Martha I. Chew Sanchez received her BA from La Escuela Nacional de Maestros in Mexico City and from
The University of Texas at El Paso. She was a visiting scholar in the
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxemburg, Austria where she worked on her M.A. Thesis on community development. She studied her Ph.D. from
The University of New Mexico in intercultural communication and carried out her pos-doctoral studies in UCLA in
the Chicano Studies Research Center. Her areas of interest are cultural studies, popular culture in Latin America, border studies, and migration, transnationalism and nationalism.Some of her courses are cross-listed with
Caribbean and Latin American Studies. She has published in Third Text, Journal of Family Communication, Communication Year book of the International Communication Association and the
Global Media Studies Series. Martha’s book “
Corridos in migrant memory” was published by University of New Mexico Press in 2006, was translated into Spanish by Selfa Chew, (”Corridos en la memoria migrante”) and was published in 2008 by Editorial Eón, México, D.F. This manuscript explores the role of the
corridos and
norteña music among transnational communities from Northern Mexico in New Mexico and Texas. She has also carried out research on the role of the Spanish language program in the standardization and homogenization of Spanish-speaking people as well as in the construction and reconstruction of “Latino” identity.
One of her lines of research has been the problematization of Mexican national identity based on the
mestizo concept. Martha interested in descentering the official national discourse of the
mestizo through the presence of various ethnic groups, particularly the Chinese presence. Martha received a fellowship from the
Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives and a post-doctoral fellowship on transnationalism from the
Mexico-North Research Network Incorporation. Martha is directing the St. Lawrence University abroad program in Madrid, Spain during the academic year of 2008-2009. Her office address in Madrid is Colegio Mayor Isabel de España. Ramón Menéndez Pidal 5, 28040 Madrid, España. Tel 011 34 1 91 533 58 34. Her office address in Canton, New York is 202, 84 Park Street. Telephone number is 315 229-5659. e-mail:
mchew@stlawu.edu.Courses taught at St. Lawrence University.
- La Frontera: Cultural Identities in the U.S./Mexico border. Cross listed with Caribbean and Latin American Studies, Native American Studies and U.S. Studies. This course has been designed around community based learning principles where students have to travel to Cd. Juarez/El Paso border area where students are exposed to a Border Awareness experience in the Annunciation House, in El Paso, Texas and in the Women’s Intercultural Center, in Anthony, NM. Students also carryout field work in various NGOs across the border such as the CEDIMAC (Centro de Desarrollo Integral de la Mujer, Asociacion Civil/Center for the Integral Development of Women). The St. Lawrence University Center for International and Intercultural Studies financies part of the expenses of this trip.
- Popular Culture. Cross listed with Cultural Encounters and Caribbean and Latin American Studies and U.S. Studies.
- Migration, Nationalism and Transnationalism. Cross listed with Cultural Encounters and Caribbean and Latin American Studies and U.S. Studies
- Qualitative Methods
- Theories of Cultural Studies
Martha I. Chew Sanchez received her BA from La Escuela Nacional de Maestros in Mexico City and from The University of Texas at El Paso. She was a visiting scholar in the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxemburg, Austria where she worked on her M.A. Thesis on community development. She studied her Ph.D. from The University of New Mexico in intercultural communication and carried out her pos-doctoral studies in UCLA in the Chicano Studies Research Center. Her areas of interest are cultural studies, popular culture in Latin America, border studies, and migration, transnationalism and nationalism.Some of her courses are cross-listed with Caribbean and Latin American Studies. She has published in Third Text, Journal of Family Communication, Communication Year book of the International Communication Association and the Global Media Studies Series. Martha’s book “Corridos in migrant memory” was published by University of New Mexico Press in 2006, was translated into Spanish by Selfa Chew, (”Corridos en la memoria migrante”) and was published in 2008 by Editorial Eón, México, D.F. This manuscript explores the role of the corridos and norteña music among transnational communities from Northern Mexico in New Mexico and Texas. She has also carried out research on the role of the Spanish language program in the standardization and homogenization of Spanish-speaking people as well as in the construction and reconstruction of “Latino” identity.One of her lines of research has been the problematization of Mexican national identity based on the mestizo concept. Martha interested in descentering the official national discourse of the mestizo through the presence of various ethnic groups, particularly the Chinese presence. Martha received a fellowship from the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives and a post-doctoral fellowship on transnationalism from the Mexico-North Research Network Incorporation. Martha is directing the St. Lawrence University abroad program in Madrid, Spain during the academic year of 2008-2009. Her office address in Madrid is Colegio Mayor Isabel de España. Ramón Menéndez Pidal 5, 28040 Madrid, España. Tel 011 34 1 91 533 58 34. Her office address in Canton, New York is 202, 84 Park Street. Telephone number is 315 229-5659. e-mail: mchew@stlawu.edu.Courses taught at St. Lawrence University.