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Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez Department of History University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas 78249 Phone: (210) 458-7467; Fax (210) 458-4796 email: [email protected] EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Education University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D, History, 2001; M.A., History, 1993. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.B., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, 1986; S.B., Humanities and Engineering, 1986. Professional and Academic Positions Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2015-present. Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa, 2012-2015. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa, 2006-2012. Assistant Professor, Department of History, California State University, Long Beach, 2002-2006. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, Southern Methodist University, 2001-2002. Lecturer, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College, 2001. Lecturer, Department of History and Chicano-Latino Studies Program, University of California, Irvine, 2000-2001. Lecturer, Department of Chicana/o Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, 2000. Lecturer, Department of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1999-2000. Teaching Awards James N. Murray Faculty Award, University of Iowa, 2012. History Lecturer Appreciation Award, University of California, Irvine, 2001. Professional Memberships American Historical Association Organization of American Historians American Studies Association Western History Association Latin American Studies Association Southern History Association SCHOLARSHIP Books River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013). Awarded the Clotilde P. García Tejano Book Prize in 2014, and Finalist designation for Citizenship Studies Book Award in 2015. Edited Volumes The Latino Midwest Reader, eds., Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Claire Fox, and Santiago Vaquera- Vásquez, (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2017). Major Problems in Latina/o History, eds., Omar Valerio-Jiménez and Carmen Teresa Whalen, (Boston: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2014). Valerio-Jiménez – 2 The Popol Vuh, Sacred History of the Maya: A University Curriculum for High School, eds., Tracy McNulty, Mark Patrick, and Omar Valerio-Jiménez, (Irvine: Humanities Out There, University of California, Irvine, 2003). Journal Articles “Racializing Mexican Immigrants in the Heartland: Iowa’s Early Mexican Communities, 1880- 1930,” Annals of Iowa 75:1 (Winter 2016), 1-46. “Understanding Mexican Immigration: Teaching Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream,” Journal of American Ethnic History 29:2 (Winter 2010), 67-73. “New Avenues for Domestic Dispute and Divorce Lawsuits along the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1834-1893,” Journal of Women’s History 21:1 (Spring 2009), 10-34. “Neglected Citizens and Willing Traders: The Villas del Norte (Tamaulipas) in Mexico’s Northern Borderlands, 1749-1846,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 18:2 (Summer 2002), 251-296. Chapters in Books “‘Although We are the Last Soldiers’: Citizenship, Ideology, and Tejano Unionism,” in Lone Star Unionism and Dissent, ed. Jesus F. de la Teja, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), 123-145. “Rows of Memory as an Exemplary Migrant Experience,” in Rows of Memory: Journeys of a Migrant Sugar-Beet Worker, Saúl Sánchez (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, April 2014), xi-xxviii. “The United States-Mexico Border as Material and Cultural Barrier,” in Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics in Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States, eds. Dirk Hoerder and Nora Faires (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011), 228-250. “Race and Immigration in Nineteenth-Century California,” in A Companion to California History, eds. William Deverell and David Igler (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2008), 145- 158. “Strategies for Teaching the American West in a Global Context,” in America on the World Stage: Essays on the Teaching of the United States History Survey, eds., Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson (University of Illinois Press, 2008), 99-106. “Latinos,” in Making of the American West: People and Perspectives, ed. Benjamin H. Johnson (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007), 47-70. Encyclopedia Entries “U.S.-Mexico War,” in American History: Oxford Research Encyclopedias (forthcoming 2016). “Race Relations” in The Old West: History and Heritage, ed., Edward Countryman (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2008), 788-791. “Spanish-Mexican Women in Texas,” in Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, eds. Virginia Sánchez Korrol and Vicki L. Ruiz (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 716-719. “Spanish in Florida and the Southwest,” in The Atlas of the U.S. and Canadian Environmental History, ed. Char Miller (New York: Routledge, 2003), 16-17. Valerio-Jiménez – 3 “From Island to Mainland: Caribbean Migration, 1952-1995,” in The Settling of North America, ed. Helen H. Tanner (New York: Macmillan, 1995), 170-171. “El Norte: Spanish-Speaking Americans Come North, 1910-1995,” in The Settling of North America, ed. Helen H. Tanner (New York: Macmillan, 1995), 172-173. Book Reviews “Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942,” by John Mckiernan-González, New Mexico Historical Review 89:4 (Fall 2014), 533-534. “Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861,” by Raúl A. Ramos, New Mexico Historical Review 85:2 (Spring 2010), 187-189. “Citizenship across Borders: The Political Transnationalism of El Migrante,” by Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker, Journal of American Ethnic History 29:3 (Spring 2010), 126-127. “This Small City Will Be a Mexican Paradise: Exploring the Origins of Mexican Culture in Los Angeles, 1821-1846,” by Michael J. González, Pacific Historical Review 76:2, (May 2007), 304-306. “Memories of a Hyphenated Man,” by Ramón Eduardo Ruiz Urueta, Journal of the West 44:2 (Spring 2005), 98. “Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century,” by Guadalupe San Miguel, Southwestern Historical Quarterly 106:3 (January 2003), 460-461. “Historia’s Narrative Battleground: Ethnic Identity, History, and Literature,” by Louis G. Mendoza, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 27:2 (Fall 2002), 187-197. Opinion Essays “Reform should include a clear path to citizenship,” Iowa City Press-Citizen, March 12, 2013. “Telling the story of Latinos in the Heartland,” Iowa City Press-Citizen, October 6, 2012. Media Interviews Television interview on Controversial Mexican American Heritage Textbook in Texas by Anusha Roy, KENS 5 TV, May 27, 2016. Radio Interview for “Negotiating Hispanic and Latino Identity (Even if neither label fits)” by Lucia Benavides, NPR’s Texas Standard, September 28, 2015. Radio interview on UI’s Latina/o Studies minor for “Your Town” hosted by Jay Capron on KXIC AM 800, September 22, 2014. Podcast interview on “River of Hope” for New Books in History hosted by Marshall Poe, June 12, 2014. Newspaper interview for “UI faculty and students push for Latino Studies,” by Rebecca Morin, The Daily Iowan, December 3, 2013. Newspaper interview for “UI sees a surge in Latino student population,” by Rebecca Morin, The Daily Iowan, November 15, 2013. Telephone interview for “Latino Role Models Success,” Blog Talk Radio with Armando F. Sánchez, June 24, 2013. Radio interview for “The Latino Experience in Iowa: Many Cultures Over Many Years,” Morning Edition, Iowa Public Radio, April 3, 2013. Magazine interview for “The Invisible Iowans: Latinos’ role in state history,” by Jennifer Hemmingsen, Iowa Alumni Magazine, February 2013. Valerio-Jiménez – 4 Television interview for “Iowa Secretary of State’s Proposed Changes to Voting Rules,” KFXA TV – Fox News, January 3, 2013. Television interview for “The Latino Midwest,” WorldCanvass Program, University of Iowa International Programs, October 5, 2012. Television interview for “Latinos in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa,” WorldCanvass Program, University of Iowa International Programs, April 9, 2010. Grants and Fellowships External Award for Faculty, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2016-2017. James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Research Fellowship, UCLA’s Special Collections Library, 2016. John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off-Campus Faculty Award, Charles Redd Center, 2014. Research Grant, State Historical Society of Iowa, 2011. Huntington-WHA Martin Ridge Fellowship, Western History Association, 2001-2002. Summerfield Roberts Postdoctoral Fellowship, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2001-2002. Clements-DeGoyler Library Grant, William P. Clements Center, Southern Methodist University, 2000-2001. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (declined), Ford Foundation and National Research Council, 1996-1997. Visiting Research Fellowship, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1996-1997. Short-Term Resident Fellowship, The Newberry Library, 1996. Grant-in-Aid, Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project, University of Houston, 1996. National Hispanic Scholarship, National Hispanic Scholarship Fund, 1996. Inter-University Program Fellowship, Inter-University Program for Latino Research and the Smithsonian Institution, 1994. University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant (Office of the Provost, 2015). Career Development Award (Office of the Vice President and Provost, Spring 2014). Obermann Summer Seminar, Co-Director with Claire Fox and Santiago
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