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$500 Prize for Your Graduate Essay in Latin@ Studies

November 1, 2011

The CMAS program I’m in sent this call for papers to me today from the Wayne State University Center for Latino and Latin American Studies: Graduate Paper Competition in Latin@ Studies The Wayne State University Center for Latino and Latin American Studies (formerly known as the Center for Chicano-Boricua Studies) and the Association for Critical [...]

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[Call For Papers] H-NET Borderlands Announcements

January 21, 2011

######################################## Call for Papers ######################################## **CFP – 2012 AHA Meeting, Identities and Frontiers I am a PhD student at the University of Otago in New Zealand interested in assembling a panel for the 2012 AHA conference in Chicago. I am seeking participants to discuss the formation and transformation of identities in frontier societies between 1600 [...]

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Google Books & Citation Management Goodness

November 20, 2010

I’m probably several months late to the party on this, but I just noticed that Google Book search results provide buttons to export the record to BibTex, EndNote, and RefMan. That’s pretty cool. Even though I know Google is a corporation just like any other, I still think what they do with their actual technology [...]

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Grad School Funnies

October 26, 2010

So a professor friend posted this video to face book and I couldn’t help but share it. You gotta love the jaded world view of academia… I know I do. Technorati Tags: English Lit, Grad School, PhD

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History Repeats Itself

August 8, 2010

I wrote an essay for a class I took at UHD, The History of the New South, that focused on the creation of a distinct Mexican American identity in Houston before WWII. While rereading it, and preparing it for submission as a writing sample for my grad school apps, I couldn’t help but post a [...]

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Arizona Faculty Senate Calls for the Repeal of SB1070

May 6, 2010

The University of Arizona Faculty Senate passed the following resolutions denouncing SB1070 and calling for its repeal citing the harm it will do to their reputation as a welcoming academic environment for students, faculty, and staff. The resolution also acknowledges the potential for racial profiling and the harm that will do to the state’s and [...]

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UPDATE: Final Projects and the End of the Semester

May 2, 2010

Less than two weeks to go and I’m a little more than half-way done. I’ve crossed out the assignments that have been completed and turned in. The others are in the works. I haven’t created a post in a few weeks because I have been very busy with more pressing concerns such as the many [...]

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President of the Univ of Arizona Reveals Embarrasment

April 30, 2010

I received an email from the Association of Borderland Studies yesterday that was a forward of an email sent by the President of the University of Arizona, Robert Shelton, addressed to the “Campus Community.” In this email he briefly mentions that some students and parents are choosing to withdraw themselves from the University because of [...]

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