Annual Symposium co-sponsored by Southern Methodist University's

  William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
  Ethnic Studies Program

Mapping Memories & Migrations:  Re-Thinking Latina Histories

Presenters and Selected Major Publications

Gabriela F. Arredondo, Assistant Professor, Latin American & Latina/o Studies Department, University of California – Santa Cruz., Ph.D., History, University of Chicago.

Chicana Feminisms: Disruption in Dialogues. Gabriela F. Arredondo, Aída Hurtado, Norma Klahn, Olga Nájera-Ramírez, and Patricia Zavella, eds.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

John R. Chávez, Professor of History, Southern Methodist University., Ph.D., American Culture, University of Michigan, 1980.

Eastside Landmark:  A History of the East Los Angeles Community Union.  Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998.

The Lost Land:  The Chicano Image of the Southwest.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. 

Marisela R. Chávez, Irvine Doctoral Fellow in the American Studies Department, Occidental College., Ph.D. Candidate, History, Stanford University.

 “We lived and breathed and worked the movement”: The Contradictions and Rewards of Chicana/Mexicana Activism in El Centro de Acción Social Autónomo (CASA), Los Angeles, 1975-1978.”  Las Obreras: Chicana Politics of Work and Family, ed. Vicki L. Ruiz.  Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Publications, 1999.

Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Professor and Chairperson Department of Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, Brooklyn College,  CUNY., Ph.D., Latin American History, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1981.

From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City.  Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994.

Yolanda Chávez Leyva, Assistant Professor of History, The University of Texas at El Paso., Ph.D., History, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1999.

Children on the Border.  The Pass of the North Heritage Corridor Booklets Series, ed. Oscar J. Martínez,  El  Paso Community Foundation, 2001.

María Montoya, Associate Professor, Department of History and Program in American Culture, Director of Latino/a Studies, University of Michigan., Ph.D., History, Yale University, 1993.

Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840 to 1920.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Lydia R. Otero, Assistant Professor, Mexican-American Studies & Research Center, University of Arizona.

 “Missing Persons or Active Agents?: Mexican Americans in Tucson during the Depression.”  Visions in the Dust: Arizona during the 1930s, ed. Katherine Morrissey.  Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003.

Vicki L. Ruiz, Professor, History and Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California—Irvine., Ph.D., History, Stanford University, 1982.

From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth Century America.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987.

Elizabeth Salas, Associate Professor, Chicano Studies Program, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington., Ph.D., History, University of California—Los Angeles, 1987.

Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.

Carmen Teresa Whalen, Associate Professor, History Department, Williams College, Ph.D., History, Rutgers University, 1994.

From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.

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Last updated January 24, 2004.