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Yolanda C. Leyva <yleyva@utep.edu> University of Texas at El Paso Oral history; public history; borderlands identities |
| Address: | Liberal Arts #320 Department of History University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, Texas 79968 United States |
| Primary Phone: | 915-747-7067 |
| Fax Number: | 915-747- 5948 |
| Web Page: | http://utminers.utep.edu/yleyva/ |
| List Affiliations: | List Editor for H-Borderlands Reviewer for H-LatAm |
| Reviews: | untitled untitled untitled Remembering Something Ancient and Imagining Something New |
| Interests: | American History / Studies Ethnic History / Studies Oral History Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
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Bio: EDUCATION Ph. D. in History (United States) The University of Arizona, Tucson, May 1999 Dissertation title: "¿Qué Son los Niños?: Mexican Children along the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1880-1920” M. A. in History (U.S.-Mexico Border concentration) The University of Texas at El Paso, December 1989 B. B. A. in Management The University of Texas at Austin, December 1977 Areas of specialization Public history: Mexican American history; U.S.-Mexico border history; public history; U.S. women’s history; United States history, 19th-20th centuries. ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2001- present Assistant Professor of History, The University of Texas at El Paso 2000- 2001 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow/ Visiting Scholar, Center for Mexican American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin 1997-2001 Assistant Professor of History, The University of Texas at San Antonio SELECT ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Manuscripts in progress Cruzando la linea: Mexican children along the Texas-Mexican Border, 1880-1940. This study explores the critical role that Mexican and Mexican American children played in the economic and social development of the border region. Calling the Ancestors: Chicana/o History, historical trauma, and healing. This manuscript investigates the interconnection of Chicana/o history, memory, public presentations of history, and pedagogy. Select Articles and chapters “In ixtli in yóllotl/ a face and a heart: Listening to the ancestors,” Studies in American Indian Literature, Volume 15, Numbers 3&4. Inés Hernández Avila and Domino Pérez, guest editors. “‘There is great good in returning’: A Testimonio from the Borderlands,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Volume 24, Number 2 & 3, 2003. Special Issue: Gender on the Borderlands. Antonia Castañeda, guest editor. "Breaking the Silence: Putting Latina Lesbian History at the Center" in The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century. Bonnie Zimmerman and Toni McNaron, editors. New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1996. (Reprinted in Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History. Vicki L. Ruiz and Ellen Carol Dubois, editors. New York: Routledge Press, 2000.) |
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