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Michael Soldatenko
Faculty

College of Natural and Social Sciences
Department of Chicano Studies

Office: KH C4069
Phone: 323-343-2190 and 323-343-2190
E-mail: msoldat@calstatela.edu

Education

B.A.      Loyola Marymount University, (1975).
M.A.    
UCLA, (1980) History.
Ph.D.   
UCLA, (1987) History.

Teaching and Administrative Experience

Chair, Chicano Studies, CSULA, 2005-present.
Chair, History,
Santa Monica College, 2002-2005.
Professor, Santa Monica College, 1991-2005.
Lecturer at UCLA,
Santa Monica College, Los Angeles
             Valley College, CSU Northridge.

Bilingual and Bicultural Instructor,
LAUSD, 1981-1984.
Instructor, UNAM CCH Vallejo, 1977-1978.

Fields of Specialization

Chicano(a)/Latino(a) Intellectual History.
Chicano(a) Student Politics.
18th and 19th Century European Thought.
European Economic Thought.

Publications 

Refereed Journal Articles

“México ‘68: Power to the Imagination!,” Latin American Perspectives,
            (2005), 32.
“The Mexican Student Movements: Los Angeles and Mexico City,
            1968," Latino Studies, (2003) 1:2.
“Perspectivist Chicano Studies, 1970-1985,” Ethnic Studies Review,
            (2000) 19:2/3.
"Empirical Chicano Studies: The Formation of Academic Chicano
            Studies, 1970-1975," Latino Studies Journal, (1999) 10:3.
"The Origins of Academic Chicano Studies, 1967-1970: The Emergence
            of Empirical and Perspectivist Chicano Studies," Latino
            Studies Journal
, (1998) 9:2.
"The Quincentenary of an Erasure: From Caliban to Hispanic," Mexican
            Studies/Estudios Mexicanos
, (1997) 13:2.
"Socrates, Curriculum and the Chicano: Allan Bloom and the Myth of
            U.S. Higher Education," Cultural Studies, (1991) 4:3.  Reprinted

            in Angie Chabram-Dernersesian (ed.) The Chicana/o Cultural
            Studies Reader
, New York: Routledge (2005)

"An Overview of Development Theories,"
South Asia Bulletin, (1982) 2:2.

Book Chapters           

“Constructing Chicana and Chicano Studies: 1993 UCLA Conscious
            Students of Color Protest” in Enrique C. Ochoa and Gilda Laura
            Ochoa (eds.) Latina/o
Los Angeles: Global Transformation,
            Migrations and Political Activism
, Tucson: University of Arizona
            Press (2005).

“Peekaboo: Hiding and Outing the Curriculum” (with Eric Margolis,
            Sandra Acker, and Marina Gair) in
Eric Margolis (ed.) Hidden
            Curricula in Higher Education
,
New York: Routledge (2001). 
            Reprinted in Mandarin Chinese (2004).

“How Chicano Studies Joined the Curriculum: Radicalism and the
            Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education” in Eric Margolis (ed.)
            Hidden Curricula in Higher Education
,
New York: Routledge
            (2001).
 Reprinted in Mandarin Chinese (2004).

Books and Monographs

The Biography of a Discipline: The Genesis and Development of
            Chicano Studies, 1967-1982.  Draft.

The Meeting of Medical Traditions in New Spain: Nahuatl, Spanish, and
            Mexican Medical Styles--A Working Bibliography. 
Chicano
            Studies
Research Center Working Papers, Series Two,
 (1989).