Today’s episode features my guest, Dr. Miroslava Chavez-Garcia who discusses the topic of writing and publishing academic articles. Dr. Miroslava is Professor of History and Faculty Director of the McNair Scholars Program at UCSB.

She’s published three books, including her most recent work, Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, a slice in the life of her family history. She is currently working on a new project, “The ‘Architects of Hate’: Eugenics, Population Control, and Environmentalism in the Fight for Immigration Restriction in the Late Twentieth Century.”

She’s also a big fan of the medium we’ll be discussing today: articles. She’s published numerous academic articles in peer-reviewed journals, anthologies, handbooks, and textbooks as well as professional blogs and websites.

Dr. Miroslava also wants to let listeners know that she is a first-generation, Chicana/Mexicana immigrant with working class roots. And, most importantly, she is co-author with me (Yvette) of Is Grad School for Me?: Demystifying the Grad School Application Process for First-Gen BIPOC Students.

On the show, she shares common publishing mistakes, the importance of understanding the review process, and strategies for maintaining motivation and focus. This episode aims to demystify the academic article publishing world for anyone who is new to this process.

To learn more about Dr. Miroslava, you can go to the following links and check out her publications below:

https://history.ucsb.edu/faculty/mchavezgarcia/
https://ucsb.academia.edu/MiroslavaChavezGarcia
Strategies for Publishing in the Humanities: A Senior Professor Advises Junior Scholars,” The Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 48, no. 4 (July 2017): 199-220.
“Navigating Successfully Grants and Fellowships Applications,” co-author with Luis Alvarez and Ernesto Chávez, in The Academic’s Handbook, 4th ed., revised and expanded, eds. Lori Flores and Jocelyn Olcott (Duke University Press, 2019).
“Future Academics of Color in Dialogue: A Candid Q&A on Adjusting to the Cultural, Social, and Professional Rigor of Academia,” co-author with Mayra Avitia and Jorge N. Leal, in Beginning a Career in Academia: A Guide for Graduate Students of Color, 128-145, ed. by Dwayne Mack et al. New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group, 2014.

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