Accomplishments
- Dr. Rabaka has been appointed Research Fellow in the College of Human Sciences at UNISA, Nelson Mandela's alma mater. Congrats, Dr. Rabaka!
- Congratulations to Professor Aldama, winner of the Excellence in Service award from the Â鶹ӰԺ Faculty Assembly!
- Awon Atuire has received the 2017-2018 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award! Congrats, Awon!
- In the five decades since a landmark presidential commission on crime, cops and courts have begun taking domestic violence more seriously, but much work remains to be done, says Joanne Belknap, a Â鶹ӰԺ professor of ethnic
- A week in Chile Dr. Villanueva took students to Santiago, Chile for the course: Athlete as a National Symbol: Nationhood, Nationalism and Sport.We visited the oldest Rodeo Club in Chile and met the participants. The club president was excited
- Congrats to our PhD student, Natasha Myhal, on receiving the distinction of Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Competition!
- Congrats to PhD student Raúl Melgoza, who received the distinction of Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship!
- Congratulations to Dr. Nicholas Villanueva, whose book, Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands, recently won the 2017 Southwestern Studies Book Prize though the University of Texas and the Border Regional Library Association, and
- Moments in Mexican American History in the Southwest, an historical look into Mexican-American history from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) to the present, is on display at The Collective in Lafayette. The exhibit of 23 panels combining text