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Antonio L. Vásquez, Ph.D CURRICULUM VITAE Antonio L. Vásquez, Ph.D. Department of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies | The University of Texas at Austin Office: GWB 2.334 | Telephone: 512.471.9639 | Email: [email protected] FACULTY APPOINTMENTS Full-Time Faculty Lecturer, Mexican American & Latina/o Studies 2018-Present University of Texas at Austin Full-Time Faculty Lecturer, Global Studies 2013-2017 Middle Tennessee State University Dissertation Fellow/Faculty Lecturer, Office of the Provost 2012-2013 Middle Tennessee State University Teaching Assistant, Integrate Studies in the Arts & Humanities 2010-2012 Michigan State University EDUCATION EXPERIENCE DEGREE PROGRAMS Doctor of Philosophy | Michigan State University 2013 Dual-Major Chicano/Latino Studies + American Studies Committee Dionicio Valdés, Ph.D. (Chair), Theresa Meléndez, Ph.D., Pero Dagbovie, Ph.D., Dylan Miner, Ph.D., Jerry García, Ph.D. Dissertation Roots and Flows of the Tejano Diaspora In the Southern United States Graduate Certificate | Michigan State University 2010 Concentration Community Engagement Master of Arts | St. Mary’s University 2002 Major International Relations Concentration Conflict Resolution Bachelor of Arts | Texas Lutheran University 1998 Dual-Major Political Science + International Studies Minor Spanish ADDITIONAL STUDY MTSU Institute for Experiential Learning 2015 Experiential Learning Scholars Program | Middle Tennessee State University Underrepresented Minority Dissertation Fellowship Program 2012-2013 Office of the Provost | Middle Tennessee State University Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Teaching Fellowship Program 2011-2012 James Madison Residential College | Michigan State University Rackham Public Humanities Summer Institute 2011 University of Michigan History Doctoral Comprehensive Examination 2010 Mexican American Urban Historiography Chicano/Latino Studies Doctoral Comprehensive Examination 2010 Mexican American Studies Historiography, Immigration, Race American Studies Doctoral Comprehensive Examination 2010 Mexican American Popular Culture (Film, Literature, Music) Inter-University Program for Latino Research 2009 The University of Notre Dame Research on the Condition of Latinos in U.S. Colleges and Universities Workshop RESEARCH + TEACHING INTERESTS Oral History International Relations Latino South Interdisciplinary Studies Migration + Mobility Human Rights Mexican American Studies Experiential Learning Mexican American History Community Engagement Mexican American Cultural Studies American Studies TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Texas at Austin Department of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies 2018-Present MAS 308 | Introduction to Mexican American Policy Studies MAS 319 | Drug History in the Americas MAS 362 | Mexican American Policy Studies Seminar MAS 374 | Latino Migrations and Asylum MAS 374 | Latino Migration/Human Trafficking MAS 374 | Mexican American Political Thought The Humanities Program 2018-2019 HMN 679 | Honors Tutorial Course Middle Tennessee State University Master of Arts in Liberal Arts Program MALA 6000 | U.S. – Mexico Migration (Two-Week Block) Fall 2016 MALA 6100 | focused Study in Liberal Arts: Spring 2017 Latino Migration and Human Trafficking Global Studies and Cultural Geography Program 2013-2017 GS 2010 EXL* | Introduction to Cross-Cultural Experiences GS 2010 EXL* Online | Introduction to Cross-Cultural Experiences GS 3010 EXL* Online | field Experience and Study Abroad GS 3040 EXL* | Contemporary Migration: Global Trends, Local Implications A. Vásquez, Ph.D. | Revised June 2019 | Page 2 GS 3300 | Global Studies Internship GS 4990 | Senior Seminar *EXL designates course integration of experiential learning activities in collaboration with the MTSU Experiential Learning Scholars Program Underrepresented Minority Dissertation Fellowship (Office of the Provost) 2012-2013 GS 3200 | Special Problems and Topics: U.S. South Meets Global South Michigan State University Integrated Studies in the Arts + Humanities (Teaching Assistant) 2010-2012 IAH 201 | United States and the World: Popular Culture in a Global Perspective IAH 207 | Race and Culture in U.S. Literature and Film PUBLICATIONS PEER REVIEW Tejano Agricultural Labor and Diaspora in the Southern United States. In Progress. “Pilgrimage and Sanctuary in North Carolina.” In Progress. “Texas Provincialism and the World System: A View from San Antonio.” In Progress. “Deep in the Heart: Braceros, Tejanos, and Differential Disposability in South Texas.” In Tejanismo: Readings in Tejan@ History (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press): 69-80 (Invited, Submitted, and forthcoming). “Re-Envisioning the Latino South and the Cultural Poetics of Angela de Hoyos: A Transfrontera Synthesis.” Label Me Latina/o, Volume VIII (Spring 2018). "Global Studies and Community Engagement through Migration with Dignity in Middle Tennessee." Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 16, no. 1-2 (2017): 60-68. “Deep in the Heart: Braceros, Tejanos, and Differential Disposability in South Texas.” The Journal of South Texas 27, no. 2 (2014): 102-117. “Situating Mexican Immigration in Contemporary U.S. South.” Journal of American Studies in Scandinavia 43, no.1 (2011): 39-54. BOOK REVIEWS Book Review of Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González, Eds., Graphic Borders: Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016), The Journal of South Texas 32, No. 1 (fall 2018): 187-189. Book Review of Brett Hendrickson, Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo (New York and London: New York University Press, 2014), The Oral History Review 44, No. 2 (September 2017): 448-450. Book Review of Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez, Texas Mexicans & Postwar Civil Rights (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015), The Journal of South Texas 30, no. 1 (fall 2016): 142-143. Book Review of Samuel K. Byrd, The Sounds of Latinidad: Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City (New York: New York University Press, 2015), The Journal of Popular Culture 49, no. 4 (August 2016): 943-945. Book Review of LaGuana Gray, We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014), Journal of Southern History (Fall 2015): 1033-1034. A. Vásquez, Ph.D. | Revised June 2019 | Page 3 Book Review of John D. Márquez, Black-Brown Solidarity: Racial Politics in the New Gulf South (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014), The Journal of South Texas 28, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 124-125. Book Review Louie F. Rodríguez, The Time is Now: Understanding and Responding to the Black and Latina/o Dropout Crisis in the U.S. (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2014), Education Review/Reseñas Educativas 22 (January 2015). Book Review of Camilla Fojas, Islands of Empire: Pop Culture and U.S. Power (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014), The Journal of Popular Culture 47, no. 5 (October 2014): 1065-1067. Book Review of Joseph Luther, Fort Martin Scott: Guardian of the Treaty (Charleston, South Carolina: History Press, 2013), Southwestern Historical Quarterly (July 2014): 85-86. Book Review of Marc Simon Rodriguez, The Tejano Diaspora: Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011), The Journal of South Texas 26, no. 2 (fall 2013): 146-147. Book Review of Hannah Gill, The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina: New Roots in the Old North State (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010), The Oral History Review 39, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2012): 176-178. Book Review of Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez, and Emilio Zamora, eds., Beyond the Latino World War II Hero: The Social and Political Legacy of a Generation (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009), The Oral History Review 38, no. 2 (Summer/fall 2011): 442-443. COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS “Migration with Dignity Project.” MT Conversations Television Program, Center for Educational Media, MT College of Education (November 2016). “Diversity and Dignity.” College of Liberal Arts, Middle Tennessee State University 5, no. 1 (fall 2016): 12-13. "The Bracero Program in Southern Context." In Scholar/Facilitator Conversations Bureau Guide for ‘Routes to Roots: Migration Stories,’ Eds. Antonio Vásquez and Samuel Hulsey (Nashville: Humanities Tennessee, 2016). Scholar/Facilitator Conversations Bureau Guide for ‘Routes to Roots: Migration Stories,’ Eds. Antonio Vásquez and Samuel Hulsey (Nashville: Humanities Tennessee, 2016). “La Voz Community Magazine: A Preliminary Analysis.” Lansing Sesquicentennial Time-Capsule Film Companion (Lansing, Michigan: Lansing Sesquicentennial Time-Capsule, December 2009). In the Steps of the Struggle: Sharing Stories and Building Bridges Resource Manual on Immigrant Rights and Civil Rights Movements, Eds. Antonio Vásquez and Mariah J. Smith (Charlotte, North Carolina and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American Friends Service Committee: 2007). “No Human Being is Illegal: A Call for Solidarity.” Southeast Star Newsletter (Atlanta, Georgia: American Friends Service Committee, 2006). “Latina/o Migrant Communities in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.” Hurricane Katrina Needs Assessment Report (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American friends Service Committee, 2005). Introducción de Aprender Inglés. Casa San Isidro Labrador (Uxpanapa, Veracruz, México: Desarrollo del Campo, 2002). ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PAPERS “Modeling Mexican American Studies Pedagogy in the U.S. South: One Case Study.” National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas
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