Southwest Borderlands Initiative Faculty

Posted April 8th, 2008 by cameo

	Miguel Astor Aguilera Assistant Professor Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. Aguilera conducts ethnographic research on the religious life among the traditional Maya in contemporary Mexico and Central America.

	Elizabeth Archuleta Assistant Professor Women and Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. Archuleta has a background in the humanities with a focus on Indigenous women's writing, exploring womanhood, violence, sexuality, identity, popular culture, social justice, feminism, family, women's traditions and indigenous legal systems.

	Alfredo J. Artiles Professor Curriculum and Instruction, Mary Lou Fulton College of Education Dr. Artiles' research examines the implications of the role of culture in learning for v construction of competence in two contexts: special education placement practices and teacher learning in urban multicultural schools.

	Carol Baldwin Associate Professor College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation Dr. Baldwin studies cultural folk health practices and their applications to health promotion, and differences in the way sleep problems are experienced and expressed by gender and culture.

	Daniel Bernardi Director Film and Media Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. Bernardi's research explores the representation and narration of race in American film, television and new medias.

	Bryan Brayboy Associate Professor Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Mary Lou Fulton College of Education Dr. Brayboy received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. His areas of specialization are anthropology of education; sociology of education; higher education; and American Indian education.

	Rodolfo Espino Assistant Professor Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. Espino received his B.A. from Luther College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His primary research and teaching interests are in the fields of minority politics, political behavior and political methodology. His reasearch interests include examining Latino political empowerment, the campaign rhetoric of Latino candidates and Spanish political campaign ads, and the political behavior of whites in response to Latinos.

	Aurelio Espinosa Assistant Professor Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. Espinosa earned his doctorate (University of Arizona, 2003) in medieval and Renaissance European history, with a specialization in political praxis and religious culture in sixteenth-century Spain. His research interests include women and daily life in Renaissance Spain, the Inquisition and the colonization of Mesoamerica.

	Amira de la Garza Associate Professor Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. De la Garza's research is in the area of borderlands identities, with a special interest in postcolonial methodology for ethnography and multi-genre autoethnographic texts & performance.

	Alan Gómez Assistant Professor School of Justice and Social Inquiry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Organized around the over-arching theme of cultures of resistance, Dr. Alan Eladio Gómez’ research topics include: history of social movements in Mexico, the U.S. and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands; the political cultures of U.S./Third World Left radicalism; the relational logics of white supremacy, violence, law and state formation; prison rebellions and incarceration logics; the political geography of urban development; situated knowledges, radical pedagogies and neo-liberal education; and the intersections of gender, revolution, human rights and international solidarity.

	Magda Hinojosa Assistant Professor Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. Magda Hinojosa's research focuses on the political participation of women in Latin America and, in particular, she examines institutional barriers to women's descriptive representation. Her most recent project assessed the impact of candidate selection procedures on women's ability to enter political office as mayors and council members in Chile and Mexico.

	Ted Jojola Visiting Distinguished Professor School of Planning, College of Design Dr. Jojola (Isleta Pueblo), a regents' professor at the University of New Mexico and the former head of the UNM Native American Studies Program, Dr. Jojola currently teaches courses such as Indigenous Planning, Planning for Native Lands and Human Settlements. He has published numerous articles and chapters on topics relating to indigenous planning, stereotyping and economic development. He is Chair and cofounder of the Indigenous Planning Divison, American Planning Association.

	Amelia Malagamba-Ansótegui Assistant Professor Art History, Herberger College of the Arts Dr. Malagamba-Ansótegui's scholarly work is centered in Chicana/o, Latina/o and Border art and cultures with a transnational and multidisciplinary approach. Dr. Malagamba-Ansótegui’s research addresses a variety of topics including Latina/o visual arts and culture, border art and Mexican photography. Her curatorial work includes exhibitions in El Museo de la Estampa in Mexico City, Austin Museum of Art and Centro Cultural Tijuana among other art speces.

	Eileen Diaz McConnell Assistant Professor Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/a Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. McConnell's research interests include Latina/o Demography, especially the growth and change of Latino populations in non-traditional areas of the United States; Latino migration; homeownership and housing issues related to wealth accumulation; and the collection and public dissemination of racial/ethnic data in federal sources.

	Ariana Mikulski Assistant Professor School of Social and Family Dynamics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. Mikulski's research examines the processes of language acquisition, maintenance, and loss in Spanish-English bilinguals. Her current projects focus on the Spanish subjunctive in bilinguals who are enrolled in university Spanish courses designed for heritage learners; these studies investigate the participants’ ability to recognize where the subjunctive verb form should be used as well as their ability to produce it in the appropriate syntactic constructions.

	Maria Garcia Perez Assistant Professor Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. Hilda García is a social epidemiologist and demographer with a primary research interest in the influence of morbidity and health-seeking behavior of women in urban areas of northern Mexico and the Southwest borderlands.

	Armando A. Piña Assistant Professor Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. Piña is interested in the study of intra-individual level risk factors in the development of anxiety disorders in youths and the evaluation of psychosocial interventions for use with this population.

	Luis F.B. Plascencia Assistant Professor Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Plascencia studies citizenship, migration, and guestworker programs, as well as popular culture in the Mexican-origin community in the United States.

	Seline Szkupinski Quiroga Assistant Professor Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. Szkupinski Quiroga studies discourses of race, gender and identity as they emerge in illness narratives.

	Rick Rodriguez Professor of Practice Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication Professor Rodriguez is developing a new cross-disciplinary specialization in the coverage of issues related to Latinos and the U.S.-Mexico border.

	Graciela E. Silva Assistant Professor College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation Dr. Silva's work includes disease surveillance along the US-Mexico border and dissemination of evidence based practice in Latin-America.

	Elias Robles-Sotelo Associate Professor Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Dr. Robles-Sotelo studies behavior processes in health promotion and maintenance, and develops systems to facilitate access to health services.

	Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor Associate Professor School of Social and Family Dynamics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. Umaña-Taylor research interests include adolescents’ ethnic identity formation, familial socialization processes, and psychosocial well-being (e.g., psychological health, academic achievement).

	Francisco Lara Valencia Assistant Professor School of Planning, College of Design Dr. Lara-Valencia studies regional and urban development in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and their impacts on the environment, health and social equity.

	Luis E. Zayas Assistant Professor School of Social Work, College of Public Programs Dr. Zayas' areas of expertise are in applied medical anthropology, health behavior and health promotion, health inequalities, heath workforce development, as well as in the anthropology of development. His research has focused on coping with and management of chronic medical conditions, particularly asthma and diabetes, among Latinos and African Americans.

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