Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies

Curriculum Vitae

University of Texas at San Antonio

Division of Bilingual-Bicultural Studies

Mexican American Studies Program

501 West Durango Blvd.

San Antonio, TX 78207

E-mail: jmendezn@utsa.edu

Office: (210) 458-2637

Academic Training

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz. Areas of emphasis: Chicana/ Latinos and Leadership /Activism, Sociology of the Family, and Social Problems Theory

• Dissertation: “¡No es lo que haces!” A Sociohistorical analysis of relational leadership in a Chicana/Latino community. Chair, Professor Patricia Zavella

• 1991 MA, Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz. Thesis: “What are you? What can I call you?” A study of Chicana and Chicano ethnic identity, Chair, Professor Pamela Roby

• 1981 MSW/BASW, San Jose State University. Developed a vocational education curriculum as a special project: Human development within skills training: A bilingual training packet, School of Social Work, San Jose State University. Adviser, Professor Howard Winant

Academic Experience

• 2005 - Present Associate Professor of Mexican American Studies

• 1999 - 2005 Assistant Professor of Mexican American Studies

• 1999 - Present Chair of the Mexican American Studies (MAS) Program Committee

• 1997 - 1999 Assistant Professor of Social Work and Mexican American Studies, San José State University
  1994 - 1997 Assistant Professor of Social Work, Worden School of Social Service, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX

• 1992 - 1994 Lecturer, San José State University, College of Social Work

• 1989 - 1991 Instructor, Summer Bridge Program, Student Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Office, University of California, Santa Cruz

• 1989 - 1991 Teaching Assistant for Community Studies and Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Publications (2004). Bridging a cultural continuum: Normalista professionals and Mexican American paraprofessionals speak about culture,

(Fall 2002). Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. San José, CA: Chusma House Publications. [excerpt in La Voz]

The second edition is in production at Duke University Press. Recommended for publication, July 9, 2004. Expected year of publication is 2006.
 

(2006). (With Saldaña, L. P., & Vega, A.) Can a culturally informed after school curricula make a difference in teen pregnancy prevention? — Preliminary evidence of the case of San Antonio's Escuelitas. (Will appear in the February 2006 edition of Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services). [abstract]

With Saldaña, L. P.) (With Saldaña, L. P.) Hablando Spanish, English, and Tejano: Bilingualism and its practices, (In press Teacher Education and Practice).

(2005). Incest. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino/as in the United States (ISBN 0-19-51560000-5), Nominated to write an entry on incest. June 2004.

(2005). Epilogue: Purging the Skeletons Bone-by-Bone. Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., in Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed. To be published 2006. Journal of Latinos & Education, 3, 209 - 225.

(2002). Learning in times of war: A semester of 9/11. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services, 83(2), 122 - 123. http://www.parentsurf.com/p/articles/mi_qa3625/is_200203/ai_n9053682

(2000). The never-ending story: Robert's lament, Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping 6(4), 58 - 66. Long Beach, CA.

(2000). Dime con quíén andas: Notions of Chicano and Mexican American families, Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services, 81(1), 42 - 48. [abstract]

(1999). Accreditation. Affilia: Journal of Feminist Social Work, 14(4), 499.

(1999). Awareness, consciousness, and resistance: Raced, classed, and gendered leadership interactions in Milagro County, California. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, XX (1), 25 - 44.

(1994). We remember César Chávez: A catalyst for change. San José Journal Studies, 20(2), 71 - 83.
 

(2002). Awareness, consciousness, and resistance: Raced, classed, and gendered leadership interactions in Milagro County, California. In Chicana Leadership: The Frontiers Reader, University of Nebraska Press, 239-258, Flores Niemann, Y., with Susan H. Armitage, Hart, P., and Weathermon, K. (Eds.) (Reissued).

Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS (Revise and resubmit).

(With Bretting, J., and Saldaña, L. P.) Tourism of field research in the borderlands: Insiders, outsiders, and spectators. Aztlán: Journal of Chicano Studies (Revise and resubmit).

Reclaiming myself: Changing self, carving change, submitted to Bearing Witness Reading Lives: Imagination, Creativity, and Cultural Change, Anthology in progress by Gloria E. Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating (Under review).

Non-Refereed Essay:

November 2003. Cala-Vero and Calacalicia, La Voz de la Esperanza, 17(9).

September 2003. Chicana anthology offers many voices, narratives. Review of Chicana feminisms: A critical reader, San Antonio Express-News.

July 2003. Memoirs lack depth into tensions of being a revolutionary. Review of We took to the streets: Fighting for Latino rights for the Young Lords, San Antonio Express-News.

October 2002. Borrachera, La Voz de Esperanza, 15(8).

June 2002. Review of Carla Trujillo's What Night Brings, San Antonio Express-News.

June 2002. Randy Garibay—Chicano Blues Man His Words and His Music, La Voz de Esperanza, 4 - 5, and 10.

March 2000. Canciones p'al Emigrante: A legacy of resistance, La Voz de Esperanza, 13(2), 3 - 8.

November 2000. Los Dones conservadores, La Voz de Esperanza, 12(9).

April 1998. En sus propias voces! Chicana leaders and activists' notions of feminism, La Voz de Esperanza, San Antonio, Texas.

A life on hold. Book completed 2005. I expect to submit it to Duke University Press after my book comes out, as I have to give them as I have an option clause in my contract.

Parallel Identities: Negotiating Ethnic Identity. This is a continuation of my research on the politics of ethnic identity. I have a working draft that I hope to submit Fall 2006.

Struggle, resistance, and change: Leadership and activism in two Mexican American communities. Book manuscript with targeted completion of 2006.

Talking in Codes and Deciphering the Silence. This is an invited submission for a book project on Latina Spirituality for Oxford University Press. This is part of the research line I developed with the publication of my book, as I continue to research the impact of incest on the spiritual, psychological, emotional, and physical constitutions of survivors.

Para pendejo no se estudia: Notions of Educational Accomplishments and Successes in Milagro County, essay in progress.

Politics of culture and the power of artistic expressions: Cultural tensions in San Antonio, Texas, article manuscript, Méndez-Negrete, J, & Vega, A.

Reviews, Commentaries, and Newspaper Articles on Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed:

Gaspar de Alva, A. Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. Journal of Latino Studies, 1, 468-470, November 2003.

Perez, A. More than you realize: Local Latina author confronts the prevalence of family violence, San Antonio Current, February 12 - 18, 2004.

Gervás, L. Relato de una traición, Nuevo Mundo, Eye en Español, June 6, 2003.

Villagran, N. Latina rises from abuse, become uplifting author. San Jose Mercury News, Thursday, June 5, 2003.

Potdar, S. The literary song and dance: Author includes song and acting in lecture of her novel, Northern Start, NIU, DeKalb, Illinois, Thursday, March 6, 2003.

Gonzales, P. & Rodriguez, R. Las hijas de Juan ends the silence `downthere,' Hispanic Link Weekly Report, 20(42), October 21, 2002.

Silva, E. Taboo topic explored by `eagle-eyed' academic, San Antonio Express-News, October 9, 2002.

Gonzales, P. & Rodriguez, R. The silence `downthere,' Column of the Americas, Universal Press Syndicate, September 2002.

Women's History Month: An overview, Women's Studies Bulletin, Women's History Month. March-April 2003.

International Women's Day Luncheon, NIU Women's Studies Program Bulletin, March-April 2003.

NIU slates events for Women's History Month, NIU News Release, February 17, 2003.

Announcement of readings from Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed, The Argonauta, 22(2), University Resources for Women Newsletter, February 2003.

UTSA sociologist writes about family and unmasks myths, UTSA Today, November 18, 2002.

Newspapers:

Téllez, L. Profesoras are rare beauties. A write up of my photographic exhibit and research on the invisibility of Women of Color academics. San Antonio Express-News, March 3, 2005.

Tijerina, E. Around the Town. San Antonio Express-News, October 24, 2003.

UTSA Professor to be honored. San Antonio Express-News, October 13, 2003.

Interviews with Print Media:

Espinoza, J. N. Cultural event takes place today, Saturday at UTB-TSC, The Brownsville Herald, November 7, 2003.

Religion Link in the Southwest, identified as a specialist in Latino leadership and activism in urban communities, San Antonio Express-News, July 18, 2003.

Garza, S. Hispanics official are No 1: Census Bureau says the group now is the biggest minority, San Antonio Express-News, May 27, 2003.

Garza, S. Jose is No. 1 name given boys in Texas. In U.S., it's Jacob. Emily leads the girls both state and nationwide, San Antonio Express-News, May 3, 2003.

Garza, S. Cinco de Mayo not just a party: Some fear the real meaning of holiday from Mexico being lost in the U.S., San Antonio Express-News, February 7, 2003.

Teaching

Graduate Courses.

BBL 5073 Psychosocial Processes in Bic.-Bil. Environments

BBL 5003 Foundations for Bicultural Studies

SOC 3413 Mexican American Family

Administrative Service

1999 - Mexican American Studies Program Coordinator and MAS Committee Chair

Responsible for coordinating and providing leadership in the continued implementation of a multidisciplinary Bachelor of Arts in Mexican American Studies with seven disciplinary options as areas of emphasis. This includes, convening meetings, procuring and coordinating appropriate data dissemination of information on students and program progress. Address other student and programmatic needs that may arise for the recruitment and retention of prospective students, in collaboration with faculty affiliates and members from the MAS Committee.

Under my leadership, degree majors have increased from 17 to about 60, with the majority of the students declaring a double major in their discipline of option. Of those who have graduated, two are pursuing their MA in Public Administration, two are attending Law School, and three are working on their Ph.D. in History and Sociology.

1994 - 1994 Summer Bridge Program Coordinator

Student Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunities Program

Responsible for designing, implementing, and supervising a transition to college program for special admission students at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Assisted and facilitated the development of program curriculum. Instructed in critical thinking. Carried out personal, academic, and cultural support agenda for the program.

1991 - 1993 Field Coordinator

University of California, Santa Cruz

Designed, implemented, and coordinated a leadership program. As coordinator, I identified, procured, and selected and supervised interns at their internship sites. Using critical pedagogy and a field education approach, instructed organizational and community theory, leadership, and field research.

1989 - 1990 Coordinator and Instructor

Institute for Undergraduate Student Training in Research

University of California, Santa Cruz

Organized and developed an academic and research summer program. Using the Summer Bridge Program as the core for data collection, students received hands-on research application and instruction. Student prepared and presented formal papers in a panel format at the end of their program experience.

Research Experiences

• Began an autoethnography of performance based on reading presentations on Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed.
• Continue collecting oral histories focusing a cultural work as a form of social power and creative expression.
• Conducted a longitudinal evaluation research project for Hispanas Unidas' Escuelitas Project, submitting an evaluation report each of the four years of the project.

• Replicated a gender/ethnic identity study in San Antonio, Texas, 1996.

• Collecting ethnographic biographies for a study on Chicana/Latino leadership formation.

• Carried out a symbolic interactionist study on ethnic identity.

Research Related Activities

I have continued to collect data that will allow me to theorize or expand upon my notions of activists and leaders in the Mexican American community. Expanding my oral history data, I have secured interviews and have completed life histories of local activists. This is a geographic expansion of the study I completed for my dissertation.

Cultural and Social Power

Using the everyday practices of living in the borderlands, I am exploring the ways in which those indigenous to that space understand power and the ways in which its presence is expressed in the context of various structures of domination, including race /ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality.

Co-Investigator, Escuelitas Evaluation Project Hispanas Unidas Institute

Assisted in the development of program documentation and data collection for an Hispanas Unidas pilot project targeting the teen pregnancy, and delinquency and dropout prevention for 3^rd through 8^th grade girls at various elementary and middle schools in the San Antonio Independent School district. As lead investigator, I completed an evaluation of the pilot project. Out of these efforts, I have continued to assist with the development of evaluation instruments and program design.

Title VII Program Research Activities

Aiming to understand how the culture of teaching in Mexico and Latin America translates into those of the US, I designed and distributed mixed surveys to examine educational training, immigration and employment history, along with cultural mores, values, and beliefs of normalistas and paraprofessional educators. To supplement the data collected, I conducted and taped in audio and video interviews that expanded the participants' cultural understanding of their participation in their educational experience.

Invited Presentations

March 4, 2004 - Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. Evergreen Valley College, San José, California.

November 13, 2003 - Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. San José State University, College of the Humanities and Arts, Department of Foreign Languages, San Jose, California.

November 9, 2003 - Claiming spaces of healing: Autoethnography of survival. National Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies (NACCS), Tejas Foco Regional Conference, November 9, 2003.

October 14, 2003 - Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. BBL 2023 - Latino Cultural Expressions - A reading and discussion with UTSA students.

October 12, 2003 - Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. Books in the Barrio Reading, Central Park Mall, San Antonio, Texas.

October 8, 2003 - Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. BBL 2023 - Latino Cultural Expressions - A reading and discussion with UTSA students.

September 21, 2003 - Selected readings and discussion, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. Barnes and Nobles, San Antonio, Texas.

September 16, 2003 - Selected readings, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, First Annual Literatura and Arte, Art and Literature Event, Valenzuela Latino Bookstore, San Antonio, Texas.

June 7, 2003 - Presentation on violence against children and selected readings, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed, Center for Employment Training, San Jose, California.

Other Creative Activities:

Women of Color in the Academy - This was a photographic exhibit documenting the presence of women scholars, University of Texas at San Antonio, Durango Art Gallery, March through July 2005.

Chicanas/Latinas in the Academy - Traveling exhibition of Women of Color in the Academy, MALCS Summer Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Clark Kerr Auditorium, August 2005.

Selected readings and multimedia presentation, with letter excerpts responding to Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. A Celebration of Women: Honrando a lo Nuestro, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas, October 13, 2003.

Mexican American Studies (MAS) Video - Video taped, scripted and edited for use in the recruitment of students into the MAS program, 2002.

Mujeres Escritoras - A video testimony about the writing process for Chicanas/Latinas. Presented at the National Association of Chicanas and Chicanos Studies, Tucson, AZ, 2001.

An Altar for Emma. Played Emma Tenayuca the elder in a one-hour play. Performances of October 27 and November 3, 2000. Esperanza Center, San Antonio. Texas.

Conference Papers

Invited Lectures and Professional Activities:

For the love of learning: First generations scholars in the academy. Co-presented keynote speech with Dr. George R. Negrete, Our Lady of the Lake University McNair Scholars Program 10^th Annual Banquet, October 28, 2005, San Antonio Texas.

Keynote Speaker for Las Hermanas 25^th National Assamblea, Dichosa Mujer: Celebrating the strength of Latinas, October 8, 2005, San Antonio, Texas.

MALCS Plenary Speaker - Reflections of the past and visions of the future, University of California, Berkeley, August 6, 2005.

Remembering our roots. Keynote Speaker for the 35^th Annual Chicano Commencement, San José State University, May 29, 2005, San José, California.

Sexual abuse in our familias: Purging the skeletons bone-by-bone, Latina Theologian/Pastoralist Conference, April 16, 2005, San Antonio, Texas.

A ventana into racial and class reproduction in a Texas classroom: Aquí y ahora. April 13, 2005, Miami, Florida.

Home is not a haven: Methodology of testimonio and the autoethnography of telling, Chicana Plenary at the National Conference for the Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, April 3, 2004.

Claiming spaces of healing: Autoethnography of survival, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Tejas Foco Regional Conference, November 9, 2003.

Visibility and difference: Coming to self in education, invited Keynote for the San Antonio SAAABE Chapter Conference, University of Texas at San Antonio, April 12, 2003.

Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. Panel presentation and discussion on violence against women, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), April 4, 2003.

Teaching and field research: Travels in the borderlands—Saber es poder, Annual Meeting of Western Political Science Association, Denver, Colorado, March 27 - 28, 2003, with John Bretting.

Writing as healing: Testimoniando stories of betrayal, Keynote Speech for International Women's Day, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. March 5, 2003.

Las hijas de Juan: Daughters betrayed. Women's History Month, invited reading by Gamma Phi Omega and University Resources for Latinos/Latina Assistance, Northern Illinois University, March 5, 2003.

La educación and education of Chicanas and Latinos in Milagro: Legacies and trajectories of a leadership class, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, March 6, 2003.

Writing as healing: Testimoniando stories of betrayal, invited presentation for the Sociology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, January 12, 2003.

Freedom of thought and liberation, Keynote Speech for Downtown 16 de septiembre Program sponsored by the United Methodists Student Movement, September 16, 2002.

Resistance, alliances, and coalitions: Chicanas negotiating the academy—Oppositional tensions and identity tribulations in the academy, panel presentation. TACHE National Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 17, 1999.

Ethnic identity: A comparative analysis of the social construction of Chicano/a and Mexican American identity in a Texas and California city, research presentation Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, November 7, 1997.

Experiences and reflections: Entering the academic job market, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, October 27, 1997.

Ethnic identity: A feminist analysis of Chicana/o ethnicity, Mexican American Studies Department, San Jose State University, October 23, 1997.

Caught between two worlds: Chicana feminism and liberation, Hispanas Unidas, 6th Annual Leadership Conference for Young Women, San Antonio, Texas, October 10, 1997.

Different sides of the same coin: Marianismo and machismo, Hispanas Unidas, 6th Annual Leadership Conference for Young Women, San Antonio, Texas, October 10, 1997.

Breaking barriers: A first generation Chicana's reflection on college survival, panel presentation, Orientation of the Class of 1997, SAA/EOP, University of California, Santa Cruz, September 29, 1997.

Ethnicity and gender and the construction of consciousness, organizer and moderator with undergraduate mentees (2) and one graduate mentee for the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, Tejas Foco, San Antonio, Texas, January 31 - February 2, 1997.

Education and change: Community investment through education, Keynote Speech, Sacred Heart Church Graduation Celebration, San Jose, CA, June 15, 1996.

Urban Sociology: Methodological and theoretical approaches, Discussant, Southwestern Social Science Association, Houston, Texas, March 1996.

Leadership formation: A Chicana/o relational leadership model, Department of Latino and Latin American Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, November 1994.

Making the transition to college: Bridging community and university experiences. Keynote Speech, SAA/EOP Orientation, University of California, Santa Cruz, October 1994.

Policy makers and politicians debate the welfare issues: Assumptions and implication for AFDC reform, Keynote Speech, ESO, Santa Clara County, CA, August 1993.

Chicana identity and the politics of ethnic identity, Guest Lecturer, Ethnic and Status Groups Course, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, August 1992.

Professional social work and social location: Implications for practice, Keynote Speech, College of Social Work, San José State University, August 1992.

Workshops Conducted:

• Workshop on sexual abuse: Speaking / listening to the silence, Las Hermanas 25^th National Assamblea, Dichosa Mujer: Celebrating the strength of Latinas, October 228, 2005, San Antonio, Texas.

• Women's Studies Institute, Domestic Violence Month events at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Breaking the silence: Speaking truth to power, Workshop, October 19, 2005.

• Conociéndonos in the silence: Speaking incest/listening without fear Workshop, MALCS National Summer Institute 2005, April 5, 2005, University of California, Berkeley.

• University of Texas at San Antonio. Conducted a workshop for conducting focus groups for PAD 5333 Program Evaluation, November 2002.

• Centro Alameda and Museo Americano. Designed and assisted in the implementation of a strategic planning retreat, San Antonio, TX, Spring 2002.

• Plazita Medical Clinic, Watsonville, CA. Staff development organizational retreat, March 2000.

• Hispanas Unidas. Assisted in the development of curriculum and the implementation of a planning and board retreat, San Antonio, TX, Fall 2001.

• Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio. Facilitated retreat on vision and mission statements San Antonio, TX, Spring 2000.

• The Esperanza Center. Staff development and organizational workshops, San Antonio, TX, Fall 2000.

• Esperanza Center. Facilitated strategic planning, and board development, San Antonio, TX, 1999.

• Teatro Vision. Conducted team building and leadership formation workshop with Teatro Vision, San Jose, CA, August 7, 1999.

• Santa Clara County CalWorks Program and Alcohol and Mental Health Focus Groups for Program Planning and Policy Implementation. Assisted in the development of guiding questions and facilitated focus groups, San Jose, CA, July 17 - 18, 1999.

• Mexican Heritage Corporation. Organizational and board development retreat, San Jose, CA, November 21 - 22, 1998.

• Mexican Heritage Corporation. Community skills training and organizational development workshop, San Jose, CA, August 17 - 18, 1999.

• Mexican American Studies Department, San Jose State University. Organizational development workshop and communication skills, San Jose, CA, April 25 - 27, 1996.

• Latino and Latin American Studies, Northern Illinois University. Multi-departmental strategies in leadership: A community and university partnership, DeKalb, IL, November 1994.

• Santa Cruz County, Human Resources Agency. Transcultural practice, and public employment: Strategies for working in diverse environments, Santa Cruz, CA, March 1994.

• Community Learning and Organizational Development Retreat, Santa Clara County, Mexican American Community Service Agency, San Jose, CA, January 1993.

• Oakes College, University of California, Santa Cruz. Rebuilding community and un-learning the `isms' (with Lillian Roybal Rose), Santa Cruz, CA, August 1993.

• Federal Women's Program. Women and leadership: Building the link for social change, Oakland, CA, October 1991.

Research Reports: (All reports prepared in collaboration with Arturo Vega.)

University Services

UTSA - University Level Committees

2005 University Standing Committee on University Scholarship.

2004 Nominated and selected to serve on Mexican-American Studies Field of Study Advisory Committee by the Coordinating Board of the University of Texas

1999 - 2001 Building Advisory and Design Review Committee (BADR)

1999 - 2000 Public Service and Outreach Committee

1999 and 2000 Roadrunner Camp, Informal Discussion on Discipline for Incoming Freshmen

College

2004 Reading Search Committee Member

1999 - Present Scholarship Review Committee

2000 to 2003 Served as Graduation Marshall for three graduations

Division

Graduate Program Representative in the University Graduate Council

2005 Chair of the Division's Research Committee

2000 - Present Scholarship Review Committee

2000 - 2002 Adjunct and Lecturer Review Committee

1999 - 2001 Catalog and Course Review Committee

1999 - Present Graduate Studies Committee

2003 Search Committee Member for linguistic and cultural diversity in schools

Prior Committee Experience

Assigned time as Co-Chair Practice Sequence Committee,

in preparation for self-study document for accreditation. (SJSU)

Served on the Teacher of the Year Selection Committee (SJSU)

Co-Chair of the Bilingual Proficiency Exams Committee (SJSU)

Member of the Research Sequence Committee (SJSU)

Member of the College Curriculum Committee (SJSU)

Member of the Planning Committee for the African American

Latina Women's Summits I and II (SJSU)

Finance and Facilities Committee Member (OLLU)

McNair Scholar Selection Committee (OLLU)

Human Behavior and Social Environment Member, Chair '96-'97 (OLLU)

Research Sequence Member (OLLU)

Patricia Robert Harris Mentor (OLLU)

MacNair Undergraduate Research Mentor (OLLU)

Staff, Faculty, and Student Relations Committee (OLLU)

Worden School Undergraduate Student Organization Adviser (OLLU)

Field Education Committee Member (SJSU)

Practice and Research Sequence Committees Member (SJSU)

Awards

Received the University of Texas at San Antonio, University Life Awards, Student Alumni Association's Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, April 25, 2005.

Other Professional Work Experience

Community Service

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, San Antonio, TX, co-chair and member of the Board of Directors

Hispanas Unidas Institute, San Antonio, TX, board member and evaluation consultant

Plazita Medical Clinic, Watsonville, CA, staff retreat and organizational consultant

Centro Alameda and Museo Americano, San Antonio, TX, consultant

Defensa de Mujeres, a domestic violence program, Watsonville, CA, founding member

Florisong de San Jose, Poetry Collective, San Jose, CA, founding member

Family Service Association of Santa Clara Valley, Inc., San Jose, CA, board member and past president

Santa Clara County, San Jose, CA, founding member of Youth Defense Coalition

Santa Clara County, San Jose, CA, president of the Delinquency Prevention Task Force

Theses Committee Supervisor and Chair

1. Cardenas, Norma, Ph.D. student and mentee with the 2002 cohort of the HPLNR Fellowship with the Department of Agriculture. Smithsonian Institute Summer Fellowship of 2004. Applied for the 2005 University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship.
2. Cortez Walden, Lisa, doctoral student, completed and successfully defended her doctoral prospectus under my supervision. She applied for a Mount Holyoke Diversity Fellowship.
3. Alaniz, Monica, doctoral student applied for and received the USDA doctoral fellowship.
4. Acuña, Nino Alejandro, studying the contributions of Mexican Americans in the history of Brownsville, Texas, UTSA 2003.
5. Perez, Alejandro Wolbert, “No Tenemos Hambre de Comida, Tenemos Hambre de Justicia,” UTSA, 2001 - 2002. Supervised his MA thesis and chaired committee. He was accepted to the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley.
6. Saldaña, Lilliana Patricia, An Examination of Bilingual Educator's Teaching Approaches and the Pedagogical Frameworks that Inform their Practices, UTSA, 2001 - 2002, Supervised MA Thesis and chaired committee.
7. Torres, Judith, thesis in progress on the educational and identity formation of first generation Chicanas in San Antonio, Texas, UTSA 2002 - 2003 (In progress).

Josephine Méndez-Negrete - Curriculm Vitae p.

2/5/06

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