Faculty

Menchaca, Martha
Professor
Office: EPS 1.144
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-3:30
Phone: 512 471 7537
mmen@mail.utexas.edu
Additional affiliations: Latin American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Center for Mexican American Studies, Urban Studies
Education: Ph.D., Stanford, 1987
Research interests:
Social anthropology, ethnicity, gender, oral history/oral traditions, legal anthropology, immigration, Chicano studies: US/Mexican culture, Latin America.
Field(s) of Study: Social Anthropology; Borderlands
Recent Publications:
In progress. The Naturalization History of Mexican Immigrants in Texas.
2007. Latinos and the Mestizo Racial Heritage of Mexican Americans. In: Renato Rosaldo and Juan Flores, eds. Companion to Latino Studies. Pp. 313- 324. Blackwell Press.
2001. Recovering History, Constructing Race - The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans.
1995. The Mexican Outsiders: A Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination in California.

