by Karleen Pendleton Jiménez, Chair 2019-2020
Dear NACCS Members,
I have just returned home from the NACCS midyear meeting in Seattle. The Board was able to do a tour of the rooms and skyline-ocean views from the Sheraton Grand Hotel that will house our 2020 NACCS conference. We worked together on the upcoming conference as well as on committees, awards, finances, and public statements. You will find information about several of these items in this newsletter.
For me the highlight of the meeting, and perhaps of my year as Chair of NACCS, was the task of calling Dr. Albert Camarillo (Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Stanford University) to inform him that he is the recipient of the 2020 NACCS Scholar Award. He immediately began to recount his days as a graduate student at UCLA and the excitement he felt in helping to form NACS [sic]. He did not know that he had been nominated for the award, and expressed his deep appreciation to NACCS and to the many students and faculty members who put together the nomination package. I already suspect that he will offer us a beautiful speech at the NACCS awards banquet.
I would also like to point out the strong statements created by NACCS members and board members on climate chaos, and the violence against Chicana/o/x communities. I think it’s important that Chicana/o/x Studies scholars offer our voice and knowledge in these harrowing times.
We have two deadlines on November 1st: the submissions for our 2020 Conference New Fire: The Flowering of a Union of Free Pueblos (see NACCS XLVII), and to the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize. The submission process for both are available on our website.
If you (or someone you know) would like to be part of the NACCS Board, please send in a nomination (see 2020 Leadership Nominations section of the newsletter).
If you live in the Seattle area, and would like to be involved in the conference, please contact our Executive Director Dr. Julia Curry Rodríguez (julia.curry@naccs.org).
Finally, I’m thinking about those of you near the California fires these past couple of days and hoping you and your families are safe.
Saludos,
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez
Fall 2019 Vol. 44 No. 1