Dr. Anthony Quiroz    Associate Professor of History Chair, Department of Humanities

 Area of specialization: 

 Mexican American,

 U.S. Twentieth Century Political,

 U.S. Labor

 Education:       

 B.A. University of Houston-Victoria (1990)

 M.A. University of Iowa (American History, 1991)

 Ph.D. University of Iowa (American History, 1998)

 Office:

 Faculty Center - Rm 284

 Phone # (361) 825-5985

 E-mail: anthony.quiroz@tamucc.edu

 Courses offered: 

 U.S. Since 1865 (HIST 1302)

 Texas History (HIST 3331)

 Mexican American History (HIST 4336)

 Graduate level Mexican American History (HIST 5328).

                http://falcon.tamucc.edu/~aquiroz/  (teaching website),

                http://falcon.tamucc.edu/~cmar/      (Clearinghouse for Mexican American Research site).

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY: 

As a professor I maintain several priorities.  I try to impart to students the skills they will need (critical reading skills, writing and speaking skills, thinking skills) to be successful students and professionals; I emphasize the use of evidence, and the need to contextualize one’s beliefs and arguments within a larger worldview.  Further, I believe that grades should do two things: give students a sense of how well or poorly they performed on a given assignment; and to offer encouragement for future improvement.  Thus, the first exam in all my classes is worth about 10% of the overall grade while the final exam is worth about 30% (it varies from class to class, and from term to term).  This way a student who does poorly is made to understand the weakness of that particular performance, but is not mathematically doomed because of one bad exam or paper.  Finally, I impose realistic, yet challenging standards in all my courses.  In the end, all of these priorities are designed to be student-centered and offer students the opportunity to grow by overcoming real and meaningful challenges.

PUBLICATIONS: 

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

 Mexican Americans in Twentieth Century Texas a book chapter in collection of essays for Twentieth Century Texas:  A Social and Cultural History, John Storey, Mary Kelley eds., UNT press, projected publication date 2007, 28pp draft.

Claiming Citizenship: Mexican Americans in Victoria, Texas (College Station: Texas A&M University       

Press, April, 2005), xxv, and 166pp. including notes, bibliography, index.

We are not Wetbacks, Meskins, or Slaves: The Economy Furniture Strike,  book  chapter in collection of invited essays for the Texas State  Historical Association  entitled Tejano Epic: Essays in Honor of Felix D. Almaraz, Jr., (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, March, 2005), 115-130.

ARTICLES:

Carving out a Place of their Own: Mexican American Catholics in Victoria, Texas,

Catholic Southwest, v.14 (July 2003), 11-28. 

Class and Consensus: Twentieth-Century Mexican American Ideology in Victoria,

Texas, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 106:1 (July, 2002), 31-56. 

Strength Through Adversity: Changing Mexican American Political Participation in

Victoria, Texas, National Association of Latino and Hispanic Scholars, 1998            

Proceedings.

Mexican American Struggles for Citizenship: Local Organizations in Twentieth Century, Victoria, Texas, in South Texas Studies v.7 (1996), 108-130.

Coauthor North American Labor History Conference, in International Labor and

Working Class History v. 46 (Fall, 1994).

SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS:

Cesar Chavez, the Catholic Bishops, and the Farmworkers’ Struggle for Social Justice  (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006), for Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Forthcoming.

Guadalupe and her Faithful: Latino Catholics in San Antonio, from Colonial Origins to the Present (Baltimore:  The Johns Hopkins Press, 2005), for Journal of American History, Forthcoming.

Repositioning North American Migration History: New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, Citizenship and Community, Marc S. Rodriguez, ed. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2004) reviewed for American Historical Review, v. 111, n.1, February 2006.

Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border, Elliott Young (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004) reviewed for Southwestern Historical Quarterly, v. 109 n. 2, October 2005. 

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