STS researchers report on Ford Fellowship Program

STS Director and Professor Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez and Associate Research Professional Elsie Szecsy delivered a presentation at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education that took place in Costa Mesa, California, March 8-10, 2012. The topic of their talk was The Impact of the Ford Fellowship Program in the Creation of Latina/o Academic Generations. They reported on an online survey of Latina/o recipients of the Ford Fellowship during the 1970s-1990s and commented on possible next steps for the program and the people who were part of it.
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STS faculty announce upcoming publications

Marta Sánchez, Edward Escobar, Paul Espinosa, Matt García, Lisa Magaña, and Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, Series Editors, announce these upcoming publications in Rutgers University Press' Latinidad: Transnational cultures in the United States series:

Disenchanting Citizenship: Mexican Migrants and the Boundaries of Belonging
by STS Affiliate Faculty Luis F. B. Plascencia

The Rise of Spanish-Language Filmaking: Out from Hollywood's Shadow, 1929-1939
by Lisa Jarvinen

Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and communities in San Diego
by Rudy P. Guevarra Jr.

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STS student to serve as legislative intern

Paulino Valerio, majoring in TCL with a concentration in Community Development and Health, was selected to participate in the AZ Legislative and Government Internship Program for the spring 2012 session.
Each spring approximately 30 ASU students are selected to serve as legislative and government interns at the Legislature, Governor’s Office, Supreme Court and several other governmental agencies. The program is highly competitive and requires a particular combination of maturity, leadership, energy and academic performance. The work is demanding, but fascinating, and includes speech writing, bill drafting, researching, working with agencies, attending committee meetings and hearings and working on constituent problems. The program is an 18 week commitment and requires a 40-hour work week with occasional overtime. Interns receive academic credit, 12 hours for undergraduates and 6-9 credit hours for graduate students, a tuition scholarship, and a stipend of $4,200. All students must consult with their academic advisor regarding course credit for the internship program.
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STS faculty reports on intra-national translation

Professor Marta Sánchez recently published an article in the journal, Translation Studies, in which she points out important shifts in publication of translation by the major U.S. presses through an analysis of an intra-national translation—as opposed to international translation—of José Antonio Villarreal’s Pocho. Through her analysis, Sánchez points out subtleties of the shift from translation between countries to translation within the same nation-state. She points out that intra-national translation does highlight local, domestic changes that are directly linked to a transnational and global market. Translators doing intra-national translations must recognize that signs of different languages constantly interact, and they are always at work on each other. Neither language is “foreign” to the other but all are interdependent in the social and political context of their cultures. Intra-national translation underscores the uncontainability of Spanish. The United States today is part of the Spanish-speaking global world.
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New article investigates media representations of racial and ethnic populations

An "incredible number of Latinos and Asians:" Media representations of racial and ethnic population change in Atlanta, Georgia was recently published in the journal, Latino Studies. STS Faculty researcher Eileen Diaz McConnell considered how journalists in Atlanta, Georgia, conveyed a simultaneous increase of Whites, African Americans, Latinos and Asians and linked non-White population growth with negative issues.
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TCL Alum Goes to Washington

Tomás Robles Jr. is a recent graduate of the School of Transborder studies. After graduation Tomas began to work for the Cesar Chavez Foundation, creating educational and service based programs for the children in the west valley and south Phoenix areas. Recently Tomás has been accepted to the 2011-2012 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) Public Policy Fellow. The CHCI Public Policiy Fellowship Program offers talented Latinos, who have earned a bachelor's degree, the opportunity to gain hands-on experience at the national level in public policy.

Fellows have the opportunity to work in congressional offices and federal agencies, depending on their area of interest. Some past focus areas have included international affairs, economic development, health and education policy, housing, or local government.

New approach to research in artisanal fisheries

In May 2011, STS professor Maria Cruz Torres participated in the development of a set of best practices for studying artisanal fisheries with the Artisanal Fisheries Research Network, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Calfornia, San Diego. The resulting research guidelines link relevant lines of inquiry, including anthropology, economics, politics, ecology, and fisheries biology, and are applicable across regions and cultures.
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Student summer research projects

Cristy Contreras, Citlaxochitl Enrique, Susie Haslett, Susie Carrillo, Cindy Quintero, and Adriana Ramos-Hinojos conducted original research under the guidance of STS faculty this past summer.
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Community Action Board

for collaborative, applied research and development

Sonoran Consortium

The Sonoran Consortium for Student Success is a partnership between the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, the School of Transborder Studies, and the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute. The overall goal of the Consortium is to promote student success through transdisciplinary research that addresses significant global challenges, in expanding the student pipeline in the sciences for nontraditional students, and creating opportunities for leveraging cultural, ecological, and economic resources in the transborder Sonoran region, which extends north across the western United States to the Canadian border and south throughout Mexico.

Southwest Borderlands Initiative (SWBI)

with the Office of the Provost
SWBI is a long term faculty appointment plan with two primary objectives: the strengthening of existing ASU scholarly and instructional resources on the Southwest with emphasis on the region along the United States-Mexico border, and enhancing institutional recruitment and retention efforts toward building a faculty fully reflective of the Southwest Borderlands' diversity. Through the SWBI concept ASU builds upon its scholarly, instructional, and related institutional assets to respond to these pressing needs, particularly in the areas of Borderlands Arts & Culture, Borderlands Social and Cultural Policy, and Latina/o Health.