Mariela E. Nunez-Janes

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Abstracts and Proceedings

• Nunez-Janes, M.E., Solano-Pimentel, G., Pavey, S. (2016). La urgencia como elemento necesario en la praxis de la antropología aplicada/Urgency as a Necessary Element in the Praxis of Applied Anthropology.. Asociación Latinoamericana de Antropología, IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Antropología, Memoria. http://www.ala.iia.unam.mx/memorias/simposios/s55.html

Book

• Nunez-Janes, M., Martinez, P., Muñoz, C., Pavey, S., Castro Rodriguez, F., Saavedra, M. (2020). Eclipse of Dreams: The Undocumented Youth-Led Struggle for Freedom. AK Press.
• Nunez-Janes, M.E., Thornburg, A., Booker, A. (2017). Deep Stories: Practicing, Teaching, and Learning Anthropology with Digital Storytelling. De Gruyter Open.
• Aguado Odina, Teresa; Ballesteros Velásquez, Belén; Núñez-Janes, Mariela, et. al.. (2007). Racism: What It Is and How to Deal With It. A Guide to Talking about Racism.
• Aguado Odina, Teresa; Ballesteros Velásquez, Belén; Núñez-Janes, Mariela, et. al.. (2007). Racismo. Qué es y cómo se afronta.

Book Chapter

• Nunez-Janes, M.E., Combes, B.H., Re Cruz, A., Martinez-Ebers, V.J. (2018). “La Colectiva: Peer Mentoring on the Path to Thrival”. Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance.. United Kingdom, Routledge.
• Thornburg, A., Booker, A., Nunez-Janes, M.E. (2017). Deep Stories: Introduction. Deep Stories: Practicing, Teaching, and Learning Anthropology with Digital Storytelling. 1-19. De Gruyter Open.
• Kober, R., Montalvo, D., Moreno, M., Nuñez-Janes, M. (2017). Grieving with Rage. Pedagogies in the Flesh: Case Studies on the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education. 31-35. Gewerbestrasse, Palgrave/Macmillan.
• Nunez-Janes, M.E., Franco, D. (2017). IamWe: Digital Storytelling, Personal Journeys, and Praxis. Deep Stories: Practicing, Teaching, and Learning Anthropology with Digital Storytelling. 99-112. De Gruyter Open.
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela; *García, Israel; Reyes, Esther. (2010). Unheard Voices. Latino/a Youth Activism. In Inmigrantes en Estados Unidos y En Espana: Protagonistas en el Siglo XXI..
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela and Re Cruz, Alicia. (2009). El uso de historias digitales como herramienta pedagógica. Ejercicio etnográfico con estudiantes latinos en Texas. In La integración escolar a debate. Matilde Fernández Montes and Waltraud Müllauer-Seichter, eds..

Book Review

• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela. (2004). Review of I am My Language: Discourses of Women and Children in the Borderlands. Norma González. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2001.
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela. (1994). Review of Reinterpreting Prehistory of Central America. Mark Miller Graham, ed..

Journal Article

• Aydarova, E., McNelly, C., Newcomer, S., Nunez-Janes, M., Villenas, S. (2022). The Imperative for Social Foundations Revisited: A Technical Comment on Warren and Venzant Chambers (2020). Educational Researcher. 51 (4) 289-291.
• Heiman, D., Nuñez-Janes, M. (2021). “Research shows I am here for them”: Acompañamiento as language policy activism in times of TWBE gentrification. Language Policy. 20 (3) 491-515. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-020-09577-7
• Nunez-Janes, M.E., Ovalle, M., Plancarte, S. (2018). Creating Sanctuary:Practices of Acompañamiento/Creando Santuario: Practicando Acompañamiento. Im/migration in the Trump Era. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1290-creating-sanctuary- practices-of-acompanamiento
• Nunez-Janes, M.E., Ovalle, M. (2016). Organic Activists: Undocumented Youth Creating Spaces of Acompañamiento. 10 (4) 189-200.
• Nunez-Janes, M.E. (2016). When Ethnography Relates: Reflections on the Possibilities of Digital Storytelling. Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 47 (3) 235-239.
• Re Cruz, A., Nunez-Janes, M.E. (2013). Latino/a Students and the Power of Digital Storytelling. Radical Pedagogy.
• Re Cruz, A., Henry, L.R., Nunez-Janes, M.E., Jordan, A. (2013). Synonyms of Engagement: Forging an Engaged Anthropology in North Texas. Annals of Anthropological Practice 37.
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela and *Robledo, Andrea (*indicates that co-author is a student). (2009). Testimoniando : A Latina Critical Feminist Approach to Racism in College Campuses..
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela and *Robledo, Andrea. (2009). Testimoniando: A Latina Critical Feminist Approach to Racism in College Campuses.
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela and Re Cruz. Alicia. (2008). Digital Storytelling as a Culturally Relevant Pedagogy for Latin Students (Invited).
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela. (2007). Diversity as an Orientalist Discourse.
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela and Re Cruz, Alicia. (2007). The Pedagogy of Teaching Online Graduate Courses in the Program of Applied Anthropology.
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela (ed.). (2007). Undergraduate Student Research in Anthropology.
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela (ed.). (2006). Undergraduate Research and The Latino/a Chicano/a Oral History Project.
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela. (2002). Bilingual Education and Identity Debates in New Mexico: Constructing and Contesting Nationalism and Ethnicity (Invited).

Magazine/Trade Publication

• Nunez-Janes, M., Heiman, D. (2021). Critical Pedagogy in Action. Anthropology News. 62 (2) 22-25. https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/critical-pedagogy-in-action/
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela. (2007). Chicana/Latina Feminism, Anthropology, and Sobrevivencia.
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela. (2007). The War Within.
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela. (2007). ¿Y ahora qué?.

Media Feature

• Nunez-Janes, M.E. (2019). Guatemaltecos que escapan violencia y pobreza están haciendo del Norte de Texas su hogar. Dallas, TX, http://www.aldiadallas.com/2019/02/11/guatemaltecos-que-escapan-violencia-y-pobreza-estan-haciendo-del-norte-de-texas-su-hogar/

Newsletter

• Nelson, A.S., Nunez-Janes, M.E., Re Cruz, A. (2020). An Invitation to a Sentipensante Practice through Experiential Learning at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Other.

Opinion Piece

• Yarris, K., Nunez-Janes, M.E., Getrich, C., Horton, S. (2022). It's Time for Congress to Act on DACA. The Hill. The Hill. https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/3768866-its-time-for-congress-to-act-on-daca/

Popular Press Article

• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela and *Abbe, Marisa (site designer) (*indicates that co-author is a student). (2008). Students as Researchers , a website dedicated to the scholarship of teaching and learning through participatory youth action research and collaborative student research projects.
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela. (2007). Design and Writing of Anthropology of Education, elective graduate course in the on-line MA Applied Anthropology program.
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela and Re Cruz, Alicia. (2007). Latino/a Students and the Power of Digital Storytelling.
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela (producer) and *Skobarczyk, Josh (director). (2006). Unheard Voices.
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela and *Muhlenkamp, Melissa (site designer) (*indicates that co-author is a student). (2006). Who am I? A website dedicated to student projects from the class "Race, Ethnicity, Identity".
• Mohr, Kathleen and Nuñez-Janes, Mariela. (2005). Improving Literacy Among Diverse Populations: An Analysis of Best Practices and Recommendations for the Dallas/Fort Worth Region.

Report

• Nunez-Janes, M., Barringer, O., Hicks, N., Johnson, B., Kohn, M., Kowalski, G., Lopez Garza, A., Mbengue, G., Rodriguez, A., Rutledge, A., Sims, S., Zazueta, R. (2019). Outreach for Immigrant Services in Denton.

Research Report

• Nunez-Janes, M.E., Goodwin, K., Michaud, A., Rendon, C., Stewart, K. (2023). BHH Action Research Project.
• Nunez-Janes, M.E., Alvarez, A., Betters, D., Dominguez, A., Edmonson, L., Garland, G., Ruiz, K., Valenzuela, R., Hill, A., Monge, R., Nguyen, J. (2018). Empowering Neighborhoods: Identifying the Needs of Underserved Neighborhoods in the City of Denton.
• Nunez-Janes, M.E., Anozie, C., Belachew, R., Burkley, J., Rodriguez, L., Oguchi, V. (2017). Inside Immigration.
• Nunez-Janes, M.E., Gomez, C., Moreno, M., Narvaez, J., Sides, C., Soni, N., Spalding, S., Villagomez, J. (2017). It Happens More than We Think: Labor Trafficking in North Texas.
• Nunez-Janes, M.E., Bassi, M., Cunningham, W., Edwards, J., Fink, M., Gagne, K., Grosch, J., Harris, K., McFarland, K., McGregror, L., Merry, A., O'Neill, S., Padron, M., Perry, T., Schattle, S. (2016). A Case for Asylum: Guatemala and Remnants of a Civil War: Seeking Asylum in the United States.
• Nunez-Janes, M.E., Chippeaux, K., Sherwood, A., Torres, J., Ventura, M. (2016). Behind Closed Doors: Finding a Voice for Trafficked Victims in North Texas.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Service

• Mendiola Garcia, S.C. (Co-Principal), Nunez-Janes, M.E. (Co-Principal), "La Colectiva," sponsored by Office of the Provost Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $2500 Funded. (2023 - 2024).

Grant - Teaching

• Nunez-Janes, M.E., , A.N., , A.R., "Borderlands: The U.S.-Mexico Border," sponsored by Career Connect, University of North Texas, $810.00 Funded. (2018 - 2018).