LAHP MEET AND GREETS
Spring 2022
Dr. David Roh, Associate Professor for English the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Utah. Author of Minor Transpacific; Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions.
Dr. William S. Kiser, Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M San Antonio. Author of Borderlands of Slavery; The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest.
Dr. Jonna Perrillo, Associate English professor and Director of the English Education Program at UTEP. Author of Educating the Enemy; Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands
Dr. Marion Rohrleitner, Associate Professor for the English department at UTEP and Co-author of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions
Dr. Barbara Zimbalist Associate professor for the English department at UTEP and Author of Translating Christ in the Middle Ages; Gender, Authorship, and the Visionary Text.
Spring 2013
Philip Levine: Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet for The Simple Truth
Fall 2013
Bob Black: Attorney and Former Head of the Texas Bar Association
Mark Rudd: Former President of Columbia SDS and member of the Weather Underground
Spring 2014
Tim Wise: Ant-racism Activist and Author of White Like Me
Emma Perez: Chicana Feminist Author and Research Social Scientist at the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Arizona
Cristina Ibarra: Chicana Filmmaker from El Paso for Las Marthas
Nathan Englander: Playwright and Award Winning Author for What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Summer 2014
Bryon Widner: Anti-racism Activist and Documentary Filmmaker from ‘Erasing Hate’
Fall 2014
Ruth Behar: Award Winning Cultural Anthropologist, Author of Lucky Broken Girl
David Carrigan: U.S. Historian
L. Michael White: Religious Studies Scholar, Director of the Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins at UT Austin
Spring 2015
Yolanda Moses: Anthropologist, Professor at the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of California, Riverside
Terri Sewell: U.S. Congresswoman (Selma, Alabama)
Adam Smith: Documentarian, Filmmaker, Director (Doctor Who, Eleventh Hour)
Fall 2015
C.M. Mayo: Award Winning Literary Journalist, Author, and Poet on Mexican fiction
Jessica C. Murphy: Scholar and Englsih Professor at the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Texas at Dallas
Elenore Long, Rebecca Dingo, Sara McKinnon, Blake Scott: Scholars and Transnational Rhetoric Professors
Nancy Rodriguez: National Institute of Justice and Professor at the School of Social Ecology
Eileen Myles: Poet and Award Winning Author of Chelsea Girls
Gary Shteyngart: Award-Winning Author for Super Sad True Love Story and Creative Writing Professor at Columbia Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é
Spring 2016
Bernadette Andrea: Scholar and English Professor at the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of California, Santa Barbara
Claire Starnes: Journalist and Vietnam Veteran
Ashley Lucas: Theatre Arts Professor and Director of the Prison Creative Arts Project
Virginia Espino: Documentarian (No Mas Bebes) and Professor at UCLA
Patricia Zavella: Activist, Anthropologist, and Professor at the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of California, Santa Cruz
Sebastian Junger: Journalist, Filmmaker, and Author of best seller The Perfect Storm
Fall 2016
Daniel M. Goldstein: Anthropologist, Author, and Graduate Program Director of Anthropology at
Rutgers Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é
Ana Castillo: Chicanx Essayist, Poet, Writer, and American Book Award Recipient
Art Spiegelman: Cartoonist, Editor, creator of Maus
Barbara Divis: 2016 Gold Nugget and Professional Opera Singer
Spring 2017
Octavio Solis: Playwrighter of Lydia, Director, consultant for Disney’s Coco
Randi Zuckerberg: author and founder of Zuckerberg Media
Theresa Morris: Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M
Elena Machado Saez: Professor of English at Bucknell Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é
Lopa Banerjee: Chief of Civil Society Section at United Nations Women
Lori Gallegos: Professor of Philosophy at Texas State Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é
Roderick Hart: Chair in Communication at UT Austin and Centennial Lecturer
Fall 2017
Consuelo Martin: Scholar, Professor at Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and Author
Estela Casas: COLA Golden Nugget 2017 and News Anchor
Dawn Lundy Martin: Poet, Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Pittsburgh
Angie Cruz: Professor at the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Pittsburgh and Novelist of Soledad
Jericho Brown: Professor at Emory Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for Poetry
Lois Holzman: Director of the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
Spring 2018
Julian Lim, Lawyer: Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State, Author of Porous Borders
John Matteson: Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
Jose Jorge Mendoza: Author, Philosophy Professor at the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Massachusetts Lowell
Patricia Smith: Poet, Professor, Author, 4x National Poetry Slam Champion, 2018 NAACP
Image Award, 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 2018 Pulitzer Prize Finalist