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Martha is an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Global Studies at St. Lawrence University
where she teaches intercultural studies, cultural studies,
popular culture and border studies. Chew studied her Ph.D.
in intercultural communication in the University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque. Martha’s research interests have focused on cultural
expressions of immigrants. Her dissertation entitled “Cultural
memory and the Mexican diaspora in the United States: the
role of the corridos about immigration and the shared aesthetics
in their performance by conjuntos norteños” was awarded distinction
in the Fall of 2001.
Chew is an adjunct faculty at the Universidad
Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. Instituto de Licencias Sociales
Administración [Social Science and Management Institute]
where she has taught the graduate course “Multiculturalism
and Geopolitics”
Chew was a fellow of the Smithsonian
Institution in 2001. She was part of the Latino Graduate Training
Seminar “Interpreting Latino Cultures: Research and Museum.”
Granted by the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives (SCLI)
the Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR) that
took place in Washington, D.C.In the academic year 2001-2002,
Chew had a post-doc stay at the Chicano Studies Research Center,
in the University of California at Los Angeles where she focused
her research on Chicano Studies, Cultural Studies and Performance
Studies. She worked on the paper “The Politics of Sexuality
and Gender Performance in Fiestas Norteñas among Subaltern
Mexican communities in the United States.”
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