Valerie A. Martínez Postdoctoral Research Fellow Institute for Historical Studies University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station, B7000 Austin, TX 78712 (512) 471-3261 Office (512) 475-7222 Fax vamartinez@utexas.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin 2016 Department of History Dissertation Advisers: Dr. Emilio Zamora and Dr. Anne M. Martínez Dissertation Title: Latina Ambassadors: The Benito Juárez Squadron and Pan Americanism during World War II Certificate, Center for Mexican American Studies Certificate, Center for Women s and Gender Studies M.A. Texas Tech University 2009 Department of History Thesis Adviser: Dr. Jorge Iber Thesis: The Bracero Program in West Texas, 1951-1964 Minor in Spanish B.A. Texas Tech University 2006 Department of History Magna Cum Laude Minor in Spanish PUBLICATIONS The Bracero Program, in Ben Wright and Joseph Locke, eds., The American Yawp Online Textbook, 2014, http://www.americanyawp.com/index.html The Mexican American Archival Enterprise: Assessing the Legacy of the Benson, (Co-authored with David Villarreal), Portal 8 (August 2013): 9-14. Rowlandson, Mary White (ca. 1635-1711) in Lisa Tendrich Frank, ed., An Encyclopedia of American Women at War: From the Home Front to the Battlefields, (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Publishing, 2013): 489-491. La Bracereada and Its Effect on Individual Bracero Experiences in West Texas, 1951-1964, in Paul Lopez, ed., Que Fronteras?: Mexican Braceros and a Reexamination of the Legacy of Migration, (Iowa: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2010): 161-178
V. Martinez, 2 RECOGNITION OF RESEARCH IN MEDIA Voices Breaks New Ground, Voces Oral History Project Narratives, No. 19 Fall 2015: 1. Barned-Smith, St. John. Her military mission in 1944 helped fellow Hispanic women, Houston Chronicle (Jan. 2015) http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/her- military-mission-in-1944-helped-fellow- 5995626.php?t=9e35f24df184c15731&cmpid=twitter-premium Cardenas, Cat. UT grad student studies accounts of Hispanic, female WWII veterans, The Daily Texan (Jan. 2015) http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2015/01/27/ut-grad-student-studies-accountsof-hispanic-female-wwii-veterans Ayala, Elaine. Benito Juárez Squadron might disappear into history, My SA (Feb. 2013) http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/benito-jurez-squadron-might-disappear-into-4286484.php SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2016 Dissertation Fellowship Award, Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2014 Research Travel Grant, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2014 Writing Fellowship, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2014 Doctoral Fellowship, American Association of University Women Austin Branch, Austin, Texas, 2014 Research Support Grant, Roosevelt Institute, Hyde Park, New York, 2013 Joe B. Frantz Scholarship, Texas Exes Scholarship Foundation, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2012 Research Fellowship, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2012 Annaley Naegle Redd Student Award in Women's History, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 2012 E.D. Farmer International Fellowship, The Mexican Center of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Austin, Texas, 2012 The George C. Marshall/Baruch Fellowship, George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington, Virginia, 2012 Ellen Clarke Temple Graduate Award for the Study of Women in History, Center for Women s and Gender Studies, Austin, Texas, 2011 Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2011 Research Travel Grant, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2011
V. Martinez, 3 Diversity Mentoring Fellowship, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2009 Scholarship Award, League of United Latin American Citizens Council #263, Lubbock, Texas, 2008 Hayes Latin American History Scholarship, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 2008 HONORS AND AWARDS President s Award, League of United Latin American Citizens Council #263, Lubbock, Texas 2009 Miss Hispanic Lubbock Scholarship Pageant Role Model Award, Miss Hispanic Lubbock Scholarship Pageant, Lubbock, Texas 2007 President s Excellence in Diversity and Equity Award, Texas Tech University, 2005 Scholarship and Hispana of the Year Youth Category Award, Hispanic Association of Women, Lubbock, Texas 2005 Academic Scholarship, Lubbock Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Lubbock, Texas, 2005 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Graduate Instructor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Megan Seaholm, United States History Since 1865, Fall 2015 Assistant Book Review Editor, Association for Jewish Studies Review, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2014- Summer 2015 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin Dr. Megan Seaholm, United States History: Pre-Columbus through the Civil War, Spring 2016 Dr. Anne M. Martinez, History of Mexican Americans in the United States, Spring 2014 Dr. Emilio Zamora, Texas History, Fall 2013 Dr. Tiffany M. Gill, United States History Since 1865, Spring 2012 Dr. Anne M. Martinez, History of Mexican American Women, 1910-Present, Fall 2011 Dr. Anne M. Martinez, History of Mexican Americans in the United States, Spring 2011 Dr. Emilio Zamora, History of Mexican Americans in the United States, Fall 2010. Graduate Assistant, Voces Oral History Project, University of Texas at Austin, Summer 2010 Graduate Assistant, Upward Bound Programs, Texas Tech University Intro to College 101, Spring 2009 Graduate Assistant, Department of History, Texas Tech University Dr. Ron Milam, The Vietnam War, Fall 2008 Lead Female Summer Mentor, Upward Bound Programs, Texas Tech University, 2005-2009
V. Martinez, 4 o Supervised over one hundred underprivileged high school youths during their six-week stay in a college dormitory on the TTU campus and taught a research methodology course on disease pathology to the fourteen to eighteen-year-old Middle Eastern, Latino, African American, and Anglo students Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Texas Tech University Dr. Robert Verone, History of the United States since 1877, Spring 2008; Dr. Ron Milam, History of the United States to 1877, Fall 2007; Dr. Julia Willett, History of the United States since 1877, Spring 2007; Dr. Jorge Iber, History of the United States since 1877, Fall 2006 PRESENTATIONS Por Primer Vez!: Recruiting Latina GIs into the Women s Army Corp in the era of Good Neighborism, Panelist, University of Southern Mississippi s Dale Center for the Study of War and Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2016 Migration and Memory during World War II: Remembering the Latina Servicewomen of the Benito Juárez Squadron, Invited Panelist, National Council on Public History Mini-Conference, San Marcos, Texas, October 2015 Creating the Benito Juárez Squadron: Latina Wacs in Texas during the era of Good Neighborism, Invited Panelist, World War II Lecture Series, Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston, Texas, October 2015 Realities of the College Experience for Underrepresented Students, Invited Speaker, LULAC 86 th Annual Youth Convention, Lubbock, Texas, May 2015 Las Bee-jays : Recruiting WWII Latina Wacs during the Era of Good Neighborism, Invited Panelist, 82 nd Annual meeting of the Society for Military History, Montgomery, Alabama, April 2015 "Las Wacs: The Recruitment of WWII Latina Servicewomen in the Era of Good Neighborism, Invited Presenter, University of Texas at Austin History Department s Graduate Symposium on Gender, History, and Sexuality, Austin, Texas, October 2014 The Benito Juárez Squadron: An Evaluation of PanAmericanism and Latina Servicewomen during World War II, Panelist, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Summer Institute, El Rito, New Mexico August 2014 The Benito Juárez Squadron: Reconceptualizing Diplomacy and Pan- Americanism, Invited Panelist, Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, March 2014 Latina Servicewomen during World War II: Redefining the Contours of Citizenship, Panelist, National Association for Chicano/a Tejas Foco Regional Conference, San Antonio, Texas, February 2014 The Benito Juárez Squadron: An Examination of Wartime Pan-Americanism within the Women s Army Corp, San Antonio, Texas, Invited Speaker, San Antonio History Seminar, San Antonio, Texas, November 2013 Latina Military Participation: An Assertion of Cultural Citizenship Panelist, National Association for Chicano/a Tejas Foco Regional Conference, San Marcos, Texas March 2012
V. Martinez, 5 The Importance of Mexican American History for Latino Youth Invited Panelist, League of United Latin American Citizens Youth State Convention, Killeen Civic and Conference Center, Killeen, Texas June 2011. The Un/Changing Notions of Citizenship Between Subject s Wartime Experiences, WWII to Vietnam, Invited Panelist, Latino Generational Identities from WWII to the Vietnam War Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas November 2010. Community Perspectives and Responses: Lubbock County and the Braceros 1942-1964, Phi Alpha Theta - History Honors Society - 2008 Biennial Convention, The Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico January 2008. Mexican Americans and World War II: The Five Botello Brothers, Journey Through the War and Beyond, Mcnair Scholar Undergraduate Research Days, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas April 2006. SERVICE UNIVERSITY Graduate Representative of the University of Texas at Austin History Department s Chair Nominations Committee; as one of two representatives organized the solicitation of graduate feedback by participating in organized question and answer sessions with the nominees and providing input at the final meeting before the recommendation to the dean Co-Chair of the University of Texas at Austin History Department s History Graduate Council; as the liaison between the graduate student body, faculty, and the department, the 2013-2013 HGC assisted in the solicitation of graduate input for the new department elected chair, participated in hosting potential graduate students during recruitment weekend, created a collection of grants and fellowships for history students organized by area and recommended year of application Conference Convener and History Panel Chair, for the Mexican American Archival Enterprise in the LILAS-Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the University of Texas at Austin, and Spring 2013; co-organized a conference created to highlight the Mexican American archival holdings at the LILAS-Benson library and how the scholarly works that have resulted from the collections have contributed to the historiography of MA and Borderlands studies. Co-Chair of the University of Texas at Austin History Department s Graduate Symposium on Gender, History, and Sexuality; organized fifteen crossdisciplinary presentations to provide students and faculty an open forum for a discussion of new methodological approaches to analyzing gender and sexuality Mentor for a St. Edward s University Undergraduate Student for the McNair Scholars/Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Texas at Austin, 2010-2011; assisted in the preparation of graduate admissions letter, GRE preparation, and networking skills Founding member of a Race & Ethnicity Reading Group, 2010-2011; University of Texas students discuss new and past scholarship that addresses race and ethnicity in various global and national sites
V. Martinez, 6 Charter member and Co-Chair of the University of Texas at Austin Latino/a Graduate Student Association, 2011; a group founded to disseminate, promote, and recognize the work/research of Latino/a graduate students with the intent of promoting academic and professional development Conference Conveener for the National Association for Chicano/a Tejas Foco Regional Conference entitled, Pasado, Presente, y Futuro: Forty Years of Chicana and Chicano Studies in Texas, and panelist for Graduate Education 101, Spring 2010 COMMUNITY Previous volunteer for the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center Guest speaker for League of United Latin American Citizens Council #263 annual Scholarship and Awards Banquet Chairman for League of United Latin American Citizens Council #263 Committee for Senior Citizens Annual Christmas Dinner Member and advocate of Cesar Chavez Commemoration Committee: to rename a Lubbock street after Cesar Chavez. Lubbock had been the only Texas city that did not have a street named after the Mexican American civil rights advocate Active volunteer for Wiley s Way State Reading Initiative at Ramirez Charter School, Lubbock, Texas 2004-2006. We addressed the opportunity and responsibility of attending college among low socio-economic status kindergartners MEMBERSHIPS Organization of American Historians National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies Society for Military History Texas State Historical Association Coalition for Western Women s History University of Texas at Austin History Graduate Council (Past Co-Chair) University of Texas at Austin Graduate Student Assembly, Election Oversight Board (Past Member) University of Texas at Austin Liberal Arts College Tuition and Budget Advisory Committee (Past Graduate Adviser) University of Texas at Austin History Department s Graduate Symposium on Gender, History, and Sexuality (Past Co-Chair) University of Texas at Austin Latino/a Graduate Student Association (Past Co- Chair)