EMILIO ZAMORA Emilio Zamora Holds a George W. Littlefield
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, EMILIO ZAMORA DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN Emilio Zamora holds a George W. Littlefield Professorship in American History, Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, and is an affiliate with the Center for Mexican American Studies and the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the same institution. Zamora writes and teaches on the history of Mexicans in the United States, Texas history and oral history, and focuses on the working class and transnational experiences of Mexicans in Texas during the twentieth century. He has prepared or collaborated in the production of three single-authored books, a translated and edited WWI diary, three co-edited anthologies, a co-edited eBook, and two Texas history texts. He has received seven book awards, a best-article prize, and a Fulbright García-Robles fellowship with a one-year residency at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. His latest awards include: the 2017 Scholar of the year from the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), the 2017 NACCS Tejas Foco Premio Estrella de Aztlán Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2019 Ruth A. Allen Pioneer in Texas Working Class History Award from the Texas Center for Working-Class Studies, Collin College. Zamora is a lifetime member of the Texas Institute of Letters, a lifetime Fellow with the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), and a past-President of TSHA in 2019-20, including membership in the organization’s Executive Committee. He has served as a member of the Board of TSHA, and is on on the Advisory Committee of the University of Texas’ Voces Oral History Project, the Advisory Board of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project, the University of Houston, and the Editorial Board of the U.S. Latino Oral History Journal. His community engagement record includes current membership in the Patronato of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute at Our Lady of the Lake University at San Antonio, and past membership on the Advisory Board of Austin’s Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center (ESB-MACC) and Austin’s Hispanic/Latino Quality of Life Commission. Zamora is also a founding and continuing member of Nuestro Grupo, the sponsor of Academia Cuauhtli / Cuauhtli Academy, a Saturday morning language and cultural revitalization program in Austin sponsored by the ESB-MACC and the Austin ISD. Zamora is married to Dr. Angela Valenzuela, Professor in the Department of Educational Administration, College of Education, University of Texas at Austin. They have two daughters, Clara and Luz, and two grandchildren, Felix “Feliciano” and Mía Luna. Zamora is a descendant of Indigenous and colonial settler communities from northern Mexico and South Texas. Angela also traces her ancestry to early times, mostly in Guerrero, in the central part of Mexico. EDUCATION __________________________________________________________________________ 1983 Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, U.S. History, specializing on Mexicans in the United States , 1972 Master’s, Texas A&I University in Kingsville, U.S. History, Latin American Literature, Education 1969 Bachelor’s, Texas A&I University in Kingsville, U.S. History, Spanish, Education ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD __________________________________________________________________________ University of Texas, College of Liberal Arts, History, 2000-14: My administrative experience in the Department of History has focused on supervising students, chairing department committees, and planning and designing academic-based programs. Regarding the latter, I have administered a curriculum development and instructional program with major institutions as partners. Academia Cuauhtli/ Cuauhtli Academy Project, 2013-20: I am a founder and member of the coordinating committee as well as the content specialist on Mexican American Studies for the cultural and language revitalization instructional program for fifth graders from Austin ISD. I am also a founder and member of Nuestro Grupo, a community organization that initiated the Saturday morning program. Academia Cuahutli’s sponsoring partners include UT’s Texas Center for Education Policy, the Tejano History Curriculum Project, Austin ISD, and the City of Austin’s Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Arts Center (MACC). Austin ISD has expended approximately $100,000 and the Tejano History Curriculum Project (see below) has assigned the balance of its budget, about $10,000, to planning activities involving curriculum development, a February 2014 conference with approximately 400 area teachers attending, and a professional development workshop on Mexican American history and culture. Academia Cuauhtli held the latter event in May 2014, and it involved 20 AISD teachers and the presentation of Tejano History curriculum developed by a team of three curriculum writers that I supervised. Austin ISD, Humanities Texas, and the Tejano Monument Project provided the initial funding for Academia Cuauhtli. Austin ISD has continued the funding while Academia Cuauhtli has organized several fundraisers to sustain the school. Principal Investigator, The Tejano History Curriculum Project, $134,800, 2011-12: I designed the project, secured funding, and managed the instructional program. I developed the curriculum for approximately 110 fourth-grade students in six Austin ISD elementary classrooms. Two classes of undergraduate students in UT’s teacher preparation program helped developed curriculum in the form of Journey Boxes under the direction of Dr. Cristina Salinas. Dr. María Franquiz, also from UT’s College of Education, helped to supervise the implementation of the Journey Boxes and the development of additional curriculum materials. The $10,000 balance amount committed to the Academic Cuauhtli funded a one-day professional development workshop with approximately twenty-five AISD Dual Language teachers. Collaborations occurred between the University of Texas (Education and History), Austin ISD, the Tejano Monument Inc. (a 12-year planning and fundraising project that resulted in a Tejano statuary on the state capitol grounds), and the City of Austin’s Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Arts Center. I prepared proposals and secured $3,000 from Humanities Texas on behalf of Austin ISD and Academia Cuauhtli, $100,000 from the Walmart Foundation, and approximately $30,000 from the Board of the Tejano Monument. Academia Cuauhtli has , submitted a proposal to Austin ISD to expand Academia Cuauhlti to implement a teacher residency program. University of Houston, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, History, 1985-2000. Graduate Advisor, director and member of doctoral and Master’s committees, member of faculty search committees and other regular department committees. Also served on Executive Committee for the Center for Mexican American Studies, on other CMAS regular committees, and participated in their academic program as student advisor and instructor cross-listed with CMAS. University of California, Los Angeles, College of Letters and Science, Chicano Studies Research Center, 1981-85: As Coordinator of Research and Development (1981-83) I was responsible for designing research and public programming projects, prepare proposals for funding, and administering some of the funded projects. As the Program Director (1983-85), I was responsible for assisting the Director administer the area center with an impressive budget for its time (between $300,000 and $350,000) that included public programing, resource development, student and faculty development, and publications units and the supervision of an eleven-member staff. Texas A&I University, Kingsville, College of Arts and Sciences, Ethnic Studies Center 1977-81: As Director of the Ethnic Studies Center, I administered a program with public programming, student development, and academic units. I also had teaching responsibilities on Mexican American history and the history of ethnic groups in the United States. PUBLICATIONS __________________________________________________________________________ Books Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas; Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009. Four book awards in 2009 and 2010, and a book festival selection in Austin as featured author in 2010. The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993. Two book awards in 1994. El Movimiento Obrero Mexicano en el Sur de Texas, 1900-1920. México, D.F.: Secretaría de Educación Pública, 1986. This was the first Book-length study of Mexican workers in the United States published in Mexico). Anthologies , Beyond the Latino World War II Hero: The Social and Political Legacy of a Generation (Co- Editor with Maggie Rivas Rodríguez). Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. Mexican Americans in Texas History; Selected Essays (Lead Editor, with Cynthia Orozco and Rodolfo Rocha). Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2000. Chicano Discourse: Selected Conference Proceedings of the National Association for Chicano Studies (Co-Editor with Tatcho Mindiola). Houston: A NACCS Publication, Center for Mexican American Studies, 1992. Edited Translation The WWI Diary of José de la Luz Sáenz, Edited by Emilio Zamora; Translated by Emilio Zamora, with [assistance from] Ben Maya. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2014. The original: Los México-Americanos en La Gran Guerra y Su Contingente en Pró de la Democracia, La Humanidad y La Justicia (San Antonio: