Multicultural women's history pioneer and author Vicki Ruiz, Dean of Humanities at UC Irvine, will speak about famed labor leader and civil rights activist Luisa Moreno at California State University, Stanislaus on Tuesday, March 4 as the College of Humanities & Social Sciences celebrates Women's History Month.
A Professor of History at UC Irvine and credited with creating the field of the study of Mexican-American women in the Southwest and on the Pacific Coast, Ruiz will speak at 4 p.m. in Gemperle Lecture Hall, Room 167 of Demergasso-Bava Hall. Co-sponsored by the Ethnic & Gender Studies and History departments in the College of Humanities & Social Sciences, the program is free and open to the public. The title of Ruiz' presentation will be "Of Poetics and Politics: The Border Journeys of Lisa Moreno."
Ruiz has published more than 10 books on women's history topics during her more than 30 years of research that began when she enrolled in the history graduate program at Stanford University. She went on to become the fourth Mexican-American woman in the United States and Stanford's first to receive a doctorate in her specialty. Ruiz was named Latina magazine's "2000 Woman of the Year" and her book "From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth Century America" was named the American Library Association Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1998.
Ruiz's accomplishments include an historical encyclopedia of Latinas in the United States. She has been honored with a presidential nomination to the National Council on the Humanities, and Women's e-News Network has named her one of its 21 Leaders for the 21st Century.
Ruiz's passionate focus on collecting oral histories blossomed during a trip to Guadalajara, Mexico, to interview Moreno who suggested that she tell the story of women cannery workers in Southern California. The result was her doctoral dissertation and first book, "Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-50."
An immigrant from Guatemala, Moreno mobilized seamstresses in New York's Spanish Harlem, cigar rollers in Florida, and women cannery workers in California from 1930 to 1947. She was the first Latina to hold a national office, organized strikes, and was the driving force behind the first national Latino civil rights conference in 1939.
For more information, contact the office of the Dean for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at (209) 667-3531.
A Professor of History at UC Irvine and credited with creating the field of the study of Mexican-American women in the Southwest and on the Pacific Coast, Ruiz will speak at 4 p.m. in Gemperle Lecture Hall, Room 167 of Demergasso-Bava Hall. Co-sponsored by the Ethnic & Gender Studies and History departments in the College of Humanities & Social Sciences, the program is free and open to the public. The title of Ruiz' presentation will be "Of Poetics and Politics: The Border Journeys of Lisa Moreno."
Ruiz has published more than 10 books on women's history topics during her more than 30 years of research that began when she enrolled in the history graduate program at Stanford University. She went on to become the fourth Mexican-American woman in the United States and Stanford's first to receive a doctorate in her specialty. Ruiz was named Latina magazine's "2000 Woman of the Year" and her book "From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth Century America" was named the American Library Association Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1998.
Ruiz's accomplishments include an historical encyclopedia of Latinas in the United States. She has been honored with a presidential nomination to the National Council on the Humanities, and Women's e-News Network has named her one of its 21 Leaders for the 21st Century.
Ruiz's passionate focus on collecting oral histories blossomed during a trip to Guadalajara, Mexico, to interview Moreno who suggested that she tell the story of women cannery workers in Southern California. The result was her doctoral dissertation and first book, "Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-50."
An immigrant from Guatemala, Moreno mobilized seamstresses in New York's Spanish Harlem, cigar rollers in Florida, and women cannery workers in California from 1930 to 1947. She was the first Latina to hold a national office, organized strikes, and was the driving force behind the first national Latino civil rights conference in 1939.
For more information, contact the office of the Dean for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at (209) 667-3531.