Associate Professor, Department of History

ChristinaM. Jiménez, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of History

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

1420 AustinBluffs Parkway

Colorado Springs, CO80918

Tel: (719) 255-4076 Fax: (719) 255-4068

CURRENT POSITION

• Associate Professor, Dept of History, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, 2008-present; Assistant Professor, 2000-2008.
• Director of Graduate Studies, History MA Program, UCCS, 2012-2015, 2016-2017
• Oversight of Graduate History Internship Program, UCCS, 2013-present

EDUCATION

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• Ph.D. Latin American History, University of California, San Diego, (1997-) 2001.

Ph.D. Dissertation: “Making the City Their Own: Popular Groups and Political Culture in Morelia, Mexico, 1880-1930.” Advisor: Dr. Eric Van Young

• C.Phil./M.A. Latin American History, University of California, San Diego, (1993-) 1997.
• B.A. History and Spanish (double major), Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.,

(1988-) 1992.

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters and Journal Articles

Co-author with A. Bell, B. Frye, and L. Grant, “Valuing Families as Partners in the Early Literacy Development of Emergent Bilinguals,” Language Arts (under review).

“Courting the Council: The Municipal Palace and the Popular Petitionin Morelia, Mexico, 1880-1930,” Town Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space, eds.,Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White (Routledge Press, Architext Series, April 22, 2014).

“The NetworkedCity: Popular Mobilizers and Urban Transformation in Morelia, Mexico, 1880-1955,” eds., Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne, Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities(Routledge Press, December 2011).

“From the Lettered City to the Sellers’ City: Vendors Politics and Public Space in Urban Mexico, 1880-1920,” eds. Gyan Prakash and Kevin Kruse, Cities: Space, Society, History (Princeton University Press, 2007).

“Performing Their Right to the City: Political Uses of Public Space in a Mexican City, 1880-1920,”Urban History Vol 33:3, December 2006.

Afterthought Black History Bulletin, From Slavery to Freedom Issue, Vol 69, No 2.,September, 2006.

“Popular Organizing for Public Services: Residents Modernize Morelia, Mexico, 1880-1920,”Journal of Urban History, May 2004.

Textbooks

The Matrix Reader: Examining Dynamics of Oppression and Privilege, Co-editor (with Abby Ferber, Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, and Dena Samuels; “Introduction,”co-written with Abby Ferber, Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, and Dena Samuels; “How We Got Here: The Historical Context” (section introduction), (McGraw-Hill Companies, 2008).

Book Reviews

Review of Ciudadanos inesperados: Espacios de formación de la ciudadanía ayer y hoy. Edited by Ariadna Acevedo Rodrigo and Paula López Caballero (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2012), reviewed inHispanic American Research Review (HAHR) 96.2 (May 2016).

Review of Curious Unions: Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898-1961, by Frank P. Barajas.Southern California Quarterly, Vol 95, No. 4 (Winter 2014).

Review of Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontier, edited by Jésus de la Teja and Ross Frank. Southern California Quarterly, Vol 88, No. 2 (Summer 2006).

Manuscripts in Progress

“Making an Urban Public: How the City Revolutionized Citizenship in Mexico, 1880-1930,”book manuscript, under reviewed by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Co-authored with Jeff Ferguson, “How We Got to 84% Passing Vote: Faculty-centered Processes in General Education Curriculum Revision,” article manuscript in progress.

“Rethinking the Mexican Revolution: Urban Space and Politics,” article in progress for Mexican Studies/ Estudios Mexicanos,proposed special volume.

HONORS, KEYNOTES, AWARDS and LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIPS

Invited Keynote Speaker, MOSAIC-LGBT Resource Center, Graduation Ceremony, UCCS, December 11, 2014.

Invited Keynote Speaker, National Hispanic Honor Society, UCCS, April 24, 2014.

Invited Faculty Participant, Academic Management Institute offered by (CNWL) Colorado Network of Women Leaders, the state affiliate of the American Council on Education’s Office of Women in Higher Education, 2012-13.

Outstanding Faculty Contribution to Diversity and Inclusiveness, UCCS, 2012.

Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Letters, Arts and Science, UCCS, 2008.

Invited Faculty Fellow, Associate Vice Chancellor of Diversity and Inclusiveness, AY 2007-08.

Fellow, Emerging Leaders Program, CU system program, AY 2007-08.

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTSAWARDED

Research Grant Funded: “The Politics of Public Services, State Consolidation, and Neighborhood Spaces in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1900-1950,” Creative Research Creative Works (CRCW) Grant, UCCS, 2015-2016.

Seed Research Grant Funded: “The Politics of Public Services, State Consolidation, and Neighborhood Spaces in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1900-1950,” Global Intercultural Research Center (GLINT), UCCS, 2015-2016.

Project Partner on funded ($289,000) Colorado Department of Higher Education grant, Principals: Leslie Grant, Angela Bell, and Barbara Frye, “Improving Literacy of Young English Learners: Professional Development for Educators in Southern Colorado,” Feb-Dec 2013.

Graduate Student Research Grant, UCCS, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, grant awarded, Summer 2013.

Research Reinvigoration Grant for Associate Professors, UCCS, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, grant awarded, Feb 2013.

Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, Researcher in Residence, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, June-December 2004.

ShelbyCullomDavisCenter for Historical Studies, Davis Research/Writing Fellowship,

Princeton University, Sept 2003- May 2004.

President’s Grant for the Retention of Minority and Women Faculty, Spring 2002

Creative Research and Creative Works (CRCW) Grant, UCCS, Spring 2001.

Dissertation Writing Fellowship, UCSD, Department of History, Spring 2000.

Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, May 1999.

Center for U.S.- Mexican Studies, Researcher-in-Residence Program, La Jolla, CA, September 1998- June 1999.

UC-Mexus Dissertation Grant, used for field research in Morelia, Mexico, 1997-98.

Dissertation Research Fellowship, Department of History, UCSD, 1997-98.

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Research Travel Grant, Department of History, UCSD, 1997-98.

Tinker Grant for Pre-dissertation Field Research, Center for Iberian and Latin American

Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1996.

San Diego Fellowship, University of California, San Diego 1994-1996. Two year fellowship and research assistantship.

Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Pre-dissertation Fellowship, May 1993

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

Panel proposal in progress, “From Registrations to Unions: Mobilizing Municipal Workers, 1880-1930,” CLAH (Conference of Latin American History) joint meeting with AHA (American Historical Association), Denver, CO, Jan. 2017.

Panel proposal in progress, “Pipes and Lights: Resident Activism in Morelia and Guadalajara, Mexico,” Urban History Association (UHA), Chicago, IL, October 2016.

Panel proposal accepted, “Unionizing the City: Unions and Associational Life in Morelia, Mexico,” Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Santa Fe, NM, March 2016.

Paper to be Presented, “Los servicios de agua en Morelia, 1880-1931,” at Congreso de la Red de Investigaciones Sociales de Agua in Guadalajara, Mexico, March 24, 2016.

Paper Presenter, “Street Politics: How Water Carriers, Porters, Shoe Shiners, and other Service Workers Became Political, Morelia, Mexico, 1890-1930,” Urban History Association, Philadelphia, PA, Oct 11, 2014.

Workshop Co-presenter, “Involving Parents in Early Literacy Development of English Learners,” Language, Culture, and Equity (LCE) Academy, Colorado Department of Education, Golden, CO, April 24, 2014

Invited Paper Presenter, “Neighborhood Networks and Public Claims: How the City Revolutionized Citizenship in Mexico, 1880-1950,” University of Kansas, “City Re-imagined” Hall Center Seminar Series, Lawrence, Kansas, September 9-11, 2013.

Paper Presenter, “Modernized Public Spaces and Performed Identities,” PCB-AHA (Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association), Denver, CO, August 10, 2013.

Workshop, Co-presenter, “Minimizing Stereotype Threat to Maximize Inclusiveness,” (with

Dena Samuels, Abby Ferber, and Andrea Herrera) at the CU Diversity Summit, UCCS, April 18, 2013.

Paper Presenter, “Power of the Petition or Mindless Paperwork?” CLAH (Conference of Latin American History) joint meeting with AHA (American Historical Association), New Orleans, LA, Jan. 4, 2013.

Workshop Co-presenter (with Daryl Miller), “Dealing with Stereotypes and Microaggressions: A Strategy Workshop,” WPC, Albuquerque, NM, March 2012.

Co-presenter (with Dena Samuels and Daryl Miller), “Stereotype Threat, Stereotype Lift, and Microaggressions,” One-day WPC, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, Sept 2011.

Panelist, “Strategies from the Knapsack Institute: Integrating Women’s and Ethnic Studies Programs,” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Denver, CO, November 12, 2010.

Paper presenter, “Rethinking the Mexican Revolution: Urban Space and Politics,” Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Boulder, CO, April 2010.

Paper presenter, “The Networked City: Formalizing Urban Social Identities in Morelia, Mexico, 1890-1920,” Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Boulder, CO, April 2010.

Co-presenter (with Dena Samuels) of workshop “Building an Inclusive K-12 Classroom: Strategies from the Knapsack,” CRTLC (Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leadership and Counseling, UCCS, January 2010.

“The Networked City: Urban Social Networks in Morelia, Mexico, 1890-1920,” Southwestern Historical Association, Denver, CO, April 17, 2009.

Co-presenter, “Microaggressions,” The Knapsack Institute: Transforming the Curriculum, Colorado Springs, CO, June 2009.

“Strategies from the Knapsack Institute: Dealing with Student Resistance in the Classroom,” Western Social Science Association Conference, Denver, CO, April 25, 2008.

“Dealing with Student Resistance in the Classroom,” White Privilege Conference, Amherst, MA, April, 2008.

“Performative Politics and Public Space: An Historical Look at Urban Geography in Mexico, 1880-1930”, Paper Presentation, Conference of Latin American Geographers (CLAG), Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, June 3, 2007.

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“Gender, Family, and Texts,” Panel Commentator, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Denver, CO, March 2006.

“Intersectionality and the Matrix,” Co-presenter of workshop, White Privilege Conference, St. Louis, MO, April 22-26, 2006.

“Modernity, Citizenship and Public Space in Urban Mexico, 1880-1930,” Invited Lecture, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2005.

“Performing Modernity, Citizenship and Public Space in Urban Mexico, 1880-1930,” Invited Lecture, University of California, Davis, February 2005.

“Public Sellers and the Contestation over Modernity, Citizenship and Public Space in Urban Mexico, 1880-1930,” Invited Lecture, Bates College, February 2005.

“Is Citizenship Required?: Examining Historical Dynamics of Immigrant Inclusion/Exclusion in the U.S.,” Knapsack Institute for Transforming the Curriculum, UCCS, June 2005.

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Anniversary Celebrations, Invited lecture titled: “Performing History in Latin America,” November 19, 2004.

Center for Cultural Studies, Colloquium Series, University of California, Santa Cruz. Presentation titled: “The Performed City: Consumers, Sellers, and Spectators in Urban Mexico, 1880-1930,” October 27, 2004.

Latin American Studies Association, (LASA), Las Vegas, NV. Paper Titled: “Women as Nineteenth-Century Neighborhood Activists,” October 8, 2004.

Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Santa Fe, NM. Paper Titled: “Vendors and Urban Public Space in Nineteenth-Century Mexico," March 12, 2004.

The End of the Public Sphere in Latin America?, University of Texas, Austin. Organizer: Gareth Jones. Paper Circulated: “Staking A Claim: Street Vendors and Public Space in Urban Mexico, 1880-1930,” March 4-6, 2004.

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, Paper Titled: “Buying Into the Nation: Negotiating Citizenship and Modernity in Modern Mexico,” March 4, 2004.

Center for Latin American Studies, Princeton University, Paper Titled: “Popular Claims to Modern Urban Development,” February 17, 2004.

American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., Paper Titled: “Popular Groups and Liberal Citizenship in Mexico, 1880-1920,” January 10, 2004.

Southwestern Historical Association Conference, San Antonio, TX. Paper Titled: “Acting Like a Citizen: Municipal Efforts to Regulate Urban Residents in Morelia, Mexico, 1880-1920.”April 17, 2003.

Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Portland, OR. Paper Titled: “Neighborhood Organizing for Public Health Improvement in Mexico, 1880-1920," March 14, 2002.

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Southwestern Council on Latin American Studies (SCOLAS), Morelia, Mexico. Paper Titled:

“Cleansing the Indian Out of the Urbanite: Official Effort to Civilize Urban Culture in Morelia, Mexico, 1880-1910,” April 11, 2002.

Latin American Studies Association Conference, Miami, FL. Paper Titled: “Working the System: Strategies of Low-Rank Urban, Municipal Employees in Morelia, Mexico,1880-1910.” March 17, 2000.

American Historical Association Conference, Chicago, IL. Paper Titled: “State Formation or Neighborhood Initiatives?: Popular Agendas and Cross-Class Alliances in a Modernizing Mexican City.” January 7, 2000.

Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, La Jolla, Ca. Paper Titled: “Creating an Urban Community: Liberalism, Popular Initiatives and Neighborhood Investment in a Modernizing Mexican City, Morelia,1880-1920.” May1999.

Pacific Coast/ Rocky Mountain Conference of Latin American Studies, San Diego, CA. Paper Titled: “Learning to Endure: An Alternative Reading of the Mexican National Educational Curriculum, 1900-1910,” Feb. 12, 1997.

ORGANIZED CONFERENCES, LECTURE SERIES, RETREATS, and FILM SERIES

Co-organizer, presenter, co-facilitator, The Knapsack Institute: Transforming the Curriculum, Colorado Springs, CO, organized annually, (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016).

Co-organizer, “Sustainability and the Compass Curriculum,” Faculty workshop presented by Dr. Heather Hackman, October 2014, Heller Center.

Co-creator, Co-presenter, The Big Idea Workshop (a regularly presented diversity education workshop), UCCS, 2008-2014.

Co-chair and Co-organizer, A New Framework for General Education, full faculty retreat at UCCS, April 18, 2012.

Co-chair and Co-organizer, Rethinking General Education, full faculty retreat at UCCS, November 11, 2011.

Co-organizer and Executive Team Member, White Privilege Conference 9 (a social justice conference), with University of MA, Amherst, Springfield, Mass, AY 2007-08.

Organizer, Chancellor’s Organizing Team, Blue Ribbon Commission on Diversity, Spring 2006

Coordinator, UCCS-PPCC Freedom’s Song Lecture Series, Spring 2006

Faculty Panel Organizer, CU Blue Ribbon Commission on Diversity, April 2006

Co-organizer and Executive Team Member, White Privilege Conference 8, UCCS/Colorado Springs, AY 2006-07

Coordinator, “History of Islam” Lecture Series, Fall 2005

Co-organizer (with Ranjani Mazumdar), “The Cinematic City” Film Festival, Princeton University, Spring 2004.

Coordinator of Ethnic Studies/Women’s Studies Film Series 2001-02, 2002-03

Organizer, Local Arrangements Committee, Western Historical Association Conference, Colorado Springs, October 2002

Organizer, “Border, Borderlands, and Fences” Lecture Series, funded by President’s Fund for the Humanities grant, 2001

LOCAL GUEST LECTURES and PUBLIC PANELS

• Invited Workshop Presenter, “Managing Student Resistance in the Classroom,” Colorado College, April 2015.
• Guest Lecturer, “Understanding Oppression and Privilege,” Psychology of Diversity course, UCCS (Professor Feliano), June 19, 2012.
• Guest Lecturer, “The US and Latin America in Historical Perspective,” US History course, UCCS (Professor Brumlik), February 26, 2012.
• Guest Lecture, “Contextualizing Rigoberta Menchú in Guatemalan History,” Freshman Seminar, 2010.
• Panelist, “Privilege in Research,” Kraemer Family Library Series, February 2007
• Panelist, “Nuts and Bolts of Tenure,” New Faculty Orientation, UCCS, August 2007
• Panelist, “Being a Proactive Mentee,” CU Women’s Faculty Symposium, March 2006
• Panelist, “Cultural Issues in the Curriculum,” CU Women’s Faculty Symposium, March 2006
• Panelist, “Student Resistance in the Classroom,” CU Women’s Faculty Symposium, March 2003
• Workshop Presentation, “Using Webiliographies in the Classroom,” Teaching and Learning Center, October, 2002.
• Lecture, “What Can I Do With a History Major,” Career Development Ctr, Sept 2002

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• Workshop Presentation, “Identity Politics in the Classroom,” Women’s Committee Brown Bag Series, April 2001.
• Lecture, “Mobilize Motherhood in Latin America,” History Club Lecture Series, 2001
• Guest Presentation: “Connect to your Future,” Outreach visit connecting Latino high school students with Latino college students, Palmer High School, Fall 2002.
• Guest Lecture, “The Mexican-American War,” Curiosity Unlimited, Spring 2001
• Guest Lecture, “History of Mexico,” Pike’s Peak Community College, Oct 2000

TEACHING AND PUBLIC SERVICE GRANTS AWARDED

Faculty Minority Affairs Committee (FMAC) Grant, “Hispanic Heritage Month, Guest Speaker: Michael Nava,” September, 2014. Funded: $300.

CU Diversity and Excellence Grant, “The BIG Idea Workshop: Building Inclusiveness at UCCS through Diversity Education,” CU President’s Office. Submitted: 2008; Funded: $500.

CU President’s Fund for Faculty Diversity, “Re-funding UCCS’s Policy to Promote Faculty Diversity (PPFD),” Submitted June 2006, Funds Received: $10,000 for use under UCCS’s PPFD.

Women’s Faculty Committee Mini-grant, Proposal “Women, Art, and Culture in Latin America”, Spring 2006

Transforming the Curriculum Workshop, “Flexible Diversity Course: A Dialogue on Race and Gender,” UCCS, Summer 2003

Faculty and Curriculum Development, Mini Grants, Women’s Faculty Committee Research Grant, UCCS, Summer 2003.

Transforming the Curriculum Workshop, “Developing a Cross-listed Intro to Women’s Studies/ Intro to Ethnic Studies Course,” UCCS, Summer 2002.

Faculty and Curriculum Development, Mini Grants, Women’s Faculty Committee Research Grant, UCCS, Summer 2002.

Teaching and Learning Center, Faculty Partnership Grant for Course Redesign, “Connecting Students with Latin America through the Internet,” UCCS, Fall 2001

President’s Fund for the Humanities Grant for Lecture Series, “Borders, Borderlands and Fences: Transnational Identities Among Mexicans and Mexican Americans,” Co-organizer (with Paul Harvey), UCCS, Fall 2001.

Transforming the Curriculum Workshop, “Immigrant and Migrant Histories in the U.S.,” UCCS, Spring 2001

Faculty and Curriculum Development 2001 Mini-Grants, Women’s Studies and Committee on Women, “Working Women in Latin America at the End of the Millennium,” UCCS, Spring 2001

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UNIVERSITY COURSES TAUGHT

HIST 1400 Colonial Latin American History

HIST 1410 Modern Latin American History

HIST 3000 The City in Latin America

HIST 3520 Modern Mexico

HIST 3590 Latin American History Through Film

HIST 3600 History of the 1960s

HIST/ EST 3500 Chicano History to 1910,

HIST/ EST 3510 Chicano History Since 1910,

HIST/ EST 3520 History of Latinos in the US,

HIST/ EST 3580 Immigrant Histories,

HIST 4990 Senior Thesis Seminar

HIST 6000 Historiography

HIST 6955 Graduate Internship in History

HIST 6790 Graduate Readings in Latin American History

HIST 7790 Graduate Research in Latin American History

HIST 6690 Graduate Readings in Modern Mexican History

HIST 6990 Graduate Research in Modern Mexican History

HIST 6780 Graduate Readings in City and Citizenship

HIST 7780 Graduate Research in City and Citizenship

HIST 6690 Graduate Readings in Latin America: City and Space

HIST 6990 Graduate Research in Latin America: City and Space

WEST 2010 Intro to Race and Gender (WEST= Women’s and Ethnic Studies)

HUMANITIES 3900: The US-Mexico Borderlands

HUMANITIES 3170/ EST 3170: Minority Voices

GPS (Gateway Program Seminar): Dig Deeper

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• ESL (English as a Second Language) Instructor, Continuing Education, San Diego Community College District, 1998-2000.
• Teaching Assistant, Univ. of Calif, San Diego, Dept of History, 1996-97, 1999-2000.
• Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego, Writing Program, 1995-1996.
• Reader/Grader, University of California, San Diego, History and Sociology, 1994-2000.

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