Kandace Creel Falcón, Director of Women’s and Gender Studies presented a paper titled, “Railroad Settlement Narratives: Invisibility & Chicana Feminist Interpretations of Mexican Women’s Representations in Early 20th Century Kansas” at the Midwest Foco meeting of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Scholars (NACCS).
Dr. Kandace Creel Falcón (Women’s and Gender Studies) presented a paper, “Railway Origins: Uncovering the Tracks of Mexicana Lives in Kansas via Chicana Feminist Methodologies” at the inaugural Latina/o Studies conference in Chicago July 17-19. Two Organización Latina Americana (OLA) student officers also attended the conference – Melissa Gonzalez (WGS and Spanish majors), and Miguel Zarco (Finance) to help shape […]
Dr. Kandace Creel Falcón is the new Women’s and Gender Studies Director. Her term will begin in the Fall 2014 semester and will last for three years. Dr. Creel Falcón is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at MSUM. She teaches courses on feminist theory from a woman of color intersectional approach, digital media production for social justice, and […]
Facebook users have a few more options to identify themselves By: Becky Parker, WDAY www.wday.com Fargo, N.D. (WDAY TV) -For many, a social networking profile is an online identity. And today, Facebook took a step to allow people to identify themselves the way they want. Users can now choose from 58 different gender options. The change from Facebook was announced […]
Dr. Kandace Creel Falcón, Women and Gender Studies, served as a panelist for the Engaging Pedagogies Colloquia sponsored by the Department of Potsecondary Teaching and Learning held at the University of Minnesota December 12, 2013. The colloquium “Engagement Matters: Community Engagement and the Purpose of Higher Education” invited faculty from five different institutions to discuss how has community engagement shaped […]