Maribel L Alvarez

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Alvarez, M. L. (2018). We are enough: Equity, Inclusion, and Emergent Leadership in Silicon Valley’s Multicultural Arts Community. San Jose, CA: Multicultural Arts Leadership Institute.
• Alvarez, M. L., & Crocker, R. (2018). La Doce: Barrio Foodways. Southwest Folklife Alliance.
• Alvarez, M. L. (2014). Trusting What We Don’t Know: Lessons from an Experiment in Art, Environment, and Philanthropy in California’s East Bay.. Oakland, CA: Open Circle Foundation/East Bay Community Foundation.
• Alvarez, M. L., Nabhan, G. P., Banister, J., & Fitzsimmons, R. (2012). Hungry for Change: Borderlands Food and Water in the Balance.. Tucson, AZ: The Southwest Center’s Kellogg Program in Sustainable Food Systems.
• Alvarez, M. L., & Los Cenzontles, . (2011). This is How We Work: Reflections, Testimonies, and Lessons on Artistic Practices and Teaching Strategies. San Pablo, CA: Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center.
• Alvarez, M. L. (2009). Two-Way Mirror: Ethnography as a Way to Assess Civic Impact of Arts-based Civic Engagement in Tucson, Arizona.. Washington D.C: Tucson/Pima Arts Council (Tucson, Arizona) & Animating Democracy Initiative of Americans for The Arts (Washington D.C)..
• Alvarez, M. L. (2008). Artography: A New Mapping of Art in America --Three Case Studies.”. New York, NY, 2008: LINC (Leveraging Investments in Creativity) and Ford Foundation.
• Alvarez, M. L. (2005). There is Nothing Informal about It: Amateur, Folk, Commercial, and Avocational Arts in the Cultural Ecology of Silicon Valley.. San Jose, CA: Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley.

Chapters

• Alvarez, M. L. (2017). Stretching the Dough: Economic Resiliency and the Kinesthetics of Food Heritage across the US-Mexico Border. In The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage(pp 268-281). Abingdon, England: Routledge.
• Alvarez, M., & Wood, A. G. (2008). Folklore. In The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the US-Mexico Divide. Greenwood Press.
• Alvarez, M., & Francis, D. (2007). Milagros as Public Art. In Faith and Transformation: Votive Offerings and Amulets from the Alexander Girard Collection(pp 32-33). Sante Fe, NM: University of New Mexico Press.

Journals/Publications

• Alvarez, M. L., & Nabhan, G. P. (2018). Strategies to Broaden Knowledge: Citizen Scientists and Citizen Folklorists. Journal of Folklore and Education, 5(1).
• Alvarez, M. L. (2008). La Pared Que Habla: A Photo Essay about Art and Graffiti at the Border Fence in Nogales, Sonora. Journal of the Southwest, 50(3), 279-304.
• Alvarez, M. (2006). Food, Poetry, and Borderlands Materiality: Walter Benjamin at the Taquería. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 10, 205-230.

Creative Performances

• Alvarez, M. L. (2018. Media Presentations 2018. Various.
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  • 2018: International Women’s Day: A Conversation with Maribel Alvarez, March. KXCI Radio. https://kxci.org/podcast/a-conversation-with-maribel-alvarez/• 2018: Why Doesn’t Tucson’s Mexican Food Scene Get More National Attention? The Salt, Gustavo Arellano. NPR, March. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/03/06/589626421/why-doesnt-tucson-s-mexican-food-scene-get-more-national-attention• 2018: This Hot Dog Just Won a James Beard Award, Conde Naste, January. https://www.cntraveler.com/story/this-hot-dog-just-won-a-james-beard-award
• Alvarez, M. L. (2017. Media Presentations 2017. Various.
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  • 2017: Stress-less Fundraising Podcast, Dale & Smith: “Can Arts Impact Be Measured? An Interview with Maribel Alvarez.” July 12. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stress-less-fundraising-podcast/id1229292789?mt=2• 2017: Arizona Public Media, “Danzacultura,” Nov 9, https://tv.azpm.org/p/originals-azill-arts/2017/11/9/119804-danzacultura/• 2017: Arizona Illustrated, AZ Public Media: AZ Profile: Tucson Meet Yourself, October 27, https://tv.azpm.org/p/originals-azill-arts/2017/10/27/119061-tucson-meet-yourself/
• Alvarez, M. L. (2016. Media Presentations 2016. Various.
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  • Tucson Weekly, Oct 6, 2016: “The Politics of Sociability” http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/the-politics-of-sociability/Content?oid=7302434• UA News, May 25, 2016: “UA Anthropology Students Size Up South Tucson,” https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/ua-anthropology-students-size-south-tucson• Executive Producer, film: “Food and Water and Traditional Knowledge in Arid Lands, UA, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, https://sbs.arizona.edu/food-and-water• KXCI Radio, Tucson, AZ, September 13, 2016: “The Saguaro Minute” /Interpreting the Sleeping Mexican https://kxci.org/2016/09/stereotype-maribel-alvarez/• NPR/Latino USA: “The Sleeping Mexican: Honored Cultural Icon or Derogatory Stereotype?” 2016 http://latinousa.org/episode/stereotyped/• AZ Daily Star, “Tucson Woman Sews Love into every Folklorico Costume,” August 13, 2016, http://tucson.com/lifestyles/tucson-woman-sews-love-into-every-folklorico-costume/article_5402f455-e984-5121-802c-333d0bc5665d.html• NPR/The Salt, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, August 26, 2016, “Why Thick Flour Tortillas Never Made it Big and Thin Tortillas Did.” http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/26/433577800/why-can-t-you-buy-new-mexicos-thick-flour-tortillas-at-the-store