Research
Faculty Writing Group: The Quill
Join a supportive and collegial space where faculty across disciplines and career stages come together to write, share progress, and stay accountable to their scholarly goals!
Join a group of your peers for:
- Dedicated writing time! Brief check-ins! Resource sharing!
- Optional feedback and goal setting! Coffee, coffee, coffee!
- A motivating push to help you stay on track and complete those journal articles, book chapters, grant proposals, dossiers, and other projects
Meeting Location and Times:
11 am - 12:30 pm
UTRGV’s Education Complex (EEDUC 2. 216B) Building 39 on the Campus Map
Synchronous Zoom Dates:
Fridays: 9/5, 9/19, 10/3, 10/17, 10/31
In-Person Dates:
Fridays: 9/12, 9/26, 10/10, 10/24, 11/7
Interested in joining? Please complete Join The Quill!
La Pluma Graduate Writing Group
Procrastination? Writer’s block? Stressed about writing your thesis? Grad students, do you need support, encouragement, and accountability to get your writing done?
UTRGV’s Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) welcomes all grad students—any discipline, any stage—to join our weekly writing groups.
The goal of this initiative is to build a supportive community that fosters peer connection, reduces isolation, and helps students overcome common writing challenges.
Each session includes a group check-in where writers:
- Set goals and intentions
- Share updates on progress
- Dedicate time to write
- Reflect on the writing process
Join us:
Every Tuesday & Wednesday in October: Oct 1 - 30th, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: UTRGV’s Education Complex (EEDUC 2. 216B) Building 39 on the Campus Map
Interested in joining? Please complete Join La Pluma!
Become a CMAS Graduate Affiliate!
The Center for Mexican American Studies aims to build an interdisciplinary community of UTRGV grad students whose research deepens understanding of Mexican American, Borderlands, and Latino/a experiences. We invite graduate students from disciplines as diverse as anthropology, history, education, sociology, public policy, literature, STEM, and the arts to affiliate with the Center.
Our CMAS Graduate Affiliate program offers opportunities to:
- Connect and collaborate with grad students and faculty across UTRGV with shared interests;
- Present your work in progress in an informal and supportive setting;
- Join interdisciplinary working and writing groups;
- Receive updates on grants, fellowships, conferences, and other academic opportunities; and
- Have your profile and work featured on our website.
CMAS Graduate Affiliates are expected to remain actively involved in Center activities, present their research at the CMAS Symposium (poster or presentation) in their Senior year, and attend at least two Center events each semester.
Interested in joining? Please complete our short form: Become a Graduate Affiliate!!
If you have any questions, contact: cmas@utrgv.edu
Rio Bravo: A Journal of the Borderlands
Rio Bravo: A Journal of the Borderlands is a publication by the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The journal publishes scholarly and creative works about Mexican descent communities in both South Texas and nationally and promotes debate, dialogue, awareness, and insight into the U.S.-Mexico border experience.
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Articles are posted under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Check out the Río Bravo: A Journal of the Borderlands.
Back issues of the journal can be found here: Rio Bravo Journal in ScholarWorks @ UTRGV