Professor of History

Southern Methodist University

Clements Department of History

P.O. Box 750176

Dallas, TX 75275-0176

214/768-2975; fax 214/768-2404

jchavez@smu.edu

      Education

• Ph.D., American Culture, University of Michigan, 1980, specialization in Mexican-American history.
   

• M.A., American Culture, University of Michigan, 1978.
   

• B.A., Spanish, California State University, Los Angeles, 1975.
   

• M.A., English, California State University, Los Angeles, 1972.
   

• B.A., English, California State University, Los Angeles, 1971.

      Awards and Service

• Fulbright Senior Lecturing Award, University of Granada, Spain, 2001

• Director, SMU Ethnic Studies Program, 1998-2000
   

• Hispanic Educator of the Year nominee, University of Michigan, Affirmative Action Office, 1985
   

• Prize nominee for The Lost Land: The Chicano Image of the Southwest, 1984

 

      Positions Held

• 1997 - Present, Professor of History, Southern Methodist University.

• 1989-97, Associate Professor, Department of History, Southern Methodist University.  

• 1986-89, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Texas A&M University.  

• 1984-86, Visiting Assistant Professor and Interim Director of Latino Studies, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan.  

• 1981-84, Lecturer (full-time), Department of Mexican-American Studies, California State University, Long Beach.  

• 1980-81, Lecturer (full-load), Department of Chicano Studies, California State University, Los Angeles.

      Books

Beyond Empires: Homelands in the Changing Atlantic World (forthcoming).

Memories and Migrations:  Mapping Boricua and Chicana Histories.  Co-edited with Vicki L. Ruiz.  Champaign, IL:  University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Chicanos in a Changing Society:  From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios in Santa Barbara and Southern California,1848–1930.  Dallas: SMU Press, 2005.  With a new foreward by John Chavez and a new afterward by the author, Albert Camarillo.

                   

Teaching Mexican American History.  Coauthored with Neil Foley. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 2002.  

                 

Eastside Landmark:  A History of the East Los Angeles Community Union. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998.

                      

The Lost Land:  The Chicano Image of the Southwest.  Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 1984.