Joseph J. Garcia
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- School: University of New Mexico
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- Department: Chicano Hispano Mexicano
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Albuquerque, NM - 87131 - Dates at University of New Mexico: November 2014 - May 2016
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Biography
University of New Mexico - Chicano Hispano Mexicano
Visiting Assistant Professor (History and Sociology) at Texas A&M International University
Higher Education
Joseph J
García, PhD
Laredo, Texas
Over 20 years of experience in natural resource management and conservation support through research, community organizing, infrastructure development, and outreach that began with voting rights activism/organizing in rural Texas and led to service through Peace Corps in South America. Doctoral and masters research in the areas of natural resource allocation, policy development, and local participation and decision-making. Extensive education and training in languages, infrastructure, political engagement technical support, academic and technical writing, and advanced diplomacy skills. Experience in grassroots organizing, Peace Corps recruitment, graduate and professional student advocacy and support, graduate research in Latin America, and secondary and university teaching experience.
Over 13 years of experience in a host of educational and professional development projects at the University of New Mexico; organizing graduate and professional students creating a student-based initiative through the Office of Graduate Studies that became the U.S. Dept. of Education Title V Graduate Resource Center. Service as the UNM President of the Graduate and Professional Student Association, participating on numerous university and community boards and committees.
Extensive research and travel throughout Latin America with expert knowledge of the language, culture, history, education, economics, politics and music of Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Paraguay, Venezuela, and Mexico. Presented academic papers at numerous conferences on Latin America in the areas of higher education, ethnic studies, natural resource policy development, social revolutions both nationally and internationally.
Specialties: Specific expertise in the area of energy and economic integration in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, and Venezuela.
Experience
University of New Mexico
Visiting Assistant Professor (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Visiting Assistant Professor with dual appointments in the Department of Chicana/o Studies, and the Land Grant Studies Program.
University of New Mexico
Instructor (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Instructor for the Chicana and Chicano Studies Program at the University of New Mexico, designing, developing, and teaching web-based and classroom courses including: Latinos in a global society, introduction to Chicana and Chicano Studies, and the history of immigration and assimilation.
Union College
Visiting Assistant Professor (Latin American and Caribbean Studies)
For the Latin American/Caribbean Studies (LACS) Program developed, designed and taught courses; Intro. to Latino, LACS, Oil and Revolution in LACS, Natural Resource History of LACS, Advanced Writing Seminar in U.S. Immigration and Assimilation History, and China and Globalization in LACS. Supported the LACS Program through outreach, recruitment and retention. Led and participated in student senior thesis committees. Conducted active research for peer-reviewed academic publishing, organized speaker series for Global Refugee Crisis Series, and facilitated Social Justice Retreat for Multicultural Programs.
Texas A&M International University
Visiting Assistant Professor (History and Sociology)
Joseph worked at Texas A&M International University as a Visiting Assistant Professor (History and Sociology)
Peace Corps
Three months and two years of extensive work in grant writing, community outreach, community and land surveying, fundraising, community organization and trainging. Work with the World Bank funded Inter-American Development Bank and Paraguayan Government Secretary for Social Action infrastructure projects. Developed, designed and supervised the construction of a complete community administered potable water system. Engaged in the training and construction of schools, sanitary latrines, agricultural projects, gardens, soil conservation, plumbing, eletricity, and basic auto mechanics.
Education
The University of New Mexico
MCRP
Community and Regional Planning
Masters thesis titled: "Campesino Participation in Rural Paraguay: Practical and Theoretical Challenges,"The University of New Mexico
MA
Latin American Studies/Brazilian Studies
Masters thesis Titled: "Campesino Participation in Rural Paraguay: Practical and Theoretical Challenges,"The University of New Mexico
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Latin American Studies
Research focused on the history of land and labor reform regarding energy policy development, natural resource economics, history, sociology, and politics through social revolution in Argentina, Brasil, Cuba, Paraguay, Venezuela, and Mexico. Focus on the post-revolutionary institutionalization of nationalist natural resource policies in Mexico and Cuba. Doctoral Dissertation: "Natural Resource Revolutions: Mexico and Cuban Within the Sphere of U.S. Hegemony"University of New Mexico
Visiting Assistant Professor (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Visiting Assistant Professor with dual appointments in the Department of Chicana/o Studies, and the Land Grant Studies Program.University of New Mexico
Instructor (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Instructor for the Chicana and Chicano Studies Program at the University of New Mexico, designing, developing, and teaching web-based and classroom courses including: Latinos in a global society, introduction to Chicana and Chicano Studies, and the history of immigration and assimilation.
Publications
Insurgent Organizing: García v. City of Taft Texas - The Personal and Geopolitical Struggle for Voting Rights in South Texas
Journal of South Texas (JST)
The 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. occurred while Miguel Garc’a was in combat during the Tet Offensive as the Vietnam War raged on. Mr. Garc’a would remember that day in the trenches, and the reaction of fellow African-American Marines, inspiring him to tell his sons about the import work and sacrifices of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM). Seventeen years later Miguel García now a veteran of the Vietnam War and Maria García would embark on a similar journey that Dr. King had begun in the late 1950s, the quest to ensure that political institutions ensured the civil and voting rights in a small coastal Texas town. Voting rights that were spread from the South across the U.S. Southwest by a coalition of congresspersons in 1975.
Insurgent Organizing: García v. City of Taft Texas - The Personal and Geopolitical Struggle for Voting Rights in South Texas
Journal of South Texas (JST)
The 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. occurred while Miguel Garc’a was in combat during the Tet Offensive as the Vietnam War raged on. Mr. Garc’a would remember that day in the trenches, and the reaction of fellow African-American Marines, inspiring him to tell his sons about the import work and sacrifices of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM). Seventeen years later Miguel García now a veteran of the Vietnam War and Maria García would embark on a similar journey that Dr. King had begun in the late 1950s, the quest to ensure that political institutions ensured the civil and voting rights in a small coastal Texas town. Voting rights that were spread from the South across the U.S. Southwest by a coalition of congresspersons in 1975.
"Draft Dodging and Bootlegging on the Rio Grande Frontera (Laredo, Texas 1910-30)"
World History Bulletin
An essay is presented on the experience of the author's family of draft dodging and bootlegging. It cites the experience of Nicolas Ramirez, who was born in Laredo, Texas in 1895 and dodged the draft twice in 1910 when he was forced to enlist with the Mexico's revolutionary armies and in 1917 when U.S. government officials forced Laredo locals to enlist for the World War I. It adds that Nicolas also became a bootlegger when he run liquor to Texas during Prohibition.
Insurgent Organizing: García v. City of Taft Texas - The Personal and Geopolitical Struggle for Voting Rights in South Texas
Journal of South Texas (JST)
The 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. occurred while Miguel Garc’a was in combat during the Tet Offensive as the Vietnam War raged on. Mr. Garc’a would remember that day in the trenches, and the reaction of fellow African-American Marines, inspiring him to tell his sons about the import work and sacrifices of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM). Seventeen years later Miguel García now a veteran of the Vietnam War and Maria García would embark on a similar journey that Dr. King had begun in the late 1950s, the quest to ensure that political institutions ensured the civil and voting rights in a small coastal Texas town. Voting rights that were spread from the South across the U.S. Southwest by a coalition of congresspersons in 1975.
"Draft Dodging and Bootlegging on the Rio Grande Frontera (Laredo, Texas 1910-30)"
World History Bulletin
An essay is presented on the experience of the author's family of draft dodging and bootlegging. It cites the experience of Nicolas Ramirez, who was born in Laredo, Texas in 1895 and dodged the draft twice in 1910 when he was forced to enlist with the Mexico's revolutionary armies and in 1917 when U.S. government officials forced Laredo locals to enlist for the World War I. It adds that Nicolas also became a bootlegger when he run liquor to Texas during Prohibition.
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