit)
Journal Article:
“Patrons of Feminism: Wealthy Benefactors, the State, and
International Feminism, 1920s-1940s” (in progress, to be
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submitted to Gender & Society or Journal of Women’s
History)
TEACHING FIELDS
History of the U.S. Southwest, U.S. History since Reconstruction, Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.,
Latino History, Mexican American History, Critical Race Theory, and Comparative Civil Rights
History
COURSES TAUGHT
HIST 307-500
Latinos in the U.S. (Spring 2013), 34 students
HIST 481-909
Senior Seminar in History (Spring 2013), 14 students
HIST 226-503
History of Texas (Fall 2012), 160 students
HIST 485-907
Senior Seminar in History (Fall 2012), 8 students
HIST 226-502
History of Texas (Spring 2012), 121 students
HIST 481-906
Senior Seminar in History (Spring 2012), 11 students
HIST 226-503
History of Texas (Spring 2011), 150 students
HIST 307-500
Latinos in the U.S. (Spring 2011), 31 students
HIST 226-502
History of Texas (Fall 2010), 144 students
HIST 481-906
Senior Seminar in History (Fall 2010), 12 students
HIST 226-503
History of Texas (Fall 2009), 143 students
HIST 106-200
History of the U.S. Honors Seminar (Fall 2009), 17 students
HIST 481-905
Senior Seminar in History (Fall 2009), 16 students
HIST 226-502
History of Texas (Spring 2009), 139 students
HIST 106-202
History of the U.S. Honors Seminar (Spring 2009), 14 students
HIST 226-503
History of Texas (Fall 2008), 139 students
HIST 481-901
Senior Seminar in History (Fall 2008), 12 students
FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS
Internal Grants:
History Department, Travel Grant, ($1500), Fall 2012-May
2013.
History Department, Travel Grant, ($1500), Fall 2011-May
2012.
College of Liberal Arts, Faculty Research
Enhancement Grant, ($4675) May 2011-August 2012.
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Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Faculty
Stipendiary Grant, ($1500), Fall 2011- Spring 2012.
Office of Proposal Development, Program to
Enhance Scholarly Activities (PESCA) Grant, ($5302), 20092010.
External Fellowships/Grants/
Awards:
National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID), Exemplary
Diversity Scholar Citation, 2012
Littleton-Griswold Research Grant, American Historical
Association, Summer 2004.
Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) Award, 2000-2003
Honorable Mention, Predoctoral Fellowship, Ford
Foundation, 2000
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
Lozano Long Conference
Paper to be presented: "The Longue Durée of Black-Brown
Relations in Texas," Refashioning Blackness: Contesting
Racism in the Afro-Americas Conference, The University of
Texas at Austin, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin
American Studies (LLILAS), and the John L. Warfield Center
for African and African-American Studies (WCAAAS),
February 2013, Austin, TX
Texas State Historical Association
Chair: “Leadership Within the Mexican American Generation:
Biographical Studies,” March 2012, Houston, TX
Organization of American
Historians
Chair and Commentator: “Shifting Identities in Latina/o
Social Movements: Cross-community and Transnational
Mobilizations in the 1970s,” March 2011, Houston, TX
Texas State Historical Association
Panel Organizer and Paper Presented: “Not Similar Enough:
Mexican American and African American Civil Rights
Struggles in the 1940s,” March 2010, Dallas, TX
American Historical Association
Paper presented: “A Woman’s Place is in the ?,” January 2010,
San Diego, CA
Organization of American
Paper presented: “Forgotten but in Different Ways: Mexican
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Historians
American and African American Civil Rights Struggles,”
March 2009, Seattle, WA
American Studies Association
Paper presented: “Entering the Fray: Mexican American
Women and Civil Rights Organizing,” October 2008,
Albuquerque, NM
American Historical Association
Panel Organizer and Paper Presented: “Finding Common
Cause through Race: The Importance of Whiteness to
ethnic Mexican civil rights efforts,” January 2007, Atlanta,
GA
Texas State Historical Association
Paper presented: “Two Races Fit All: Texas juries, race
and Mexican American place,” March 2006, Austin, TX
Race and Place: The Struggle
For Civil Rights in America
Conference
Paper presented: “A ‘Class Apart’: The Politics of
Mexican-American citizenship, 1930-1971,” March 2004,
University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa
University of Texas at Brownsville
Latino Heritage Month Celebration
Paper presented: "Identity, Culture, and the American
Experience along the U.S.–Mexico Border:
An Autobiography, a Biography, and a History,"
Fall 1998, Brownsville, TX
INTRAMURAL PROFESSIONAL AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Department:
Undergraduate Committee, Fall 2011-Present
Qualifying Exams Committee member, Joel Kitchens, Ph.D.
Candidate, Fall 2012
Presenter, Immigration in Comparative Perspective
Symposium, “Nazis in Arizona: Rhetoric and the Immigration
Debate in the United States,” Spring 2012
Co-organizer, Nayan Shah (UC-SD) visit, History Colloquium
Series, Spring 2012
Co-organizer, Chicana/o-Latino History Cluster, 2011
Nominating Committee, Department Head Search Committee,
Nov. 2010
Secretary, Faculty Meetings, Fall 2009
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Guest speaker, HIST 679 “Special Topics: Comparative
Borderlands,” Nov. 2008
College:
Presenter: “Everything’s Bigger and Better in Texas:
International Programs, The Roots of Texas Nationalism,”
College of Liberal Arts - International Programs, April 2011
University:
Co-Discussant, Hispanic Heritage Month, Precious
Knowledge screening, Sept. 2012
Faculty Advisor, Cygnets (Latina Social and Service
Organization), July 2010-Dec. 2011 and August 2012-Present
Presenter, “Equity and Excellence in Education: Where
minorities have been and where they are now in education,”
Student Conference on Latino Affairs (SCOLA), April 2012
Mock Interviewer - Marshall Scholarship, Honors &
Undergraduate Research Office, Nov. 2011
Selection Committee, University Scholars Program, Honors &
Undergraduate Research Office, April 2011
EXTRAMURAL PROFESSIONAL AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Professional Service:
Exam question writer, Educational Testing Services (ETS), AP
U.S. History Exam, Fall 2012
Article Reviewer, Journal of American History, Spring 2011
AP Reader, ETS, AP U.S. History Exam, Summer 2007Summer 2009
Community Service:
Interviewee: Mendez v. Westminster (1946) and Delgado v.
Bastrop ISD (1948) civil rights cases, Oyez, Oyez, Oh Yay!
Civics Resources for Texas Students and Teachers,
www.texasbar.com/civics, State Bar of Texas, Spring 2012
Interviewee, “Susana Martinez, New Mexico Governor,
Admits Paternal Grandparents Were Undocumented
Immigrants,” Associated Press News Service, Sept. 2011
Guest speaker, Brazos Valley Fulbright Association, Oct. 2009
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Judge, Tejano Book Prize, Tejano Genealogy Society of
Austin, Aug. 2009
Interviewee/Consultant, “A Class Apart” documentary, PBS
American Experience Series, Feb. 2009
Professional Memberships:
Organization of American Historians, member
American Historical Association, member
Texas State Historical Association, member
American Studies Association, member
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