Contributors
Rent from DeepDyve- Contributors
Katherine Benton-Cohen is an assistant professor of history at Louisiana State University, where she teaches U.S. women's history and the history of the American West. An Arizona native, she is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is writing a book about the role of gender in the history of racial division in Arizona.
María Antonietta Berriozábal, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, was born in Loredo, Texas, and has lived in San Antonio most of her life. She started working as a secretary upon graduation from high school to assist her parents so that her five siblings could complete their college education. In 1979, after twenty years of college work, she earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Texas, San Antonio. In May 1981, she was elected to the San Antonio City Council, becoming the first Latina to be elected in San Antonio or any other major Texas city, where she served with distinction for ten years. Berriozábal has been helping to build community in her beloved San Antonio for over forty years.
Yolanda Broyles-González is a professor of Chicano studies and German studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a native of the borderlands and rooted in Yaqui-Mexican-Chicana culture. Her books include El Teatro Campesino: Theater in the Chicano Movement, Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music/La Historia de Lydia Mendoza, Norteño Tejano Legacies, and her anthology Re-emerging Native Women of the Americas: Native Chicana Latina Women's Studies. Broyles-González is a recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. Her research and teaching focus on Chicana/o studies, popular culture, gender, oral tradition, and the popular performance genres of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. [End Page 302]
Antonia Castañda, born in Texas and raised in the state of Washington, is an associate professor of history at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas. She earned her Ph.D. in nineteenth-century social history from Stanford University.
Gabriel S. Estrada is an adjunct faculty member in American Indian studies /American studies at Palomar College and coordinator of the Native American Educational Network featuring California Indian curriculum and media. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in comparative cultural and literary studies. He is Nahuatl /Spanish/Rarámuri/Basque from a mixed-class background.
Priscilla Falcon, a Mexicana activist, is an associate professor at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley. Falcon earned her Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Denver in 1993. She is engaged in on-site research and documentation of the role of women within the Zapatista National Liberation Army in southern Mexico as well as the role of women within the popular peasant movements in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Deena J. González was the first Chicana to receive a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, History Department, in 1985. She taught at Pomona College in Claremont, California, between 1983 and 2001. She now chairs the Department of Chicana/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Author of Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 and coeditor, with Suzanne Oboler, of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the U.S., she has written over twenty articles constructing the field of Chicana history.
Gabriela González is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Stanford University and is completing a dissertation on gendered transborder politics and activism in south Texas from 1900 to 1960. González completed her undergraduate work at the University of Texas in Austin and has master's degrees from the University of Texas at San Antonio and Stanford University. She has taught courses in women's history and the politics of race and gender in the United States during World War II.
Virginia Grise, a native of San Antonio, is a Chicana cultural worker, writer, performer, and teacher. As a member of Esperanza's Teatro Callejero, Grise has performed in the streets of San Antonio's South Side and West Side...
