Enduring Legacies: Ethnic Histories and Cultures of Colorado

Contributors

401 Arturo J. Aldama earned his Ph.D. in ethnic studies from the University of California–Berkeley. He serves as the associate chair of ethnic studies at Uni­ versity of Colorado at Boulder. His research focuses on Chicana/o cultural studies. His publications include Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant and Native American Struggles for Representation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002); ed., Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002); Violence and the Body: Race, Gender and the State (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003); and Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, in press). Osita Afoaku serves as clinical professor in the School of Public and Environ­ mental Affairs at Indiana University. His research focuses on human rights, sustainable development, and democratization and state reconstruction in Africa. He is the author of Explaining the Failure of Democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Autocracy and Dissent in an Ambivalent World (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005), among other book publications. Contributors 402 Contributors Rhonda R. Corman is a lecturer/regional economist at the University of Nor­ thern Colorado. Her research focuses on sustainable development and environ­ mental impact; emergence, chaos, and complexity modeling; and behavioral and experimental economics. Miriam Bornstein-Gómez earned her Ph.D from the University of Arizona. She is an associate professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Denver. Her research interests are in Latina/o and Latin American poetry. She is the author of two poetry collections, Bajo Cubierta (Sacramento: Spanish Press, 1993) and Donde Empieza la Historia (Tucson: Scor­ pion Press, 1976), and has published poetry in several anthologies. Ramon Del Castillo earned his Ph.D. in public administration from the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is an associate professor and chair of the Chicana/o Studies Department at Metropolitan State College of Denver. His areas of research include public policy issues in Chicana/o communities. Robert J. Durán earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colo­ rado. He is an assistant professor of criminal justice at New Mexico State University, and his areas of research include race, crime and justice, social con­ trol, and deviance through the lens of ethnography. His book on gangs in the Southwest is under contract with Columbia University Press. Elisa Facio earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. She is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado at Boulder and former CSERA director. She teaches courses on Chicana feminism and Anzaldúan theory. Select publications include “The Queering of Chicana Studies: Philosophy, Text, and Image,” in Reversing the Lens, Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality through Film, ed. Jun Xing and Lane R. Hirabayashi (University Press of Colorado, 2003). She is working on several book projects related to Chicana activism and spirituality and on post-Soviet Cuba. Bernadette Garcia Galvez earned her M.A. in education. At University of Colorado at Boulder, she serves as the associate director of the Colorado Space Grant Consortium in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her works in print include “Poem, This World Is My Place,” in This Bridge We Call Home—Enacting the Visions of Radical Women of Color, ed. Gloria Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating (New York: Routledge, 2002), and “A History of Western Contributors 403 Music,” The High School Journal: Special Issue—Chicana/o Activism in Education, ed. Luis Urrieta Jr. (2004). PhillipGallegosearnedhisPh.D.inarchitecturefromtheUniversityof Hawaii at Manoa, his Master of Architecture in urban design from the University of Colorado at Denver, and his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame. His publications include a chapter in Moving beyond Borders: Julian Samora and the Establishment of Latino Studies, ed. Alberto López Pulido, Barbara Driscoll de Alvarado, and Carmen Samora (University of Illinois Press, 2009). He is a licensed architect in Colorado and New Mexico Peter J. García is an assistant professor of Chicana/o studies at Cal State NorthridgeandcompletedhisPh.D.inLatinAmericanethnomusicologyatthe University of Texas at Austin in 2001. Research areas include Southwest bor­ derlands music cultures. His monograph Decolonizing Enchantment: Lyricism, Ritual, and Echoes of Nuevo Mexicano Popular Music is forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press. Helen Girón received her MA from University of Colorado at Boulder. She...