Cynthia Orozco

Cynthia Ann Orozco (also Cynthia E. Orozco) is a professor of history and humanities at Eastern New Mexico University known for her work establishing the field of Chicana studies.

Cynthia Ann Orozco
Orozco at the 2022 Texas Book Festival.
Born
Cuero, Texas, U.S.
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Texas, Austin (BA)
University of California, Los Angeles (MA) (PhD)
ThesisThe origins of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Mexican American civil rights movement in Texas with an analysis of women's political participation in a gendered context, 1910-1929 (1992)
InfluencesAdela Sloss-Vento
Academic work
InstitutionsEastern New Mexico University, Ruidoso
Main interestsMexican American women, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

Early life and education

Orozco was born in Cuero, Texas to community activist and writer Aurora E. Orozco and Primitivo Orozco.[1] Orozco attended Southwest Texas State University, and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin.[2] Orozco earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1992.[3]

Career

Orozco is known for her work in Chicana Studies.[4] Orozco's work has been discussed by Ernesto Chávez who described the history of the movement in his 2013 article,[5] and by Sonia Hernández in her 2015 article on Mexican(a) labor history.[6] She served as a coordinator of the Women’s Unit of the Chicano Studies Research Center which advanced Chicana Studies courses and research at the University of California, Los Angeles.[7] She authored “Getting Started in Chicano Studies” for a women's studies journal,[8] and co-founded the Chicana Caucus of National Association for Chicano Studies.[9] Orozco spoke at the 1984 conference in Austin, its first conference focused on women, and the resulting essay “Sexism in Chicano Studies” was published in Chicana Voices.[10]

Orozco has taught at Eastern New Mexico University in Ruidoso since 2000 where she advocated for the establishment of tenure as university policy.[11] She wrote No Mexicans, Women or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, the first scholarly history of the origins of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).[12] The book was reviewed by multiple journals.[13][14][15][16][17] Orozco has written about the activist Adela Sloss-Vento,[18][19] in a book that was reviewed by other journals.[20][21][22] In 2020, Orozco published a book about the civil rights activist Alonso Perales.[23]

Awards and honors

In 2012 the Texas State Historical Association named Orozco a fellow,[24][25] and New Mexico League of United Latin American Citizens named her Educator of the Year.[26] In 2015, she was one of the 'emerging leaders' named by the American Library Association.[27] In 2018, she received the Eastern New Mexico University-Ruidoso National Society of Leadership and Success "Excellence in Teaching Award".[28] In 2020, her book Agent of Change received the Liz Carpenter award from the Texas State Historical Association.[29]

Selected publications
  • Orozco, Cynthia (2009). No Mexicans, women, or dogs allowed : the rise of the Mexican American civil rights movement (1st ed.). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-79343-9. OCLC 501017354.
  • Zamora, Emilio; Orozco, Cynthia; Rocha, Rodolfo, eds. (2000). Mexican Americans in Texas history : selected essays. Austin: Texas State Historical Association. ISBN 978-0876111741.
  • OROZCO, CYNTHIA E. (2022). AGENT OF CHANGE : Adela Sloss-Vento, mexican american civil rights activist and texas feminist. [S.l.]: UNIV OF TEXAS PRESS. ISBN 978-1-4773-1987-1. OCLC 1268983231.
  • OROZCO, CYNTHIA E. (2020). PIONEER OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS : Alonso S. Perales. [Place of publication not identified]: ARTE PUBLICO. ISBN 978-1-55885-896-1. OCLC 1127937934.
  • Orozco, Cynthia (April 23, 2014). "Sexism in Chicano Studies and the Community". In Garcia, Alma M. (ed.). Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-71974-7.

References
  1. "OROZCO, PRIMITIVO [PRIMO] | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". tshaonline.org. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
  2. “Ms. Orozco receives degree from Texas U,” Cuero Record, May 1980; Lopez.
  3. Orozco, Cynthia (1992). The origins of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Mexican American civil rights movement in Texas with an analysis of women's political participation in a gendered context, 1910-1929 (Thesis).
  4. Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, “The Interdisciplinary Project of Chicana History: Looking Back, Moving Forward,” Pacific Historical Review 82: 4 (2013): 542-65. See Jose M. Aguilar, “¡Sí Se Pudo!: A Critical Race History of the Movements for Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA, 1990-1993,” UCLA dissertation, Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2pt6c52x, 2013.
  5. Chávez, Ernesto (November 1, 2013). "Chicano/a History". Pacific Historical Review. 82 (4): 505–519. doi:10.1525/phr.2013.82.4.505. Among this group was Cynthia Orozco, who, while a UCLA history graduate student, wrote about this new perspective in the pages of La Red/The Net. While Chicanos in the previous generation had been influenced by social history and its focus on community studies, Chicanas were inspired by developments in U.S. women's history. In her article, Orozco argued that Chicano historians must pose new questions and reconsider traditional questions in light of women's experiences.'
  6. Hernández, Sonia (2015). "Revisiting Mexican(a) Labor History through Feminismo Transfronterista: From Tampico to Texas and Beyond, 1910–1940". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 36 (3): 107–136. doi:10.5250/fronjwomestud.36.3.0107. ISSN 0160-9009. JSTOR 10.5250/fronjwomestud.36.3.0107. S2CID 147577164. ...newer works by historians Maylei Blackwell and Cynthia Orozco have recognized the way in which Chicanas in the 1960s and 1970s built upon the activism of their Mexicana predecessors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  7. Cynthia Orozco, “CSCR Appoints Coordinator for Women’s Unit,” Raza Graduate Students Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Jan/Feb. 1986), 8.
  8. Orozco, Cynthia E. (1990). "Getting Started in Chicana Studies". Women's Studies Quarterly. 18 (1/2): 46–69. ISSN 0732-1562. JSTOR 40004023.
  9. "Cynthia E. Orozco". UNLADYLIKE2020. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  10. Cynthia Orozco, “Sexism in Chicano Studies and the Community,” Chicana Voices: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender, ed. Teresa Cordova, Norma Elia Cantu, Gilberto Cardenas, Juan Garcia, and Christine M. Sierra (Austin: Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas Press, 1986): 11-18.
  11. Matthew Keough, “AHA Member Spotlight: Cynthia E. Orozco,” August 22, 2017. https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/summer-2017/aha-member-spotlight-cynthia-e-orozco
  12. Chrobocinski, Jessie (April 29, 2021). "Nine Decades of the League of United Latin American Citizens | The Bend Magazine". www.thebendmag.com. Archived from the original on April 29, 2021. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  13. Pagán, Eduardo Obregón (2010). "Review of Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II; No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement". The Journal of American History. 97 (2): 466–468. doi:10.1093/jahist/97.2.466. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 40959770.
  14. Chávez, Ernesto (2011). "Review of No Mexicans, Women or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement". Pacific Historical Review. 80 (2): 313–314. doi:10.1525/phr.2011.80.2.313. ISSN 0030-8684. JSTOR 10.1525/phr.2011.80.2.313.
  15. Quiroz, Anthony (2010). "Review of No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 114 (2): 217–218. ISSN 0038-478X. JSTOR 25745972.
  16. Rosales, F. Arturo (2011). Orozco, Cynthia E. (ed.). "Review". Western Historical Quarterly. 42 (1): 105–106. doi:10.2307/westhistquar.42.1.0105. ISSN 0043-3810.
  17. LIPPARD, CAMERON D. (2011). "Review of No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement". Gender and Society. 25 (3): 394–396. doi:10.1177/0891243210377324. ISSN 0891-2432. JSTOR 23044165. S2CID 144123520.
  18. Stallings, Dianne L. (January 23, 2020). "Chronicling the Mexican American civil rights movement". Ruidoso News. Archived from the original on January 23, 2020. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  19. OROZCO, CYNTHIA E. (2022). AGENT OF CHANGE : adela sloss-vento, mexican american civil rights activist and texas feminist. [S.l.]: UNIV OF TEXAS PRESS. ISBN 978-1-4773-1987-1. OCLC 1268983231.
  20. "Orozco, Agent of Change". Journalism History journal. September 13, 2021. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  21. Jones, Ruthie (January 5, 2020). "Lone Star Review: AGENT OF CHANGE by Cynthia E. Orozco". Lone Star Literary Life. Archived from the original on December 29, 2021. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  22. Acosta, Teresa Palomo (2020). "Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento by Cynthia E. Orozco (review)". Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 124 (2): 233–234. doi:10.1353/swh.2020.0092. ISSN 1558-9560. S2CID 226598827.
  23. OROZCO, CYNTHIA E. (2020). PIONEER OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS : alonso s. perales. [Place of publication not identified]: ARTE PUBLICO. ISBN 978-1-55885-896-1. OCLC 1127937934.
  24. "TSHA | Cynthia Orozco". www.tshaonline.org. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  25. "ENMU Ruidoso's Orozco Named to Texas Women's History Board". The Roosevelt Review. March 9, 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  26. “Cuero Native named fellow of the Texas State Historical Association,” Victoria Advocate, March 23, 2012.
  27. "EMERGING Leaders". American Libraries. 46 (3/4): 48–54. 2015. ISSN 0002-9769. JSTOR 24603436.
  28. "Orozco receives "Excellence in Teaching" award from national society". Ruidoso News. March 27, 2018. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  29. "TSHA | Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women". www.tshaonline.org. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
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