EDUCATION
Ph.D. in History 2023
Designated Emphasis in Latin American & Latino Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
M. A. In American Studies 2013
Baylor University
B.A. in History 2011
Minor in Political Studies, Minor in World Affairs
Baylor University
PUBLICATIONS
2021 Martinez, Priscilla M. & Grace Peña Delgado, “Beyond Border Spectacle: Everyday Meaning and Oral History in Chinese Mexican Tucson” Special Anniversary Issue of the Journal of Arizona History, 2021, PEER REVIEWED & INVITED
2020 Martinez, Priscilla M. Review of “Chiriaco Summit: Built by Love to Last in the Desert, by Mary Contini Gordon,” The Sound Historian, 2020, INVITED
2018 Martinez, Priscilla M. Review of “That’s What They Used to Say’: Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions, by Donald Fixico,” Great Plains Quarterly 37. Fall 2018, INVITED
TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Chicanx History
- Latinx History
- U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History
- Oral History, Public History, & Digital Humanities.
- North American Borderlands History
- Modern Latin American History
- Mexican History
- Indigenous Studies
- Citizenship, Migration, Nationalism, and Empire
- Legal Borderlands
- Maritime Borders & Water Sovereignty
TEACHING EXPERIENCE & TRAINING
UCSC-CITL Inclusive Teaching Pedagogical Certificate 2019
Teaching Assistantships: UCSC 2013 – 2021
HIS 12: Introduction to Latinx and Latin American History, 2021
HIS 139C: Queer Pasts, 2021
HIS 15: U.S. History for Non-Majors, 2021
HIS 12: Introduction to Latinx and Latin American History, 2020
HIS 128: Chicanx History, 2020
HIS 70: The French Revolution, 2019
HIS 44: Modern South Asia, 2019
HIS 60: Scientific Vocabulary and the Roots of European
Scientific Tradition, 2019
HIS 128: Chicanx History, 2018
HIS 12: Introduction to Latinx and Latin American History, 2018
HIS 125A: Indigenous History of California, 2017
HIS 10B: U.S. History from 1877 to 1977, 2017
HIS 100: Historical Skills and Methods, 2016
HIS 10B: U.S. History from 1877 to 1977, 2016
HIS 9: Introduction to Native American History, 2016
HIS 40B: Modern East Asia, 2016
HIS 110D: Civil War and Reconstruction, 2015
HIS 134B: Colonial Mexico, 2015
HIS 134A: Colonial Mexico, 2015
HIS 11A: Colonial Latin America, 2015
HIS 110C: American Capitalism, 2014
HIS 12: Introduction to Latinx and Latin American History, 2014
HIS 128: Chicanx History, 2013
Awards & Fellowships
Tucson Chinese Cultural Center, Scholar-in-Residence, 2017—Present
UCSC Teaching Assistant Fellowship, 2013—2021
Research Center for the Americas Writing Fellowship, 2021
UCSC Regents Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 2021
UCSC History Department Summer Dissertation Fellowship, 2021
Research Center for the Americas Travel Grant, 2020
The Humanities Institute Summer Research Fellowship, 2019
Southwest Foundation for Historical Preservation Project Grant, 2019
The Humanities Institute Public Fellow, 2018
Southwest Oral History Association General Scholarship, 2018, 2019
Cliff Kuhn Inaugural Scholarship Awardee, 2017
UCSC Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2017
The Humanities Institute Public Fellow, 2017
UCSC History Department Summer Research Fellowship, 2015, 2016
UCSC Regent’s Fellowship, 2014
UCSC Non-Resident Tuition Fellowship, 2013, 2014
Oral History Association Conference Travel Grant, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018. 2019
Hudson E. Long Fellowship, 2011, 2012, 2013
CONFERENCE, SYMPOSIUM, & LECTURE PRESENTATIONS
2021 “United Farm Workers, La Raza Unida, and El Movimiento,” Guest Lecture to be given in HIS 12: Latinx and Latin American History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 4 November 2021. INVITED
2021 “New Directions in Arizona History,” Panelist, Special Anniversary Issue Symposium, Organized by the Journal of Arizona History and the Arizona Historical Society, 5 June 2021. INVITED
2021 “From Community Oral History to Publication: The Tucson Speaks! Oral History Project and Chinese Tucson,” Keynote Speaker, Texas Oral History Association’s Listen, Lunch, and Learn Series, 28 January 2021. INVITED
2020 “El Movimiento and the United Farmworkers,” Guest Lecture given in HIS 12: Latinx and Latin American History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 27 February 2020. INVITED
2019 “Arbitrary Borders: Chinese Tucson and Indigenous Salt Pilgrimages, 1924-1934” presented at the American Society for Legal History’s Annual Conference on 21 November 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts.
2019 “Big, Small, In-Person, and Online: Discussions on Incorporating Oral History into Undergraduate Classrooms,” Round Table Discussion, Chair and Panelist, presented at the Oral History Association 2019 Annual Conference in October 2019 in Salt Lake City, UT.
2018 “‘This rather mythical locality’: Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and Power in the Rio Colorado Basin” presented at the Western Historical Association 2018 Annual Conference on 18 October 2018 in San Antonio, Texas.
2018 “Chinese Tucson: Community, Identity, and Public Memory in the U.S.—Mexico Borderlands,” presented at the Southwestern Oral History Association 2018 Annual.Conference on 29 April 2018 in Fullerton, California. INVITED
2017 “From Q&A to Oral History: Building a Community Oral History Program with Tucson’s Chinese Cultural Center,” presented at the Oral History Association 2017 Annual Conference on 6 October 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2017 “Fluid Borders: Contextualizing Indigeneity and Mestizaje in the Western-Pacific Borderlands,” presented at the American Historical Association-Pacific Branch 2017 Annual Conference on 4 August 2017 in Northridge, California.
2017 “From Statelessness to Recognition to Revival: Transborder Communities on the U.S.Mexico Borderlands,” Guest Lecture given in HIS 125A: California Indigenous History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 23 May 2017. INVITED
2016 “Writing for History,” Guest Lecture, HIS 10B: U.S. History, 1877 to 1977, University of California, Santa Cruz, 19 August 2016. INVITED
2016 “Mexico’s “Indian Problem”: Indigenismo and Mestizaje in the Post-Revolutionary U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” Guest Lecture, HIS9: Introduction to Native American History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2 June 2016. INVITED
2016 “Reading across Borders: Contextualizing Indigenismo within Pacific West U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Scholarship,” presented at the University of California, Davis, 2016 Graduate History Conference, ‘Historians without Borders, History without Limits” on 9 April 2016 in Davis, California.
2015 “Chicana/os y El Movimiento: Past and Progress,” Guest Lecture, MEChA Student Orientation, University of California, Santa Cruz, 11 April 2015. INVITED
2013 “’Why just them? We were beautiful too’: Crafting Identity and Constructing Community in Crystal City, Texas,” presented at the Oral History Association 2013 Annual Conference on 12 October 2013 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
2013 “Remembering and Reflecting: Crystal City and the Chicano Civil Rights Movement,” presented at the Texas Oral History Association 2013 Annual Conference on 25 April 2013 in San Marcos,Texas.
2013 “Here We Remain: The Legacy of El Movimiento in Crystal City, Texas,” presented at the Oral History Association 2012 Annual Conference on 12 October 2012, in Cleveland, Ohio.
SERVICE & WORKSHOPS
2022 H-OralHist Listserv Editor, INVITED
2022 Western Historical Association Annual Conference, Graduate Staffer
2021 The Sound Historian, Peer Reviewer. INVITED
2021 Arizona Historical Society “Twitter Takeover,” on 18 May 2021. The goal with this public history digital initiative is to engage with new audiences and bring new followers and potential members, museum patrons, and archives visitors to the Arizona Historical Society. INVITED
2020—2022 Graduate Student Association Representative, History Department
2020—2022 UAW 2865 Department Steward
2019 Program Committee Member, Oral History Association Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. INVITED
2019 “Graduate School Platica,” Panelist, Sponsored by the Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 22 April 2019. INVITED
2018 “Getting Started with Oral History: Theory, Project Design, and Practice,” Featured Workshop Leader, Social Science Research Council- Dissertation Proposal Development (SSRC-DPD) at the University of Santa Cruz given on 11 May 2018. INVITED
2017 “Graduate School Workshop: History and Related Fields,” Panelist, UCSC History Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, 28 February 2017. INVITED
2016 “Graduate School Workshop: History and Related Fields,” Panelist, UCSC History Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, 27 April 2016. INVITED
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2020-Present — COLA-fornia Dreaming: Academic Student Workers and the Fight for a Living Wage Oral History Project
In Partnership with: PayUsMoreUCSC and UAW 2865
- 6 Interviews conducted as of August 2021, more interviews planned in 2023
2017-Present — “Tucson Speaks!: Finding Place, Finding Home” Oral History Project
In Partnership with: Tucson Chinese Cultural Center
- 9 interviews conducted as of April 2019, more interviews planned in 2023
2012 — “Here We Remain” Oral History Project Institute for Oral History
In Partnership with: Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History
- 14 oral history interviews conducted, deposited at the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University, more interviews planned in 2024
2011 — “Breaking New Ground” Oral History Project, Researcher for Texas
In Partnership with: the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History
- 14 oral history interviews were conducted, co-deposited at the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and at the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2019—Present, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambios
2018—Present, Southwest Oral History Association
2017—Present, American Historical Association
2017—Present, Organization of American Historians
2012—Present, Oral History Association
2012—Present, Texas Oral History Association
2010—Present, Phi Alpha Theta, Tau Beta Chapter
