Eight UW Tacoma Faculty Recognized by UW Center for Latino Health

June 5, 2020

The fourth annual Latinx Faculty Recognition honors faculty from UW Tacoma's School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences and School of Urban Studies.

The UW Center for Latino Health has recognized 32 UW Latinx faculty for scholarly achievements, including eight at UW Tacoma.

Faculty are recognized for meeting at least one of the following criteria during the academic year: 1) publishing a scholarly article in a high-impact journal or an influential book; 2) receiving a major grant; 3) being appointed to a significant leadership position; 4) being promoted to associate or full professor; or 5) retiring by the summer of 2020.

The eight UW Tacoma faculty receiving recognition:

	Maria-Tania Bandes-Becerra Weingarden, Lecturer, Culture, Arts & Communication, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Grant funding secured for new theater program at UW Tacoma
	Rubén Casas, Assistant Professor, Culture, Arts & Communication, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Publications: “The Place of Free Speech: Making Controversy Material at the Neoliberal University” “Precarious economies: capitalism’s creative destruction in the age of neoliberal campus planning”
	Sarah Chavez, Lecturer, Culture, Arts & Communication, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Publication: “Halfbreed Helene’s Mother Says Not to Call Herself That”
	Sonia de la Cruz, Assistant Professor, Culture, Arts & Communication, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Publications: “Laboring in Line With Our Values: Lessons Learned in the Struggle to Unionize” “Feminist Responses to the Neoliberalization of the University: From Surviving to Thriving”
	Itziri Moreno Villamar, Lecturer, Culture, Arts & Communication, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Grant: UW Tacoma Collaborative Publicly Engaged Scholarship
	Ariana Ochoa Camacho, Assistant Professor, Social & Historical Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Grant: American Association of University Women American Postdoctoral Fellowship Publication: “Love in Times of Precarity: A Very Queer Politics of Immigration”
	Alyssa Ramirez Stege, Assistant Professor, Social, Behavioral & Human Sciences, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Publication: “A Critical Post-Colonial and Resilience-based Framwork of Supervision in Action”
	Anaid Yerena, Assistant Professor, School of Urban Studies Publications: “Strategic Action for Affordable Housing: How Advocacy Organizations Accomplish Policy Change” “Public Housing Authorities in the Private Market” “Conversations with Moving to Work Agencies on the Future of Policy Innovation”

Dolores Huerta, a nationally-renowned labor leader and civil rights activist, was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at this year’s Latinx Faculty Recognition Event, canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She recorded the following video message:

UW President Ana Mari Cauce extended her congratulations to the honorees through a video message:

Written by John Burkhardt

Academic Affairs