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Anna M. Sandoval, Ph.D.
E-Mail: annasand@csulb.edu

Dr. Anna Sandoval earned her B.A. in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Literature are from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Using a UC Education Abroad Program opportunity, she spent one of her graduate school years at Universidad Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico, D.F., Mexico. Prior teaching positions were at UCLA, UCI, Occidental College, and Arizona State

University. She began as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Chicano Latino Studies at California State University Long Beach in 1997 and has been an Assistant Professor since 1998. She teaches introductory, as well as advanced, curriculum courses, such as: Feminisms of the Américas, Chicano Thought, and Senior Colloquium.

Her innovative interests have won her many awards and honors. Most recently:

• A 2002 Chi Delta Theta's Women's Conference invitation to lecture on "Comparative Feminisms at CSULB.
• A 2001 invitation to lecture on "Modes of Repression and Modes of Resistance in The Work of Alma Lopez," from the Women's Research Colloquium, President's Commision on the Status of Women, CSULB.
• Won CSULB's Educational Innovation Award in 2001.
• Opportunity to chair a Women's History Month 2001 conference on "Images of Asian American Women: Claiming Our Identities in the Milennium."
• 2002 National Association of Chicano Studies Annual Conference (NACCS) participant on "Memory and Feminist Consciousness."
• Served as course coordinator for the CSU 2001 Summer Arts Program: Writing Across Borders: Poetry, Prose and Performance
• Organizer and Panelist for the 2000 NACCS Conference, "Decolonizing Our Minds and Bodies: Representations of Struggle and Liberation in the Work of Alma Lopez."
• She has published, "Forming Feminist Coalitions: The Internationalist Agenda of Helena Marta Viramontes" in Chicana Literary and Artisitic Expressions: Culture and Society in Dialogue (2000), a literary magazine.
• Another article, "Building Up Our Resistance, Chicanas in Academia," appeared in a 1999 volume of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.
• In Spring 2000, she served on the advisory committee for "Re-centering The Margins: Queer Women of Color Building Coalition in the Millennium" at CSULB.
• She concurrently served as a panel interviewer for the International Studies Advisory Board.
• In her brief years on campus, she has managed to serve, and continues to serve, on many scholarly and academic panels and boards, such as the: Scholarly and Creative Activities Award Committee, College of Liberal Arts Faculty Council, and the Steering Committee for Odyssey 2000-01.

She currently has a book manuscript under contract with University of Texas Press, Toward a Latina Feminism of The Américas. Also, her article, "Uniendo los lazos: Braiding Chicana and Mexicana Subjectivities," is scheduled to appear in Decolonial Voices: Chicana/o Cultural Studies in the 21st Century, a spring 2002 book publication of Indiana University Press.