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Sabrina Sanchez

Sabrina Sanchez   
Sabrina Sanchez
    Title:  Ph.D. Candidate
    Type:  Graduate Student
    Concentration:  The Americas and Africa
    Email:  ssanchez@ucsc.edu
    Personal Page:  http://www.sabrinasanchez.com/

Courses Taught 
TEACHING/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Teaching Fellow, UCDC Program at the University of California Washington D.C. Center, Winter 2008

Research Assistant, Summer 2007 & Summer 2008
Dr. Lisbeth Haas, UCSC History Department

Teaching Assistant, Fall 2006-Present:
HIST 125, California History
HIST 11, Religious Cultures in U.S. History
HIST 110, United States History: 1914-1945
HIST 10, United States History to 1877
HIST 11, History of Latin America: Colonial
HIST 164, History of Late-Medieval Italy
HIST 167, History of Imperial Spain

Research Focus 
Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century U.S. History; Gender and Women's History; Sexuality and the Body; Southwest Borderlands; Colonial Latin America; Feminist Studies

Long Description 
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
-American Association of University Women Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 2009-2010
-UCSC Doctoral Student Sabbatical Fellowship, Fall 2008
-New Mexico Office of the State Historian Scholar's Fellowship, July-August 2009
-Chicano/Latino Research Center Mini-Grant, Summer 2008
-Institute for Humanities Research Travel Grant, Summer 2008, Summer 2007, & Summer 2005
-Graduate Teaching Fellowship at the University of California, Washington D.C. Center, Winter 2008
-History Department Research Travel Grant, Summer 2007 & December 2005
-Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship/UCSC President's Fellowship, 2004-2006
-Dean’s List, UC Berkeley, Spring 2004


PRESENTATIONS
Poster Presentation, “Gendered Language in New Mexico Penitentiary Pardons, 1907-1910,” UCSC Graduate Student Research Symposium, May 2009.
Guest Lecture, “New Mexico’s Territorial Period,” Dr. Lisbeth Haas’ History of the Southwest Borderlands, UCSC, May 2009.
Public Lecture, “Pardoning Breadwinners, Constructing Masculinities: Gender, Language, and Class in Territorial New Mexico Pardons,” New Mexico Office of the State Historian Lecture Series, State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe, March 2009. Available here.
Invited Speaker, Chicano/Latino Research Center Mini-Grant Presentation, UCSC, October 2008.
Guest Speaker,“Gender and the Welfare State during the New Deal,” Dr. Matthew Lasar’s History 110A: United States History, 1914-1945, UCSC, May 2008.
Workshop Leader, “Getting Started as a Teaching Assistant,” UCSC New Teaching Assistant Orientation, September 2007.

Education History 
Ph.D. History, UCSC, expected 2010
Dissertation: "In the Name of the Father, the Governor, and A-1 Men: Performing Race, Gender, and Empire in Territorial New Mexico, 1880-1912"

M.A. History, UCSC, 2006
Thesis: “The California Civic League and the ‘Unprotected Girl’ of the Barbary Coast, 1911-1917”

B.A. with High Honors, History, UC Berkeley, 2004
Thesis: “Regulating Mrs. Warren: Theatre Censorship and Moral Reform in Urban New York, 1905”

Selected Publications 
“Pardoning Breadwinners, Constructing Masculinities: Gender, Language, and Class in Territorial New Mexico Pardons,” New Mexico Office of the State Historian Web-site, June 2009. View here.

Co-author with The Center for World History at UCSC, “The United States and The World: A Globalized History Survey,” in Carl Guarneri, ed. Teaching American History in a Global Context. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2008.

“Regulating Mrs. Warren: Theater Censorship and Moral Reform in Urban New York,” Clio’s Scroll: UC Berkeley Undergraduate History Journal: Fall 2004.

Curriculum Vitae 
 
Sabrina Sanchez's Curriculum Vitae File Type:PDF (130.24 KB)