Daniel D. Arreola

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Professor

COOR 5592
(480) 965-4794

Additional
Affiliation(s):

Affiliate Faculty, Department of Transborder Chicana/o Latina/o Studies
Affiliate Faculty, North American Center for Transborder Studies

Education:

1980 - Ph.D. (Geography) University of California, Los Angeles
1975 - M.A. (Geography) California State University, Hayward
1972 - B.A. (Geography) University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests:

Landscapes, cultural identity, place-making; Mexican-American borderlands; Hispanic/Latino Americans

Research Activities:

Mexico and Mexicans in the United States [Ongoing book project that explores the cultural geography of Mexican influence in the United States]

Visual History of the Mexican Border Cities [Ongoing book project that investigates how border cities have been represented in popular media]

Awards and Honors:

2007 - Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University, "Nature and Culture in the Sky Islands Borderlands" Department of History and School of Geographical Sciences, $9,875 to support Border Field Institute in May 2007 (co-PI Paul Hirt).

2007 - North American Center for Transborder Studies, Arizona State University, "Nature and Culture in the Sky Islands Borderlands" Department of History and School of Geographical Sciences, $2000 to support Border Field Institute in May 2007 (co-PI Paul Hirt).

2005 - Distinguished Service Award, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers.

2004 - National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration, $5,000 grant to support project "Mexican Border City Landscape Change: An Analysis Using Repeat Photography."

2003 - John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers, for Tejano South Texas.

2003 - Distinguished Scholar Award, American Ethnic Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers.

2003 - Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers.

Selected Publications:

Books

Arreola, D. D. 2004. Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places: Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America. University of Texas Press.

Arreola, D. D. 2002. Tejano South Texas: A Mexican-American Cultural Province. University of Texas Press.

Arreola, D. D. 1993. The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality. University of Arizona Press.

Journal Articles

Arreola, D. D., D. D. Lucio, and C. Lukinbeal. 2008. Mexican Litchfield Park: A Forgotten Colonia of the Salt River Valley, Journal of Arizona History. 49(4) Winter: 329-354.

Oberle, A., and D. D. Arreola. 2008. Resurgent Mexican Phoenix. Geographical Review, 98(2): 171-196.

Arreola, D. D. 2005. Forget the Alamo: The Border as Place in John Sayles' Lone Star. Journal of Cultural Geography, 23(1): 23-42.

Book Chapters

Arreola, D.D. 2006. The Picture Postcard Mexican American Housescape: Visual Culture and Racialized Domestic Identity. In Racialized Landscapes in America, ed. Richard H. Schein, 113-126. New York: Routledge.

Courses Taught:

GCU 253 - Cultural and Historical Geography
GCU 344 - Hispanic/Latino Americans
GCU 425 - Mexican-American Borderland