Marisela R. Chávez

Title: Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies

Department: Chicana/Chicano Studies

Office: LCH B318
Phone Extension: x3226
Email Username: mchavez

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Conference and Public Papers

Panelist and Organizer, “ Thinking and Teaching the ‘Borderlands': methodologies, practices and problems.” Paper and panel accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, New York , New York. Forthcoming, March 2008.
“Unionists, Communists, and Community Activists: Mexican American Women in Los Angeles, 1950-1960.” Paper presented at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Philadephia , Pennsylvania, October 11-14, 2007.
“Before Aztlán: Mexican American Women in Politics, Los Angeles, 1950-1960.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2007.
“Gender Issues,” Invited Lecture, Chicano Youth Leadership Conference, Camp Hess Kramer, Malibu, California, May 19, 2007.
“ U.S. Latina History Workshop.” Youth Leadership Through Literacy Program, Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE), Los Angeles, California. March 2007, March 2006, March 2005, and April 2004.
“Foremothers of Chicana Feminisms: Mexican American Women in Politics, Los Angeles, 1940-1960.” Paper presented at the 34 th Annual National Association for Ethnic Studies, Conference, San Francisco, California, March 30 – April 1, 2006.
Panelist, “Roundtable: Honoring Albert Camarillo,” 45 th Annual Western History Association, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 13 – 16, 2005.
“Pilgrimage to the Motherland: California Chicanas and International Women's Year, Mexico City , 1975.” Paper presented at “Sin Fronteras,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Scripps College, Claremont, California, June 2005.
Co-organizer, “Mirando Adelante: Looking Forward: Chicana/o Studies, the Community, and the Future.” Public Symposium, University of Utah, October 2004. Panel presented: “Teaching Chicano/a History: Syllabi, Readings , Lectures, and Everything in Between.”
“Pilgrimage to the Homeland: California Chicanas and International Womens' Year, Mexico City, 1975.” Invited lecture, Department of Women's Studies, California State University , Long Beach, April 2004.
“Pilgrimage to the Homeland: California Chicanas and International Women's Year, Mexico City, 1975.” Paper presented at “Mapping Memories and Migrations: Re-Thinking Latina Histories” Symposium, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, February 28, 2004.
“Building a Chicana Community: The League of Mexican American Women and the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional, 1966-1980.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch Conference, Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii, August 2003.
“Gender and the Organizational Culture of el Centro de Acción Social Autónomo-Hermandad General de Trabajadores (CASA-HGT), Los Angeles, 1975-1978.” Paper presented at the Western Association of Women Historians Conference, San Marino, California, June 2000.
“Gender and the Organizational Culture of el Centro de Acción Social Autónomo-Hermandad General de Trabajadores (CASA-HGT), Los Angeles, 1975-1978.” Paper presented at the 5 th Women's West Conference Spokane, Washington, July 2000.
“The Body as Public Discourse: Constructions of Womanhood in El Espectador and La Opinión , Los Angeles, 1950-1958.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch 1999 Conference, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, August 1999.
“'We lived and breathed and worked the movement': Women in el Centro de Acción Social Autónomo (CASA), Los Angeles, 1975-1978.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch 1997 Conference, Portland, Oregon, August 1997.

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