MA and PhD Mentor
Ph.D. in Chicana & Chicano StudiesHyflex/Hybrid Program
HONORS & FELLOWSHIP ADVISOR
Jasmine Poblano. MA Portfolio Director. “Justice for Tia: An Exploration of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) Through Kinship Ties.” (Fall 2022-Spring 2024). PhD Program Placement. UNM Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies (Fall 2024).
Diego Lucero. MA Portfolio Director. "Bridging Narratives: My Life's Journey from South Valley to Chicano Studies" (Fall 2022-Spring 2024). Professional Placement. City of Albuquerque Deputy Director of Art and Culture (May 2024). https://youtu.be/0yCq4imvw0A?si=d6k798V5enVcS8UJ
Marc Anaya. MA Portfolio Director. “The Future of Chicana/o Studies: Pathways to the Professorate and Public Leadership.” (Fall 2022-Spring 2023). PhD Program Placement. UNM Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies (Fall 2023).
Honors Thesis
Faculty Advisor for Abygail Gutierrez ENGL 497 Senior Honors Thesis. (Spring 2020 to Fall 2020).
Internship
Faculty Advisor for Isabel Strawn ENGL 499 Internship in Professional Writing (Fall 2019).
Outstanding MA Portfolio Award
Faculty Advisor for Kelli Lycke-Martin. “Textuality of Memory Sites: Recovering Cold War Mexican American Labor Rhetoric.” (December 2017 to May 2019).
Center for Regional Studies Graduate Fellowship Advisor.
Faculty Advisor for Zakery Muñoz. “Becoming American: Octaviano A. Larrazolo’s Rhetoric, An Archival Recovery of Hispanic Heritage.” (August 2019 to May 2020).
Faculty Advisor for Steven Romero. “Deliberative Rhetorics Across Borders and Communities.” (August 2018 to May 2019).
Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Foundation Fellowship Advisor.
Faculty Advisor for Dan Cryer. Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowship Dissertation Award: “Inventing the Ecological Citizen: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Rhetorics.” (November 2013 to November 2014).
Ronald E. McNair Undergraduate Research Scholar Advisor.
Faculty Advisor for Maria Elwan. “A Village Approach to Community and Academically Sponsored Literacy Programs.” (IRB Approved/Grant Supported Research Project) (2012 to 2013).
MA PORTFOLIO DIRECTOR
Scholar El Centro de la Raza Summa Academia Scholar: Xochitl Reyna 2023-2024
Kelli Lycke-Martin. “Textuality of Memory Sites: Recovering Cold War Mexican American Labor Rhetoric.” (Spring 2019).
Steven Romero. “Community, Resistance, and Visibility: Rhetorics of Narrative and Self-Representation.” (Spring 2020).
Zakery Muñoz. “The Rhetoric of New Mexican Heritage and History: Constitutional New Mexico, Citizenship, and the Archives.” (Spring 2020).
Jessica Bowen. MA Portfolio Director. “Identity, Place, and Power in Public Discourse.” (Spring 2020).
Moya McGuill. MA Portfolio Director. “Japanese American Internment Recovery Project.” (Fall 2020).
Jessica Delaney. “The Work of Words: Meaning Construction as a Path to Empathy and Action.” (Spring 2015).
Sandra Alden. “Stylistic Moves: Constructing Ethos and Audience in Political Rhetoric” (Spring 2015).
Richard Sylvestre. “Intersectionality of Theory and Queer Space: Critical Pedagogy of the Liminal.” (Spring 2014).
Soha Turfler. “Life Words: Language, Power, and Paradox.” (Spring 2014)—MA Distinction.
Matthew Tougas. “The WAC—tivist’s Handbook: Writing for Social Change.” (Spring 2014).
Rachel Munger. “Stories We Tell Ourselves.” (Spring 2014)—MA Distinction.
Heather García. “Critical Education Policy Discourse Analysis and ESEA Reform in the Wake of NCLB” (Spring 2014).
Deb Paczynski. “Visual Rhetoric and Environmental Imagination.” (Spring 2013)—MA Distinction.
Rachel Gearhart. “Into the Mind of the Oppressor: The Rhetoric of Japanese American Internment.” (Spring 2012).
Erin Penner Gallegos. “Mapping the Intersections: Language, Place, and Identity.” (Spring 2011)—MA Distinction.
PHD DISSERTATION DIRECTOR
PhD Advisor: Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies: Steven Romero; Marc Anaya
Brian Hendrickson. Comprehensive Exams (Spring 2013); Dissertation Prospectus: “Toward a Rhetorical Paideia of Writing In, Across, and Beyond the Disciplines: Genre Tracing of Citizen-Scholarship in the College of Engineering.” (Spring 2016).
Christine García. “’Siete Lenguas’: A Rhetorical History of Dolores Huerta and the Rise of Chicana Rhetoric.” (Fall 2015). Assistant Professor. Eastern Connecticut State University.
Genevieve García de Mueller. “Shifting Dreams: Intersections of the Rhetorical Imagination of U.S. Immigration Policy and the Writing Practices of Dreamers.” (Fall 2018). Assistant Professor. Syracuse University.
Mellisa Huffman. “Getting on the Same Page: The Hermeneutics of Cross-Cultural Rhetoric within Collaborative Writing Situations.” (Spring 2015). Assistant Professor. Angelo State University.
Dan Cryer. “A Model Citizen: Ethos, Conservation, and the Rhetorical Construction of Aldo Leopold.” (Fall 2014). Assistant Professor Roosevelt College (Chicago).
Lyndsey Ives. “Case Not Closed: Whiteness, Otherness, Action, and Reflection in the Genres of Freedom Summer.” (Spring 2014). Assistant Professor. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Tom Pierce. “Transitional College Writers and the Conversation on Error and Standardization Across the Curriculum.” (Spring 2013). Dean. Adult Education. Morton College (Chicago).
Greg Evans Haley. “Applied Rhetorics of the Self, the Citizen, and the Writer: Hermeneutics and Composition in Dewey, Arendt, and Ricoeur.” (Spring 2013). Lecturer. Oregon State University.
Michaelann Nelson. “Voices of Glen Canyon: The Influence of Place on Imagination and Activism” (Spring 2009). Assistant Professor. Utah State University Eastern.