Visiting Scholar
The Visiting Scholars Program is designed to generate research about the Latino community and attract scholars who may be interested in assuming a tenured or tenured track position at the University of Houston. Research concerning the Latino community in Houston and the State of Texas is particularly encouraged.
Music in Mexican America
Estevan César Azcona is currently Visiting Scholar in Mexican American Studies and Visiting Assistant Professor of Music in the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. In the spring semester 2009, he will teach a Chicano music survey entitled, “Music in Mexican America.”
Azcona studied ethnomusicology with Gerard Béhague and Mexican American Studies with José Limón at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology in the summer of 2008. He has taught undergraduate courses at Indiana University, DePauw University, and the University of Texas at Austin, on topics including Chicano music and culture, ethnomusicology, as well as directed the UT mariachi ensemble, Mariachi Paredes de Tejastitlán. He has also published book reviews, encyclopedia articles, and, with Russell Rodríguez, co-produced the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings CD compilation, Rolas de Aztlán: Songs of the Chicano Movement (2005), based on his doctoral research.
Ruben C. Cordova is also a visiting scholar at the Center for Mexican American Studies. He will be teaching a course on Mexican and Chicano art during the Spring semester of 2010.
Cordova is an art historian, curator and photographer. He received his B.A. from Brown University (Semiotics) and his Ph.D. from the University of California–Berkeley (History of Art). He has curated or co-curated eighteen exhibitions including the Jesse Treviño retrospective opening at the Museo Alameda in San Antonio in October of 2009. Cordova's art (primarily photographs of Day of the Dead) has been included in 36 exhibitions. In addition to encyclopedia entries, journal articles, catalogue essays, reviews, and exhibition brochures, Cordova’s publications include Arte Caliente (Corpus Christi: South Texas Institute for the Arts, 2004) and Con Safo: The Chicano Art Group and the Politics of South Texas (Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2009). Forthcoming works include book chapters on Mel Casas and Rolando Briseño. Cordova will complete his book manuscript on the Humanscape paintings of Mel Casas during his tenure as visiting scholar.
Application Process
The University of Houston Center for Mexican American Studies is soliciting applications for its Visiting Scholars Program for the next academic year. All interested scholars from relevant disciplines are encouraged to apply. Visiting Scholars receive a salary appropriate to rank and are expected to be in residence during the academic year. Priority consideration will be given to applicants who have specializations in both Mexican and Mexican American Studies and who have an interest in remaining at the University of Houston in a tenured or tenure track position after their one year residency as the CMAS Visiting Scholar is completed. Deadline for submission is April 15th of every year.*
*Additional information about the CMAS Visiting Scholar can be obtained by contacting Dr. Tatcho Mindiola, Director, tmindiola@uh.edu.
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