Martha I. Chew Sánchez received her BA from La Escuela Nacional de Maestros in Mexico City and from The University of Texas at El Paso. She was a visiting scholar in International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxemburg, Austria where she worked on her M.A. Thesis on community development. She studied her Ph.D. from The University of New Mexico in intercultural communication and carried out her pos-doctoral studies in UCLA in the Chicano Studies Research Center. Her areas of interest are cultural studies, popular culture in Latin America, border studies, and migration, transnationalism and nationalism.
Some of her courses are cross-listed with Caribbean and Latin American Studies. She has published in Third Text, Journal of Family Communication, Communication Year book of the International Communication Association and the Global Media Studies Series. Martha is currently working on a manuscript on the role of corridos and norteña music among transnational communities from Northern Mexico in New Mexico and Texas. This manuscript is going to be published by The University of New Mexico Press in 2005. She has also carried out research on the role of the Spanish language program in the standardization and homogenization of Spanish-speaking people as well as in the construction and reconstruction of “Latino” identity.
Her two main current lines of research are: (1) the Chinese-Mexican population in the Mexico/US border, and (2) the role of the State in the moral regulation and redomestication of maquiladora women in Cd. Juárez. Martha received a fellowship from the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives and a post-doctoral fellowship on transnationalism from the Mexico-North Research Network Incorporation. Her office is 202, 84 Park Street and her phone number is 315 229-5659. e-mail: mchew@stlawu.edu
