Gabriela González Associate Professor of History

(Updated on February 1, 2014)

818 Mesa Loop University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas 78258 Department of History (210) 838-4906 One UTSA Circle [email protected] San Antonio, Texas 78249

EDUCATION

Ph.D., History, Stanford University, 2005 Dissertation: “Two Flags Entwined: Transborder Activists and the Politics of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in South Texas, 1900-1950.” Advisor: Albert M. Camarillo

M.A., History, Stanford University, 2001 M.A., History, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1995 B.S., Advertising, University of Texas at Austin, 1991

CURRENT RESEARCH

Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights. (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

PUBLICATIONS:

Refereed Journal Articles:

“Carolina Munguía and Emma Tenayuca: The Politics of Benevolence and Radical Reform, 1930s,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, A Special Issue on Gender on the Borderlands, vol. 24, no. 2-3, edited by Antonia Castañeda and Sue Armitage, Spring 2004. Reprinted by the University of Nebraska in 2007.

“Two Flags Entwined: Leonor Villegas de Magnón and Transborder Activism during the Mexican Revolution,” Feminist Studies, invited to revise and resubmit.

Book Chapters

“Jovita Idar: The Ideological Origins of a Transnational Advocate for La Raza,” in Texas Women/American Women: Their Lives and Times, eds. Stephanie Cole, Rebecca Sharpless, and Elizabeth Hayes Turner (University of Georgia Press), expected publication date, 2014.

Encyclopedia Articles:

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“Carolina Munguía,” and “Jovita Idar,” in Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), 2006.

“Emma Tenayuca,” Gabriela González. "Tenayuca, Emma"; http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15- 01312.html; American National Biography Online October 2007, Copyright © 2007 American Council of Learned Societies. Published by Oxford University Press

“United Farm Workers (UFW)” In American Women’s History: An Encyclopedia, 5 vols., ed., Hasia R. Diner. (New York: Facts on File, Inc., forthcoming, 2012).

Book Reviews:

From the Republic of the Rio Grande: A Personal History of the Place and the People by Beatriz de la Garza. Denton, Texas: Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 2014.

No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement by Cynthia E. Orozco. The University of Texas Press, 2009, Journal of Southern History, May 2011.

“Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861 by Raúl Ramos. The University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Journal of Southern History, February 2010.

Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Alicia Schmidt Camacho. New York University, 2008. In Journal of American History, Vol. 96, No. 2, September 2009.

Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means to Be American. Edited by Tamar Jacoby. Basic Books, 2004. In Journal of American Ethnic History, Spring 2006

Lulac: Mexican Americans and National Policy. By Craig A. Kaplowitz. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2005. In Western Historical Quarterly, Winter 2006.

TEACHING

I have taught the following undergraduate courses: U.S. History survey course, Historical Methods, Mexican Borderlands/U.S. Southwest cross-listed with American Studies as Studies in Transnationalism, Latinos in the U.S. cross-listed with American Studies as Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the U.S.-Mexico Border and the following graduate courses: Graduate Research Seminar, Comparative U.S. Women’s History, the U.S.-Mexico Border, Research Seminar on Latino and Latina History, Historical Methods, and South Texas History.

Instructor, Sources and Methods seminar, self-designed, “‘Americans All’: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Race in Wartime America and Beyond,” Stanford University, Dept. of History, Winter 2000. This course was cross-listed in the history department, the program in Feminist Studies, and Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

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Teaching Assistant, Professors Al Camarillo and George Fredrickson, “Introduction to Race and Ethnicity in the American Experience,” Stanford University, Dept. of History, Spring 1999.

Teaching Assistant, Prof. David Kennedy, “The United States in the Twentieth Century” Stanford University, Dept. of History, Spring 1998.

Teaching Assistant, Prof. Gordon Chang, “Introduction to Asian American History,” Stanford University, Dept. of History, Winter 1998.

Teaching Associate, self-designed undergraduate course, “The History of Women in the United States,” UT San Antonio, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Spring 1996.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

UTSA Faculty Development Leave, Spring 2014. Ford Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowships, 2007-2008. Who’s Who in America, 2008. Who’s Who in the Humanities Higher Education Weter Fellowship, Department of History, Stanford University, 2002-2003. David Harris Dissertation Grant, Stanford University, 2002-2003. David Potter Dissertation Grant, Stanford University, 2001-2002. Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Fellowship and Dissertation Grant, 2000-2001. Ernesto Galarza Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student Research, Stanford University, 1998. Department of History Fellowships, Stanford University, 1996-2000. Irvine Multidisciplinary Summer Bridge Research Fellow, Stanford University, 1996. Dean’s List, The University of Texas at Austin, 1991.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES

Roundtable: “The Feminine Mystique at Fifty,” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Denver, Colorado, August 9, 2013.

“Digging Through the Past: What I learned about Civil Rights Activism from the Benson Mexican American Collections,” The Mexican American Archival Enterprise at the Benson Latin American Collection: An Historical Appraisal, Center for Mexican American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, April 19, 2013.

“Emma Tenayuca and Carolina Munguia,” invited talk at Women’s History Month Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, Texas, March 27, 2013.

“Jovita Idar: The Ideological Origins of a Transnational Advocate for la Raza,” at the 117th Annual Meeting of the Texas State Historical Association, Fort Worth, Texas, March 2, 2013.

“Mexican Americans and the Constitution in the 20th Century,” Humanities Texas Teacher Enrichment Program,” Laredo, Texas, September 10, 2012.

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“Redeeming la Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights,” Invited Lecture in Dr. Sarah Gould’s AMS course, December 2, 2011.

Invited lecture in Dr. Laguana Grey Historical Methods course on the topic of research and writing, September 2011.

“The Mexican Revolution and Transborder Activism: The Case of Rómulo and Carolina Munguía,” Mexican American Studies Symposium. Trinity University, November 6, 2010.

“The Mexican Revolution and La Raza in Texas,” Second Annual Mini Symposium 16 de Septiembre 2010, Sponsored by La Raza Faculty and Administrators Association, UTSA Downtown Campus.

Chair and Commentator for panel titled "The Challenges of Chicano Activism: Religious, Educational, and Legal Activists, 1928-1974" at the Texas State Historical Association, Dallas, March 2010.

Invited lecture and class discussion, Professor Rhonda Gonzales’ research seminar class, Topic: My research and writing methods, October 2009.

"Last 100 Years and the Election of Barack Obama: A Promise of Democracy Fulfilled,” African American Studies Symposium, The University of Texas at San Antonio, April 3, 2009.

“Emma Tenayuca and Carolina Munguía,” Latino Heritage Month, Northwest Vista College, September 29, 2008

“Emma Tenayuca: Identity, experience, and the creation of political space in 1930s San Antonio,” MALCS Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 2008.

“Thinking and Teaching the "Borderlands": methodologies, practices and problems,” Organization of American Historians, New York City, New York, March 2008.

“Carolina Munguía, the Spanish-Speaking PTA, and the Politics of Benevolence and Reform,” American Studies Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2007.

“Two Flags Entwined: Transnationalism and the Creation of a Mexican-American Political Culture, 1900-1950,” Ford Fellows Conference, Irvine, California, October 2007.

“Emma Tenayuca: A Profile in Courage,” Hispanic Heritage Month, San Antonio Public Library, October 2007.

Todo Por la Patria y el Hogar: The Transnational Lives and Work of the Munguias, Latin American Studies Association XXVII International Congress, September 2007.

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Todo Por la Patria y el Hogar: The Transnational Lives and Work of the Munguias, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta Georgia, January 2007.

““Todo Por la Patria y el Hogar (All for Country and Home)”: The Transnational Lives and Work of Rómulo Munguía and Carolina Malpica de Munguía,” Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Birmingham, Alabama, October 2006.

“Todo Por la Patria y el Hogar (All for Country and Home): The Transnational Lives and Work of Rómulo Munguía and Carolina Malpica de Munguía,” Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, Stanford University, August 2006.

Panel Chair, “Cultural Brokers and Power in the U.S. Southwest: Understanding “Mexican” Business Culture, 1920-1950,” Organization of American Historians and National Council On Public History Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 2006.

“Carolina Munguía and the Politics of Benevolence and Reform,” Featured speaker at the Women in Texas History Luncheon, Texas State Historical Association, Austin, Texas, March 2006.

“Todo Por la Patria y el Hogar (All for Country and Home): The Transnational Lives and Work of Rómulo Munguía and Carolina Malpica de Munguía,” Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, August 2005. “Leonor Villegas de Magnón, the National White Cross, and the Mexican Revolution,” The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Scripps College, Claremont, California, June, 2005.

Two Flags Entwined: Transborder Activists and the Politics of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in South Texas, 1900-1950, Texas State Historical Association, Fort Worth, Texas, March, 2005.

“Teaching Our Research,” Mirando Adelante (Looking Forward): Teaching Symposium, The University of Utah, October, 2004.

“Carolina Munguía and Emma Tenayuca: The Politics of Benevolence and Radical Reform,” Tejana Symposium, The University of Texas at Austin, 2003.

“Carolina Malpica de Munguía and Josefina Fierro: The Politics of Benevolence and Reform,” Gender on the Borderlands Conference, San Antonio, 2001.

“Two Flags Entwined: Transborder Activists and the Politics of Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in South Texas, 1900-1950,” Western Historical Association, San Antonio, 2000.

“Carolina Malpica de Munguía and Josefina Fierro: The Politics of Benevolence and Reform,” Western Association of Women Historians, 2000.

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“Carolina Malpica de Munguía and Josefina Fierro: The Politics of Benevolence and Reform,” Texas State Historical Association, Austin, 2000.

“Cultural Redemption and Female Benevolence: The Class and Gender Ideologies of Carolina Munguía,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Rochester, 1999.

“‘All for Home and Country’: The Class and Gender Ideologies of Carolina Malpica de Munguia,” National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies Conference, Chicago, 1996.

“Círculo Cultural ‘Isabel, la Católica’: An Examination of the Ideology of Self-help and Cultural Nationalism,” Conference of Women’s Historians in Texas, Baylor University, 1995.

SELECTED INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE Chair and UGAR, Department of History Undergraduate Academic Policy and Curriculum Committee, Summer 2012-Fall 2013.

Institute of Texan Cultures Visiting Scholar – Fall 2012-Spring 2013 for the purpose of organizing a civil rights history series of events held in Spring 2013.

Member, Nau Scholarship Committee, Fall 2012-present.

Member, Department of History Strategic Planning Committee, Summer 2012-present.

Member, College of Liberal and Fine Arts Academic Policy Committee, Fall 2011- present.

Member, Department of History Mission Statement Committee, Fall 2011- Spring 2012.

UTSA and ITC 100th Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution Commemorative Project Committee, Spring – early Summer 2010

Women Studies Institute (WSI) Affiliated Faculty Member, 2008 – present.

Mexican American Studies (MAS) Program Affiliated Faculty Member, 2009 – present.

Member, History Department Speakers Series Committee, Fall 2009-Spring 2012.

Liaison, Library Committee, Fall 2009-Spring 2011.

Co-Chair, UTSA Women’s History Month, 2008-2009.

Member, American Studies Committee, Fall 2008 – Spring 2012.

Liaison for Committee Evaluating Graduate Programs, University of Texas at San Antonio, Spring 2007.

Member, Doctoral Program Committee, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2005-2007.

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Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2006- 2007.

Member, La Raza Faculty and Administrators Association, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2005-present.

Member, Women’s History Month organizing committee, 2005-present.

Teach-in on Immigration panelist, Sponsored by the UTSA Provost Office, April 14, 2006.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS*

American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association Organization of American Historians Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Western History Association American Studies Association Western Association of Women Historians Texas State Historical Association Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) Latin American Studies Association National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies Southern Historical Association

REFERENCES

Dr. Vicki Ruiz, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine Dr. Cynthia Orozco, Professor of History Dr. Stephen Pitti, Professor of History, Yale University

* I have been a member of these organizations in the past and participated in their respective annual conferences.

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