 | Alicia Schmidt Camacho |
Alicia Schmidt Camacho, the newly
named Sarai Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies, focuses her research
on the feminicide in Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, transnational migration,
border governance and social movements in the Americas.
T H I S
Alicia Schmidt Camacho named
Sarai Ribicoff Associate Professor
She has published numerous articles about gender violence, migration, labor and
human rights in the Mexico-U.S. border region. Her book “Migrant Imaginaries:
Latino Cultural Politics in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands,” forthcoming from
New York University Press in 2008, examines the relationship between Mexican
and Mexican-American expressive culture and the practices sustaining labor and
social movements. She is working on a second book, “The Carceral Border:
Social Violence and Governmentality at the U.S.-Mexican Frontier,” which
addresses how the expansion of free-market capitalism on a global scale has transformed
the mobility of people, culture and capital to and across the U.S.-Mexican frontier.
A graduate of Columbia University, Schmidt Camacho earned her M.A. and Ph.D.
at Stanford University. She joined the Yale faculty in 1999 as a lecturer in
the American Studies Program following a year-long residency at the Whitney Humanities
Center. She was named an assistant professor in 2000. Since 2001, she has served
three times as director of undergraduate studies for the Ethnicity, Race and
Migration Program. She was the diversity liaison for graduate admissions in American
studies 2005-2006.
Schmidt Camacho is a council member of the Women’s Faculty Forum. She has
served both formally and informally as a mentor or adviser to many minority students
at Yale. At the University’s 2007 Commencement, she was honored with the
Sarai Ribicoff Award for the Encouragement of Teaching in Yale College. Her award
citation praised her for incorporating literature, the visual arts, music, film,
theater, historical documents and personal testimony in her classes.
Since 2003, Schmidt Camacho has been a member of a bi-national consortium of
feminist scholars and activists working to document and contest the murders of
poor girls and women in the border state of Chihuahua, Mexico. She has written
extensively on the human rights violations and gender violence that include the
feminicides of an estimated 480 girls and women in Chihuahua and Ciudad Juárez,
and her articles on the feminicide have been published in journals and books
both in Mexico and the United States. She has also spoken on the topic internationally.
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