Guillermina Gina Núñez-Mchiri, Ph.D.

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Guillermina Gina Núñez-Mchiri, Ph.D.
[email protected]
Office: (915) 747-6529
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Texas, El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968-8900
CAREER OBJECTIVES
Professor and Applied Cultural Anthropologist with strong research and applied interests working
with Mexican and Latina/Latinos issues in the United States, particularly U.S.-Mexico Border
communities, immigration, migrant farm workers, colonias the prevention of diabetes, access to
health care, social justice, environmental health, housing, urbanization, community development,
and educational outreach.
QUALIFICATIONS
Applied Anthropological fieldwork experience working in rural Mexico and the U.S.-Mexican
Border region with strong Spanish-English language skills. Five years of University teaching
experience in two fields: Cultural Anthropology and Spanish. Strong focus towards
anthropological applications towards addressing contemporary social issues and community needs
of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and U.S.-Mexico Border populations.
EMPLOYMENT
2005-Present
Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, University of Texas, El Paso.
2005-2004
Professor of Applied Anthropology. Visiting Assistant Position, Department of
Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas, El Paso.
2004-2002
Grant Writer and Project Developer, Las Cruces Affordable Housing,
Inc., a Non-Profit Housing Organization, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Grant
funded for $150,000 for three years to do home buyer education in colonias.
2003
Research and Development Director, Medius Inc., Community Development
and Planning Firm, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Grant funded for $250,000 for
the Colonia Unida de Rodey, Multipurpose Community Center.
2002-1998
Research Assistant to Dr. Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez and Dr. María Cruz-Torres,
Ernesto Galarza Applied Research Center, UC, Riverside. Conducted research,
developed survey instruments in English and Spanish, conducted ethnographic
fieldwork, trained community-field assistants in Doña Ana County, NM,
transcribed and edit interviews in Spanish/English.
1998- Present
Translator of professional papers in the fields of theoretical anthropology,
Mayan archaeology, social health, and community technology.
1999-1998
Teaching Associate, Cultural Anthropology I
Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
1999-1998
Expert Witness for Immigration, Human Rights, and Political Asylum Cases,
One Stop Immigration Center, East Los Angeles, CA.
1998-1997
Curriculum Developer, Technology Researcher, and Teaching Associate
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Department of Spanish & Portuguese, San Diego State University
1997-1995
Lower Division Spanish Coordinator, Lecturer, & World Languages and
Cultures Curriculum Developer. California State University, Monterey Bay
1995-1994
Teaching Associate, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, San Diego State
University.
EDUCATION
2006
Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology with an Applied Anthropological focus.
Department of Anthropology. University of California, Riverside
1994-1998
M.A. Latin American Studies: U.S.-Mexico Border and Chicano History, Social
Sciences, and Public Administration. San Diego State University
1990-1994
B.A. International Business: Latin American Studies, Spanish and Portuguese
OTHER EDUCATION
2001
Graduate Seminar in the Political Economy of Language, UCLA, Spring.
1995-1997
CSU Monterey Bay, Social Science Graduate Coursework at the Center for
Social and Behavioral Sciences
1993
Gonzaga School of Law Summer Fellowship, Washington State
1992
University of San Diego Spanish Summer Program, Guadalajara, Mexico.
LANGUAGES
Proficient in Spanish and Portuguese, and basic conversational Arabic
CURRENT RESEARCH
2008
Currently Writing Book Manuscript: Building Community: Colonias in New
Mexico. Due to the University of New Mexico Press in 2009.
2008
Co-Authoring Multiple Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border, with Dr. Cheryl
Howard.
2007-present
Incorporating Service Learning Across the Curriculum. Texas Compact Faculty
Fellow. Workshop Presenter addressing service learning goals to faculty and
staff across academic fields throughout the state of Texas.
2006
Trainer and Research Collaborator of UTEP’s Border Poll Crew in collaboration
with the Center for Civic Engagement, trained 60 students to work as bilingual
poll workers and ethnographers in the 2006 November mid-term elections.
2005- present
Multiple Identities on the U.S. –Mexico Border. A study on the cultural
diversity of El Paso, Texas in collaboration with Dr. Cheryl Howard.
2005-present
Barriers to Health Care among Undocumented and Uninsured Residents in
El Paso County, Texas. Co-PI, grant funded by the Center for Border Health
Research. In collaboration with Dr. Josiah Mc. Heyman and Dr. Nuria Homedes
2005-2006
Community Based Participatory Research, Technical Advisor to Colonias Team
El Paso, Texas. In collaboration with Dr. Marlyn May from Texas A & M.
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REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Nunez-Mchiri, Guillermina G. 2009. The Political Ecology of the Colonias on the U.S.-Mexico
Border: Human- Environmental Challenges and Community Responses in Southern
New Mexico. Southern Rural Sociology .24(1): 67-91.
Heyman, Josiah McC., Guillermina Gina Núñez, and Victor Talavera. 2009. Health Care
Access and Barriers for Unauthorized Immigrants in El Paso County, Texas. Family
and Community Health, 32 (1): 4-21.
Núñez, Guillermina G. and Alfonso Sanchez. 2008. The Border Poll Crew: Engaging
Bilingual Youth in Local Elections in El Paso, Texas. Practicing Anthropology. 30 (2):
45-48.
Núñez, Guillermina G. and Josiah McC. Heyman. 2007. Entrapment Processes and
Immigrant Communities in a Time of Heightened Border Vigilance. Human
Organization. 66(4): 356-364.
Núñez, Guillermina G. 2006. In Search of the Next Harvest. Homelands: Women’s Journeys
Across Race, Place, and Time. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press.
Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos G., Guillermina Núñez and Dominique Rissolo. 2002. Off the Back of
Others”: The Political Ecology of Credit, Debit, and Class Formation Among Colonias of
New Mexico and Elsewhere. In Both Sides of the Border. Transboundary Environmental
Management Issues Facing Mexico and the United States. R. Carson and L. Fernandez,
eds. Amsterdam: Kuwer Academic Press and IGCC.
OTHER SCHOLARLY AND APPLIED PUBLICATIONS
Núñez -Mchiri, Guillermina G. 2008. Colonias. In The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture
and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Divide. Edited by Andrew G. Wood.
Núñez, Guillermina G. 2006. The Political Ecology of Colonias in the Hatch Valley: Towards an
Applied Social Science of the U.S.-Mexico Border. PhD. Dissertation. Department of `
Anthropology. Riverside: University of California.
Chavez Bell, Virginia and Guillermina G. Núñez. 2004. Economic Development Assessment for
Census Tract 14 Northern Doña Ana County, New Mexico. Las Cruces Affordable
Housing, Inc. contracted by the Mesilla Economic Valley Economic Development
Alliance HUD Contract. August 22, 2004.
Núñez, Guillermina G. 2003. Border Tax Preparer’s Efforts to Target High Fees to Low Income
Border Residents in Texas and New Mexico Report. Annie E. Casey Foundation. April
24, 2003.
Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos G. with Guillermina Núñez and Dominique Rissolo. 2000. The Census 2000
Colonias Ethnography Project. U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
Suitland, MD.
Núñez, Guillermina G. 1998. The Reconfiguration of Space and the Transformation of Rural
Identities: A Case Study of San Rafael, Querétaro. Masters Thesis. Department of Latin
American Studies San Diego State University.
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IN PROGRESS
Victor Talavera, Josiah Mc. Heyman and Guillermina G. Núñez. 2009. "Deportation in the U.S.Mexico Borderlands: Anticipation, Experience, and Memory," in Deportation Regime:
Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement. Nicholas De Genova and Nathalie
Peutz, editors. Duke University Press. Scheduled for publication in Fall 2009.
Heyman, Josiah McC., with Maria Cristina Morales and Guillermina G. Núñez-Mchiri.
“Engaging with the Immigrant Human Rights Movement in a Besieged Border
Region: What Do Applied Social Scientists Bring to the Policy Process?” Coauthored with Josiah McC. Heyman and Maria Cristina Morales. In
Anthropology and Immigration. Edited by Alayne Unterberger. NAPA [National
Association for the Practice of Anthropology] Bulletin. Arlington, VA:
American Anthropological Association. Expected Publication Date
Spring 2009.
Núñez, Guillermina, Alfonso Sanchez, Jennifer Chaparro, and Francisco Lopez. “Bridging the
Academy and the Community through Service Leaning and Civic
Engagement: The Border Poll Crew in El Paso, Texas.” Texas Compact Impact:
A Service Learning Journal. Co-authored with Scheduled Publication date Spring 2009.
Abarca, Meredith, Yolanda Chavez-Levya, Maria Cristina Morales, Guillermina Nunez and Julia
Schiavone Camacho. “Chicanas Thriving in the Academy: Strategies for Developing a
Writing Circle.” Submitted to Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journalof Mujeres Activas en
Letras en Letras y Cambio Social. Under Review.
PRESENTATIONS
2009
Keynote Speaker and Workshop Presenter. Cesar Chavez Commemorative
Luncheon. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA April 9, 2009.
2009
How to Form Partnering Relationships. Keynote Address a the Tri-Unity
Conference. Las Cruces, NM. February 28, 2009. Address focused on personal
and Anthropological insights to help foster partnerships between early childhood
intervention specialists, parents, and special needs children.
2009
Identifying Funds of Knowledge in the Household: An Approach to Building
Relationships with Mexican and Mexican American Families. Workshop
presented at the Tri-Unity Conference. Las Cruces, NM. February 28, 2009.
Interactive workshop involved the participation of administrators, early
childhood intervention specialists and parents of special needs children.
2008
Discussant on Transnational Exigencies: Deportation as Social Experience
Panel. American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA. November
20, 2008.
2008
Chicanas Thriving in the Academy: Strategies from a Chicana Writing Circle
Workshop presented at MALCS conference at the University of Utah, Salt Lake
City, UT. August 1, 2008
2008
Chicanas Thriving in the Academy: Strategies from a Chicana Writing Circle.
Panelist at the National Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies. Austin, TX.
March 20, 2008.
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2008
Women and the Immigration Experience. Panelist at the NMSU J. Paul Taylor
Symposium on Social Justice. Friday, April 4, 2008. Las Cruces, NM
2008
The Social Science Behind Social Networks and Valuable Insights for Women
February 9, 2008. Workshop Presenter at Las Comadres Para Las America’s
Panel Presentation at the First Biennial El Paso Conference for Women
2008
Community Presentation on Colonias and Contemporary Immigration Debates.
Faith based community in Las Cruces, New Mexico. February 2008.
2008
Presentation on “Childhood Obesity Socioeconomic Determinants: A
Comparison by Racial and Ethnic Groups.” Co-Presented with Dr. María AysaLastra. July 20-23, 2008 Summer Research Workshop on Latino Health Issues
at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies.
2007
Interviewed as a U.S.-Mexico Border Scholar in the documentary La Frontera,
for the History Chanel en Español.
2006
UCSD Center for Comparative Immigration Studies. 4th Annual Summer
Institute on International Migration. Paper presented: Barriers to Health Care
Among Undocumented and Uninsured Populations in El Paso County, Texas.
June 22, 2006.
2006
Working with Chispas: Developing Partnerships with Women Leaders in
Community Development Efforts along the Mexico-U.S. Border. Society for
Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada. April 2006.
2006
Trapped People and Communities in a Time of Increased Border Vigilance.
Paper presented with Josiah McC. Heyman, Linnae Terrarum, Ciudad Juárez,
CH, México. March 2006.
2005
Key note Speaker and workshop presenter, Migrant Education National
Identification & Recruitment Forum. September 14. Denver, Colorado.
2004
Presentation at Doña Ana Branch Community College on Colonias in Doña Ana
County, New Mexico. Las Cruces, NM. October 18, 2004.
2002
Political Ecology, Funds of Knowledge, and the Creation of Community:
A Case Study of Colonias in Southern New Mexico. Association for
Borderlands Studies/Western Social Science Association. Las Vegas, NV. April
10, 2003.
2002
Creating Community Spaces: Colonias Along the Rio Grande. American
Anthropological Association. New Orleans, LA. November 24.
2001
The Strengths and Advantages of Combining Cultural Anthropological and
Archaeological Research Methods in the Study of Rural Communities. James
Young Colloquium. University of California, Riverside.
2000
Trials and Tribulations of the 2000 Census, The Colonia Ethnography Project
American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA
2000
The Census 2000 Colonia Ethnography Project. Bureau of the Census.
Suitland, Maryland
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2000
Plants and People in a Mayan Community, Opportunities for Future Research in
Tekantó, Yucatán, Mex. VII International Congress of Ethnobiology.
University of Georgia.
1999
The Political Ecology of the U.S.-Mexican Border: A Case Study of Mexicali,
B.C., Mex. James Young Colloquium, University of California, Riverside
Grants Awarded
2008
“El Paso as the Ellis Island of the Americas: 1840-1940” Hispanic History of Texas
Project supported by the Houston Endowment. $4500 Grant, supporting archival research
Dr. Yolanda Leyva (PI), Dr. Guillermina Núñez-Mchiri (Co-PI), graduate student David
Romo and undergraduate student Omar Lara.
2008
Research Faculty Collaborator in “A Proposal to Create a Coalition of Centers of
Excellence to Counter Chronic Disease with the Population of the US-Mexico Border,”
in collaboration with the College of Health Sciences’ Dr. Maria Duarte, PI. Proposal was
selected for funding by the Ovations Health Organization in spring 2008 and will be resubmitted to NIH.
2006
University Research Grant $2900 for “Multiple Identities on the U.S. Mexico Border
research project”.
2005
“Barriers to Health Care Among the Undocumented and the Uninsured in El Paso
County,” Principle Investigators: Dr. Nuria Homedes, Dr. Josiah Mc. Heyman, and
Guillermina G. Núñez, MA. Grant Funded by El Paso Del Norte Health Foundation.
Grants Collaborated In
2005-2006
Community Based Participatory Research: Empowering Communities Through
Knowledge-Transforming Knowledge into Action. Collaborative Community
Based Participatory Research Initiative involving three non-profit organizations
in El Paso County, New Mexico, and Ciudad Juarez, CH. Lead Investigator:
Dr. Marlynn May, School of Rural Public Health, Texas A & M. My role as a
research collaborator was to advise and collaborate with the Texas A & M
Colonias Resource Center team in Socorro conducting community based
research using social scientific methods.
2005
Collaborative faculty member of M.A. graduate student, Jessica Ibarra’s 2006
Summer research: Women in the Informal Job Market: Diamonds in the Rough.
Grant to Support Graduate Research Funded by NSF Advance/Grant.
Grants Currently Being Pursued
2008
Ford Foundation Post-Dissertation Fellowship, Notification Pending Spring 2009.
FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
1999-2005
Ethnographic Fieldwork of U.S.-Mexican border communities known as
Colonias in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. Including intensive fieldwork
during the Spring 2000 quarter and subsequent visits, while working on the U.S.
Census 2000 Ethnography Project. Now working on dissertation write-up.
Summer 1999
Ethnographic-Ethnobotanical Research of Plants and People in Tekantó,
Yucatán, Mex. Dr. Arturo Gómez-Pompa, UC MEXUS grant.
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1996-1997
April 2009
Transnational Issues of Space, Labor, Gender, and Household Roles in Rural
Mexico, Two summers of extensive fieldwork in San Rafael, Querétaro,
México.
JOURAL REVIEWER
2007-2008
Texas Compact Impact, Journal Reviewer
HONORS AND AWARDS
2008-2009
2007- Present
2006
2003
2003
2002
2002
2001
2000
1999
1996
1995
1994
1994
1994
1993
1993
1993-1992
1993
University of Texas, El Paso IMPACT Faculty Leadership Fellowship
Texas Compact Faculty Fellowship for Excellence in Service Learning
University Research Grant $2900 for Multiple Identities on the U.S. Mexico
Border research project.
Ernesto Galarza Graduate Research Grant, $500
UC Riverside, Graduate Division Dissertation Research Grant $1400
UC MEXUS 2 year Dissertation Fellowship, $12,000
UC Riverside, Graduate Division Research and Mentorship Grant, $7700
Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award. Department of Anthropology,
University of California, Riverside
Special Recognition for Teaching Excellence. Department of Anthropology,
University of California, Riverside
UC MEXUS Summer Fellowship: Mayan Biodiversity and Sustainability in the
Yucatán Peninsula, $20,000.
Monterey County’s Outstanding Women’s Award
CSU-Predoctoral Fellowship. San Diego State University.
Quest for the Best, San Diego State’s Top Ten, Vice-Presidential Award
Outstanding Contribution Award, SDSU MECHA Chicano Graduation
Outstanding Senior Student Government Award, SDSU Associated Students
Dean Margery Warner, Outstanding Student Service Award
Who’s Who in American’s Colleges and Universities
College of Arts and Letters Dean’s List
Gonzaga Law Fellowship, Spokane, Washington
LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
2008
2007-Present
2006 to present
2006
2005
2004
2004-2003
2002-2000
2000-1999
1998-Present
1998
1996
1995
1995
University of Texas, El Paso IMPACT Faculty Leadership Fellowship
Texas Compact Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Service Learning
Border Network for Human Rights, active member and applied researcher.
Keynote Speaker, Migrant Education Conference in El Paso, Texas
Keynote Speaker, Migrant Education ID and Recruitment, Denver, CO
Organized “Make a Difference Day,” October 23, 2004, Home Maintenance and
Repairs of eight homes in the colonias of Northern Doña Ana County, NM.
Thanksgiving and Christmas Food Drive in Colonias in collaboration with
Community Action Agency, Las Cruces/Dona Ana County, New Mexico
Organizer of Clothing and Toy Drive for Alternative to Domestic Violence
Center, Riverside, CA
Graduate Student Association, Dept. of Anthropology Representative
La Raza Graduate Student Association, Active member and officer
Organized Central American Relief fund for Hurricane Mitchell, University of
California, Riverside, collected $4900 and divided funds through 3 agencies.
Mexican American Women National Association/ Outstanding Women in
Monterey County. Guest speaker and mentor, Salinas, CA elementary schools.
SDSU Leadership Institute Graduation Keynote Speaker
César Chávez Moratorium, Mistress of Ceremony, Chicano Park San Diego, CA
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1995-1994
1994-1993
April 2009
Director of Food, Clothing, and Toy Drive for Barrio Logan’s December
Victory Outreach Program
Legislative Chair, California State Student Association. Sacramento, CA.
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