Education and Experience

CREDENTIALS:

Bachelor of Arts in English and History, West Texas A&M University, 1997

Master of Arts in English, University of Texas at Austin, 1999

Doctorate of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, 2010

EXPERIENCE:

Director of Education and Outreach, Museum of International Folk Art

Instructional Coordinator, New Mexico History Museum

History and Literary Arts Educator, National Hispanic Cultural Center

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of New Mexico

Publications Editor, Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute

Acting Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University

English as a Second Language Instructor, Amarillo Community College

To view Patricia Perea’s full Curriculum Vita, click Here.

CLASSES AND SYLLABI

Dr. Perea has been teaching in higher education since 1997. In that time, she has worked as a graduate teaching assistant, lecturer, and assistant professor. In 2020, she began visiting K-12 classrooms as a guest presenter. In these classroom visits she worked with students on curriculum that included Spanish as a heritage language, New Mexico history, oral history, poetry, U.S. Southwest literature.

To see a sample of some of Dr. Perea’s class syllabi, click on one of the links below.

CCS 1110: Introduction to Comparative Ethnic and Global Studies

CCS 332: Introduction to Chicana Studies

CCS 342: Race, Culture, Class, Gender, History in New Mexico