Eight UW Tacoma Faculty Recognized by UW Center for Latino Health

June 5, 2020

The fourth annual Latinx Faculty Recognition honors faculty from UW Tacoma's School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences and School of Urban Studies.

The UW Center for Latino Health has recognized 32 UW Latinx faculty for scholarly achievements, including eight at UW Tacoma.

Faculty are recognized for meeting at least one of the following criteria during the academic year: 1) publishing a scholarly article in a high-impact journal or an influential book; 2) receiving a major grant; 3) being appointed to a significant leadership position; 4) being promoted to associate or full professor; or 5) retiring by the summer of 2020.

The eight UW Tacoma faculty receiving recognition:

Dr. Maria-Tania Bandes Becerres Weingarden, UW Tacoma School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Maria-Tania Bandes-Becerra Weingarden, Lecturer, Culture, Arts & Communication, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

  • Grant funding secured for new theater program at UW Tacoma
Dr. Rubén Casas, Assistant Professor, UW Tacoma School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Rubén Casas, Assistant Professor, Culture, Arts & Communication, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

  • Publications:

    “The Place of Free Speech: Making Controversy Material at the Neoliberal University”

    “Precarious economies: capitalism’s creative destruction in the age of neoliberal campus planning”
Sarah Chavez, Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Sarah Chavez, Lecturer, Culture, Arts & Communication, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

  • Publication:

    “Halfbreed Helene’s Mother Says Not to Call Herself That”
Sonia de la Cruz, Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Sonia de la Cruz, Assistant Professor, Culture, Arts & Communication, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

  • Publications:

    “Laboring in Line With Our Values: Lessons Learned in the Struggle to Unionize”

    “Feminist Responses to the Neoliberalization of the University: From Surviving to Thriving”
Itziri Moreno Villamar, Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Itziri Moreno Villamar, Lecturer, Culture, Arts & Communication, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

  • Grant: UW Tacoma Collaborative Publicly Engaged Scholarship
Ariana Ochoa Camacho, Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Ariana Ochoa Camacho, Assistant Professor, Social & Historical Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

  • Grant: American Association of University Women American Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Publication: “Love in Times of Precarity: A Very Queer Politics of Immigration”
Alyssa Ramierz Stege, Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Alyssa Ramirez Stege, Assistant Professor, Social, Behavioral & Human Sciences, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

  • Publication:

    “A Critical Post-Colonial and Resilience-based Framwork of Supervision in Action”
Anaid Yerena, Assistant Professor, School of Urban Studies

Anaid Yerena, Assistant Professor, School of Urban Studies

  • Publications:

    “Strategic Action for Affordable Housing: How Advocacy Organizations Accomplish Policy Change”

    “Public Housing Authorities in the Private Market”

    “Conversations with Moving to Work Agencies on the Future of Policy Innovation”

 

Dolores Huerta, a nationally-renowned labor leader and civil rights activist, was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at this year’s Latinx Faculty Recognition Event, canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She recorded the following video message:

UW President Ana Mari Cauce extended her congratulations to the honorees through a video message:

 

Written by John Burkhardt
Academic Affairs
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School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
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