Stephanie Alvarez, Associate Professor of Mexican American Studies, earned her PhD in Spanish from the University of Oklahoma. She is the founding director of the Mexican American Studies program (2009-2013) & Center for Mexican American STudies (2011-2013) at UTPA (now UTRGV). She is the recipient of the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Outstanding Latina/o Faculty Award (2011), the University of Texas Board of Regent's Outstanding Teaching Award (2009), and the 2015 Outstanding Master's Universities and Colleges Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She is the co-editor with William Luis of
The AmeRícan Poet: Essays on the Work of Tato Laviera (2014). Her research intersects in the areas of Latin@ identity, language, literature, culture, education and empowerment and has appeared in various edited volumes and journals such as
Hispania, Journal of Latinos and Education and CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, among others. Together with Tato Laviera, Edna Ochoa and José Martínez she founded Cosecha Voices, a program that provides migrant farmworker youth the opportunity to document and share their testimonios.
Professor
Mexican American Studies
Email:
stephanie.alvarez@utrgv.edu Edinburg
