Sabrina Sanchez, Ph.D. Candidate
History Department, University of California-Santa Cruz
Faculty, History Department, South Texas College
EDUCATION
2004 – Present THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
Ph.D. History, Expected Spring 2011
Dissertation: “In the Name of the Father, the Governor, and A-1 Men: Performing Race, Gender, and Empire in Territorial New Mexico, 1880-1912” (Dissertation Committee: Drs. Lisbeth Haas, Marilyn Westerkamp, Emily Honig)
M.A. History, Spring 2006
Thesis: “The California Civic League and the ‘Unprotected Girl’ of the Barbary Coast, 1911-1917” (Adviser: Dr. Lisbeth Haas)
2002 – 2004 THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
B.A. History with High Honors, Spring 2004, G.P.A. 3.8
Thesis: “Regulating Mrs. Warren: Theatre Censorship and Moral Reform in Urban New York, 1905” (Adviser: Dr. Kathleen Frydl)
2000 – 2002 FOOTHILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Transferable Course Credits, History Major, G.P.A. 4.0
TEACHING & RESEARCH FIELDS
Primary Fields: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century U.S.; Gender and Women’s History; History of Sexuality and the Body; Southwest Borderlands; California History; Nationalism, Colonialism, and Empire
Minor Fields: Latin American History, Feminist Studies
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS
- 2010-2011 College of Saint Rose Center for Citizenship, Race, and Ethnicity Studies Dissertation Fellowship (declined)
- 2010 University of California Center for New Racial Studies Dissertation Fellowship (Summer 2010)
- 2010 History Department Research Grant (March 2010)
- 2009-2010 American Association of University Women American Dissertation Writing Fellowship (July 2009 – June 2010)
- 2009 History Department Research Grant, University of California at Santa Cruz (Winter 2009)
- 2008 Doctoral Student Sabbatical Fellowship, University of California at Santa Cruz (Fall 2008)
- 2008 New Mexico Office of the State Historian Scholar’s Fellowship (August 2008);
- 2008 Chicano/Latino Research Center Mini-Grant, University of California at Santa Cruz (Summer 2008);
- 2008 Institute for Humanities Research Grant, University of California at Santa Cruz (Summer 2008)
- 2008 Graduate Teaching Fellowship at the University of California, Washington D.C. Center (Winter 2008)
- 2007 History Department Research Grant, University of California at Santa Cruz (June 2007);
- 2007 Institute for Humanities Research Grant, University of California at Santa Cruz (June 2007)
- 2005 History Department Research Grant, University of California at Santa Cruz (December 2005);
- 2005 Institute for Humanities Research Grant, University of California at Santa Cruz (June 2005)
- 2004–2006 President’s/Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, University of California at Santa Cruz (September 2004 to June 2006)
- 2004 Dean’s List, University of California at Berkeley (Spring 2004)
- 2002 Andres Ybarra Memorial Scholarship (June 2002)
- 2002 Foothill College Business and Social Sciences Scholarship (June 2002)
- 2002 Foothill College Award of Excellence: U.S. History after 1866 (June 2002)
- 2001 Foothill College Award of Excellence: U.S. History before 1866 (June 2001), English and Writing (June 2001)
PUBLICATIONS
2009 “Pardoning Breadwinners, Constructing Masculinities: Gender, Language, and Class in Territorial New Mexico Pardons,” New Mexico Office of the State Historian Website, May 2009. www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=23350
2008 Co-author with The Center for World History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, “The United States and The World: A Globalized History Survey,” in Carl Guarneri, ed. Teaching American History in a Global Context. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2008.
2003 “Regulating Mrs. Warren: Theater Censorship and Moral Reform in Urban New York,” Clio’s Scroll: U.C. Berkeley Undergraduate History Journal: Fall 2004.
PRESENTATIONS & LECTURES
2010 Conference Presentation, “Courting White Labor to ‘The Land of Prosperity and Happiness’: Territorial New Mexico’s Bureau of Immigration and the Quest for Statehood, 1880-1912,” Southwest Labor Studies Association, May 2010.
2010 Public Lecture, “Women Demanding Rights in Territorial New Mexico,” American Association of University Women Marin County Open House, May 2010.
2009 Poster Presentation, “Gendered Language in New Mexico Penitentiary Pardons, 1907-1910,” University of California at Santa Cruz Graduate Student Research Symposium, May 2009.
2009 Guest Lecture, “New Mexico’s Territorial Period,” Dr. Lisbeth Haas’ Upper-Division History of the Southwest Borderlands, University of California at Santa Cruz, May 2009.
2009 Public Lecture, “Pardoning Breadwinners, Constructing Masculinities: Gender, Language, and Class in Territorial New Mexico Pardons,” Office of the State Historian Lecture Series, State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe, March 2009. Available online at www.newmexicohistory.org/podcasts/sabrina_sanchez.mp3
2008 Invited Speaker, Chicano/Latino Research Center Mini-Grant Presentation, University of California at Santa Cruz, October 2008.
2008 Guest Lecture, “Gender and the Welfare State during the New Deal,” Dr. Matthew Lasar’s Upper-Division United States History, 1914-1945, University of California at Santa Cruz, May 2008.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Fall 2010 – Faculty
South Texas College, Department of History
Courses Taught:
History 1302, U.S. History Since 1877
Winter 2008 Graduate Teaching Fellow
U.C. in D.C. program at the University of California, Washington D.C. Center
Assisted eighteen undergraduates in the completion of a twenty-five page thesis essay based upon original research conducted in Washington D.C.; prepared students for conference presentations.
2007, 2008, 2010 Research Assistant (Summer 2007, Summer 2008, Winter 2010)
Dr. Lisbeth Haas, University of California at Santa Cruz, History Department
Translated nineteenth-century Spanish-language primary source documents; copy-edited manuscript of nineteenth-century Luiseno Pablo Tac for publication; copy-edited manuscript footnotes; and compiled manuscript bibliography with End Notes software.
2006 – Present Teaching Assistant
University of California at Santa Cruz, History Department
Facilitated two seventy minute discussion sections each week throughout the quarter; prepared original discussion questions for undergraduates based upon assigned readings; assisted approximately fifty to sixty students in the research and writing of multiple research essays; graded midterms, essays, and final exams; and completed one narrative evaluation for each student.
Courses Taught:
HIST 125 California History, Dr. Lisbeth Haas
HIST 11 Religious Cultures in U.S. History, Dr. Marilyn Westerkamp
HIST 110 United States History: 1914-1945, Dr. Matthew Lasar
SOCS 194 Social Science Research Seminar, Dr. Danny Scheie
HIST 10 United States History to 1877, Dr. Marilyn Westerkamp
HIST 11 History of Latin America: Colonial, Dr. Maria Elena Diaz
HIST 164 History of Late-Medieval Italy, Dr. Cindy Polecritti
HIST 167 History of Imperial Spain, Dr. Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
2001 Adult Literacy Tutor
A.T.L.A.S. Adult Literacy Center, Fremont Union School District, Sunnyvale, California
PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING
Fall 2007 Workshop Leader, “Getting Started as a Teaching Assistant,” at the New Teaching Assistant Orientation at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Supervisor: Ruth Harris-Barnett, Center for Teaching Excellence
2006 – 2007 Completed seven Teaching Assistant workshops led by the Center for Teaching Excellence: Course Design, Student Motivation, Effective Group Work, Active Learning Techniques, Increasing Student Participation, Developing a Teaching Philosophy, Giving Effective Feedback on Student Work
Fall 2005 Assisted in the development of the World History undergraduate syllabus “The United States and The World: A Globalized History Survey” with Department Colleagues for Dr. Edmund Burke, Center for World History, University of California at Santa Cruz. Syllabus Featured in Carl Guarneri, ed. Teaching American History in a Global Context (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2008)
Fall 2004 Completed History Department Pedagogy Course, History 290 A
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2007 Workshop Leader, “Getting Started as a Teaching Assistant,” at the New Teaching Assistant Orientation at the University of California at Santa Cruz (Fall 2007) Supervisor: Ruth Harris-Barnett, Center for Teaching Excellence
2005 – 2006 History Department Representative for the Graduate Student Association of the University of California at Santa Cruz (Winter 2005 – Winter 2006)
2005 – 2006 Graduate Representative for the Council of Environmental Planning (Winter 2005 – Winter 2006)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Phi Alpha Theta
Phi Beta Kappa
American Association of University Women
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Spanish: Fluent in Reading, Writing, and Speaking
