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Biography
Dr. Edward Murguia is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. He was Founding Director of the Mexican American and U.S. Latino Research Center (MALRC) at Texas A&M and currently continues to direct the Center. An intercollegiate and interdisciplinary Center, in its three and one half years, it has awarded over 60 seed grants to faculty at Texas A&M for the development of competitive grant applications for external funding and has assisted in the training of over 90 faculty and graduate students in grantsmanship.
Dr. Murguia received his BA from the University of Texas at Austin, his MA at the University of New Mexico, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His research has focused on the Latino experience in the United States as well as on causal factors of drug use. He is the author of Assimilation, Colonialism and the Mexican American People and Chicano Intermarriage: A Theoretical and Empirical Study, and, more recently, he is the lead editor of Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Onli
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Murguía, Alejandro 1949–
PERSONAL: Born 1949. Education:San Francisco State University, B.A., M.F.A.
ADDRESSES: Office—1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER: Writer and professor. San Francisco State University, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco, CA, associate professor and faculty advisor to Cipactli: Raza Studies Journal of Literature and Art. Mission Central Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA, founding member and former director; worked on Tin Tan (a Chicano literary magazine), San Francisco, CA, c. late 1970s.
AWARDS, HONORS: American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 1991, for Southern Front, and 2003, for This War Called Love: Nine Stories; The Medicine of Memory: A Mexican Clan in California was nominated for the Victor Turner Prize in ethnographic writing.
WRITINGS:
Farewell to the Coast (stories), Heirs Press (San Francisco, CA), 1980.
(Editor, with Barbara Paschke) Volcan: Poems from Central America; A Bilingual Anthology, City Lights (San Francisco, CA), 1983.
Sou American writer Alejandro Murguía Alejandro Murguía (born August 15, 1949),[1] is an American poet, short story writer, educator, and editor.[2] He is known for his writings about the San Francisco's Mission District.[3] Alejandro Murguía was born on August 15, 1949, in the United States, and he was raised in Mexico after the death of his mother.[1] He moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco in the early 1970s[4] He has a B.A. degree and M.F.A. degree from San Francisco State University (SFSU).[1] Murguía teaches Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University.[3] In 2012, he was named San Francisco Poet Laureate by mayor Ed Lee.[3]•
Alejandro Murguía
Born (1949-08-15) August 15, 1949 (age 75)
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