Faculty Achievements
Achievements 2024
Dr. Friederike Bruehoefener published, “A Green Celebrity: The Newspaper Coverage of Petra Kelly in the early 1980s,” in Milder, Stephen, Andreas Jünger, Katharina Scharf, Amanda M. Nichols, Friederike Bruehoefener, and Adam Stone, “Petra Kelly: Life and Legacy of a Transnational Green Activist.” Environment & Society Portal, Virtual Exhibitions 2024, no. 1. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, https://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/9772
Dr. Amy Hays is an air consultant for the documentatry, Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy At Love Canal, on PBS which tells the dramatic and inspiring story of the ordinary women who fougt against overwhelming odds for the health and safety of their families. In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal, a working-class neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, discovered that their homes, schools and playgrounds were built on top of a former chemical waste dump, which was now leaking toxic substances and wreaking havoc on their health. Through interviews with many of the extraordinary housewives turned activists, the film shows how they effectively challenged those in power, forced America to reckon with the human cost of unregulated industry, and created a grassroots movement that galvanized the landmark Superfund Bill.
Dr. Linda English published a book, Run for your Lives! (Texas A&M University Press, 2024). While shelves of books examine the fall of the Alamo and the revolutionary victory at San Jacinto, surprisingly little sustained attention has been given to the chaotic period from the early to late spring of 1836 when many settlers fled their homes in the face of Santa Anna’s advancing forces. In the final months of the rebellion-turned-revolution, fear of defeat prompted larger questions of what it meant to be a man or woman in an environment of wartime retreat. In Run for Your Lives! historian Linda English opens a new window into the Runaway Scrape, exploring the events and rhetoric through the lens of gender.
Dr. Megan Birk was featured in USA Today on the era of "practice babies".
Achievements 2023
Dr. Amie Bostic published a GWSP related paper: Bostic, A. (2023). Family, Work, Economy, or Social Policy: Examining Poverty Among Children of Single Mothers in Affluent Democracies Between 1985 and 2016. Population Research and Policy Review, 42(4), 59.
Dr. Mariana Alessandri published a book, Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods. Princeton University Press, 2023.
Achievements 2022
Belinda Davis, Stephen Milder, Friederike Bruehoefener, eds., Rethinking Social Movements after ’68: Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2022).
Dr. Cathryn Merla-Watson published the chapter "Virginia Grise, blu: Queer Latinx Aesthetics of the Apocalypse" in Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction (MIT Press, 2022)
Dr. Sarah Perez published the article "Teaching Asian Pacific American Politics at an HSI: Reflections on Lessons Learned and Unexpected Conclusions" in the Journal of Political Science Education in April of 2022
Dr. Cathryn Merla-Watson co-curated the Latinafuturist art exhibit Mars Need More Women at the historic Centro Cultural Aztlán in San Antonio, Texas (March 24, 2022-June 10, 2022).
Dr. Erika R. Rendon-Ramos published the article “Voces De Mujeres: Migration, Family, & Identity through the Voices of Mexican Women” in Contemporary Medusa: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies 3 in July of 2022.
Dr. Alejandra Ramírez published a chapter entitled “Perpetual (In)securities: (Re)Birthing Border Imperialism as Understood Through Facultades Serpentinas” in Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics (2022), edited by Jennifer Clary-Lemon and David M Grant.
Achievements 2021
Dr. Amy Hay published a book, "The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests" (University of Alabama Press, 2021). In the book, Amy M. Hay profiles the attitudes, understandings, and motivations of grassroots activists who rose to fight the use of phenoxy herbicides, or Agent Orange chemicals as they are commonly known, in various aspects of American life during the post-WWII era. Hay focuses her analysis on citizen responses to illuminate how regulatory policies were understood, challenged, and negotiated, contributing to a growing body of research on chemical regulatory policies, risk society, and hazardous chemicals. This volume uncovers new understandings about the authority of the state and its obligation to society, the role of scientific authority and expertise, and the protests made by various groups of citizens.
Dr. Brent M. S. Campney published an article, "Police Brutality and Mexican American Families in Texas, 1945-1980," in the March 2021 issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, entitled "Legacies of Racial Violence: Clarifying and Addressing the Presence of the Past."