MICHAEL L TRUJILLO
Assistant Professor of American Studies and Chicano/Hispano/Mexicao Studies Program

Background

Michael L. Trujillo is an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico where he holds a joint appointment in the department of American Studies and the Chicano/Hispano/Mexicano Studies program. He earned a doctorate (2005) and masters degree (1998) in Anthropology at the University of Texas in Austin. His teaching and research areas include ethnographic representation, Chicana/o Studies, and Borderlands Ethnography.

The Land of Disenchantment: Latino Identities, Negations, and Transformations in Northern New Mexico, Trujillo’s forthcoming book from the University of New Mexico Press, is an experimental ethnography that seeks to present multiple and often contradictory ethnographic representations in a single text. It is also a commentary on national and regional discourses of ethnic/racial identity and a case study of their impact on one Southwestern community. He has taught courses titled Borderlands Ethnography; Folklore and Expressive Culture; Introduction to Chicana/o Studies; Indigenous Identities; Race and Ethnicity in the Borderlands; and Introduction to Southwest Studies.

Selected Publications

The Land of Disenchantment: Latino Identities, Negations, and Transformations in Northern New Mexico (forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press).

"Oñate’s Foot: Remembering and Dismembering in Northern New Mexico." 2008. Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 33(2):91-119.

"A Northern New Mexican 'Fix': Shooting Up and Coming Down in the Greater Española Valley." 2006. Cultural Dynamics 18(1):89-112.

Review of Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975, by George Mariscal. 2006. Southern California Quarterly 88(2):253-254.

Review of Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture, by Rafael Pérez-Torres. 2006. Cultural Dynamics. 18 (3):354-357.  

(with Cathleen E. Willging and W. Azul La Luz) "Ethnography of Drug Use and Barriers to Care in the Española Valley of New Mexico." 2005. In Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends in New Mexico. Office of Epidemiology, New Mexico Department of Health, ed. Pp. 35-37. Santa Fe: New Mexico Department of Health.

Courses

Borderlands Ethnography

Folklore and Expressive Culture

Introduction to Chicana/o Studies

Indigenous Identities

Race and Ethnicity in the Borderlands

Introduction to Southwest Studies

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