We are pleased to announce that Dr. Villanueva was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure beginning Fall 2023. Congratulations, Dr. Villanueva, on your promotion!

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The break up of the Soviet Union, the precarious status of nation-states in parts of Africa and Asia, the rise of multiculturalism in the United States, the acceleration of economic globalization and other related events of the 1980s and 1990s have prompted scholars to explore, in ways they had not before, both the power and fragility of nations and national identities. A fascinating interdisciplinary literature has emerged on how nations form, how nationalisms acquire and lost power, how national identity shapes (and is shaped by) identities grounded in region, race, ethnicity, and gender. This course will examine this literature, with a particular emphasis on sport. This course will examine how the media, race, gender, sexuality, and economics made the world of sport we see today. This course explores the athlete in a global context. The course will not be an exercise in sport history. This course will use sport, and the many documents surrounding the games, to gain a better understanding of how athletes became a symbol of nationhood, and how they are influenced by, and themselves influence, other aspects of society, including social, political, and economic aspects of their society. All of this will be examined in Lima, Peru. Lima will host the 2019 Pan American Games, and the opening ceremony as well as several sporting venues will be our classroom.

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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Villanueva will join the DES faculty as Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2018. Congratulations, Dr. Villanueva, on your promotion!

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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 to have students visiting from the United States. We were treated to a private tour, allowed to ride their horses, provided a barbecue dinner, and presented with gifts.

Dinner at 17-56. This restaurant serves traditional Chilean meals from the southern 56th parallel to the northern 17th parallel. We sampled fish, wild boar, and goat.

Today we visited the national history museum and the Pre-Colombian art museum.

The gondola ride up San Cristobal Hill.

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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 the 2018 NACCS Tejas Foco Non-Fiction Book Award from the National Association for Chicana & Chicano Studies (NACCS)! 

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"What I am most proud of is finding the voice of the forgotten dead," Dr. Villanueva says.

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CSS Director Villanueva will host a discussion on "Sport: A Nation Divided, A Campus United In Conversation." Everyone is invited to discuss recent events regarding social protest and sport. This is a town-hall style event for participants to share their thoughts, and understand the different opinions that currently divide our nation. Together, in this discussion, we can learn how to foster unity at CU. Friday, September 29, 2017 from 5:00pm-6:15pm in the VAC, Room 1B20.

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Congrats to Professor Villanueva on the publication of his new book, Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderland (2017) by the University of New Mexico Press!

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