Department of History

University of Texas at El Paso

El Paso, Texas 79968

(915) 747-7067

yleyva@utep.edu

The University of Arizona, Tucson, May 1999

Dissertation title: "¿Qué Son los Niños?: Mexican Children along the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1880-1920"

The University of Texas at El Paso, December 1989

The University of Texas at Austin, December 1977

Public history: Mexican American history; U.S.-Mexico border history; public history; U.S. women’s history; United States history, 19^th-20^th centuries.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

 

 

2001- present Assistant Professor of History, The University of Texas at El Paso

2000- 2001 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow/ Visiting Scholar, Center for Mexican American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

1997-2001 Assistant Professor of History, The University of Texas at San Antonio

1996-1997 Visiting Assistant Professor of History, New Mexico State University

Cruzando la linea: Mexican children along the Texas-Mexican Border, 1880-1940.

This study explores the critical role that Mexican and Mexican American children played in the economic and social development of the border region.

This manuscript investigates the interconnection of Chicana/o history, memory, public presentations of history, and pedagogy.

Children on the Border, The Pass of the North Heritage Corridor Booklets Series. Oscar J. Martínez, editor. El Paso Community Foundation. (2001)

"There is great good in returning": A Testimonio from the Borderlands" submitted to Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (accepted).

"Chicana lesbians," chapter in 500 Years of Chicana History, edited by Elizabeth Martínez. (Forthcoming.)

"'I Go to Fight for Social Justice': Mexican Children as Revolutionaries in the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920" in The Journal of Peace and Change (October 1998).

"Listening to the Silence" in Living Chicana Theory. Carla Trujillo, editor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

"El Amparo de las Viudas: Widows and Land in Colonial New Mexico," in Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West. Elizabeth Jameson and Sue Armitage, editors. Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

"Breaking the Silence: Putting Latina Lesbian History at the Center" in The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century. Bonnie Zimmerman and Toni McNaron, editors. New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1996. (Reprinted in Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History. Vicki L. Ruiz and Ellen Carol Dubois, editors. New York: Routledge Press, 2000.)

"Faithful, Hardworking Mexican Hands: Mexicana Workers during the Great Depression," in Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, Vol. 5 (1995). Juan R. García, editor. Tucson: The University of Arizona, Mexican American Studies and Research Center.

"Latina Lesbians," in Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures: Volume 1, Bonnie Zimmerman, editor. Garland Press, 1999.

"El Paso," in Dictionary of American History. (Charles Scribner's Sons) Forthcoming.

"Mexican American Women and the Great Depression," "Mexican women and land tenure in the Mexican north," "Chicana Lesbians," and "Maria Urquides," in Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol (Bloomington: Indiana University Press) Forthcoming.

Review of Mexico Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland by Miguel A. Gandert and

The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico, edited by David Maciel and Erlinda Gonzales-Berry. Journal of the West.

Review of De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century by Elizabeth Martinez. (H-Books, Summer 2000)

"If a woman stands at the door, you can’t go it": Jovita’s Story, April 1914," in Between Guadalupe and La Malinche, an anthology of Tejana writers. Inés Hernández Avila and Norma Cantú, editors. Austin: The University of Texas Press. In Press.

Contributing writer for La Voz, a publication of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, San Antonio, Texas. Recent articles include a multi- installment historical series, "Crossing Bridges/ Burning Bridges: The Mexican American Border." La Voz has a national circulation of over 5,0000.

Contributing writer for the Progressive Media Services, "Latino Voices" series. PMS distributes commentary pieces to daily newspapers throughout the United States. Recent editorials include: "Bush Labor Department stalls Mexican Workers," June 26, 2002; "International Community Focuses on World’s Children," May 8, 2002’
Deaths of Mexican Women Raise Need for Better Working Conditions and Security," February 20, 2002; "Attacks have Mexicans heading south of the border," November 28, 2001, "View from the border shows universal empathy," November 19, 2001, and "Immigrant deaths a casualty of free trade," November 30, 2001 "Free speech battle rages in San Antonio," September 7, 2000, "Texas case sets important precedent," August 10, 2000.

"A Long Line of People." Esto no tiene nombre. Miami, Florida. Fall 1992.

"A People Who Honor Our Dead." Woman of Power. Summer 1994.

Poetry published in journals and collections, including La Voz de Esperanza, IXHUA, and Cantos: An Anthology of Aztlanahuac Writings, edited by Cecilio Garcia Camarillo.

2001-present Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, University of Texas at El Paso

1997- 2001 Assistant Professor of History, Division of Behavioral and Cultural Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio.

1996-97 Visiting Assistant Professor, The Department of History, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.

1995-96 Lecturer, The Department of History, The University of Texas at El Paso.

2000-01 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship