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Carrying a torch for country and sports: Dr. Browsh Interviewed in Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Carrying a torch for country and sports: Dr. Browsh Interviewed in Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/25/2024 - 00:00

Jared Browsh

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Clint Carroll's NSF project, "Knowing the Land," featured in Cherokee Phoenix

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:39:45 +0000

Clint Carroll's NSF project, "Knowing the Land," featured in Cherokee Phoenix Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 06/12/2019 - 08:39

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Melgoza awarded the Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio (Best Student Paper Award)

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 22:53:06 +0000

Melgoza awarded the Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio (Best Student Paper Award) Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/31/2019 - 15:53

The National Association of Chicano/a Studies has awarded our PhD Candidate, Raul Melgoza, the Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio (Best Student Paper Award). His paper was titled “Like the Monarch Butterfly”: Mariposas, Migrantes, and Chicanx Comparative Critique. Congrats, Raul!

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DES Grad �鶹��Ժ Receive Tinker Grants

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:47:19 +0000

DES Grad �鶹��Ժ Receive Tinker Grants Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 11/26/2018 - 10:47

Three of our Ph.D. students, Lau Malaver, Alejandra Portillos & Jose Vasquez-Zarate, received Tinker Grants from the Latin American Studies Center to support their projects in Colombia, Mexico City & Oaxaca this summer 2019!

For the duration of a month and a half, Lau Malaver, born and raised in Bogotá, will research, analyze, and experience various forms of cultural productions by and for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI) community in Bogotá, Colombia. Lau is interested in investigating through collaborative ways the spaces of performance (art, theater, music, film) in which LGBTQI people have found refuge, support, and ultimately other people in the community to continue the fight for social justice. There has been an underlying connection between the Acuerdo de Paz (Peace Treaty) in Colombia and these performative spaces, which Lau finds important in their research as they look at the intimacies and affinities of LGBTQI people who deploy performatic enactments (or performance theory). Lau feels there is a strong connection between the LGBTQI victims of violence and the armed conflict in Colombia; multiple LGBTI people were assassinated by the paramilitary, and hence the restorative work the Acuerdo de Paz is hoping to implement. Ultimately, it is a problem that hundreds of LGBTQI people are victims of violence due to their sexual orientation and gender identity ever year, but the extreme right-wing political climate currently in power presents a further problematic: the institutionalization of gender and sexuality as means through which violence gets legitimized. Lau hopes to examine this to reify the relationality of subject with space, time, culture, and nation, and purposefully highlight cultural projects and productions that imagine decolonial futurities—spaces of liberation—within politically contested geographies in Latin America (and the United States).

Jose is planning to travel to Oaxaca, Mexico. Specifically, to the Valley of Oaxaca. Jose's intention is to visit indigenous communities of artisans of the Zapotec ethnic group. Jose is interested in knowing the process of production-commercialization of crafts made by this ethnic group. He plans to visit 5 artisan communities: San Martín Tilcajete (wood alebrijes pictured below), Teotitlán del Valle (hand-woven yarn rugs), Santo Tomás Jalietza (cotton textiles), San Bartolo Coyotepec (pottery) y Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (miniature sculptures of wood and bone) where he will interview 15 different master artisans. The elaboration of artisan handicrafts forms a great part of the cultural richness that the ethnic communities impact on the larger cultural heritage seen in Oaxaca.

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Gonzalez' MA thesis recognized among the 25 Most-Accessed Dissertations and Theses in August 2018

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:07:51 +0000

Gonzalez' MA thesis recognized among the 25 Most-Accessed Dissertations and Theses in August 2018 Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/03/2018 - 13:07

Cassy's Master's thesis, titled, "Race, Gender, and Domestic Human Trafficking: An Intersectional Description of Human Trafficking Cases at the State Level," is one of the most-accessed of 2.25 million full-text graduate works across all subject areas, based on total PDF downloads in the ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses Global™ database.

Congrats, Cassy!

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Natasha Myhal receives prestigious National Science Foundation award

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:38:29 +0000

Natasha Myhal receives prestigious National Science Foundation award Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 04/10/2018 - 10:38

Congrats to Natasha Myhal received a Research Experience for Graduate students (REG) award from the National Science Foundation! The award will allow her to carry out preliminary field research with Anishinaabe tribal governments and communities in Michigan and Minnesota this summer regarding their approaches to natural resource management.

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Clint Carroll: Rooting research in tribal partnerships

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:25:53 +0000

Clint Carroll: Rooting research in tribal partnerships Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 02/06/2018 - 11:25

Ethnic Studies Native American and Indigenous studies professor designs research relevant to tribal communities and the academy

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Professor Villanueva's new book featured in Arts & Science Magazine

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:42:53 +0000

Professor Villanueva's new book featured in Arts & Science Magazine Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 11/29/2017 - 08:42

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

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Professor Carroll's New Study in Environmental Research

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 06:00:00 +0000

Professor Carroll's New Study in Environmental Research Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 08/25/2017 - 00:00

Dr. Carroll published a new article that analyzes the health effects of arsenic exposure among American Indian elders in the Western United States.

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Professor Carroll Receives NSF CAREER Award

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 07:00:00 +0000

Professor Carroll Receives NSF CAREER Award Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/27/2017 - 00:00

Dr. Clint Carroll received a prestigious faculty early career award from the National Science Foundation. Through a tribally-driven, integrated research and education project, Dr. Carroll will explore barriers to land-based cultural practices among Cherokee people in Oklahoma, and will promote cultural and ecological resiliency through the intergenerational transfer of traditional environmental knowledge.

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