Curriculum Vitae

MARGARET A. VILLANUEVA

CURRICULUM VITAE

(320) 308-2140

EMAIL: mavillanueva@stcloudstate.edu

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EXPERIENCE

Professor, Community Studies Department

St. Cloud State University, 2005 - Present

Asst – Assoc Professor, Community Studies Department

St. Cloud State University, 2000-2004

Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, 1993-2000

Faculty Associate, Center for Latino & Latin American Studies

Faculty Associate, Women’s Studies Program

Member of the Graduate School Faculty

Graduate Lecturer / Teaching Assistant / Lecturer

Sociology, University of California-Santa Cruz, 1981-85, 1987-92

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Sociology, December 1991

University of California, Santa Cruz

Advisors: James O’Connor; Carolyn Martin Shaw; Paul Lubeck

Graduate Courses in Instructional Technology, 1999-2000

College of Education, Northern Illinois University

Visiting Fellow, NEH-Newberry Library Summer Institute -- 1996

“Cartography & History: Using Maps for Teaching in the Humanities”

Visiting Fellow, University of California-San Diego; Eric Van Young, Coord.-- 1992

NEH Summer Seminar, "Resistance, Rebellion, and Adaptation in Rural Latin America"

Fulbright Fellow, 1985-1986

Visiting Scholar, El Colegio de Mexico,1985-1987

Seminar, Interdisciplinary Women's Studies (PIEM), El Colegio de Mexico: "The Social Participation of Latin American Women," (Orlandina de Oliveira, Coordinator)

Fieldwork in Papantla, Veracruz in coordination with Instituto Nacional Indigenista, SEPCulturas Populares,Universidad Veracruzana, local community groups:1985-1988.

M.A., Comparative World History -- University of California, Santa Cruz – 1982

Advisers: J. Jorge Klor de Alva, Dilip Basu

B.A., Latin American Studies/Lat.Am. Literature -- University of California, Santa Cruz

College and Academic Honors -- June 1980

Areas of Interest:

Latino/a Communities; Mexican Immigration-Midwest; Race, Ethnicity, Gender; Women’s Studies; Cultural Studies; Environment & Community; Historical/Comparative Sociology

& Applied Anthropology

DISSERTATION DESCRIPTION

Region and Power: The Contested Terrains of Nature, Race, Gender,

and Class in Totonacápan, Gulf Coast, Mexico 1492-1992

My dissertation examines the historical dynamics of social relations on a regional level--the intersections of race, gender and class in the appropriation of nature on Mexico's tropical Gulf Coast. I argue that the social and ecological consequences of 20th century petroleum development for Totonac-speaking people in north-central Veracruz has been conditioned by centuries of contestation over spatial organization and land use. The defeat of comuneros during the late 19th century Porfiriato was a particularly significant turning point for land tenure arrangements and regional ecosystems.

Using a multi-method approach of ethnographic fieldwork--collecting local documents, maps, households surveys, archival and secondary research--I explore the discursive and material practices that have positioned indigenous people as subaltern in a specific historical space. Simultaneously, I highlight the suppressed narratives of Totonac-speakers who (re)construct themselves as social agents, historical subjects. What are the modalities by which women and men who identify themselves as “Totonac” carve out a “lived-space”? Do “everyday survival strategies” constitute opposition or adaptation to the social-structural changes brought about by colonization, national independence, cash crop agricultural production, and a regional oil boom?

My thesis supports the hypotheses that the social costs of regional “development” are unequally distributed, and that local consequences include: 1) increased social inequality (characterized by inward and outward migrations; 2) a crisis condition threatening the reproductive capacities of households and communities; 3) deterioration in human rights accorded indigenous inhabitants; 4) socioeconomic change that endangers ecosystems in a tropical region. Furthermore, these negative consequences engender historically specific social movements which 1) are simultaneously cultural and ecological in nature, 2) affect the appropriation of “nature” -- resources and land, 3) constitute new “social subjects,” including Totonac-speaking women, who raise personal and political claims based on conditions affecting them daily.

Rather than representing everyday practices and regional social movements as “defense of tradition,” I re-evaluate them as multiple, long-term, and tenacious contestations in domains of culture, economy, and the social. From this perspective, local efforts are pro-active: they safeguard conditions for the reproduction of life. Such everyday forms of resistance on the Gulf Coast has culminated in large-scale insurrections at specific historical conjunctures -- yet, even when remaining socially invisible, the subtle tactics of microprotests operate across regional fields of power.

COURSES TAUGHT

Professor, SCSU

Race in America – Cmty 111

The Black Community – Cmty 470 (Spring 01)

Latina/o Communities – Cmty 475-575 (Spring 03-present)

Community Development – Cmty 350 (Fall 06)

Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University

Latinos in Urban America - Anth 364

Popular Culture in Las Américas - Anth 321

Peoples of Mesoamerica - Anth 405

Introduction to Anthropology - Anth 120

Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective - Anth 361

Anthropology of Gender - Anth 468

Applied Anthropology - Anth 467

Latin American Peasants & Social Change - Anth 526

Anthropology of Sex Differences - Anth 368

Instructor, University of California-Santa Cruz

Society and Development in the Third World,

Merrill College Core: 1981, 1982, 1934, 1987

Changing Values in a Diverse Society, Oakes College Core Course: 1989

Women, Culture and Development in the Third World, Women's Studies Program, UCSC: 1983, 1984

Self and Society, Stevenson College Core Course, UCSC: 1988.

Graduate Instructor/TA

Soc. 15, World Societies: 1992 1990 1988 1984 1982

Anthropology 134, Society & Culture in Brazil: 1992

Sociology 1, Intro to Sociology: 1982, 1990

Psychology 140Q, Psychology of Sex & Gender: 1991

Sociology 140, Sociology of Women: 1988

Sociology 150, Family and Society: 1988

History 150A, Early History of Mexico: 1983

Sociology 105B, Contemporary Social Theory: 1984

GRADUATE THESIS ADVISING

SCSU College of Social Science, M.A. Program in Social Responsibility

Latino Entrepreneurship: Small Businesses in Central Minnesota

Monica Segura, 2006-2007

SCSU College of Education, M.A. Program in Family & Children

Working with Minnesota Parents and Children in English Language Learning

Karen Jentz, 2006-2007

NIU College of Education

Hispanic Adult Education in Catholic Base

Communities of Illinois by Lawrence Howlett, Ed.D. 1997

Educational Goals of Tejana Women Migrant Workers by

Sylvia Fuentes, Adult Education, Ed.D. 1998

Culture Shock and Learning in the ESL Classroom by

Carmen Lind, Adult Education, Ed.D. 2000

Rural Community Education and the Haitian State by

Carole Sassine, A.B.D. in Adult Education 2001

PUBLICATIONS

“La Mexicana: The Corner Grocery as a Transnational Space in Illinois,” The Applied Anthropologist, (26)1, Spring 2006.

“ ‘El Sarape’ Mural of Toppenish, Washington: Unfolding the Yakima Valley’s Bracero Legacy,” In Memory, Community, and Activism: The Mexican Farm Labor Experience in the Pacific Northwest, eds. Jerry Garcia & Gilberto Garcia, Michigan State, Julian Samora Research Institute, 2005.

“Latina Immigrants and Social Services in Rural Minnesota,” 55 pp., by Margaret Villanueva, Flora Calderón-Steck, Ilia Rodríguez, Luke Tripp, Working Paper Series #64, (http://www.jsri.msu.edu/RandS/research/wps/wp64abs.html), Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI, 2005.

“Networking for Institutional Change to Support Faculty, Staff, and Students of Color at St. Cloud State University,” 6 pp., published in the refereed Proceedings of the Keeping Our Faculties III Symposium: Recruiting, Retaining, and Advancing Faculty of Color, (University of Minnesota), Minneapolis, November 18 -20, 2004 (Proceedings on CD).

“Racialization and the Latina Experience: Economic Implications,” Feminist Economics (Routledge Publications), 8(2), July 2002, 145-161.

“TransForm/ando Women’s Studies: Latina Theory Re-Imagines América,” 46-69, In Exclusions in Feminist Thought: Challenging the Boundaries of Womanhood, Mary Brewer, Ed., Brighton,UK/Portland OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2002.

“Changing Ethnic Relations in Two Midwestern Towns: A Comparison of Early and Recent Mexican Settlers,” 41-57, In The Illusion of Borders: The National Presence of Mexicanos in the United States, Gilbert Garcia/Gerald Garcia, Eds., Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 2001.

“Veracruz Totonaca/Illinois Jarocha: Espacio, Comida, Memoria,” INRO@DS, Graduate Journal of Race, Gender, Ethnicity and Migration, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, (www.inroads.umn.edu), Online 2001-2005.

“World City / Regional City: Latinos and African Americans in Chicago and St. Louis,” Working Paper Series #46, (www.jsri.msu.edu), Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI, September 2000.

“Ambivalent Sisterhood: Latina Feminism and Women’s Studies,” in Discourse: Journal of Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 21(5): 49-76, Fall 1999.

Book Review: Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition, Gabriel Haslip-Viera and Sherrie L. Baver, eds. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996, 338 pp., published in the American Anthropologist, 100:1, March 1998.

“El Golfo de México: Sixteenth and Eighteenth century Views of the Americas’ Sea,” The Newberry Library Slide Set No. 26, 25 pp., Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Chicago, 1997.

“Staging Culture in Totonacapan: The space of recuperation / The space of terr(or)toriality,” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 15:202-217, June 1996.

“Ethnic Slurs or Free Speech?: The Politics of Representation in a Student Newspaper,” Anthropology and Education Quarterly 27(2):168-185, 1996.

“Political Ecology vs. Free Trade: Struggles for Bio-Ethnic Diversity in the Americas,” Humanity and Society 19(4): 75-90, November 1995.

“Gendered Namings and the Ironies of Fieldwork: Notes from Papantla, Tropical Mexico,” Women and Language, XVIII(4): 10-15, Spring 1995.

Book translation: Enrique Leff, Green Production: Toward an Environmental Rationality, Guilford Publishers, New York, 1995 [from original Ecología y Capital: Hacia una perspectiva ambiental del desarrollo, Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1986].

“From Calpixqui to Corregidor: Appropriation of Women's Cotton Textile Production in Early Colonial Mexico,” Latin American Perspectives, 12(1):17-40, Winter 1985.

“Towards a ‘Multicultural’ Pedagogy.” Occasional Paper co-authored with Leslie Bow, Mary E. John, Bob Anderson, and Raul Homero Villa, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz, 1990, 26 pp.

CONFERENCE PAPERS and PANELS

“Immigrant Latinas in Minnesota: Status, Oppression and Resistance,” paper presented at the annual National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Guadalajara, Mexico, June 28-July 1, 2006.

“Confronting Exclusion, Claiming a Space and Place: Latino Historical Murals in Sterling IL and Toppenish WA,” paper presented at the Planners Network Annual Conference “Tending the Garden: From Grassroots to Greenroots,” University of Illinois-Chicago, June 8-11, 2006.

Berila, E., Greenberg, P.A., Kishimoto, K., Mwangi, M., Villanueva, M. (Spring 2006) Panel entitled “Building bridges across disciplines for women’s studies,” Century College, St. Paul, Minnesota, a MnScu statewide discipline conference on Women’s Studies.

“Ana Castillo’s Goddess of the Americas: Prelude to Guadalupana Images in the Midwest,” presentation at the Midwest Conference, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of Minnesota-Duluth, March 25, 2006.

“Community, Sense of Place, and Immigrants of Color in Minnesota: Following Insights of Sinclair Lewis,” collaborative presentation with Monica Segura at The American Village in a Global Setting: An Interdisciplinary Conference, St. Cloud State University, October 6-7, 2005.

“Implementing and Assessing a Mandatory Course on Race the Case of St. Cloud State University,” presented with Luke Tripp and Michael Tripp, at national, refereed American Council on Education, conference theme “Educating All of One Nation Realizing America's Promise: Embracing Diversity, Discovery and Change,” October 6-8, 2005, Phoenix, AZ.

“Los Mexicanos, ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’: Ethnic Change, Tourism, and Local Development in Toppenish, Washington,” paper accepted for refereed Annual Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology: conference theme “Heritage, Environment & Tourism,” Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 5-10, 2005.

Panel Organizer, Presenter: “Networking for Institutional Change to Support Faculty, Staff, and Students of Color at St. Cloud State University,” panel with Associate Dean Carolyn Williams, Shahzad Ahmad, Professors Luke Tripp and Michael Tripp, at the refereed national symposium: Keeping Our Faculties III Symposium: Recruiting, Retaining, and Advancing Faculty of Color, (University of Minnesota), Raddison Hotel, Minneapolis, November 18 -20, 2004.

"La Guadalupana: A Transcultural Image for the Heartland" slide presentation at the 2004 Midwest Conference on Latin American Studies, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, WI, April 29-30, 2004.

Presented on panel “Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching That Which Makes Us Uncomfortable: Race, Class, and Gender in the Classroom,” with Karen Flynn, Flora V. Calderón-Steck and Jeanne Lacourt at the refereed national American Association of Colleges and University’s Annual Conference, “Pedagogies of Engagement,” Chicago, Illinois (April 15-17, 2004)

Chair and Presenter: “Community Research: Latina Immigrants in Central Minnesota” with Flora Calderon-Steck and Ilia Rodriguez, at the refereed Annual Conference for National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 31 to April 2, 2004.

Panel Organizer and Presenter: “Religion and Popular Culture in the Americas” and presented a paper and slides on “ ‘La Guadalupana’ in an Illinois Town: Symbol of Ethnic Origins and Community Unity,” at the Midwest Popular Culture Assoc. Conference, Minneapolis, October 2003.

“Latina Immigrants in Rural Central Minnesota,” research paper presented with Flora Calderon-Steck, at the Midwest Regional conference of the National Association for Chicana & Chicano Studies (NACCS), October 2003, Minneapolis.

“Collaborative Research with Latina Immigrants and Community Organizations in Central Minnesota,” paper presented at the refereed Society for Applied Anthropology 2003 Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 19-23, 2003.

“Using World Maps and Colonial Images to teach the Social Construction of Racism,” presented in the “Visual Pedagogy for Teaching Diversity” panel, at the refereed Hawaiian International Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 7-11, 2003.

"Imagining Communities sin fronteras: Mexicano Murals in the Northlands," paper presented at the Annual Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 5, 2002.

Panel Organizer: Two panels with SCSU faculty presenters for the Latin American Popular Culture section of the Annual Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 4-6, 2002.

"Mexican Women in the Midwest: Historical and Ethnographic Approaches to Work & Community Issues" paper presented at the Sociologists Of Minnesota 2002 Conference, St. Cloud State University, October 4, 2002.

Presenter: Roundtable on “Economics and Women of Color in the U.S.,” [Chair, Rose Brewer, U of Minn], at the refereed International Association of Feminist Economics meetings, Occidental College, Pasadena, California, July 12-14, 2002.

Abstract: “Using Online Maps & Images to Unravel the Construction of Race & Power since 1500,” Critical Connections Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, [conference cancelled due to budgetary shortfall], April 2002. http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/IRE/Events/Conferences/CriticalConnections/Abstracts/johnson6f4.html

“Community Connections: Networking and Entrepreneurship among Latinas and Mexicanas in Small-town Illinois,” paper presented at the refereed 30^th Annual Conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Chicago, March 27-30, 2002.

“Claiming Space on the Walls: Latino/Chicano Murals and Historical Discourse in Illinois and Washington Communities,” paper presented at the Race in the Humanities Conference, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, November 15-17, 2001.

Panel Organizer and Presenter: Panel entitled “Teaching Racial Issues in Minnesota: A Roundtable Discussion;” presented paper on “Maps and Web Resources for Teaching Racial Issues,” at the Race in the Humanities Conference, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, November 15-17, 2001.

Panel Organizer and Presenter: “Using Web Resources to Teach Racial Issues,” panel presentation for “Bringing it all back home: Teaching Racial Issues in the Minnesota Classroom,” session at (1) the conference, theme “Many Worlds in One Classroom: Civility, Socialization and Globalization,” Center for Teaching and Learning, MnScu, Duluth, MN, April 12-13, 2001 and at (2) the Crossing Borders Conference, Center for Teaching and Learning, MnScu, Bloomington, MN, August 1-4, 2001.

"Beyond La Malinche: Capturing Indigenous Women of Veracruz in Travel Narratives," paper presented at the 24th Annual Midwest Mesoamericanists Conference, University of Iowa, March 24, 2001.

“Latino Communities Online: Facilitating Multicultural Education & Communications through Technology,” Paper presented at the refereed American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences (AABSS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV, January 31-February 2, 2001.

“Re-Crossing Boundaries: Writing in Tropical/Midwestern Contact Zones,” Paper presented at the refereed American Studies Association Annual Conference, Detroit, MI, October 12-15, 2000.

“Community-Building through Mural Art: Youth y los antepasados of Chicago & Sterling, IL,” Paper presented at the refereed annual congress of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Portland, OR, March 22-25, 2000.

“Reaching Out to Latino Communities: IT & Web Resource Development,” presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Educational Communications & Technology, February 17-19, 2000, Long Beach, CA.

“They Called it ‘Silver City’: Latino Community-Building through Mural Art in Sterling, Illinois 1903-1999,” Paper presented at the Midwest Conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Michigan State University, September 23-26, 1999.

Invited paper: “From Malinche’s Sisters to Post-Colonial Encounters: Representing Indigenous Women of Mexico’s Gulf Coast, 1519-1999,” at the U.S. Latina and Latino Perspectives on La Malinche Conference, August 26-28, 1999, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

“La Nueva Jarocha del Medioeste: Changing Gender Relations among Mexican Immigrants to the Greater Chicago Region,” paper to be presented at the Annual Congress of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Antonio, TX, April 28-May 1, 1999.

“Women’s Talk and Transnational Families: Managing Household Decisions Across Borders,” paper presented at the annual Central States Anthropological Society Meetings, Chicago, IL, April, 1999.

“Making Feminist Claims in Everyday Talk: Critical Tales of Totonac Kinswomen in Veracruz, Mexico,” Paper presented at the refereed 95th Annual American Anthropology Association Conference, Invited (General) Session: Can There be Indigenous Feminisms?: Retrospective Critiques of Feminist Theorizing in Anthropology, San Francisco, California, November 20-24, 1996.

“Espacios Jarochos en la Frontera del Norte: From Mexico’s Gulf Coast to U.S. Heartland,” Paper presented at 7th International Conference on Latino Cultures in the United States:The Umbilical Myth: the Latinos in North America, UNAM-CEPE, Taxco, Mexico, August 7-11, 1996.

“Nationalist Constructions/Indigenous Exclusions: Representational Practices of Travelers to the Mexican Tropics,” Paper presented at the refereed Annual Meetings of the American Ethnological Society, “Transnationalism, Nationalism & Cultural Identity,” San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 18-20, 1996.

Panel Organizer, “Applied Ethnography for Latinos in the Midwest,” Midwest Sociological Society 1996 Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, April 3-6, 1996.

“Comparative Lessons in Latino Neighborhood Development: Kansas City and Chicago,” Paper presented with Larry Howlett at the Midwest Sociological Society 1996 Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, April 3-6, 1996.

Invited paper: “Ethnic Fragmentation of Mesoamerica: NAFTA and Indigenous Communities in Mexico,” presented at the World Area Centers International Symposium: Ethnic Fragmentation and the Nation-state in International Perspective, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 5, 1996.

Moderator, Panel on “Identity and Development,” at the conference Sustainable Development in Rural Latin America: Human and Environmental Consequences, University of Chicago, October 26-29, 1995.

“Latino-Black Coalition for Respeto in the Campus News: Local Media Debates from a Critical Legal Theory Perspective,” paper presented at the Midwest NACCS, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 20-21, 1995.

Discussant, Panel on “Fictions of Empire/Fictions of Liberation in Latin America,” at the refereed Latin American Studies Association XIX International Congress, Washington, DC, September 28-30, 1995 (by invitation).

“Spatial Analysis on the Borders of Anthropology, Geography, and Chicana Studies,” Paper presented at the refereed 117th Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society "Border Anthropologies" Conference, Austin, Texas, April 26-29, 1995.

“Marxism and Ecology: Conditions of Production and Struggles for Bio-Ethnic Diversity in the Americas,” Paper presented at the Midwest Sociological Society 1995 Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 6-9, 1995 (by invitation).

“Midwest Latinas: Community and Cultural Production,” Paper presented at the refereed XXII Annual Conference of the National Association for Chicano Studies, Spokane, Washington, March 29-April 1, 1995.

Panel Organizer, “Chicana Spaces: Views from the Midwest,” at XXII Annual Conference of the National Association for Chicano Studies, Spokane, Washington, March 29-April 1, 1995.

“Chicana Claims to Socio-Cultural Space: Interdisciplinary perspectives on creating Nuestra Comunidad,” Paper presented with Sylvia Fuentes at the Midwest National Association for Chicano Studies (NACS) Conference, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, November 11-12, 1994.

“Staging Culture in Totonacapan: The space of rescate; The space of terr(or)itorialidad,” Paper presented at the refereed 4th Annual Conference on Latin American Popular Culture, Brown University, Providence, RI, October 27-29, 1994.

Moderator and Discussant, panel on “Policing the Popular” at the Graduate Student Conference (Re)constructing lo popular: Culture, Identity, and the State in Latin America, University of Chicago, September 24-25, 1994.

“On Humor, Racial Images, and Free Speech: Reading the Northern Star,” Presented at the Leadership and Education Policy Studies , 4th Annual Research Symposium: “Crossing Cultures: A Multicultural Exchange in Adult Education Theory and Practice,” Malcolm X College, Chicago, April 16, 1994.

“Humor, Slurs, or Free Speech?: (Con)Testing Popular Images of Ethnicity and Race in the Midwest Campus News,” Paper presented with Virginia Garcia at the refereed National Meetings of the Popular Culture Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 6-9, 1994.

“Eroticized Exclusions: Gender and Race in Mexico's 19th Century National-Liberal Project,” Paper presented at the Feminist Studies FRA Spring Conf., University of California, Santa Cruz May 15, 1992.

“Theorizing the Production of Regional Space: Environmental History of Veracruz,” Paper presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, Oakland, CA, April 19-21, 1992.

“Cultural Resistance in Totonacapan: The ‘Region’ as Contested Territory on Mexico’s Gulf Coast,” Paper presented at the refereed symposium: Re-Discovering America 1492-1992, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, February 26-29, 1992.

“El Trabajo de las Campesinas Totonacas en una Zona Petrolera, 1946-1986,” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Programa Interdisciplinaria del Estudio de la Mujer, at El Colegio de México, México, May 1987. (See published review by Martha J. Sanchez Gomez in Trabajo, poder, y sexualidad, 1989, El Colegio de Mexico, pp. 65-70).

“The Cultural Economy of Domestic Textile Production in Colonial Mexico: Indigenous Women Weavers in the 16th to 17th Centuries,” Paper presented at the refereed Annual Meetings of Ethnohistory Society; Tulane University, New Orleans, November, 1984.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Reviewer: City & Society (American Anthropological Association), 2003, 2005; Journal of Latin American Urban Studies (John Hopkins University), 2004.

Text Reviewer: Aguirre and Turner, American Ethnicity 4e, in preparation for the new edition of the textbook, for McGraw Hill Publishers, November, 2004.

Text Reviewer: Rothenberg's Race, Class, and Gender in the United States 5e in preparation for the new edition of the text, for Worth Publishers, 2002.

Scholarship Committee Member: Midwest Sociology Association, 2002-03

Midwest Representative on National Coordinating Committee: National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), September 1999 to August 2000.

Secretary: Latino/a Studies Section

Latin American Studies Association, 1997-2000

Reviewer: Human Organization (Society for Applied Anthropology): (MS #8/26/98) and (MS #2/28/97).

Guest Editor with Ibis Gomez-Vega, Rolando Romero: Issue on “Latina/o Discourses in the Academy,” Discourse: Journal of Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 21(5), Forthcoming, 1999.

Conference Coordinator: Midwest Regional Conference of NACCS (National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies), held at Northern Illinois University, October 23-24, 1998.

Networking Coordinator: Task Force on Latino Studies:

Latin American Studies Association, 1995-1997

Site & Program Committee Member: XXIII Annual Conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Ramada Congress Hotel, Chicago, IL, March 20-23, 1996.

Grant Writer: Kellogg Foundation for Planning Conference and Workshop, Latino/a Leadership Training Project, Northern Illinois University, November 1994.

Editorial Group Member: Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology, Editor-in-Chief, James O'Connor, Fall 1989 to 1999.

Seminar Participant: U.S.-Mexican Studies Center, University of California-San Diego, September 1992 - July 1993.

Workshop Participant: Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), “Teaching Seminar on Global Climate Change,” La Jolla, California, November 15-16, 1991.

GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS

Received (2005-2006): Miller Faculty Service Award, For outstanding campus and community service by St Cloud State University faculty ($2,500).

Submitted (2004) Minnesota Campus Compact, proposal “Enhancing Latino High School Student Achievement through Community Collaboration and Service-Learning,” with non-profit fiscal agent, UMOS, Inc. (May 2004 first submission; August 2004 full proposal). ($ 22,719.00 – not funded)

Received (2003-2004) research grant from Center for Rural Policy & Development, Mankato, Principal Investigator for “Improving Communications: Latina Immigrants in Central Minnesota” in association with other faculty colleagues ($6,500).

Received (2003-2004) SCSU faculty development funding for ongoing research project on Mexican/Latino community history and ethnography, Sterling, Illinois ($5,000).

Received (2003-2004) Cultural Diversity Committee grant to implement a year-long documentary and discussion project for the SCSU campus. Six showings of the 3-part PBS series Race: The Power of an Illusion were followed by faculty panel discussions in the Atwood Theatre ($2,600).

Implemented (2003-2005), along with four other faculty members of CODE committee, a grant received from the Bremer Foundation grant to create CARE (Community Anti-Racism Education Initiative). ($48,000), with Prof. Debra Leigh Principal Investigator.

Submitted (June, 2003), to MnScu special diversity project funding, with Professor Michael Tripp and four collaborating institutions, a grant proposal entitled “Challenging the Barriers to Educational Opportunity for People of Color in the St. Cloud Area.”

($ 25,793 – not funded).

Received (2001), SCSU Assessment Steering Committee grant, entitled “Assessment of Student Learning in Racial Issues Courses: Community Studies 111, Human Relations & Multicultural Education 102,” implemented with three colleagues, Spring 2001.

Submitted (2001), on behalf of the Racial Issues Colloquium, a FIPSE preliminary grant entitled “Learning Resource Center for Race Relations.” (not funded)

Twelfth Annual Carlos and Guillermo Vigil Award for Best Article published in Vol. 15, 1996, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture

Faculty Research Grant, July 1997-June 1998 for “Transnational Ethnography of New Migrant Spaces: From ‘Totonacápan’ in Veracruz to Northern Illinois,” Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, NIU ($2,000)

NEH-Newberry Library Summer Institute Fellowship

“Cartography & History: Using Maps in Teaching the Humanities”

Chicago Illinois, June-July, 1996

Summer Research Grant, July 1994-June 1995

Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, NIU

Kellogg Foundation, Latino/a Leadership Workshop Grant

Northern Illinois University, November, 1994

NEH Summer Seminar Grant, Department of History,

University of California, San Diego, June-July, 1992

Fulbright Foundation Research Fellowship for Mexico, 1985-1986

University of California Awards and Honors

Feminist Studies FRA Affiliated Scholar Fellowship, 1991-1992

Feminist Studies FRA Research Grant, Winter 1990

Oakes College/Cultural Studies Program Fellowship, 1989-1990

Cultural Studies Program Grant, Fall 1988

Social Science Division Research Grant, spring 1988

PUBLIC LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, and SPECIAL PROJECTS

Workshop Presenter: “Women’s Studies Across the Curriculum at SCSU,” at Minnesota State Colleges & University’s first annual Women’s Studies Discipline Workshop, Century College, St Paul, April 6-7, 2006.

Staff Training Workshop: Co-facilitator of training session on Latino/a Families and Communities with Dr. Niloufer Merchant, for the St. Cloud Children’s Home, May 25, 2005.

Public Talks/PowerPoint: Research findings on Latina immigrants and service providers in central Minnesota, in St. Cloud:

· Social Work classes, SCSU, “Latina Immigrants,” December 2004; March 2005

· College of Social Sciences Symposium, SCSU, “Latina Immigrants of Central Minnesota: Access to Services,” November 10, 2004.

· Four-hour United Way training session: “Latina Immigrants in Central Minnesota – A focus on the trials and triumphs of Latina women in Central MN” – with an attendance of 80 educators, health practitioners and service providers from the region, March 25, 2004.

P.O.E.T.S. session (community discussion forum) entitled “Latina Women Share Their Experiences,” on October 24, 2003.
“Women on Wednesday” series presentation entitled “Latina Realities in Central Minnesota,” March 24, 2004.

Forum Presenter. Diversity Training Sessions for Faculty (3). Convocation Week, SCSU, Fall 2004.

Co-Facilitator: Create CommUnity Business Dialogue, with Martha Cole from the Pubic Library: “Bridging the Education Gap: Skill-building for local immigrants,” Resource Training & Solutions, May 12, 2004.

Co-Facilitator: Strategic planning meeting for the steering committee, with Dr. Bruce Miles, St. Cloud Create CommUnity organization, St. Cloud City Hall, September 5, 2003.

Community Service: Stearns County History Museum committee for Smithsonian Exhibit “Americanos: Latino Life in the U.S.” -Jan 31 to April 24, 2004.

Invited Lecturer. “Adelante: The Latino Mural and Community History in Sterling, Illinois.” Sponsored by the Illinois Humanities Council at Sauk Valley Community College, Dixon, Illinois for “Global Awareness Week.” November 2003.

Workshop Presenter: “CARE Initiative, a Local Anti-Racism Institutional Transformation Project,” presented with other members of the Committee on Diversity Education (CODE), at the 3^rd Annual MnScu Diversity Conference “Weaving Minnesota’s Rich Tapestry,” April 4, 2003, St. Cloud State University.

Panel Presenter: “Teaching Racial Issues Panel,” with other members of the Racial Issues Faculty Colloquium, at the at the 3^rd Annual MnScu Diversity Conference “Weaving Minnesota’s Rich Tapestry,” April 4, 2003, St. Cloud State University.

Workshop Presenter: “Anti-Racism Education and Training,” at the 7^th Annual Faculty Forum Workshop Day, SCSU, April 2, 2003.

Invited Lecturer: “Tejanos, Jarochos, or Chicanos?”: Latino/a Communities in the Midwest,” McNair Foundation Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, November 4, 2002.

Symposium Presenter: “Building Cross-Cultural Communities: Latina Immigrants in Central Minnesota Today,” SCSU COSS Symposium Series, Fall 2002, October 31, 2002.

Discussant: For post-film discussion on “A Place Called Chiapas” at SCSU International Film Series, October 10, 2001.

Community Web Site Development: Latino Mural Project with Latin American Social Center, Sterling, IL, Fall 1999 - Present [http://AdelanteSterling.tripod.com]

Presenter: “Latina Networks in Northern Illinois: Women's Community-Building Efforts,” Invited talk for Women’s History Month, Northern Illinois University, March 1, 2000.

Panel Organizer: “Voices of Women from the Developing World,” Fifth Empowering Women’s Conference, Northern Illinois University, October 21, 1999.

Presenter: “Mayan Weavers of Todos Santos Cuchumatan, Guatemala,” at Celebrating Native American Women Conference, DeKalb Area Women’s Center, November 14, 1998.

Workshop Presenter: “Midwest Latino Families & Communities: Cultural Approaches to Death and Injury,” for MADD (Illinois Mother’s Against Drunk Driving) Victims’ Advocate Training, Normal, IL, August 17, 1998.

Presenter: “Fieldwork Among Village Women in Mexico: Images and Stories,” University Resources for Women Brown Bag Series, NIU, Sep 24, 1997.

Panel Organizer and Presenter: “Alma y Cuerpo: Latina and Latin American Women,” for Women’s History Month, March 6, 1997, University Resources for Latinos, NIU.

Workshop Facilitator: “What is Latina/Latino Leadership Today?” with Co-Facilitator Richard Tapia, at the Voz de la Alianza Estudiantil (VALE) Latino/a Second Annual Leadership Conference, February 28/March 1, 1997, NIU.

Presenter: “Human and Environmental Consequences of Development in Latin America,” lecture at ICISP/ICIE Curriculum Workshop on Latin America, sponsored by The Illinois Consortium for International Studies/Illinois Consortium for International Education at NIU, November 16-17, 1995.

Presenter: Panel on Latino/Latina Experience in a Diversified Curriculum,” with Michael Gonzales, Jorge Jeria and Egberto Almenas-Rosa for the Northern Illinois University Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute, June 6-14, 1995.

Presenter: “The Two Fiestas of Corpus Cristi in Papantla, Veracruz, Mexico,” lecture at the Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series organized by the NIU Anthropology Club, Northern Illinois University, Wednesday, March 8, 1995.

Presenter: “Feminist Standpoint Theory and the Ironies of Fieldwork,” at the 2nd Annual Empowering Women Conference, Northern Illinois University, November 18-19, 1993.

Lecture: “Engendered Mappings: Power, Space and Community in Totonacapan, Gulf Coast, Mexico,” presented at the Sociology Colloquium -University of Pittsburgh, February 22, 1993.

Lecture: “Vanilla, Cattle, and Pemex: Regional Struggles Over Land Use and their Environmental Consequences,” at the Environment & Development Colloquium Series, Merrill College, UCSC, December 1990.

Presenter: “Women's Tales of Subordination and Resistance--Papantla, Veracruz, Mexico,” Paper presented at the Feminist Studies FRA Spring Conference, Women's Center, University of California-Santa Cruz, June 1989.

Exhibit: “Murals of Papantla: Cultural Production in Popular Arts & Daily Life,” photo/multimedia exhibit at Third World Teaching Resource Center, Merrill College, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 1989.

Invited Speaker: “La producción de vainilla y la familia: Sistema tradicional y la situación actual", Paper presented at the Primer Foro Estatal de Vainilla, Culturas Populares (SEP), CEPES, CNC; Casa de la Cultura, Papantla, Veracruz, August, 1988.

M.A. Paper: “The Cultural Economy of Indigenous Women's Textile Production in Mexico: 1450 to 1650,” M.A. Thesis, History Board, University of California-Santa Cruz, 1982, 200 pp.

Slide Program for K-12: “Weaving our Lives: Sexual Division of Labor in Todos Santos Cuchumatan, Guatemala” prepared for the multimedia collection of Third World Teaching Resource Center, University of California-Santa Cruz, June 1980.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Committees & Campus Groups, St. Cloud State University:

--General Education Committee (03-Present, Recorder 04-05)

--Community Anti-Racism Education (CARE) Leadership Team (03-Present)

--Community Anti-Racism Education (CARE) Task Force (02-03)

--Strategic Planning, Diversity & Social Justice Subcommittee (03-04)

--FA Technology & Pedagogical Resources Committee (00-04, Chair, Fall 02)

--SCSU Representative to IFO Multicultural Issues Committee (02-03)

--FA Committee on Diversity Education (CODE), Recorder (00-04)

--Racial Issues Faculty Colloquium (00-Present)

--Latin American Studies Advisory Board (02-Present)

--Women’s Studies Advisory Board (00-Present)

--Faculty & Staff of Color Caucus (00-Present)

--Multicultural Student Services, Mentoring Group (01-Present)

Search Committees, SCSU

Community Studies, Spring 04

COSS Rep to Sociology Theory Search, 02-03

Gerontology Search, Spring 03

Women’s Studies Faculty Search, Spring 02

Provost – Academic VP Search, Spring 02

Assistant Director: Center for Latino & Latin American Studies, Northern Illinois University, August 1993-June 1999

Newsletter Editor: Encuentros, Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, NIU, 1994-1998

Faculty Associate: Women's Studies Program, NIU, 1995-1998

--Women’s Studies Advisory Committee, 1996-1998

--Women’s Studies Curriculum Committee, 1996-1998

--Women’s Studies Grants Committee Member, 1995-1996