Congratulations! Amazing women…

Congratulations to MALCS chair Adriana Ayala on the recent completion of her dissertation in history at UT Austin! Adriana’s diss was titled “Negotiating Race Relations Through Activism: Women Activists and Women’s Organizations in San Antonio, Texas During the 1920s.” She is currently the chair of liberal studies at the National Hispanic University in San Jose, … Read more

NM internship, Museum of Intl Folk Art

The Intl Folk Art Foundation & the Museum of Intl Folk art (MOIFA) announce a new internship opportunity for a motivated female student working in Hispanic American material culture…. intended for an advanced undergraduate or graduate in art history, anthropology, American, Chicano/Latino or LatAm studies, folklore, or museum studies. Part-time internship with stipend. Application deadline … Read more

New publications in Chicana Studies

Speaking of books, don’t miss the latest Chicana scholarship by MALCSistas Marta Sanchez, Catrióna Esquibel, and Tey Diana Rebolledo. Catrióna Rueda Esquibel‘s With Her Machete In Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians assertively maps the depiction of lesbian characters and desires in a wide range of plays, novels, and short stories by Chicana/o authors. More importantly, … Read more

Inaugural Post

Hello! And welcome to the trial run of the MALCS blog! Incited by the venerable Antonia Castaneda, we are going to use this space to note some of the news and accomplishments of our members. We hope you’ll check back often to see what’s new, and we especially hope that you will email us news, … Read more