Women's and Ethnic Studies (WEST)

Christina Jiménez, an Associate Professor of History at UCCS, specializes in Mexican, Latin American and Latino History. She also contributes regularly to the Women’s and Ethnic Studies Program by teaching the Intro courses, Latino History and Immigrant Histories. Recently in Spring 2008, Jiménez was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. Jiménez has also received several prestigious fellowships at research centers such as the Shelby Davis Cullum Center at Princeton University and the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work explores the local dynamics of Mexican citizenship, urban politics, and popular culture in the city during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has published in Urban History, Journal of Urban History, Black History Bulletin and is a contributor to The Spaces of the Modern City, edited by Gyan Prakash. She is currently working on a monograph titled Making an Urban Public: How the City Revolutionized Citizenship in Mexico, 1880-1930. She co-edited The Matrix Reader: Examining the Dynamics of Oppression and Privilege (McGraw-Hill, 2008). With her co-editors, Jiménez co-organizes the annual national Knapsack Institute: Curriculum Transformation Workshop, a workshop for educators teaching issues of diversity, and the national White Privilege Conference, a social justice conference housed by the UCCS Matrix Center. Over the past few years, Jiménez has been very involved in the drafting of the Diversity Strategic Plan at UCCS. During AY 2007-08, she served as a Faculty Fellow under the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity. She co-authored (with Dena Samuels) the “BIG Idea Workshop,� a universal diversity awareness program at UCCS focusing around the concepts of “Building Inclusiveness� through awareness, knowledge and skills. She also served as Chair of the Faculty Minority Affairs Committee at UCCS from 2005-2008. Contact: cjimenez@uccs.edu.