Theresa Delgadillo

Postdoc Fellowship: Reproductive Politics in the Americas

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Hampshire College invites applications for a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in Comparative Reproductive Politics of the Americas.  This Mellon-funded position is one of five to be filled in 2012-13 in cooperation with the Five College Consortium (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst).  Hampshire College encourages inter-disciplinary teaching and research.  While … Read more

The Border Book Festival April 19-22 in Mesilla, New Mexico

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PRESS RELEASE CONTACT Denise Chávez The Border Book Festival 575-523-3988 bbf@borderbookfestival.com THE SHAMANIC JOURNEY/LA JORNADA CHAMÁNICA 2012.  Year of Healing and Transformation.  The Completion of a 26,000 year cycle according to the Mayan and Aztec calendars.  The Border Book Festival (BBF) is making plans for its 18th annual book festival, The Shamanic Journey, which will … Read more

JOB: Director of Alliance for Community Transformation

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 DIRECTOR OF THE UMASS ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION The Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst seeks a Director for the UMass Alliance for Community Transformation (UACT), the University’s curricular alternative spring break program. The position is a 9-month lectureship, three-year appointment, possibility for renewal. UACT is a 15-year-old collaboration of faculty, students, … Read more

Book Release Party for Earth Wisdom: A California Chumash Woman

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DR. YOLANDA BROYLES-GONZÁLEZ BOOK RELEASE & SIGNING The University of Arizona’s Native American Red Ink Magazine is proud to host the launch event of Professor Yolanda Broyles-González’s new book Earth Wisdom: A California Chumash Woman, written in collaboration with Chumash native elder Pilulaw Khus. The event will take place 7:00 p.m., Friday, February 3, 2012 … Read more

Call for Nominations, Lead Editor, Chicana/Latina Studies

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MALCS invites nominations and self-nominations for lead editor to serve five-year term, and provide institutional home for same five-year term for its flagship, interdisciplinary journal, Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social beginning May 15, 2014–June 15, 2019.

Scope of Chicana/Latina Studies:The flagship journal of MALCS is published twice yearly in fall and spring of the academic calendar. Chicana/Latina Studies is the only interdisciplinary Latino studies journal of a national organization. Originally housed at the Chicana/Latina Research Center, University of California, Davis, MALCS published Voces between 1996 and 2001. Adaljiza Sosa Ridell managed the journal and coordinated the collective editorial board.

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Call for Nominations: Editors for creative Writing, Book Reviews, Chicana/Latina Studies

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MALCS invites nominations and self-nominations for creative writing editor and book review editor to serve five-year term for its flagship, interdisciplinary journal, Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social.

Creative Writing Co-Editor
MALCS invites nominations and self-nominations for one individual to serve as Creative Writing Co-Editor of Chicana/Latina Studies for a five-year term: May 15, 2012—June 15, 2017.

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JOB: Latino/a and/or LatAm Studies, U of I Chicago

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The Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at
Chicago invites applications for a tenure-track position in media and film
studies at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August 16, 2012,
pending budgetary approval. We seek a dynamic and creative scholar of
Latin American and/or Latino studies with expertise in any of the
following areas from a global or transnational perspective: the cultural
study of media and multimedia forms; relations between media and space;
film and moving image; photography and other forms of visual expression;
and/or internet and new cybertechnologies.

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