Uncharted Terrains: New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice

Contributors

287 Contributors Jon Amastae teaches at the University of Texas–El Paso. He received his bachelor of arts at the University of New Mexico and his doctor of philosophy from the University of Oregon. Recently Jon has worked on issues of demography and health in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. He has also served as department chair of languages and linguistics (1986–1993) and director for the Center for InterAmerican and Border Studies (1999–2007) at UTEP. Blas Valenzuela Camacho received his doctor of philosophy in social sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa. He is currently teaching at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa on the faculty of the School of International Studies and Public Policy. His most recent publication addressed Mexican migration and immigrant labor markets in Arizona. Katherine Careaga received her PhD in sociocultural epidemiology from El Colegio de Sonora. She has extensive experience in international health and education, with a focus on Mexico and the U.S.–Mexico border . Currently, she teaches public health at Fort Lewis College. She has also worked as program officer for EducationUSA Outreach Adviser in Chiapas and Tabasco, Mexico, at the Institute of International Education and as traveling faculty in the International Honors Program, Health and Community. Dr. Manuel Chavez teaches international and Latin American journalism at the School of Journalism at Michigan State University’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences, where he is also the director of graduate studies. He is the author of several books and articles on international relations, border studies, and the news media. He also works on 288 • Contributors community participation in editorial decision making and on the role of the media in international and border policies. Jack Corbett is an associate professor in the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University and executive director of the Welte Institute of Oaxaca Studies, a research center and library in Oaxaca, Mexico. His principal interest is local-level social dynamics, especially in the fields of community resource management, migration impacts, and governance. Corbett has held Fulbrights in Canada and Mexico and helped found the doctoral program in planning and regional development at the Instituto Tecnologico de Oaxaca. Dr. Elsa Cruz Martínez is a graduate of the Facultad de Medicina y Cirugia, Universidad Atonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca. Currently she is in an advanced residency in the Division de Neonatologia, Hospital de Gineo-obstetricia, Centro Medico Nacional de Occidente, Guadalajara, Mexico. Celestino Fernández has served since 1976 as professor of sociology at the University of Arizona, where he also has served in several administrative positions, including as the university’s first vice president for undergraduate education and vice president for academic outreach and international affairs. Currently, Professor Fernández serves as a university-wide faculty fellow, and as director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Sociology . He teaches courses and conducts research on various topics and issues pertaining culture, immigration, ethnic diversity, and education. Jessie K. Finch is a PhD candidate at the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona. She specializes in immigration and race as well as culture, specifically popular culture and media. She has an MA in sociology from the University of Arizona (2011) and a BA in sociology and music from the University of Tulsa (2007). Finch also has won and is currently support by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship. Judith Gans received her master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government with a concentration in immigration and economic development. Currently, she is program manager for immigration policy at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Her areas of expertise Contributors • 289 include U.S. immigration policy, economics, and Latin American development policy. Pat Rubio Goldsmith is an associate professor of sociology and associate director of the Census Research Data Center at Texas A&M University. He received his doctor of philosophy from the University of Arizona in sociology (1999). His research focuses primarily on education, race and ethnicity, sociology of sport, quantitative methods, and the U.S.–Mexico border. Daniel A. Grossman received his bachelors in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University and an MD from Stanford University. He completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California–San Francisco. His research focuses on improving access to contraception and safe abortion in the United States, Latin America, and...