Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, director of the Center for Mexican American Studies, professor in the School of Journalism, and founder of Voces Oral History Center, shares her journey from growing up in Devine, Texas, to earning journalism BA and MA degrees at UT Austin, as well as a PhD from UNC, Chapel Hill. These and years of work as a journalist inform her inexhaustible drive to make heard the voices and stories of Latina/o/x agents of change.
Liberal Arts
Into the COLAverse – Episode 26: Jo Hsu
Jo Hsu, professor in the Rhetoric and Writing, shares their journey from a love of storytelling and fiction reading as a child to an MFA in writing and PhD in Rhetoric at Penn State. Along the way we learn of the power of story to open us to new ways of seeing and experiencing the world—to “constellating homes”—and to the transformative possibilities of language.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 24: Judith Coffin
Judith Coffin, professor in the Department of History, shares her journey to French cultural history, especially focused on issues of gender, labor, and material practices of consumption and production. Along the way we learn about the impact of the invention of the sewing machine, the work and reception of Simone de Beauvoir, and so much more!
Into the COLAverse – Episode 22: Annette Rodríguez
Annette M. Rodríguez, professor in the Department of History, shares her journey from childhood road trips in the Southwest to degrees at the University of New Mexico then Brown. Along the way, we learn of her innovative scholarship, collaborations, and data mapping projects that enrich understanding of historical continuities and inversions that create racialized constructions of belonging and unbelonging in the U.S.