Articles about Nicholas

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Villanueva was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure beginning Fall 2023. Congratulations, Dr. Villanueva, on your promotion!

The break up of the Soviet Union, the precarious status of nation-states in parts of Africa and Asia, the rise of multiculturalism in the United States, the acceleration of economic globalization and other related events of the 1980s and 1990s have prompted scholars to explore, in ways they had not...

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Villanueva will join the DES faculty as Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2018. Congratulations, Dr. Villanueva, on your promotion!

A week in Chile Dr. Villanueva took students to Santiago, Chile for the course: Athlete as a National Symbol: Nationhood, Nationalism and Sport. We visited the oldest Rodeo Club in Chile and met the participants. The club president was excited to have students visiting from the United States. We were...

Congratulations to Dr. Nicholas Villanueva, whose book, Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands, recently won the 2017 Southwestern Studies Book Prize though the University of Texas and the Border Regional Library Association, and the 2018 NACCS Tejas Foco Non-Fiction Book Award from the National Association for Chicana & Chicano Studies (NACCS)!

"What I am most proud of is finding the voice of the forgotten dead," Dr. Villanueva says.

CSS Director Villanueva will host a discussion on "Sport: A Nation Divided, A Campus United In Conversation." Everyone is invited to discuss recent events regarding social protest and sport. This is a town-hall style event for participants to share their thoughts, and understand the different opinions that currently divide our...

Congrats to Professor Villanueva on the publication of his new book, Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderland (2017) by the University of New Mexico Press! ​​​