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CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

  • 1998 PhD, English, Cornell University
    Dissertation: Justice and the politics of freedom: Writings by U.S. prisoners and their advocates
    Committee: S.P. Mohanty (chair), B.V. Olguín (co-chair), B. Jeyifo, L.M. Alcoff, and H.M.
    Viramontes (defense proxy)

  • 1996 MA, English, Cornell University

  • 1993 BA, English, Willamette University

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

  • 2021– Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

  • 2010–21 Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon

  • 2006–10 Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon

  • 2004-06 Associate Professor of English, Binghamton University, State University of New York

  • 1998-04 Assistant Professor of English, Binghamton University, State University of New York

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

  • 2019–20 Faculty Director, Latinx Academic Residential Community, University of Oregon

  • 2014–15 Director, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon

  • 2008–11 Head, Ethnic Studies Department, University of Oregon

  • 2006–08 Director, Ethnic Studies Program, University of Oregon

  • 2005–11 Director, Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality Studies, University of Oregon

  • 2003–05 Director of Undergraduate Studies, English Department, Binghamton University, SUNY

VISITING APPOINTMENTS

  • 2011–12 Scholar in Residence, Center on Diversity and Community, University of Oregon

  • 2005–06 Barbara and Carlisle Moore Distinguished Visiting Professor of English, University of Oregon

  • 2002–03 Hewlett Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and
    Ethnicity, Stanford University

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & HONORS

  • 2022 College Research Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin (fall)

  • 2022 Faculty Research Fellowship, Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at
    Austin (spring)

  • 2020 Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Oregon

  • 2019–20 Academic Support Grant, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon

  • 2019 Visionary Jotería Scholar Award, Association of Jotería Arts, Activism, and Scholarship (AJAAS)

  • 2019 Faculty Leader Fellowship, Pardee RAND Graduate School

  • 2018 Rippey Innovative Teaching Award, University of Oregon

  • 2017 Rippey Innovative Teaching Award, University of Oregon

  • 2014 Summer Research Stipend (institutionally nominated for an NEH Summer Stipend), University of Oregon

  • 2014 Mariposa Award, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies LBMT and Joto Caucuses

  • 2013 Fund for Faculty Excellence Award (for distinction in scholarship and contribution to the university), University of Oregon

  • 2012 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Anthology (Gay Latino Studies), Lambda Literary Foundation

  • 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award (for promoting cultural diversity and racial justice), University of Oregon

  • 2008–09 Tom and Carol Williams Fund for Undergraduate Education Award, University of Oregon

  • 2002–03 Hewlett Fellowship, Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity,
    Stanford University

  • 2002–03 Dr. Nuala McGann Dresher Leave, United University Professionals (UUP)

  • 2001 Dean’s Research Semester, Binghamton University, State University of New York

  • 1997–98 Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Cornell University

  • 1995–97 Graduate School Special Minority Fellowship, Cornell University

  • 1993–94 Sage Fellowship, Cornell University

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