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Kathleen (Kathy) Staudt, PhD
Professor of Political Science
Endowed Professor of Western Hemispheric Trade Policy Studies
The University of Texas at El Paso
(915) 747-5227 (7975/v-mail); FAX (915)747-6616
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Undergraduate: University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee B.A., June, 1971, Political Science
Graduate: University of Wisconsin (Madison)
M.A., June, 1972, Political Science
Ph.D., August 1976, Political Science, September 1971-August 1976
(African Studies Minor)
DISSERTATION
"Agricultural Policy, Political Power, and Women Farmers in Western Kenya"
APPOINTMENTS/ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCES at the University of Texas at El Paso
Professor 1989 +
Associate Professor 1983-89,
Assistant Professor 1977
Chair, Department of Political Science, The University of Texas at El Paso, Jan. 1, 1992 - Dec. 31, 1994
Assistant Dean, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at El Paso, Fall 1985-1987; 1988-1989
Women's Studies Program Coordinator, The University of Texas at El Paso, 1984-1985
Honors Program Director, The University of Texas at El Paso, 1981-1983
Director, Civic Education Program, 1997-99
Faculty Coordinator, Institute for Community-Based Teaching and Learning, 1998-2000
Director, Center for Civic Engagement, 2000-08
Doctoral Faculty, Educational Leadership
Social Science Analyst/Program Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1979 (one year
under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act/IPA)
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1987-1988, (Visiting) Associate Professor of Political Science,
Scripps College of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California
1976-1977, Lecturer in Political Science, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
1976, Instructor and TA (1973-1974) University of Wisconsin (Madison)
1967-1968 Elementary Math Teacher, Baguio Central School, Peace Corps/Philippines
COURSES TAUGHT
MPA: Administrative Theory; Comparative Administration; Introduction to Public Administration; Women
and Men in Management; Public Personnel Administration; Public Policy; Nonprofit Management
Political Science: African Politics Seminar; American Government; International Relations; Introduction to
Political Science; Public Policy; Third World Politics; Women/Gender in International Development;
Women & Politics; Women & Policy Seminar; Research on the Border; Political, Cultural & Linguistic
Borders (doctoral); International Politics, International Organizations; Politics of Developing Areas; Border
Politics; Political Socialization; Teaching Democracy; Grant-writing; Leadership & Civic Engagement;
American Political Behavior; Nonprofit Management; The Americas, Qualitative Methods Seminar
Education: Educational Leadership (doctoral); Schools in Communities; School and Community Leadership
On-line (100%) courses (80-100 pages single-spaced per course): Initially trained on UTTC (University of
Texas Telecampus): Teaching Democracy, Southwest Border Politics, Public Policy Process
RESEARCH POSITIONS
Investigadora Visitante/ Visiting Researcher, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF), Ciudad Juárez,
Chihuahua, Mexico, 2008-9
Research Associate: Cornell University, Center for International Studies (Summer, 1977 and 1978)
Research Associate: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya (1974-1975);
(Dissertation Research)
Project Assistantships, University of Wisconsin (Madison): Fred Hayward (1975); National integration
survey data, Richard Merelman (1973): Coding political socialization interviews; Fred Hayward (1973):
Evaluation of Afro-American Studies courses
Employed by Survey Research Center and Beldon Paulson, University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee (1971)
Interviewed English and Spanish-speaking residents of Milwaukee's inner city on attitudes toward city
services and new towns
Site Director, University of Houston, Center for Immigration Research, “The Impact of the 1996 Welfare
and Immigration Reforms on Low-Income Communities in Texas,” 1997+
LANGUAGES
Some Spanish
HONORS AND AWARDS
Phi Kappa Phi
Vilas Fellowship, 1971-1972
Nominated for Phi Beta Kappa, 1971
NDFL Title VI Foreign Language Fellowship, 1972-1973; 1974-1975
Travel Funds from African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1974-1975
Vice President for Academic Affairs 1981 Award for Academic Excellence
Woman of the Year - Public Policy, 1981, El Paso Women's Political Caucus
Amoco Foundation Teaching Award, 1984
Distinguished Achievement Award in Service to Students, (UTEP) 1985
YWCA Reach Award - Professional, 1991
Outstanding Research, American Society for Public Administration, Women's Section, 1995
Distinguished Achievement Award, Research, (UTEP) 1998
Ernest Lynton Award-Honorable Mention (4 HMs, nation-wide), 2002
Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Service-Learning Award (finalist, nation-wide), 2006
Piper Professor (excellence in teaching, Texas-wide), 2003
Racial Justice Award, YWCA Paso del Norte Region, 2004
University of Texas System Chancellor’s Council Award for “Innovations in Teaching” (one of two
in Texas), 2008
International Studies Association (ISA) Human Rights Section: Best Paper Award, February 2010, New
Orleans, LA.
Coleción Especial, Dra. Kathy Staudt/Casa Amiga, Cd. Juárez, (Special [Book] Collection) in cooperation
with United in Service Latin America (USLA), www.usla.org
“Border Hero,” Las Americas Immigration Advocacy Center, El Paso, 2011
Endowed Professor of Western Hemispheric Trade Policy Studies, 2013+
BOOKS
COURAGE AND RESILIENCE AND WOMEN IN CIUDAD JUAREZ: CHALLENGES TO
MILITARIZATION, with Zulma Méndez (Austin: University of Texas Press, forthcoming 2015)
A WAR THAT CAN’T BE WON: BINATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE WAR ON DRUGS, co-
edited Tony Payan, Kathleen Staudt, and Z. Anthony Kruszewski (Tucson: University of Arizona Press,
2013).
SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER REGION, co-edited Mark Lusk, Kathleen Staudt,
Eva Moya (Springer Publishers 2012).
CITIES AND CITIZENSHIP AT THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER: THE PASO DEL NORTE
METROPOLITAN REGION, lead editor, with co-editors César Fuentes and Julia Monárrez Fragoso (NY:
Palgrave USA 2010).
HUMAN RIGHTS ALONG THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER: GENDERED VIOLENCE AND
INSECURITY, lead editor, with co-editors Tony Payan and Z. Anthony Kruszewski (Tucson: University of
Arizona Press, 2009).
VIOLENCE AND ACTIVISM AT THE BORDER: GENDER, FEAR, AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN CD.
JUAREZ (Austin: University of Texas Press 2008).
PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE: LEARNING NATIONALISM AT THE EL PASO/JUAREZ BORDER,
w/Susan Rippberger (NY: Routledge/Falmer, 2003).
FRONTERAS NO MAS: TOWARD SOCIAL JUSTICE AT THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER, w/
Irasema Coronado (NY: Palgrave USA, 2002).
RETHINKING EMPOWERMENT: GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT IN A GLOBAL/LOCAL
WORLD, coeditors Jane Parpart and Shirin Rai (London: Routledge 2002).
THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER: TRANSCENDING DIVISIONS, CONTESTING IDENTITIES
David Spener, coeditor (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998).
POLICY, POLITICS & GENDER: WOMEN GAINING GROUND (New Haven: Kumarian Press 1998).
FREE TRADE? INFORMAL ECONOMIES AT THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1998).
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND FEMINISMS: TRANSFORMING POLITICAL SCIENCE?
William Weaver, coauthor (New York: Twayne/McMillan 1997).
MANAGING DEVELOPMENT: STATE, SOCIETY AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS
(Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1991)
WOMEN, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICS: THE BUREAUCRATIC
MIRE, Editor (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990, Second Edition 1997).
WOMEN, THE STATE, AND DEVELOPMENT, co-editors Sue Ellen Charlton and Jana Everett
(Albany: SUNY Albany Press, 1989)
WOMEN, AND THE STATE IN AFRICA, Co-Editor, Jane Parpart, (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1989).
WOMEN, FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND ADVOCACY ADMINISTRATION. (New York: Praeger,
1985).
WOMEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A POLICY FOCUS, Co-Editor with Jane Jaquette
(New York: Haworth, 1983).
MONOGRAPHS
GENDER TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING: LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE, with
Aruna Rao, Hilary Feldstein, and Kathleen Cloud (New York/Bergen, Norway: Population Council and
Chr. Michelsen Institute, 1991).
AGRICULTURAL POLICY IMPLEMENTATION: A CASE STUDY FROM WESTERN KENYA
(West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1985).
WOMEN AND PARTICIPATION IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT: A FRAMEWORK FOR
PROJECT DESIGN AND POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH (Ithaca, New York: Cornell
University, Center for International Studies, Rural Development Committee, 1979).
ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS (*=refereed)
Post 1990s/2000+
“Stories, Science and Power in Policy Change: Environmental Health, Community-Based Research, and
Community Organizing in a U.S.-Mexico Border Colonia,” with Guadalupe Márquez-Velarde and Mosi
Dane’el, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE 6, 6, 2013, pp. 191-99.*
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE STUDIES IN EDUCATION (QSE), Coedited
volume. “Students in the Transnational Border Region,” Zulma Méndez, lead co-editor and co-author of
the introduction, March 2013.*
“Challenging Foreign Policy From the Border: The Forty-Year War on Drugs,” with Beto O’Rourke, in A
WAR THAT CAN’T BE WON: BINATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE WAR ON DRUGS, (Tucson:
University of Arizona Press).*
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Border Research Collaboration.” In UNCHARTED TERRAINS: NEW
DIRECTIONS IN BORDER RESEARCH METHODS AND ETHICS. Anna Ochoa O’Leary, Colin Deeds,
and Scott Whiteford, co-editors. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013.*
“Education Policies: Standardized Testing, English-Language Learners, and Border Futures,” with Pauline
Dow,” in SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER REGION, w/Mark Lusk and Eva Moya,
coeditors, Springer Publishers 2012, pp. 217-230.*
“Violence against women at the border: Binational problems and multi-layered solutions,” in SOCIAL
JUSTICE IN THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER REGION, with Mark Lusk and Eva Moya, coeditors, Springer
Publishers, 2012, pp. 79-92.*
“Social Justice in the US-Mexico Border Region,” Mark Lusk, Kathleen Staudt, and Eva Moya in SOCIAL
JUSTICE IN THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER REGION, with/Mark Lusk and Eva Moya, co-editors,
Springer Publishers, 2012, pp. 3-38.*
“Social Justice at the Border and in the Bordered United States: Implications for Policy and Practice,” Mark
Lusk, Kathleen Staudt, and Eva Moya, in SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER REGION,
Springer Publishers, 2012, pp. 247-269.*
“Economic Policy Matters: Incentives that Drive Mexicans Northward,” with Sergio García, in Baumann,
Mechthild/ Lorenz, Astrid/ Rosenow, Kerstin (eds.) Crossing and Controlling Borders - Immigration
Policies and their Impact on Migrants' Journeys. Germany: Leverkusen-Opladen et al.: Budrich UniPress,
2011, pp. 205-226.*
“Rethinking National Security Policies and Practices in Transnational Contexts.” In SECURITY AND
EVERYDAY LIFE, Vida Bajc and Willem de Lint, coeditors. New York: Routledge, 2011, pp. 101-121.*
“The Murders of Women: Lessons from the First Wave of Research and Activism on
Femicide/Feminicidio,” Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública, (Brazilian Journal on Public Safety)
February 2011, pp. 194-204.*
“Texas Accountability Tests: Standardizing Civic Disengagement for Latino Students?” The Politics of
Latino Education, David Leal and Kenneth Meier, co-editors. NY: Columbia University Teachers College
Press, 2011, pp. 43-57.*
“Globalization and Gender at Border Sites: Femicide and Domestic Violence in Ciudad Juárez.” .Gender
and Global Restructuring. Edited by Marianne H. Marchand and Anne Sisson Runyan. (NY and London:
Routledge 2011), pp. 187-200.
“Violence Against Women at the Border: A Focus on Rape,” in Perspectivas socioculturales de la
violencia sexual en México y otros países, Miriam Gutiérrez Otero y Olga Livier Bustos Romeros,
coordinadores: Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, 2010, pp. 209-217
“Strengthening Law Enforcement, Democratic, and Economic Institutions to Confront the Crisis in Ciudad
Juárez.” Americas Program (English and Spanish) of the Center for International Policy, 2010
http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/3403
“Living and Working in a Global Manufacturing Border Urban Space: A Paradigm for the Future?” In
CITIES AND CITIZENSHIP AT THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER: THE PASO DEL NORTE REGION,
Staudt, Fuentes, and Monárrez, co-editors (NY: Palgrave USA 2010), pp. xi-xxiii.*
“Surviving Domestic Violence in the Paso del Norte Border Region,” with Rosalba Robles Ortega. In
CITIES AND CITIZENSHIP AT THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER: THE PASO DEL NORTE REGION,
Staudt, Fuentes, and Monárrez, co-editors (NY: Palgrave USA 2010), pp. 71-89.*
“Schooling for Global Competitiveness in the Border Metropolitan Region,” with Zulma Méndez. In
CITIES AND CITIZENSHIP AT THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER: THE PASO DEL NORTE REGION,
Staudt, Fuentes, and Monárrez, co-editors (NY: Palgrave USA 2010), pp. 173-194.*
“Gender in the Classroom.” THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ENCYCLOPEDIA, ed. Robert A.
Denemark, Volume IV, ISA/International Studies Association Compendium Project (Sussex: Wiley-
Blackwell Publishing, 2010), pp. 2611-2630.*
“Civic Action for Accountability: Anti-violence Organizing in the Border Region,” with Irasema Coronado,
In MAKING A KILLING: FEMICIDE, FREE TRADE, AND LA FRONTERA, Alicia Gaspar de Alba
with Georgina Guzmán, co-editors. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010
“Violence at the Border: Broadening the Discourse to include Feminism, Human Security, and Deeper
Democracy.” In HUMAN RIGHTS ALONG THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER: GENDERED VIOLENCE
AND INSECURITY, Staudt, Payan, and Kruszewski, co-editors (Tucson: University of Arizona Press,
2009), pp. 1-27.*
“Violence against Women at the Border: Unpacking Institutions.” In HUMAN RIGHTS ALONG THE
U.S.-MEXICO BORDER, Staudt, Payan, and Kruszewski, co-editors (Tucson: University of Arizona Press,
2009), pp. 107-124.*
“Closing Reflections: Bordering Human Rights, Democracy, and Broad-based Security,” with Tony Payan
and Timothy Dunn. In HUMAN RIGHTS ALONG THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER, Staudt, Payan, and
Kruszewski, co-editors (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009), pp.185-202.*
“Sustaining a University Engagement Center at Borders: Taking Risks in a Risk-avoidant Atmosphere,”
with Azuri Ruiz, METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITIES, 22, 2 (November 2011), pp. 65-78.
“Gendering Development,” in Politics, Gender, and Concepts: Theory and Methodology, Amy Mazur and
Gary Goertz, co-editors. Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 136-156.*
“Violence and Activism at the US-Mexico Border: Women, Migration, and Obstacles to Justice,” with
Gabriela Montoya. In Feminist Agendas and the Challenges of Democracy in Latin America. Jane S.
Jaquette, ed., Duke University Press, 2009, pp. 186-207.*
“Acción Cívica binacional en pro de la rendición de cuentas: organización contra la violencia en Ciudad
Juárez-El Paso,” con Irasema Coronado. En La Reforma de la Justicia en México, Arturo Alvarado, ed.
México, D.F.: El Colegio de México, 2008, pp. 423-468.
“Bordering the Other in the U.S. Southwest: El Pasoans Confront the Local Sheriff on Immigration
Enforcement.” In Keeping Out the Other: Immigration Enforcement Today. Philip Kretsedemas and David
Brotherton, co-editors, Columbia University Press, 2008, pp. 291-313.*
“Gender, Governance, and Globalization at Borders,” in Gender, Governance, and Globalization, co-editors
Georgina Waylen and Shirin Rai, (London: Palgrave, 2008), pp. 234-253.
“Bi-national Civic Action for Accountability: Anti-Violence Organizing in Cd. Juárez-El Paso,” with
Irasema Coronado, Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico, Wayne Cornelius and David Shirk,
co-editors. Notre Dame University Press, 2007, pp. 349-68.*
“Women, Gender and Development,” Jane Jaquette and Staudt, Women and Gender Equity in Development
Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization, Co-editors Jane Jaquette and Gayle Summerfield (Duke
University Press, 2006), pp. 17-52.*
“Teaching Citizenship and Values on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” with Susan Rippberger, Aztlán: A Journal
of Chicano Studies, 32, 1, 2007, pp. 87-112.*
“Street Vendors at the Border: From Political Spectacle to Bureaucratic Iron Cage?” 2007. John Cross and
Alfonso Morales, eds. Street Vendors Worldwide, Routledge, pp.79-91.
“Mujeres, políticas públicas y política: los caminos globales de Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua-El Paso, Texas,”
with Beatriz Vera, Región y Sociedad, 2006, Vol. XVIII, No. 37, pp. 127-172.*
“Higher Education and Civic Engagement in the United States,” Bradley Levinson and E. Doyle Stevick co-
editors, Advancing Democracy Through Education? U.S. Influence Abroad and Domestic Practices
(Greenwood, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2008), pp. 55-75.
“Engaged Universities: Border Vantage Points on Institutionalization,” with Diana Natalicio, UTEP
President, Metropolitan Universities, 17, 1, 2006, pp. 5-9.
“Division and Fragmentation: The El Paso Experience,” with Clarence Stone, Community Organizing and
Political Change in the City, Marion Orr, ed., University Press of Kansas, 2007, pp. 84-108.*
“Border Stories: University-Community Partnerships in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez,” with Carla Cardoza, In
Pursuing Opportunities through Partnerships: Higher Education and Communities, Bruce Behringer, Bert
Bach, Howard Daudistel, James Fraser, Jill Kriesky, and Gerald Lang, co-editors. University of West
Virginia Press, 2005, pp. 174-180.
“Women and Gender,” in Politics in the Developing World, edited by Peter Burnell and Vicky Randall
(London: Oxford University Press 2004), pp. 106-119.* (2nd
edition 2008) (Also, reprinted, with
permission from Oxford University Press, in Issues in Governance in Africa, Okello Oculi, ed. (Zaria,
Nigeria: Ahmadu Bello University Press).
“Straddling Borders,” in Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development, edited
by Irene Tinker and Arvonne Fraser (NY: Feminist Press 2004), pp 312-23.
“Resistance and Compromiso at the Global Frontlines: Gender Wars at the U.S.-Mexico Border,” with
Irasema Coronado, in Critical Theories, World Politics and the Anti-Globalisation Movement, co-editors
Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca (London: Routledge, 2005), pp. 139-153.*
“Latino Activism,” (20 pp); “La Raza Unida Party,” “Maquiladoras,” and “Sweatshops: Informal
Economies,” for Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture and Society, Ilan Stavans, ed., Grolier, 2005.
“Latino Professional Identity Development,” with Maricela Oliva, Kappa Delta Pi Report, 2004.
“Organizaciones No Gobernamentales en la Frontera México-Estados Unidos”, in Cambio Político y
Participación Ciudadana en Ciudad Juárez, comp. Héctor Padilla. Cd. Juárez: Universidad Autónoma de
Cd. Juárez, 2006), pp 19-54.
“Pathways to Teaching: Latino Students Exercise Choice in El Paso’s High Schools,” with Maricela Oliva,
Equity and Excellence in Education, 36, 3, 2003, pp. 270-79*
“Facilitating or Squandering Social Capital: Health and Economic Collaboratives at the U.S.-Mexico
Border,” with Núria Homedes, International Journal of Public Administration, 27, 1-2, 2004, pp 109-126*
“Dismantling the Master’s House with the Master’s Tools? Gender Work in and with Powerful
Bureaucracies.” Feminist Post-Development Thought: Rethinking Modernity, Post-Colonialism,
And Representation. Kriemild Saunders, ed. (London: Zed 2002), 57-69.*
“Transcending Nations: Cross-Border Organizing,” International Feminist Journal of Politics
4, 2, 2002, 1-19.*
“Democracy Education for More than the Few,” in DEVELOPING DEMOCRATIC CHARACTER IN
THE YOUNG, Roger Soder, ed. (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2001) pp. 45-68.*
“Protesting World Trade Rules: Can we talk about Empowerment?” w/Jane Parpart and Shirin Rai,
SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY, 26, 4, Summer, 2001, pp. 1251-1257*
“Managing the 1996 Welfare and Immigration Reforms: El Pasoans at the Border,” Research Perspectives
on Migration (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Urban Institute), 3, 1 pp. 19-20.
“Women and the State,” Arnold Companion to Development Studies, Vandana Desai, editor (London:
Arnold, 2002), pp. 325-329.* (2nd
revised edition 2008, pp. 343-346).
“Latin American Gender Studies: Global Traditions, Border Challenges,” International Encyclopedia of the
Social and Behavioral Sciences (Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2001). *
“Borders,” Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge.
New York: Routledge, 2000, pp.119-120.
“Gender Mainstreaming: A Conceptual Framework,” in Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State?,
Shirin Rai, editor (London: Manchester University Press, 2003), pp. 40-65.*
“Dolores de Avila;” “Susana Navarro;” and “La Mujer Obrera,” in Latinas in the
United States: An Historical Encyclopedia, Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Vicki Ruiz, Carlos Cruz,
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006, pp. 192, 366, 519.
“Informality Knows no Borders?” SAIS Review (Johns Hopkins University), Vol. XXI, 1, Winter-Spring
2001, pp. 123-130.
“Higher Education Engages with Community: New Policies and Inevitable Political
Complexities,” with Christine Brenner. Posted on the Community Organizations web site
(http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/papers2002/staudt.htm).
“Engaging politics: beyond official empowerment discourse,” in RETHINKING
EMPOWERMENT: GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT IN A GLOBAL-LOCAL WORLD,
Parpart, Rai, and Staudt coeditors (London and NY: Routledge, 2002), pp. 97-111.*
“Rethinking em(power)ment, gender and development: an introduction,” and “Concluding
thoughts on (em)powerment, gender and development,” with Rai and Parpart in
RETHINKING EMPOWERMENT: GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT IN A GLOBAL/
LOCAL WORLD (London and NY: Routledge, 2002), pp. 3-21 and 239-244.*
“Con la Ayuda de Dios? El Pasoans Manage the 1996 Welfare and Immigration Law
Reforms,” w/Randy Capps, in IMMIGRANTS, WELFARE REFORM, AND THE POVERTY OF
POLICY, Phil Kretsedemas and Ana Aparicio, co-editors, (NY: Praeger/Greenwood 2004), pp.
251-276. Also a monograph (longer version) report to the University of Houston, Center for
Immigration Studies, 1998.
1990s
“Seeds for Self-Sufficiency? Policy Contradictions at the U.S.-Mexico Border,” GENDER
AND IMMIGRATION, Gregory A. Kelson & Debra L. DeLaet, eds. (London: Macmillan,
1999), pp. 21-37.*
“The View from the Frontier: Theoretical Perspectives Undisciplined,” with David Spener,
in THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER; TRANSCENDING DIVISIONS, CONTESTING IDENTITIES
(Boulder:Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998), pp. 3-34.
“Conclusions: Rebordering,” with David Spener, in THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER, pp. 233-258.
“Mexico Reflects on the United States: Colonias, Politics, and Public Services in Fragmented Federalism,”
in THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER, pp. 121-142.
“Educational Renewal Across College Borders: El Paso Strategies Toward Change,”
Jack Bristol, coauthor, MAKING A PLACE IN THE FACULTY REWARDS SYSTEM FOR
WORK WITH K-12, Crystal Gips and Carol Stoel, eds. (Washington, D.C.: American
Association for Higher Education, 1998), pp. 51-9.
“Political Representation: Engendering Democracy,” in BACKGROUND PAPERS: HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT REPORT 1995 (New York: UNDP 1996), pp. 21-70.
“Women in Politics: Mexico in Global Perspective,” WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN
MEXICAN POLITICAL LIFE, Victoria E. Rodríguez, ed. (Boulder: Westview, 1998),
pp. 21-40.*
“Mujeres en la Política: México en una Perspectiva Global,” GENERO Y CULTURA EN AMERICA
LATINA, María Luisa Tárres, Coordinadora (Mexico, D.F.: El Colegio de Mexico, 1998),
pp. 61-88.*
“International and Bilateral Aid Agencies,” WOMEN IN THE THIRD WORLD: AN
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, Nellie Stromquist, ed. (NY:
Garland, 1998), pp. 458-465.*
“Strategies for the Future,” Kristen Timothy, coauthor, WOMEN, INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICS: THE BUREAUCRATIC MIRE (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, Second Edition, 1997), pp. 333-351.
"Struggles in Urban Space: Street Vendors in El Paso and Juárez," URBAN AFFAIRS REVIEW,
31, 4 (1996: 435-454).*
“Political Representation: Engendering Democracy,” in BACKGROUND PAPERS: HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT REPORT 1995 (NY: United Nations Development Programme, 1996),
pp. 21-70.*
"Gendering Policy Studies: Beyond U.S. Boundaries," POLICY SCIENCES 27, 1994, pp. 283-286.
"Planting SEEDS in the Classroom," in SEEDS II, Ann Leonard, ed. (New York: Feminist Press, 1995, 2nd
ed.) pp. 229-236.
"Scholarship, Friends, and Personal Life," and "Conclusions," A HISTORY OF THE QUAKER
MOVEMENT IN AFRICA by Ane Marie Bak Rasmussen (London: I.B. Tavris, 1995).
"Strategic Locations: Gender Issues in Business Management," in WOMEN AT THE CENTER:
DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AND PRACTICES FOR THE 1990s, Gay Young, Vidyamali Samarasinghe
and Ken Kusterer, eds. (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian 1993) pp. 127-142.
"The Impact of Development Policies on Women," in AFRICAN WOMEN SOUTH OF THE SAHARA
(2nd ed.), Margaret Jean Hay and Sharon Stichter, eds.) London: Longman 1995), pp. 225-238.
"Man-Made Political Machinery in Kenya: Political Space for Women?" with Maria Nzomo, WOMEN
AND POLITICS WORLDWIDE Barbara Nelson and Najma Chowdhury, eds. (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1994), pp. 415-435.*
"Political Parties, Women Activists' Agendas, and Class: Elections on Mexico's Northern Frontier," with
Carlota Aguilar, MEXICAN STUDIES/ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS 8, 1, 1992, pp. 87-106.*
"Diversity in East Africa: Cultural Pluralism, Public Policy and the State," with Jeanne Marie Col, in
WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT ANNUAL, Ann Ferguson and Rita Gallin, eds., Vol. II (Boulder:
Westview, 1990), pp. 241-264.*
"Gender Politics in Bureaucracy: Theoretical Issues in Comparative Perspective," and "Context and Politics
in the Gendered Bureaucratic Mire" in WOMEN, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICS:
THE BUREAUCRATIC MIRE, Kathleen Staudt, ed. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990).*
1980s
"Women Farmers in Africa: Research and Institutional Action, 1972-1987" CANADIAN JOURNAL OF
AFRICAN STUDIES, 22, 3, 1988, pp. 567-82.*
"Women and the State in Africa," with Jane Parpart, in WOMEN AND THE STATE IN AFRICA, Parpart
and Staudt, Eds. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1989) pp. 1-19.*
"Politics, Population and Gender: A Feminist Analysis," with Jane Jaquette in THE POLITICAL
INTERESTS OF GENDER: DEVELOPING THEORY AND RESEARCH WITH A FEMINIST FACE,
Kathleen Jones and Ann Jonasdottir, eds. (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1988), pp. 214-233.
"The State and Gender in Colonial Africa," pp. 66-85 (sole author) "Women, the State and Development,"
and "Conclusion" (with Charlton and Everett) pp. 1-19, 177-190, in WOMEN, THE STATE, AND
DEVELOPMENT, Sue Ellen Charlton, Jana Everett, and Kathleen Staudt, eds. (Albany: SUNY Press,
1989).*
"Planting SEEDS in the Classroom," in SEEDS: SUPPORTING WOMEN'S WORK IN THE THIRD
WORLD, Ann Leonard, ed. (NY: Feminist Press, 1989), pp. 227-234.
"Beyond Nairobi: Women's Politics and Policies," with Harvey Glickman co-editor, ISSUE: A JOURNAL
OF OPINION (African Studies Association), 17, 2, 1989.
"Uncaptured or Unmotivated? Women and the Food Crisis in Africa," RURAL SOCIOLOGY 52, 1,
Spring, 1987, pp. 37-55.*
"Women's Programs, Bureaucratic Resistance, and Feminist Organizations: The End of the Decade," with
Jane Jaquette, WOMEN, POWER AND POLITICS, Ellen Boneparth and Emily Stoper, ed. (NY:
Pergamon, 2nd Edition, 1988), pp. 263-281.
"Women's Politics in African States: Creating Conditions for Capitalist Transformation," STUDIES IN
POWER AND CLASS IN AFRICA, ed. Irving Markovitz (NY: Oxford University Press, 1987),
pp. 193-208.*
"Integrating Women into International Studies," Southwest Institute for Research on Women Working
Paper #24, University of Arizona, 1987, pp. 25-37.
"The Bureaucratic Mire: Women in Development, U.S. Foreign Assistance and African Women at the End
of the Decade," TRANSAFRICA FORUM, May 4,3 (1987) pp. 43-52.
"Programming Women's Empowerment? A Case from Northern Mexico," WOMEN ON THE UNITED
STATES-MEXICO BORDER, Vicki Ruiz and Susan Tiano, eds. (Winchester, MA: Allen & Unwin, Inc.
1987), pp. 155-173.*
"Providing Africa's Women Farmers Access: One Solution to the Food Crisis" with Christina Gladwin and
Della McMillan, JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES, 13, 4 (Winter 1986-1987) pp. 131-141.*
"Women, Development and the State: On the Theoretical Impasse," DEVELOPMENT & CHANGE, 17, 2
(1986) pp. 325-333.*
"Maquila Workers in Juarez: Economic Change and Ideological Lag," in THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY AND
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CIUDAD JUAREZ: DEPENDENCY, HOUSEHOLDS AND LAND
USE, Gloria Young, ed. (Westview: Boulder, 1986), pp. 97-120.
"Women as 'At Risk' Reproducers: Biology, Science, and Population in U.S. Foreign Policy," with Jane
Jaquette, WOMEN, BIOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY, Virginia Sapiro, ed. (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage,
1985), pp. 235-268.
"A Planning-Centered Approach to Research on Women in Mainstream Development Projects," PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT, 5 (1985), pp. 25-37.*
"Policy Strategies at the End of the Decade," AFRICA REPORT, 30, 2, March-April, 1985, pp. 71-75.
"Women's Political Consciousness in Africa: A Framework for Analysis," WOMEN AS FOOD
PRODUCERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, eds. Jaime Monson and Marion Kalb, ed. (Los Angeles:
Crossroads Press, University of California, 1985), pp. 71-84.
"Stratification: Implications for Women's Politics," in WOMEN AND CLASS IN AFRICA, eds. Iris Berger
and Claire Robertson (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985) pp. 197-215.*
"Women and Development: Courses and Curriculum Integration," Michigan State University, Women and
Development Working Paper Series, #77, 1985. WOMEN'S STUDIES QUARTERLY, XIV, 3-4, Fall-
Winter, 1986, pp. 21-28.
"Methodological Overview" and "Annotated Bibliography: Women and Development in the Caribbean," in
PLANNING FOR WOMEN IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT: A SOURCEBOOK FOR THE CARIBBEAN
(St. Michaels, Barbados: Women and Development Unit, University of the West Indies, 1984), pp. 4-14,
104-109.
"Public Women, Private Policies and Development: A Review Essay," WOMEN & POLITICS, ed. Naomi
Lynn, 4, 1 (Spring 1984) pp. 55-68 (issued as book, THE UNITED NATIONS DECADE FOR WOMEN
WORLD CONFERENCE, 1984, Haworth Press).
"Development Interventions and Differential Technology Impact Between Men and Women," VROUWEN
IN DE DERDE WERELD: ENERGIE EN AANGEPASTE TECHNOLOGIE (Women in the Third World:
Energy and Appropriate Technology) Ilsa de Beij, ed. (Leiden: Rijks Universiteit Leiden, 1983) pp. 59-80.
"Program and Policy Implications of Research on Women as Agricultural Producers," with Christina
Gladwin, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, 65, 5, December, 1983, pp.
1055-1057.
"Administrative Lobbying Effectiveness: Women & Environmental Issues in U.S. Foreign Assistance,"
POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL, 11, 4 (June, 1983), pp. 648-656.*
"Women's Issues in 1980 Academic Journals: An Annotated Bibliographic Essay," WOMEN & POLITICS
3, 1 (Spring, 1983), pp. 57-74.
"Sex, Ethnic & Class Consciousness in Western Kenya," COMPARATIVE POLITICS, 14, 2, January,
1982, pp. 149-158.*
"Bureaucratic Resistance to Women's Programs," in Ellen Boneparth, ed., WOMEN, POWER AND
POLICY (New York: Pergamon Press, 1982), pp. 263-282 (Also ERIC Reprint ED209 126).
"Women Farmers & Inequities in Agricultural Services," in WOMEN AND WORK IN AFRICA, ed. Edna
Bay (Boulder: Westview Press, 1982). (Reprinted from RURAL AFRICANA), pp. 207-224.
"Women's Politics in Africa," STUDIES IN THIRD WORLD SOCIETIES, No. 16, July 1982, pp. 1-28.
"AID: Promise and Performance" and "Household Structure in Africa," in DEVELOPING NATIONS:
CHALLENGES INVOLVING WOMEN, Barbara Stoecker, et. al. (Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech
University International Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Land Studies, 1982), pp. 37-47, 201-204.
"Women's Issues at 1980 Professional Conferences: An Annotated Bibliographic Essay," WOMEN &
POLITICS 2,3, (Fall, 1982), pp. 47-67.
"Women and Development: Introduction," with Jane Jaquette, WOMEN AND POLITICS 2, 4, Winter,
1982, pp. 1-6.
"Women's Organizations in Rural Development," in THE INVISIBLE FARMER: WOMEN, AND THE
CRISIS IN AGRICULTURE, ed. Barbara Lewis, Washington, D.C., Agency for International
Development, 1981, pp. 330-400.
"AID Documents: Politics and Procedure," INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RURAL
DEVELOPMENT, 1, 1, Fall, 1981, pp. 15-20.
"The Umoja Federation: Women's Cooptation into a Local Power Structure," WESTERN POLITICAL
QUARTERLY, Vol. 33, No. 2, July, 1980, pp. 278-290.*
"The Landless Majority," PEOPLE (London), Vol. 7, No.3, July, 1980, pp. 7-8.
1970s
"Rural Women Leaders: Late Colonial & Contemporary Contexts," RURAL AFRICANA, Winter, 1978-
1979, pp. 5-21.
"Women in Development," with Elsa Chaney and Emmy Simmons, in BACKGROUND PAPERS FOR
THE UNITED STATES DELEGATION, World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development,
UN/FAO, 1979, Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C., 1979, pp. 105-142.
"Class and Sex in the Politics of Women Farmers," JOURNAL OF POLITICS, Vol. 41, No. 2, May 1979,
pp. 490-512.*
"Agricultural Productivity Gaps: A Case Study of Male Preference in Government Policy Implementation,"
DEVELOPMENT & CHANGE 9, 3, July, 1978, pp. 439-458.*
"Administrative Resources, Political Patrons, and Redressing Sex Inequities: A Case From Western
Kenya," JOURNAL OF DEVELOPING AREAS, 12, 4, July, 1978, pp. 398-414.*
"The Characterization of Women in Soyinka and Armah," BA SHIRU: JOURNAL OF AFRICAN
LANGUAGES & LITERATURE, 8, 2, (Spring, 1977). pp. 63-69.
"Women Farmers and Inequities in Agricultural Services," RURAL AFRICANA, No. 29, Winter, 1975-
1976, pp. 81-94.*
"Inequities in Agricultural Services to a Female Farm Clientele: Some Implications for Policy," Institute for
Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Discussion Paper No. 272, October, 1976.
"Agricultural Training for Women Farmers: A Case Study from Kakamega District," KENYA
EDUCATION REVIEW, October, 1975, pp. 47-52.
"Politics & Philippine Women: An Exploratory Study," PHILIPPINE JOURNAL OF PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION, 17, 4 (October, 1973), pp. 46-84.
ADMINISTRATIVE WRITING
Many evaluations for grants (Woodrow Wilson, NSF, FIPSE, HUD, Levi Strauss, Kellogg)
College of Liberal Arts, Annual Reports, 1984-1985, 1985-1986.
HONORS FACULTY HANDBOOK, 1982 (10 pp. & Appendices).
HONORS STUDENT HANDBOOK, 1983 (27 pp. & Appendices).
CONSULTANT WORK
Violence against Women, its causes, and state ‘due diligence’ standards, United Nations Special Rapporteur
on Violence Against Women (UNSRVAW), under the direction of Zarizana Abdul Aziz 2011-2012 (pro
bono),
Strategic Planning, Community Voices. 2001
Multi-Year Evaluations for Gear Up, Ysleta Middle School and for Migrant Education Program,
El Paso Community College, 2002-5
“Gender Mainstreaming: A Conceptual Framework,” for the United Nations Division for
the Advancement of Women, 1998.
Evaluation Team for Community Voices, Nuria Homedes, Lead; University of Texas at Houston
Health Science Center, 1999
"Engendering Democracy: Women and Political Representation," Senior Consultant, Background Paper for
the United Nations Development Programme, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 1995.
U.N./Division for the Advancement of Women, on "Technical Assistance and Mainstreaming
Women" 1995; (Report institutionalized in U.N., endorsed by the Committee on the Status of Women.)
UNRISD on multilateral/bilateral technical assistance strategies to mainstream Women/Gender, 1994
Gender Training and Development Conference, Bergen, Norway, May, 1991, Moderator,
Institutionalization Section. Management and Politics Sessions
Population Council, on Gender Training 1991; on Planning Methodologies for Evaluating Development
Projects 1986; on Curriculum for the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute 1981
Partners for the Americas, on Mexican family planners training, 1990
"Women in High-Level Political Decision Making: A Global Analysis," Monograph prepared for Expert
Group Meeting on Equality in Political Participation and Decision Making, U.N./DAW, Vienna, September
18-22, 1989.
Women in Development Courses: An Analysis, for U.N. INSTRAW, with Irene Tinker, and Kate Cloud
1989-1990.
Technical Consultant, Jamaica, Dominica, and St. Lucia: "The Impact of Rural Development Schemes on
Low-Income Households and the Role of Women," Population Council, 1982-1983.
Curriculum consultation on "Development Policy and Women: An African Perspective," Training courses
for mid-to-top-level management, Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI), Arusha,
Tanzania, Population Council, January 12-16, 1981.
Traveled to Kenya to develop and write Project Paper for Agency for International Development-Peace
Corps-Government of Kenya, Ministry of Agriculture collaborative project, "Rural Women's Extension
Service," Project Paper 698-0388. 13, 1979 (35 pp.)
Reviewer, African Studies Center Grant Proposals, U.S. Office of Education, March 12-15, 1979.
Reviewer, Grants Competition Research Proposal Panel, "Barriers to Women's Educational Equity,"
National Institute of Education, June 5-9, 1978.
Advisory Committee, Management and the Role of Women in Development Seminar, International
Training, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1978; 1979; Washington, D.C.
Women and Participation," Paper presented to the Technical Assistance Bureau/Rural Development,
Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C. October, 1977.
GRANTS WRITTEN AND/OR AWARDED TO UTEP (PI/Principal Investigator)
“Community-Based Participatory Research: Health Outcomes in Westway Colonia.” Hispanic Health
Disparities Research Center, National Institutes of Mental Health/EPA, 2012-3 ($22,500)
“Neighborhood Revitalization Areas,” to HUD, 2008-2010, ($600,000). Not funded.
“Anti-Violence, Self-Defense, and Risk Avoidance: A Comparison of Treatment and Control Groups
Among Women Aged 15-39 in Cd. Juárez,” with Enrique Suárez and Vanessa Johnson, Center for Border
Health Research, January 1, 2004-5 ($75,000)
HUD, Community Outreach Partnership Center ($400,000), 2004-2007
Engaged Campus Model for Sustainable and Systemic Change at the US-Mexico Border, to Kellogg
(funded, $1.2 million), 2005-8.
Gender and Health Consortium at the Border/El Consorcio Transfronterizo. Ford Grant to COLSON/
University of Arizona, subcontract 2001+ ($40,000)
Project SHINE, 2001+ ($200,000). U.S. Dept of Education/CNCS to Temple University
Digital Village: Virtual CAFÉ in South-Central El Paso, to Hewlett Packard ($5 million, not funded, but
finalist among 800 applicants for six site visits for 2 funded sites!)
National Network for Educational Renewal, Diversity in Teacher Education, w/Maricela Oliva 1998-2001
“Civic Learning Team,” NERCHE (from Kellogg Foundation), 2000-2001($70,000)
“Youth Empowerment,” Levi Strauss Foundation, Ben Saenz, Co-PI, 1999-2003, ($150,000).
Arts & Science Faculty Connection to Teacher Preparation, Dean Pacheco PI, Faculty Designee,
1996-99
"Paired Relationship with the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin,"
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1993-1996 ($150,000).
"The Informal Economic Sector on the U.S.-Mexico Border," with Cheryl Howard, National Science
Foundation, 1992-1995, $150,000.
"Labor at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Policy and Political Contexts," through PROFMEX/UCLA to Ford
Foundation, $24,000.
"Writing in the Liberal Arts Disciplines," Ford Foundation, $90,000, 1987-1990.
"English, History, and Political Science in The First Year: Targets for Integration," Western States Project
on Women in the Curriculum, 1984-1985, SIROW, $3,000.
"Honors Orientation & Honors Senior Stipends," El Paso Community Foundation, 1983. $3,000.
CONFERENCES: Academic Papers/Panels over 20 years at:
International Studies Association (2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2003, 2000, 1998, 1997)
Association of Borderlands Studies (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009, 1994)
Association of Borderlands Studies/World (Finland-Russian border region) (2014)
Society for Applied Anthropology (2014)
Latin American Studies Association (2007, 2004, 2003, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1994)
Association for Women in Development (Founding Member, 1982) (1999, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1991, 1989,
19887, 1985, 1983)
Western Political Science Association (1981)
American Political Science Association (1998, 1985, 1979, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007)
National Women’s Studies Association (1979)
American Association for Higher Education (1998, 1997, 1996)
Education Trust (1996)
African Studies Association (1970s, 1980s, 2007)
INVITED CONFERENCE/PROGRAM PARTICIPANT, SPEAKER (selected)
European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder, Germany), presentations and discussions over
collaborations in border studies, December 2013
BRIT XII (Border Regions in Transition), Keynote Moderator Panelist, Fukuoka, Japan-Busan, Korea,
November 12-16, 2012.
Mexico, Southwest United States and Drug Policy panelist, 8th
Annual Harm Reduction Conference,
November 17-20, 2010, Austin.
Coloquio binacional de mujeres equidad y derechos, For a Life free of Violence panel, Universidad
Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez-UTEP, October 22-23, 2010.
Closing Panel, Texas Association of Bilingual Education (TABE) annual meeting, with Senator-elect José
Rodríguez, James Vásquez, Region XIX Director, NABE president and others, October 23, 2010.
“Ending Prohibition?” panelist at the University of San Diego, October 14, 2010.
Marfa Dialogues, panelist at Politics and Culture at the Border conference, September 17-19, 2010
University of Arizona, keynote speaker/paper, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Border Research
Collaboration,” April 22-23, 2010.
“Reading Yvette Christianse: Reflections from a Border Scholar Activist,” (South African historical
novelist) for the Women of the African Diaspora Conference, April 15-16, 2010
University of Washington, April 5-6, 2010, presentation plus workshop on possible
northwestern/southwestern border universities collaboration
University of Southern California, March 23, 2010
Students for Sensible Drug Policy Annual Conference, San Francisco, (2 panels), March 13, 2010
University of San Francisco, March 10-11, 2010
International Drug Policy Reform conference (meets biennially in alternate locations), Albuquerque 2009,
War on Drugs at the Border panel
Northwestern University, October 14, 2009
Watson International Institute, Brown University, “Issues in the Critical Study of the Armed Forces and
Militarization.” May 29-30, 2009.
“Gender Planning” and “Violence against women at borders,” Bir Zeit University, Palestine, May 2009.
Texas Interfaith Education Fund, affiliated with the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF): Statewide
strategy sessions, San Antonio (2009), Austin (2012, 2007); Training, Phoenix
Panelist on Presentations of Violence in Latin America conference, University of Texas, Héctor
Domínguez, Organizer, March 2009.
Panelist on human rights scholar activism conference, University of Texas, Rapoport Center for Human
Rights and Justice, March 2009
CIDE and Universidad Iberoamericana, “Feminist IR,” and “Violence and Activism at the Border,” Mexico
City, October 2008
Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, “The Making and Remaking of Gender Knowledge,”
May 14-16, 2007.
Gender, Globalization and Governance conference, panelist, University of Texas, April 2007
Brown University, Watson Institute for International Studies, December 3, 2006, Scholarly Group on
Militarization
Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, and University of Kyoto, July 24-28, 2006.
National Latino Alliance Against Domestic Violence, San Antonio, November 18-19, 2005.
HUD, Office of University Programs (COPC, etc annually meetings of 600+). Chicago 2005 (3
presentations); New Orleans, 2004.
International Workshop on Gender, Governance and Globalisation, 17-18 September 2004, Centre for the
Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, UK
Working Group on Civic Capacity and Community Organizing, Brown University, November 8-9, 2003.
UCLA conference, “Maquiladora Murders,” October 31-Nov 1, 2003.
Southwest IAF Leadership Training, Phoenix, September 3-4, 2003.
“Transforming Policies and Institutions to Reduce Violence Against Women: NGO Activism Matters.”
Diplomado Internacional, Género, Masculinidades y Políticas Públicas, Universidad Autónoma de Cd.
Juárez, 26 junio 2003.
Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Studies Program, University of California
at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, May 15-17, 2003.
Gender, Justice and the Border, Arizona State University/West, April 16-17, 2003
AAHE Summer Academy, Civic Engagement, 2000
Los Angeles/La Frontera/Mexico City, Dartmouth College, August 1999
National Civics Coalition, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., November 1999
In Praise of Education, Institute for Educational Inquiry, Seattle, June 1999
Developing Democratic Character in Youth, Working Group, Institute of Educational Inquiry,
University of Washington, Seattle, 1998-9.
El Paso K-16 Leadership Institute (Goodlad style), Dean Pacheco and Susana Navarro,
Organizers, 1987-88.
DIF Initiatives North of the Border, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at
Austin, 1998.
International Borders Scholars Group, New Mexico State University, 1996, 1998.
Women and Politics in Mexico, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at
Austin, 1995
U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, meeting in El Paso, testimony.
Asian Studies Development Program (faculty training) at the East-West Center, University of
Hawai’i, 1994
The First Eleanor Roosevelt International Caucus of Women Political Leaders, San Francisco,
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 1987.
(Plus featured speaker at approximately 20 universities during the 1980s on women/gender
in international development, and during 1990s at several, including Latin American
Studies Program, Arizona State University, April 1, 1999.)
DISSERTATIONS/THESES
PhD external reader: (international)
Massey University (New Zealand)
“Opponent,” University of Helsinki, 2004
Dissertation Chair
EdD, Chair, Lizely Madrigal, 2012.“The Mexican American Education Study: Civil Rights, Opportunities,
and Achievements after Forty Years in Ysleta Independent School District”
EdD, Chair, Pauline Dow, 2008. Bilingual v. Dual-Language Program Consequences for Learning:
Longitudinal Results, (Outstanding Dissertation Award, UTEP)
EdD, Chair, Pilar Herrera, “Staying or Leaving? The First-Year University Experience,” 2003
EdD, Chair, Timothy Quezada, “The Alliance School Initiative: Building Learning Communities
In the Texas Borderlands,” 2001.
EdD, Chair, Aurea Galindo, 2014, “Spanish-Language Book Acquisition Policies and Practices in Two
Border School Districts”
Dissertation Committee
EdD, Leslie Gonzales, “Inside a Changing University: The Faculty Role Reconstructed and Legitimized”
2010
EdD, Virginia Heidemann, Early College High Schools in El Paso, 2010
EdD, Bonnie McKay, Critical Race Theory and African American Teachers at the Border
EdD, Antonio Muller, on sports in US and Brazilian education, 2004
EdD, Deborah Martínez, on exemplary science teacher-leaders, 2004
EdD, Alicia Parra, “Leadership in Systemic Education Reform: The El Paso Collaborative
For Academic Excellence,” 2002. (Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2003)
PhD, Debra Liebowitz, on transnational organizing around NAFTA, Rutgers University, 1999
EdD, Myrna Gantner, on parental perceptions of principals, University of Texas at El Paso, 1999
EdD Terry Rodríguez, on Campus Improvement Teams in Texas schools
M.A./MPA Report (Listing those chaired only)*
Stephanie Falcón, on media framing and the perception of children involved in violence in Mexico, 2013
Anna Haro, Gender Political Socialization in Mexico: Content Analysis of SEP Textbooks, 2012
Richard Flores, The Mérida Initiative: Graham Allison’s Three Paradigms, 2012
Sergio García, Latino Voter Survey, 2010
Francisco Bonilla, U.S. Immigration Policy, 2010
Bailey Neal, Environmental Planning Processes, 2010
Azuri González, Payday Loan Policies in Texas, 2010
Leslie Gonzáles, Young Latina Leadership: El Paso and Las Vegas, NM, 2005
Carla Cardoza, Workforce Training for El Paso Displaced Workers, 2003
Esther Villa, on Women-Owned Small Business in El Paso, 2002
Guillermo Martínez, on Tax Abatement Policy in El Paso, 2001
Leticia Ibarra, on MicroSociety, Sageland Elementary, 2000
Lorena Orozco, on civic education in Morelos, Mexico, 1998 (120 pp)
University Outstanding Thesis Award
Laura Landholt, on women and democratization in Egypt, 1996 (125 pp) (College
Outstanding Thesis Award) – (completed U of Arizona PhD)
Margaret Schellenberg, on community banks at the border, 1994 (100+pp)
Nancy Lowery, on the use of art in revolutionary regimes, 1989 (223pp) (China, Cuba, USSR)
San Diego State University PhD program
Elizabeth Bulos, MPA Internship Report on computerizing El Paso’s Management
Information System (Thesis equivalent) (133pp), 1986
Helen Gandara, MPA Internship Report (Thesis equivalent), 1986
Patricia Chaplin, evaluating National Women’s Employment and Education project, 1982 (200pp)
Paula Brooks, on female leadership in public schools, 1978 (123pp)
*Served as member on approximately 45 committees:
20 thesis committees in political science and
15 thesis committees as outside reader in History, English, MAIS, Educational Leadership,
MPA, Communications, Sociology and Anthropology, and Management.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Department
Served on Development, MPA, Graduate, Curriculum Committees many times.
Chair, 3 years: 1990, 1991, 1992. Initial Coordination of and Contributor to PhD Proposal, Policy Analysis
and Regional Development
Colleges
Liberal Arts: Served as Chair and Member of the Tenure & Promotion Committee several times, plus
Appeals Committees. Also served on Women’s Studies, Asian Studies, Communication Review, Social
Work Review, Sociology Review, and Workshop for Faculty Publication, and numerous other committees,
especially in 3-year stint as Assistant Dean. Involved in Program Creation, African American Studies, plus
involved as chair, member, and participant in searches on Directors for Women’s Studies, Chicano Studies,
and African American Studies, Dean of Education, Chair of Educational Leadership. Educational Renewal
Chair (1997-9) connecting arts and science faculty to teacher preparation. Director Evaluation Committees:
Chicano Studies (Chair) and Women’s Studies, 2007+
Education: Served on several search committees for Teacher Education, four years of searches in
Educational Leadership, and various grant-seeking committees. Serve on Diversity in Teacher Preparation
Committee, Institute of Educational Inquiry-supported effort, Maricela Oliva, PI. Respond to requests to
meet with visitors to the Collaborative. Program, with Jack Bristol, visits from the Institute for Educational
Inquiry to campus.
Programming of various visits over many years, some recent examples including Henry Flores, 2006,
Obstacles to Latino/a Voter Turnout; Randy Stoecker, Community-Based Research, 2002; Mary Pardo,
April 1999, Mexican American Women Activists; Michael Shafer, Community Partnerships, 1999; Gregory
Squires, 2002; Frances Moore Lappe, 2002.
Library: Exhibit to Mourn the Murdered Girls and Women of Cd. Juárez, with Juan Sandoval and Claudia
Rivers, Day of the Dead, Oct-Nov 2003.
University
Provost Task Force on Community Partnerships, 2012
Faculty Advisor for various student organizations: (recent) Students for Reform (Outstanding New
Organization of the Year 2007); University Democrats; Amnesty International UTEP Chapter; Students for
Sensible Drug Policy; LULAC; Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance
E-Learning Leadership Mentor, 2009-2011 (seminars, panels, individual work with new faculty)
Faculty Senate, Senator (various terms), University Research Institute, co-author, Report of the Free Speech
Committee (2005)
Advisory Committee member for Center for Inter-American and Border Studies for many years in the
1990s, plus served on director/assistant director searches
Entering Students Program Advisory Committee
Graduate Council, 2 years.
Many talks given on campus over twenty years for high school counselors, Entering Students’ Program
training, on community partnerships, for border and women’s studies. Interviews/talks given to
international and national visitors seeking information on the border or in special U.S. State
Department/USIA thematic trips (i.e. democracy activists from Africa; women lawyers; human trafficking)
in group or individual form.
PUBLIC SCHOOL CONNECTIONS
Social Justice in Education, Planning/Organizing Committee fall 2012 and panelist at 2-day conference
January 2013
BEEMs conference, UTEP, panelist, February 2013
Testimony to Texas Select Committee on Public School Accountability, August 4, 2008.
El Paso Independent School District, training for social studies teachers, middle and high school, August
2008
Enfoque.Education.Engagement, annual drop-out prevention conferences, Ysleta Independent School
District, June 2005, Education Service Center Region 19. June 2006. (Trained workshop facilitators, May
23 and May 30, 2007)
Teachers for a New Era, Carnegie grant, Social Studies Task Force
Bowie High School Public Affairs Magnet School, Nov 2002-4
Summer Week-long Seminars for Social Studies Teachers, (1990s) on:
Problem-Solving Approaches
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Inter-American Studies
Teacher-Driven Magnet Schools/Schools within Schools (3 high schools), 2001
EPISD-wide in-service workshops on
internationalizing curriculum (at Bowie; Austin; Coronado)
service learning, 1990s (Bowie; Franklin)
Coronado High School ESL faculty, 1999
Internationalizing Social Studies, 1995, summer graduate seminar for teachers
Women in the Global to Local, University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, August, 1999
Taught Social Science 3330, Schools in Communities, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, with Home Visit training
and requirements
Mentor Professor, Ysleta Middle School, an Alliance School affiliated with the El Paso Interreligious
Sponsoring Organization (EPISO) (IAF), late 1990s. (parent academies, workshops with teachers)
Facilitator, Teams Leadership Institute (2 days, teachers and principals), Sponsored by the
Collaborative for Academic Excellence, July 1999.
Content Pedagogy for Social Studies (SCED 3312), w/Michael Topp, 2000
Talks/Meetings on School Sites, 1990s:
Americas (including facilitation of cross-border Preparatorio #6-Americas exchange)
El Paso High School (possible magnet school)
Alliance Schools
Empowerment Zone middle and high schools re: UTEP collaborations
Classes at
Silva HS (public health research survey design),
Loretto HS (on EPISO and Civic Capacity)
Canutillo Middle (Texas government)
Riverside High School (teachers building ‘social capital’)
Bowie High School, Summer Distinguished Academic Program 2004
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Wise Latinas International, Reflections of a Fronteriza, presentation, June 2013
The Newspaper Tree, Board of Directors, 2010-12
EPISD PTA Board of Directors and Security/Public Safety/Legislative Committee Chair 2013+
Expert Affidavits accepted in DHS asylum hearings: San Francisco 2009, San Antonio 2009, New Orleans
2010 but postponed to 2011, and (including testimony), El Paso
Moderator, Nonprofit Candidate Forum, January 19, 2010
Women’s Club of El Paso speech, March 3, 2010
League of Women Voters of El Paso speech, March 25, 2010
Citizens’ Commission (on ethical problems/corruption in business and politics), 2009
Global Public Policy Forum on the War on Drugs, coordinator/MC, September 20-22
Reinventing Community Media, coordinator, February 13-14, 2009
Nonprofit Congress, Advisory Body
Commencement Speaker, University of Texas at Houston School of Public Health, El Paso. May, 2007.
El Paso Mayor’s Lyceum, Resource Mobilization Cabinet, 2005-7
Advisory Committee to hire El Paso’s First City Manager, (public appointment), 2004
Ni Una Más, with Bowie High School: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, (latter 2, Chamizal National Park Service,
400 men and women student leaders, from 10+ El Paso high schools)
Workshops on Collaboration for Border Health NGOs, San Diego 2003; for Center for Border Health
Research, April, 2003
Westside Interfaith Alliance, co-chair (affiliated with the Texas IAF/Industrial Areas Foundation) 2003-5
(drafted two successful grant proposals to CCHD, ELCA), name change to Border Interfaith 2004+
Founding Committee, El Paso Women’s Fund (Vice President, 2004-6)
Paso del Norte Nonprofit Resource Center, renamed Nonprofit Enterprise Center, Founding Board, 2003-5
Board of Directors, El Paso Empowerment Zone, 2001-2002
El Paso Council for International Visitors, Board of Directors, 2005-7
Training for Vista Volunteers, with Libby Dalton and Carla Cardoza, June-August, 2000
FEMAP, Honorary Advisory Committee, 1992-
Kids Voting/El Paso Board (since inception, 1996-2002, close)
Alliance School Mentor Professor and Parental Academies, Ysleta Middle School
Southwest Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, Membership Coordinator, (1990s)
Community Scholars, Board of Directors, fall 1999-2001. Annual training presentations, 2002-2011.
Building and Zoning Advisory Committee (BZAC) Board, City of El Paso, 11/2000-01
Education Summit, Executive Planning Committee (Subcommittee co-chair on Access,
Financial Aid, and Retention)
Many local talks about border economies, schools, community partnerships
Citizen Bee and History Day Judge, 1990s
Border Interfaith Public Life Institutes #1 (Economic Development), #2 (Education), #3 Educational
Funding/Tax Reform in Texas, #4 Immigration Policy, #5 Flooding, #6, Tax Ratification Election/EPISD
Opinion Editorials, El Paso Times over the years; essays in Newspaper Tree fall 2013; spring 2014