Roberto Calderon Bio- Scholarship Banquet 2012 Denton LULAC Council#4366
t P.O. Box 981
t Denton, Texas 76202
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ROBERTO R. CALDERON received his A.B. in Political Science at Brown
University in 1978. Completed his Master's in History in 1983, and received
his Doctorate in History in 1993. Dr. Calderon began his full-time university
teaching career as an Acting Assistant Professor at the University of
California at Riverside (UCR) in 1991. He was a founding faculty member of
the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside until 1999. He left
California and moved to Texas where he joined the faculty of the Division of
Bilingual-Bicultural Studies as an Assistant Professor at the University of
Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), where he taught courses in the Mexican
American Studies academic major from 1999-2000. In fall 2000 he accepted
a tenured appointment as an Associate Professor in the Department of History
at the University of North Texas, where he continues to teach courses in
Chicano History at the graduate and undergraduate level. His graduate
courses introduced Chicano History to his department and the University of
North Texas at the master's and doctorate level beginning in spring 2002.
He's published numerous titles:
• Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880-1930,
• edited the anthology, Nuestra Voz: Memories of Our Education,
• published, South Texas Coal Mining: A Community History,
• co-edited a volume of Latin@ poetry and prose at Brown University
titled Nanahuatzin, becoming the first literary volume published by
Latin@ students in the university's history.
He is currently working to complete a history of Laredo titled,
• Tejano Politics in the American Era: Laredo, 1845-1911.
• in-progress is a co-authored volume with Dr. Manuel Garcia y Griego,
Mcis ally del Rio Bravo:
• Breve historia mexicana del Norte de Tejas, which will be published
later this year by the Acervo Historico Diplomatico of the Secretaria de
Relaciones Exteriores in Mexico City.
Dr. Calderon was born and raised in Eagle Pass, Texas in a working
class family. He is descended from nortenos whose history in Nuevo Leon,
Coahuila and Tejas goes back centuries. Let us give a warm welcome to our
current LULAC President, Dr. Roberto Calderon.