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Paloma Martinez-Cruz Named Director of Latina-o Studies

July 15, 2022

Paloma Martinez-Cruz Named Director of Latina-o Studies

Paloma Martinez-Cruz

We are thrilled to announce that Paloma Martinez-Cruz has been named Program Director of Latina/o Studies. 

Paloma Martinez-Cruz, Ph.D. works in the area of contemporary hemispheric cultural production, women of color feminism, performance, and alternative epistemologies. Martinez-Cruz’ book entitled Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica: From East L.A. to Anahuac (University of Arizona Press, 2011) argues that healing traditions among Mesoamerican women constitute a hemispheric intellectual lineage that thrives despite the legacy of colonization. She is the translator of Ponciá Vicencio, the debut novel by Afro-Brazilian author Conceição Evaristo, about a young Afro-Brazilian woman's journey from the land of her enslaved ancestors to the multiple dislocations produced by urban life. She is the editor of Rebeldes: A Proyecto Latina Anthology, a collection of stories and art from 26 Latina women from the Midwest and beyond. 

Congratulations Dr. Martinez-Cruz!