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Grants, Awards, and Honors

EXTRAMURAL GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS
 

  • My book Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety ( 2011) was included in CHOICE Magazine’s annual Outstanding Academic Title list, which appeared in the January 2012 issue. It also won second place in the History/Political category of the International Latino Book Awards.
     
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar. Brazilian Literature: Contemporary Urban Fiction. São Paulo, Brazil. July 5-30, 2010. ($3300)
     
  • Scholar grant from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange to carry out research in Peru for my project "Dragons in the Land of the Condor: The Asian Diaspora in Peru's Cultural Production." January 1, 2009-April 31-2010. ($10,000)
     
  • Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange to read a paper at a conference in Macau, China. Spring 2007 ($1000)
     
  • Humanities Texas grant (which was matched by UNT) to pay the keynote speaker at a conference on Orientalisms that I organized on April 21-22, 2006. ($1000)
     
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Award in order to write book "'Trujillo and God': Literary Representations of the Dominican Dictator."  2002-2003. ($24,000)
     
  • As faculty advisor for Spanish Honorary Society Sigma Delta Pi from 1999-2003, our CSULA Gamma Psi Chapter won National Certificate of Honor and Merit for 2000-2001 
     
  • My article "El pensamiento de Paulo Freire en Un día en la vida de Manlio Argueta" received the E. Bradford Burns and Hubert Herring Award for the best article at the PCCLAS (Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies) Conference on October 30, 1999
     
  • Honorary member of Sigma Delta Pi.  1998
     
  • Spanish Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi.  1993 

 

INTRAMURAL GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS
 

  • Academic Senate Award for Distinction in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring 2010-2011. ($1000)
     
  • Center for Research in the Humanities and Art's Individual Research Grant
     
  • "Rereading and Rethinking El Periódico: Reconstructing la crónica in the Latino Literary Journalism of Los Angeles." March 28, 2011- May 1, 2012  ($2000)
     
  • UC Merced's Faculty Research, Travel, and/or Shared Equipment Grant Award for my project "Rereading and Rethinking El Periódico: Reconstructing la crónica in the Latino Literary Journalism of Los Angeles." March 28, 2011 ($5000)
     
  • UC Merced's Faculty Research, Travel, and/or Shared Equipment Grant Award for my project "Dragons in the Land of the Condor: The Asian Diaspora in Peru's Cultural Production." April 29, 2009-June 30, 2010. ($4000)
     
  • UNT Small Grant from Office of the Vice President of Research and Technology Transfer for co-editing book Caminos para la paz: literatura israelí y árabe en castellano. Spring 2007. ($750)
     
  • UNT Center of Spanish Language Media Research Grant for the project "Re-Constructing La Crónica in the Latino Literary Journalism of Los Angeles." 2007 ($2500)
     
  • UNT Travel Grant. 15th Annual Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture Conference. Quito, Ecuador. Spring 2007 ($1000)
     
  • UNT Faculty Research Grant for my project "From Mazatlán to McAztl@n: Los Angeles in Chicana/o Literature and Chicanas/os in Los Angeles Literature." Summer 2006. ($5000)
     
  • UNT Travel Grant. Latin American Studies Association Conference. Puerto Rico. Spring 2006. ($750)
     
  • UNT Faculty Research Grant for my project "Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture." Fall 2005. ($5000)
     
  • UNT grant to organize conference "Orientalisms and the Chinese diaspora in the Americas." Fall 2005. ($1000)
     
  • UNT Small Grant from Office of the Vice President of Research and Technology Transfer for co-editing book Caminos para la paz: literatura israelí y árabe en castellano. Fall 2005. ($750)
     
  • Dean's List, M.A. Alumni Certificate of Honor for Outstanding and Distinguished Academic Achievement. Department of Mexican American Studies, California State University, Los Angeles.  2004-2005
     
  • Recipient of three Creative Leaves at California State University, Los Angeles.  Winter 2001, winter 2003, and winter 2004. ($11,640 each)