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El Noticiero de IUPLR
INSIDE the January 2003 Noticiero
de IUPLR:
- The Smithsonian
Institution is accepting applications and nominations for Director of
the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives
- The University
of New Mexico’s Southwest Hispanic Research Institute is issuing
a call for applications for SHRI Director
- The Hispanic
Research Center at Arizona State University will launch the first of
a series of annual events to be celebrated during Cinco de Mayo
- NEA, the Dirksen
Foundation, and Mexico-Norte announce various funding opportunities
for faculty and students
- Indiana University’s
Department of History and Latino Studies Program seek a historian of
the Mexican origin population in the United States, rank open
- The University
of California’s Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC
MEXUS) announces its 2003-2004 funding opportunities
- The California
Policy Research Center recently issued a new report entitled, “California’s
Latinos: Assets at Risk.”
- The Mexico-North
Research Network will hold its next annual members meeting on February
28 and March 1, 2003, in San Antonio, Texas
IUPLR
HEADQUARTER NEWS
Happy New Year!!
This is the Noticiero's 7th year as an electronic informational outlet
for the IUPLR network of scholars and member centers. Be sure to visit
the IUPLR web site at: http://www.nd.edu/~iuplr.
There, you can view past issues of the IUPLR Noticiero.
Please send your
center updates, center events, faculty news, faculty opportunities, fellowship
opportunities, and publication news to: vsaenz@prodigy.net.
CENTER
NEWS
Smithsonian Center
for Latino Initiatives, Smithsonian Institute
The Smithsonian Institution
is accepting applications and nominations for Director of the Smithsonian
Center for Latino Initiatives. The Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives
was established to promote the inclusion of the Latino experience in appropriate
Smithsonian programs and exhibitions. The Center’s purpose includes
coordinating and providing linkages among Smithsonian Latino-related initiatives
in the areas of research, exhibitions, and educational outreach, and providing
a point of access for external Latino constituencies, including Latino
organizations. The Director, SCLI, provides leadership in fulfilling the
Center’s mission of fostering understanding and appreciation of the
Latino foundations of American society and culture through the generation
and diffusion of new knowledge based on the collections resources of the
Smithsonian, its unique research environment, its tradition of public
scholarship, and its diverse education and public programs, both in Washington,
D.C. and throughout the nation. The Director reports to the Under Secretary
for American Museums and National Programs (USAMNP). The incumbent also
works closely with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Board for
Latino Initiatives. Interested applicants should send a resume and cover
letter to: Thomas Lawrence, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th Street NW,
Suite 6100, Washington DC 20560-0912. For more information, call (202-275-0944)
or send an email to: lawrencet@hr.si.edu.
Southwest Hispanic
Research Institute, University of New Mexico
The University of
New Mexico’s Southwest Hispanic Research Institute is issuing a call
for applications for SHRI Director. Interested applicants should be tenurable
at the level of full (or associate) professor in one of the departments
in UNM's College of Arts and Sciences and have a record of substantial
success in generating grant funding from federal and private foundation
sources in areas of research, service, and curriculum. The primary duties
of SHRI Director include: administering all grants and contracts awarded
to SHRI; supervising staff, staff projects, and activities; developing
extramural funding from governmental and foundation sources; coordinating
SHRI Working Paper Series; and collaborating with University departments,
colleges and schools on co-sponsored projects, to list a few. Interested
applicants should send a letter of intent including a description of the
applicant's skills and a curriculum vita to: Felipe Gonzales, Professor,
Sociology, Director, Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, University
of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1166. For more information, please call (505) 277-4325.
Chicano Studies
Research Center, UCLA
This month the CSRC
begins a new series of Faculty Exchanges, informal presentations on research
by faculty members and scholars associated with the Center. Alicia Gaspar
de Alba will speak on the topic of the Maquiladora Murders on Monday,
January 13, 2003 from 12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM. In subsequent months, exchanges
will include Lisa Catanzarite, Jose Alamillo, Laura Gomez, Clara Chu,
Vilma Ortiz, and Edward Telles.
Professors Vilma Ortiz and Eddie Telles's Mexican American Study Project
has moved to the CSRC. Now in the data analysis phase, this project--which
extends the Grebler, Moore, and Guzman research of the 1960s--will provide
a definitive longitudinal study of the Mexican-origin population. More
information about this project can be obtained on-line at http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/masp/.
The CSRC will hold
a three-session workshop with pizza for graduate students on how to write
and publish a book review for the peer-reviewed Aztlán: A Journal
of Chicano Studies. Meetings will be Tuesday evenings, January 21, April
1, and May 13. The instructors will be Wendy Belcher, managing editor
of Aztlán; Chon A. Noriega, professor of film studies and a long-time
journal editor; and Alicia Gaspar de Alba, professor of Chicana/o studies
and recently appointed co-editor.
Hispanic Research
Center, Arizona State University
The Hispanic Research
Center at Arizona State University will launch the first of a series of
annual events to be celebrated during the Cinco de Mayo period in Scottsdale,
Arizona, and quite possibly, through internet hook up in other places
such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Austin,
San Antonio, Houston, El Paso, Chicago, New York and Mexico City. The
event is provisionally entitled: Latina/Latino Art: First International
Auction and Conferences. Please plan to take part in these events in early
May 2003. For more information, please send an e-mail to hrcartprojects@asu.edu,
or to Gary D. Keller, Regents’ Professor, at gary.keller@asu.edu.
He can also be reached at (480) 965-3990.
Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University
Building on the success
of its previous conferences, the Cuban Research Institute continues the
tradition of convening every 18 months all those persons committed to
the study of the Cuban nation. The 5th CRI Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American
Studies will be held on October 22-25, 2003, at the University Park Campus
of Florida International University. They will consider all papers, but
strongly encourage the submission of proposals for panels, especially
on "the transnational nation". Deadline for submission of all
paper and panel proposals is February 15, 2003. For further details on
this or other CRI activities, please check their website at http://lacc.fiu.edu/cri.
For more information or to send your abstract, contact: Lisandro Pérez,
Director (perezl@fiu.edu) or Uva de
Aragón, Associate Director (aragonu@fiu.edu)
at: Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, DM 363,
University Park, Miami, FL 33199, or be phone at (305) 348-1991.
The Julián
Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University
Visit the Latino
News section of the JSRI website. It is updated often and offers insightful
articles to Latino news around the globe. The link is: http://jsri.msu.edu/cgi-bin/news/index.cgi.
Chicano Studies
Research Program, University of Texas at El Paso
Thursday, January
9, 2003, 3:30-5:00pm
A lecture entitled: "Official Sources for Personal and Policy History:
Border Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service circa 1903-1955,"
by Marian L. Smith, Historian, Immigration and Naturalization Service.
This lecture will be held at the Undergraduate Learning Center (UGLC),
Room 220 and it is sponsored by Paso al Norte Immigration Museum, Chicano
Studies and the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies.
For more info on
Center events, contact (915) 747-5462, or visit their website at http://www.utep.edu/chicano/events.htm.
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR YOUR STUDENTS
The Institute for
Latino Studies looks for a research support assistant. The assistant provides
technical assistance to Institute for Latino Studies staff and members
of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR), in the acquisition
and management of the demographic and survey data archives, including
the holdings for the Census Information Center Project. Bachelor's degree
in social science or computer science is essential. Applications should
be sent no later than January 31, 2003 to: Erin E. Smith Employment Specialist,
University of Notre Dame, and Office of Human Resources, 100 Grace Hall,
Notre Dame, IN 46556. For more information, click on http://www.nd.edu/~latino/education/jobs_ils.html.
The Dirksen Congressional
Center invites applications for grants totaling $35,000 in 2003 to fund
research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The competition
is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political
scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration
or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible. The Center
encourages graduate students to apply and awards a significant portion
of the funds for dissertation research. Undergraduate or pre-Ph.D. study,
research teams of two or more individuals and organizations are not eligible.
Applicants are responsible for showing the relationship between their
work and the awards program guidelines. Applications are accepted at any
time. All application materials must be postmarked on or before February
1, 2003. Awards will be announced in March 2003. Complete information
about eligibility and application procedures may be found at The Center’s
Web site: http://www.dirksencenter.org/grantcongresearchaward.htm.
Frank Mackaman is the program officer, and he can be reach by e-mail at:
fmackaman@dirksencenter.org.
Through fellowships
to published creative writers and translators of exceptional talent in
the areas of prose and poetry, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
seeks to advance its goal of encouraging and supporting artistic creativity
and preserving America's diverse cultural heritage by expanding opportunities
for artists to create and refine work. The program operates on a two-year
cycle with fellowships in prose available one year and fellowships in
poetry available the next. Grants are for $10,000 to $20,000. See the
NEA Web site at http://www.nea.gov/guide/Lit04/Litindex.html
for further details and for information on obtaining the complete application
booklet. For additional RFPs in Arts and Culture, visit:
http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_arts.jhtml.
Mexico-North is pleased
to announce the 2003 competition for fellowships in its Program in US-Mexican
Transnationalism. The fellowships are available to both graduate students
and Ph.D. scholars. Eight fellowships will be awarded, four to US scholars
who will conduct research at Mexican institutions that are members of
the Mexico-North Research Network and four to Mexican scholars who will
conduct research at US institutions that are members of Mexico-North.
This fellowship program is made possible by support from the Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State
and the Dirección de Comunidades Mexicanas en el Exterior and the
Dirección General para América del Norte of Mexico’s
Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. Research projects on any aspects
of U.S-Mexican transnationalism will be considered, but the projects must
focus on topics that have not been thoroughly explored and must contribute
significantly to the advancement of scholarship on transnationalism. Application
packets should be mailed by January 15, 2003 to: The Mexico-North Research
Network, Transnationalism Fellowship Program, 318 W. Houston Street, Suite
220, San Antonio, TX 78205. All inquiries regarding the fellowship program
should be directed to Ms. Greta de León, Director of Programs at
(210) 229-1055. Further information on the Mexico-North Research Network
is available at www.mexnor.org.
FACULTY
OPPORTUNITIES
Indiana University’s
Department of History and Latino Studies Program seek a historian of the
Mexican origin population in the United States, rank open. This is a tenure-track
or tenured position. The department is interested in historians of the
Mexican-American experience in the United States as well as the process
of migration, but will also be asked to teach Latino history survey courses.
The tenure home will be in the History Department, but the successful
applicant will participate actively in developing IU’s growing Latino
Studies Program. The position is currently open until filled. Applicants
should send a letter of application, c.v., sample of scholarly writing,
and three letters of reference to Latino History Search Committee, Department
of History, Indiana University, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN
47405. Additional information on the history department is available at
http://www.indiana.edu/~histweb/
and additional information
on the Latino Studies Program is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~latino/.
The South Texas Center
for Rural Public Health (STCRPH) in McAllen, Texas, is a satellite campus
of the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center and the School
of Rural Public Health. This year, an Assistant Dean and one faculty member
are being recruited and will be housed in a new building designed to accommodate
up to ten faculty members. Candidates for the Assistant Dean position
should have a doctorate in public health or in a closely related field.
They should have demonstrated accomplishments and experience in teaching
and scholarly activities such as research, grantsmanship, and peer-reviewed
publications that will allow appointment as Associate or Full Professor
with tenure. Experience in academic administration and border health experience
are desirable. Bilingual applicants are preferred. In addition to an Assistant
Dean, the School is recruiting a faculty member to join the growing faculty
research team at STCRPH. We are particularly interested in recruiting
a faculty member in epidemiology, biostatistics, health economics, or
community organization and development. Qualified applicants in other
areas of social and behavioral health or in environmental health are also
encouraged to apply. Experience with border health issues and Spanish
speaking are desirable. The faculty position may be tenure or non-tenure
track depending upon the qualifications of the applicant. Interested individuals
should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and the names, addresses,
and telephone number of three references to: Dr. Kenneth McLeroy, Chair,
Search Committee for the Assistant Dean, School of Rural Public Health,
3000 Briarcrest Drive, Suite 310, Bryan, Texas 77802. For additional information
you may contact Dr. McLeroy at (979) 845-2387 or
kmcleroy@srph.tamushsc.edu. Review of applicants will begin December
15, 2002, and continue until the position is filled.
The Chicana/o Studies
Program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison invites applications
for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, beginning August 2003. Applications
are invited from qualified persons with expertise in Chicana/o and Latina/o
Studies and a specialization in a variety of areas, including but not
restricted to Sociology, Communication Arts, Social Work, or Psychology.
Areas of particular interest are open, including demography, immigration,
transnational labor, social movements; film and television studies, the
role of communication media in forming ideas about social identity; border
culture; cognitive psychology, educational equity and diversity; social
constructions of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and nation;
social work services to communities of color, child welfare, macro practice,
and health and mental health among Chicano families. This position includes
professorial duties in the Chicana/o Studies Program and a tenure-granting
department. Application deadline is January 15, 2003, or until position
is filled. Interested applicants should send letter of application, CV,
sample publications, and three letters of recommendation to: Professor
Rubén Medina, Director, Chicana/o Studies Program, University of
Wisconsin, 313 Ingraham Hall, 1151 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706.
The University of
California’s Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS)
announces its 2003-2004 funding opportunities. UC MEXUS was established
in 1980 to identify, focus, and augment the resources of the campuses
of the University of California as they relate to research, education,
creative activity, and public service concerning Mexico and people of
Mexican origin. Funding is available for projects conducted by UC researchers
or research teams in the following areas: Mexico-Related Studies; Latino
Studies; United States-Mexican Relations; Critical U.S.-Mexico Issues;
Latino and Mexican Topics in the Arts; Collaborative Research Projects
with Investigators at Mexican Institutions. The detailed information and
application instructions for all 2003-2004 UC MEXUS funding opportunities
may be accessed on the UC MEXUS program Web Pages at http://www.ucmexus.ucr.edu/funding/index.htm.
Projects in Latino Studies may qualify for additional funding through
UC MEXUS UCCLR funds. Please refer to the web site for more details. For
more information, contact Andrea Kaus, Ph.D., Program Officer, UC MEXUS
Universitywide Headquarters, 3324 Olmsted Hall, University of California,
Riverside, CA 92521. She can also be reached at (909) 787-3586 or by e-mail
at: andrea.kaus@ucr.edu.
The Department of
Education at the University of California, Los Angeles announces an open
rank, tenure-track faculty position in higher education, specializing
in one of the following areas: equity and access, student learning and
development, and higher education policy. Special consideration will be
given to those candidates who possess the ability to train graduate students
in quantitative methodologies. The Department is particularly interested
in and values candidates who have experience working with students from
diverse backgrounds and a demonstrated commitment to improving access
to and the conditions in higher education for underrepresented students.
The candidate will be affiliated with the Division of Higher Education
and Organizational Change (HEOC) in the Department of Education. Send
application letter describing your research and teaching interests, along
with curriculum vitae, sample publications, and three references to: Daniel
G. Solorzano, Chair, Department of Education, University of California,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521. The screening of applications
will begin on January 15, 2003 and continue until the position is filled.
For more information, contact Professor Patricia McDonough, Chair of the
Search Committee, at
heocsearch@gseis.ucla.edu.
The University of
South Florida is seeking an experienced leader with a distinguished academic
and administrative record to direct the University's interdisciplinary
Latin American, Caribbean, (LAC) and Latino Studies program. The primary
responsibilities of the Director will include administration of academic
programs, support of faculty scholarship and teaching, recruitment and
retention of LAC faculty, writing and administering grants, promoting
Latin American and Caribbean studies across campus, creating and sustaining
productive relationships/exchanges with institutions in the region, and
cultivating beneficial relations with the local community. Candidates
should submit a letter of application that includes two copies of professional
accomplishments and goals, a c.v., and the names of three references.
Applications must be received by January 3, 2003 and should be submitted
to: Noel Smith, Chair, c/o Laura Pierce, Latin American and Caribbean
Studies Director Search, CPR 107, University of South Florida, 4202 E.
Fowler Avenue, Tampa, Florida 32620. For more information, visit their
website at: http://web.usf.edu/~lacs/.
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, SUBMISSIONS, OTHER
The California Policy
Research Center, housed within the University of California Office of
the President, will soon issue a new report entitled, “California’s
Latinos: Assets at Risk.” Edited by David López , Professor
of Sociology at UCLA, and Andrés Jiménez, Director of the
CPRC, the publication was a commissioned special volume by the Latino
Policy Initiative within the CPRC to address a wide range of public-policy
issues relevant to the state's Latino population. The report covers demographics,
education, economic participation, health care, criminal justice, housing,
and civic participation. This project will provide a framework to help
policymakers understand and address California's dramatic demographic
changes and their significance to state policy issues at the beginning
of a new century. Working chapter titles include: “Latinos in California:
Growth and Diversity,” by Belinda Reyes; “Rising Tides and Sinking
Boats: The Economic Challenge for California’s Latinos,” by
Manuel Pastor; “K-12 Public Education: Bedrock or Barrier?,”
by Eugene García, and several others. For more information on this
publication from the CPRC, please visit their website at: http://www.ucop.edu/cprc/publist.html.
The Mexico-North
Research Network will hold its next annual members meeting on February
28 and March 1, 2003, in San Antonio, Texas. Mexico-North’s 2002
activities and current status will be presented by members of its board
of directors and evaluated by representatives of its member institutions.
These representatives will then establish priorities for Mexico-North’s
2003 programming activities. Interested participants should respond to
Ms. Greta De León (Director of Programs, Mexico-North Research
Network) at: gretadeleon@att.net.
Ms. De León can also be reached by phone at 210-229-1055, by fax
at 210-229-9667, and by regular mail at: Mexico-North Research Network,
318 W. Houston Street, Suite 220, San Antonio, TX 78205.
The 5th CRI Conference
on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies will be held on October 22-25, 2003,
at the University Park Campus of Florida International University. Deadline
for submission of all paper and panel proposals is February 15, 2003.
For further details on this or other CRI activities, please check their
website at http://lacc.fiu.edu/cri.
For more information or to send your abstract, contact: Lisandro Pérez,
Director (perezl@fiu.edu) or Uva de
Aragón, Associate Director (aragonu@fiu.edu)
at: Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, DM 363,
University Park, Miami, FL 33199, or be phone at (305) 348-1991.
The Mauricio Gastón
Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, at the University
of Massachusetts Boston, is seeking submissions for an edited volume about
the growing presence of Latinos in New England. The 2000 Census revealed
that the New England region is home to almost one million Hispanics. Between
1990 and 2000, the population increased by 54% reaching 875,225. The Institute
is interested in addressing the trends and issues defining this important
community. This project will encompass the six states of the New England
region, focusing on areas of Latino concentration. They encourage studies
based on the 2000 Census and other current data sources, especially studies
that present a comparative analysis over time (i.e., 1990-2000 trends).
Also to be considered are qualitative studies using ethnographic methods,
institutional analyses and other approaches. The manuscript length should
be about 30 double-spaced pages (at 250 words per page, about 7,500 words).
Deadline for submissions is May 15, 2003. Send inquiries via e-mail to:
Andres.Torres@umb.edu. Mail
your manuscript to: Andrés Torres, Director, Mauricio Gastón
Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston
MA 02125-3393.
IUPLR E-mail Update
compiled by:
Victor Saenz
vsaenz@prodigy.net
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