EXTERNAL (Non-University) RESEARCH GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

 

Research Support Grant, The National Geographic Society, 1998; $3,525 for field work on urban structure in Ensenada and La Paz, Baja California, Mexico.

   
  Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995 Summer Seminar at UCLA on "Contemporary Immigration to the United States."
   
  Research Support Grant, The National Geographic Society, 1994; $3,185 for field work on Mexicali's Chinatown.
   
  Fellow, U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program; six- week study-tour of Brazil, summer of 1993.
   
  Fellow, U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program; six-week study-tour of Pakistan, summer of 1986.
   
  Research Support Grant, American Philisophical Society, 1983; $1,200 for field work on Cuban municipalities in exile in Miami.

RESEARCH GRANTS AWARD FROM PROGRAMS AT CSULB

 

Ad Hoc Grant, College of Liberal Arts, Spring 2001. $1300 for travel and research on application of the urban realms model in Lima, Peru.

   
  University Scholarly and Creative Activities Award, Stipend A, summer 2000. (114 of 206 applications were funded, less than 25 were Stipend A for a month's salary.) Title of research project: "Urban Growth and Change in Ensenada, Mexico."
   
  Sabbatical Leave, granted for spring 2000 semester. Title of sabbatical leave proposal: "At the Ends of the U.S.-Mexico Border: Urban Structure and Landscape in Matamoros and Tijuana."
   
  Faculty Career Enhancement Grant, 1998-99. $950 for travel to study area in Mexico. Title of research project: "The Urban Structure of La Paz, Baja California, Mexico."
   
  University Scholarly and Creative Activities Award, Stipend A, summer 1997. (Only 31 of 116 applications were funded.) Title of research project: "Urban Structure in Mexicali, Mexico."

SCHOLARLY HONORS

 

Named to the Editorial Board, Journal of Cultural Geography, 1996 to present.

   
  Named to the Editorial Board, Journal of Geography, National Council for Geographic Education, 1996 - 1998.
   
  Named to the Editorial Board, Journal of American Culture,
   
  Co-author of The Mexican Border Cities (see Publications), winner of a 1993 Southwest Book Award, given by the Border Regional Library Association "for literary excellence and enrichment of the cultural heritage of the Southwest."
   
  Co-author of The Cuban-American Experience (see Publications), named by Choice as "one of the outstanding academic books published in 1984."

UNIVERSITY (non-Departmental) TEACHING AWARDS

 

Outstanding Faculty Award, San Diego State University, 1987. Named "most influential university professor" by the honor graduate of the School of Education.

   
  Voted "University Teacher of the Year, 1980/1981." Phi Eta Sigma honor society, University of Miami.