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Norma E. Cantú, Ph.D.
Professor/ Ph.D. Graduate Advisor of Record
Academic Honors /Grants /Awards
National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Scholar of the Year, March 21, 2008
Texas A&M International University, distinguished alumni award "Portraits of Alumni Achievement", Laredo, Texas, January 30, 2007
"Premio Letras de Aztlan," National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, Tejas foco, March 2, 2007
“La Quinceañera: Transformations of a Coming of Age Ritual’s Cultural Practices in South Texas,” Library of Congress American Folklife Center, Botkin Lecture, November 8, 2006
Américo Paredes Prize from the American Folklore Society for the EL Rio Project at the Smithsonian Institution
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Publication award to Publish Flor y Ciencia, Chicanas y Science, Mathematics and Engineering, 2006.
Instituto
Israelí-Latino Americano: A week-long visit to Israel for the
Encuentro de Escritoras de Latino América y Estados Unidos
Américo Paredes
Prize, American Folklore Society
Distinguished Scholar Award from the Division on
Chicana and Chicano Literature of the Modern Languages Association
The Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book, Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics (I am a contributor), 2003.
NSF Grant for $48,800 for ¡Adelante! Focus on Latinas in Math, Science and Engineering, 2003.
Elli Köngäs Maranda Prize, Chicana Traditions:
Change and Continuity (I am co-editor and contributor)
The Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book, Telling to
Live:
Latina feminist testimonios
(I am co-editor and contributor)
American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award, Race in the Classroom (I am a contributor), 2002.
Outstanding Alumni Award, Laredo Community College, Laredo, Texas, 2001.
Master’s Week Invited Alumni, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1999.
Research Fellowship, University of California, Sta. Barbara, 1998-99.
“Cuentos y más” Project, Research Grant, Recovering the U.S.
Literary Heritage, University of Houston, to research traditional
literature in Laredo, TX
Award of Merit, The Association of Women in Communications, San Antonio Professional Chapter, for outstanding achievement in the field of communications for work in the television documentary Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz, 1998.
Outstanding Alumni Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska, 1997.
Voted to be Commencement Speaker at Graduation by graduating class
of TAMIU
Research Grant from
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center/Rockefeller Gateways Program to
research Quinceañera traditions in Laredo
Premio Aztlán, for Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera, 1996.
Webb County Heritage Award for Publication: Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera, 1996.
Lulac #12, Martin High School Tiger Legend
Inducted into the Laredo Women's Hall of Fame, 1995.
Texas Folklife Resources/Research grants
Fieldwork with Doña María Solis, colcha quilter; fieldwork with Matachines religious folk dance group, 1987-88.
Fulbright-Hays (U.S.--Spanish Joint Committee) Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship to Spain, 1985.
Ford Foundation Chicano Dissertation Completion Grant, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1982.
Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship to Spain, 1979-80.
Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1977-79.
Instructor, 1977-79.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Teaching Assistantship, 1975-76.
Texas A&I University-Kingsville Teaching Assistantship, 1973-75.
Texas A & I University-Kingsville, Research Assistantship for a linguistic study of South Texas high school sophomores, 1974.
Laredo Junior College--Laredo, Texas, Rotary
International Scholarship