CoLART Professor Awarded Collaboration Fellowship, Partner with UACH Faculty
In collaboration with the Tecnológico de Ciudad Juárez (ITCJ), the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ) and the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (UACH), UTEP has created the U.S – Mexico Faculty Collaboration Fellowship Program to support faculty embarked on new cross-border research. One of the inaugural six projects awarded is that of professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Dr. Jeremy Slack. His project, A Binational Teaching Program, will see him work with Dr. Emilio López Reyes from the International Relations Program at the UACH.
Dr. Slack’s research builds on existing collaborations on immigration and asylum in Ciudad Juárez by catalyzing joint learning experiences at both institutions. It will pilot a hybrid model of instruction that will allow students from both sides of the border to have increased class opportunities, learn from a broader group of faculty, and develop their research activities to comply with both U.S. and Mexican academic systems. "This collaboration will help develop our binational ties as an institution and create more pathways for students and faculty to work together to address issues impacting our shared border region," said Dr. Slack.
Professor Slack’s research focuses on issues along the U.S Mexico Border, participatory/activist-oriented research methodology, and public scholarship. Other research interests include focus on deportation, problems created by forced family separation, and drug related violence on the border.
Dr. Jeremy Slack’s Research Profile: https://expertise.utep.edu/node/30579