Editorial Address
Southwest Hispanic Research Institute MSC02 1680 1829 Sigma Chi Rd., NE 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131- 0001 http://shri.unm.edu
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Leila Flores-Dueñas
Ray Hernández-Durán
Irene Vásquez
Editors
Adán Ávalos, Visual Arts Editor
Melisa García, Associate Editor
Patricia Perea, Associate Editor
Levi Romero, Poetry Editor
Patricia Rosas-Lopátegui, Spanish Language Editor
Moisés Santos, Associate Editor
Mónica Sánchez, Playwriting Editor
Editorial Board Bios
Leila Flores-Dueñas received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Curriculum and Instruction with specialization in multilingual, bilingual, and literacy studies. She is currently an associate professor in the University of Mexico’s Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, where she teaches courses in qualitative research and “Chicana/o–Latina/o Musical Cultures and Expressions.” Prior to her current position, she was in the UNM College of Education and Human Sciences for over 25 years, where she taught courses in social justice and education, culturally relevant pedagogies, community-based research, folklore in the classroom, and literacy education. Academically, she studies critical multiliteracies to analyze cultural and artistic production within Borderland communities and schools. She is the founding chief editor of Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest. Some of her articles are titled as follows: “Transformational Co-Mentoring of Two Latinas: Social and Ethnic Identity as a Form of Empowerment,” “Lessons From La Maestra Miriam: Developing Literate Identities Through Early Critical Literacy Teaching,” and “Plática as Critical Instruction: Talking with Bilingual Students about their Reading.” Additionally, Leila and Carol Vigil make up the singing duo Las Flores del Valle, who curate and perform songs by women composers, corridos from the Mexican Revolution, música sefardí of the Ladino Diaspora, and música ranchera.
Ray Hernández-Durán completed his Ph.D. in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Latin American Art History at the University of Chicago and is currently Associate Department Chair and Professor of Spanish Colonial Art and Architecture and Chicano/Latinx Art in the Department of Art at the University of New Mexico. His teaching and research interests concentrate, geographically, on New Spain/Mexico/U.S. Southwest and historically, on the eighteenth- and nineteenth centuries with newer work focused on Chicano Art. His book, The Academy of San Carlos and Mexican Art History: Politics, History, and Art in Nineteenth- Century Mexico (2017) will be followed by the catalog for the exhibition, Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico (UNM Press, forthcoming 2025), co-curated with Irene Vásquez (Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, UNM), and three edited volumes: the Routledge Companion to Latinx Art, co-edited with Carmen Ramos (The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) and Rocío Aranda-Alvarado (Ford Foundation, NYC); X Marks the Spot: Gen X Latinx and Higher Education, co-edited with Magdalena Barrera (San Jose State University); and “The Foundation of our Genius”: Racial Epistemologies and Global Iberian Visual and Material Cultures, co-edited with Claudia Hopkins (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK). Ray helped found and oversees the graduate research journal, Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, which is produced by art history graduate students in the Department of Art
Irene Vásquez is the Chair of the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. She also serves as the Director of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute (SHRI). She received her Ph.D. from the History Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in the intersectional histories and politics of Mexican-descent populations in the Americas. Her research and teaching interests include U.S. and transnational social and political movements, Indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Ethnic Studies. Irene Vásquez co-authored a book on the Chicana and Chicano Movement titled, Making Aztlan: Ideology and Culture of the Chicana and Chicano Movement: 1966—1977, published by the University of New Mexico Press. She also co-edited Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico published by UNM Press, forthcoming 2025. She has written several essays in English and Spanish on the historic and contemporary relations between Indigenous populations, African Americans and Latin American descent peoples in the Americas. Irene Vásquez co-edited The Borders In All of Us: New Approaches to Global Diasporic Societies, published by New World African Press. In the area of K-12 Education service, Irene Vásquez serves as President of Semillas Sociedad Civil, a nonprofit organization that founded the first K-12 International Baccalaureate World School in Los Angeles, including Xinaxcalmecac: Academia Semillas del Pueblo and Anawakalmekak: International University Preparatory High School of North America.