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Professor

Jos茅 R. L贸pez Mor铆n received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the Spanish and Portuguese Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2001. He is a full professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at 好色先生, Dom铆nguez Hills, where he has researched, developed, and taught several different courses. These classes include Mexican American Folklore, Intellectual Traditions in the Americas, Introduction to Mexican/Chicano Poetry and Music, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration, Literary Theory and Methods, Introduction to Chicana/o Literature, Research Methods in the Chicano/Latino Community, The Mexican Revolution, Representation of the Indigenous People, and Changing Dynamics in the 鈥淩aza鈥� Community.

Jos茅 R L贸pez Mor铆n鈥檚 book entitled, The Legacy of Am茅rico Paredes (2006) was printed by Texas A&M University Press. The study is about one of the most important folklorists of the 20th Century who transformed the academic disciplines of folklore and cultural anthropology with his concept ofmestizaje (miscegenation, hybrid, or to mix). Mor铆n argues that Paredes鈥檚 theory of culture and form of Mexican American identity exploded the myth of Texas History, the Texas Rangers, and the idea that 鈥渞acial purity鈥� connotes 鈥渟uperiority.鈥� To date, Mor铆n鈥檚 book has received excellent reviews from various scholars throughout the nation, and, presently, Mor铆n plans to complete a Spanish-written translation of his book.

His most recent publications include 鈥淚n Search of an Authentic Voice: Abel Amaya Coronado, the Ford Foundation, and Chicano Community鈥� in Aztl谩n: A Journal of Chicano Studies (v.47, no. 2, fall 2022). Taking a micro-history approach, L贸pez Mor铆n chronicles Amaya鈥檚 personal and professional journey to detail how Amaya impacted鈥攁nd perhaps even shaped鈥攕pecific societal events, often separated in time and space. He demonstrates that Amaya benefited the philanthropic organization and Chicana and Chicano academic communities in the fields of teaching, administration, and research as the first Chicano program officer for the Ford Foundation in 1972.

In a case study entitled 鈥淏ringing the Community to USC: Chicana/o Student Agency and Abel Amaya鈥檚 Leadership Model,鈥� in Southern California Quarterly (vol. 104, no. 3, fall 2022), L贸pez Mor铆n argues that Chicana/o student agency between the late sixties and seventies pushed USC to expand its mission to include broader public aims, goals, and justice initiatives, including the establishment of El Centro Chicano (ECC) on the campus. Between his hiring as its director in 1979 and his retirement in 1999, Mr. Abel Amaya鈥檚 community organizing and social networking skills transformed El Centro Chicano and the university, bringing both closer together with the larger community and dramatically enhancing student success. Amaya鈥檚 initiatives at USC provide a valuable case study in the literature on educational opportunity, retention, and success programs in Hispanic-serving institutions. These recent publications are part of a book biography entitled 鈥淟eadership in Turbulent Times: The Journey of Abel Amaya Coronado,鈥� which L贸pez Mor铆n plans to complete in 2023.

L贸pez Mor铆n鈥檚 peer-reviewed publications include 鈥淩edefining Epic and Novel through Rulfo鈥檚 Pedro P谩ramo and Rivera鈥檚 Y no se lo trag贸 la tierra.鈥� Mester: A Literary Journal of the Graduate Students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of California, Los Angeles. Vol. XXII-XXIII, Fall/Spring, Vol. 2-1 (1993-94) pp 63-69; 鈥淚nterview with Am茅rico Paredes with H茅ctor Calder贸n鈥� in Nepantla: Views from South, 1:1. Durham: Duke University Press (2000)197-228; 鈥淭he Life and Early Works of Am茅rico Paredes鈥� in Western Folklore Vol. 64, No. 1, Winter/Spring (2005) pp 7-28; The republication of 鈥淩edefining Epic and Novel through Rulfo鈥檚 Pedro P谩ramo and Rivera鈥檚 Y no se lo trag贸 la tierra鈥� in Short Story Criticism, Layman Poupard Publishing Vol. 242, 2017; and 鈥淪ome Examples of Cultural Vindication and Integration in the Works of El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Am茅rico Paredes鈥� in Border Folk Balladeers: Critical Studies in Memory of Am茅rico Paredes, University Oklahoma Press, 2018.

His other scholarly reviews include 鈥淐ity of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931鈥� by Pablo Piccato in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 21, (2002) pp 261-262; 鈥淭he Journey to Latino Political Representation鈥� by John P. Schmal in Aztl谩n: A Journal of Chicano Studies (2008) pp 259-261; and 鈥淪ounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribe帽o鈥� by Alex E. Ch谩vez in Anthropos: an international journal in anthropology and linguistics, vol. 114, no. 1 (2019) p. 238.

In addition, Jos茅 R. L贸pez Mor铆n served as an anonymous reviewer of several manuscripts for The Journal of American Folklore in 2009, as an evaluator of federal grants for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Washington, D.C. in 2010, and presented in 2011 at the HUD Hispanic-Serving Institutions National Conference in Monterey, California.