The University of Missouri's Cambio
Center leads research and outreach on Latinos
and changing communities.
What you'll find in this newsletter:
-
National American Indian Heritage Month
(November events)
- Cambio Center Fellows News
- Other Events & Opportunities
- Two MU Course opportunities
-
2018 Health Insurance: Dates and Deadlines
- Support Graduate Student Research
|
|
November is National American Indian
Heritage Month! Celebrate with these events at Mizzou:
|
|
|
Cambio Center Fellows News
We share news about our fellows on the Cambio Center Website, where you can find more details about
the updates provided below.
|
|
Welcoming New Fellows
J.S. Onésimo (Ness) Sandoval, Associate
Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of
the Public and Social Policy Ph.D. program
at Saint Louis University
Dr. Sandoval's primary research interests
focus on the intersection of Demographic
Techniques and Computational Spatial Science
to study spatial inequality in American
cities. His research projects include Latino Demography projects that
study Latino Pueblos and Hyper-Pueblos, the
geography of racialized Latinos, and
Pan-Latino Populations. The research projects
are unified by an underlying theoretical
concern with the intersection of inequality,
race, and space with a specific focus on how
Latinidad shapes urban and rural places. His
research projects demonstrate his willingness
to foster a methodological pluralism that
facilitates the study of time-honored
questions in refreshing and innovative ways.
He has consciously designed his projects to
initiate a dialogue that promotes new
directions for scholarship that interrogates
the meaning of Latino (e.g., Latinx) as a
social and demographic construct.
Link to his web page.
Welcome to New Student Fellows
Leticia Martinez, a PhD student in
Educational, School & Counseling
Psychology, MU
Nancy Muro, a master's student in Educational,
School & Counseling Psychology, MU
|
|
Cambio Center Fellows Updates:
|
|
|
|

Student
fellow Aphiradee Wongsiri will
be defending her dissertation on November 16, 2017 at 12:30pm in
217 Mumford Hall. Her dissertation title is
"Examining Forms of Capital: The Satisfaction
with the Education and the Higher Education
Opportunities of the Children of Latino Families
in Three Rural Communities in Missouri." The
dissertation defense is open to the
public.
|
|
Other Events & Opportunities
|
|
November 6
“More Than One Story: Immigrants in the
United States”
Monday, November 6 at 5:30 in Hill Hall
Room 314
Panel, dinner, and discussion. Details will be
available here.
Co-sponsored by The Bridge, MU Latino
Graduate, Professional Network, and the
Cambio Center
November 7
"Mexican-American Females and the
Bachelor's Degree: Challenges and Success
Stories"
Tuesday, Nov 7 at 11am in The Bridge.
Dr. Donette Alonzo will share her research
using qualitative processes to listen to
Latina voices. See flyer here.
November 9
Chenoa Allen - "The Effects of State Omnibus Immigration
Laws on Public Benefits Enrollment for
Latino Children in Immigrant Families"
Chenoa Allen, Health Disparities Research
Scholars, University of Wisconsin
November 9 at 12:30pm in Student Center Room
1209
Sponsored by the MU Population, Education
and Health Center (PEHC).
Free Webinar on November 9 - "One Year
Later: Immigrant Trauma and How to Deal With
It"
One year after the 2016 presidential election,
millions of people are reeling from the
misinformed rhetoric and harmful actions of
the new administration. Join experts in
psychology, social work, policy and education
to learn about the trauma immigrants are
facing and the best strategies to approach it.
Watch the free webinar hosted by The Immigrant Learning Center Public Education Institute on Thursday,
November 9, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
EST. Register here.
November 10
Opening Reception for 'Dream On' Art
Show
Friday, Nov 10 at 3:30pm in the Multicultural
Center
See visual art that addresses the issue of
immigration in the U.S. Pieces from the
Mizzou community and the larger Columbia
community will be showcased.
MU Event on Monday, Nov 13: "Two Years
Later..."
Join us Monday, Nov 13, in Jesse Wrench
Auditorium to remember and reflect on the
student movement of November 2015. This is an
opportunity to measure how far we've come
since then, and imagine together how we can
continue successfully into the future. Event
begins at 5pm with a screening of Spike Lee’s
film “Two Fists Up.” There will then be
a reception with refreshments. Keynote event
begins at 6:30pm with a presentation by senior
Marshall Allen (Black Studies/Political
Science major). Dr. David Golemboski (Kinder
Institute) will be a discussant and Brittani
Fults (Office of Civil Rights and Title IX)
will moderate. See flyer to the right for
details.
Part-time Paid Position for
Spanish-Speaking Student
The Bilingualism and Aphasia Laboratory at the
University of Missouri is looking for a highly
motivated student who is a native speaker of
Spanish to code Spanish production data
collected from English learners of Spanish
using fluency, word and picture naming tasks.
This part-time position offers hourly pay and
the opportunity to learn about
psycholinguistic research. Prior research
experience is highly desirable. For more
information, please contact Dr. Roxana
Botezatu at botezatum@health.missouri.edu.
|
|
MU Course Opportunities for Spring
2018
MU Spring 2018 Course: Language, Literacy,
Identity, and Power
Spring 2018 LTC 8900 Language, Literacy,
Identity, and Power
Thursdays, 4:00-6:45, Room Townsend Hall
204
Instructor: Angie Zapata, Ph.D
This doctoral level course serves as a
semester long investigation into identity as a
process of “becoming” rather than a mode of
“being.” Students will examine how individuals
perform different subject positions, such as
gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity,
nationality, religion, and socioeconomic
class, through their everyday ways with words,
texts and text-making processes, and shared
material spaces. See flyer to the right.
Please email Dr. Angie Zapata at zapatam@missouri.edu for more information on this course.
MU Spring 2018 Course: The Cognitive
Consequences of Bilingualism
Spring 2018 CSD 4001 The Cognitive
Consequences of Bilingualism
3-credit undergraduate course; time and
location TBD.
This course is intended to establish an
understanding of bilingual language processing
and of the consequences of bilingualism on
cognition and the neural networks that support
it more generally. Students will learn to
interpret behavioral and electrophysiological
measures of language processing and to
identify patterns of language performance that
distinguish bilinguals from
monolinguals. For more information,
please contact Dr. Roxana Botezatu at botezatum@health.missouri.edu.
|
|
|
You can enroll in or change 2018 Marketplace
health insurance right now. The 2018 Open
Enrollment Period runs from November 1,
2017 to December 15, 2017. If you don’t act
by December 15, you can’t get 2018 coverage
unless you qualify for a Special Enrollment
Period. Learn more at Healthcare.gov.
|
|
Support Student Research through the
Cambio Center Research Fund
The Cambio Center Research Fund is used to support graduate student
research on Latinos and immigrants. As friends
of the Cambio Center know, the research
agenda of the Cambio Center focuses on applied
research designed to improve community
well-being by better understanding and
supporting the integration of newcomers and
immigrants. Students work in partnership with
an expert faculty member during a semester,
with clear goals for outputs and results. All
funds raised will go directly towards
supporting the research efforts of these
students.
|
|
This newsletter aims to provide updates
about the MU Cambio Center and share related
resources. You may unsubscribe at any
time.
|
|
|