B.A., Excelencia Academica, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Gto. (July 2001). International trade major.

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1 Elva F. Orozco Mendoza Assistant Professor Department of Political Science, Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX Education: Work History: Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA (February 2015). Dissertation: "Undying Protests: On Collective Action and Practices of Resistance in Ciudad Juarez." M.A. in Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA (May 2008). Thesis: " Borderlands Theory: Producing Border Epistemologies with Gloria Anzaldúa." B.A., Excelencia Academica, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Gto. (July 2001). International trade major. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX. August 2017-present Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, fall 2014-Summer Teaching Associate, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, Spring Teaching/Research Assistant, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, Fall fall Courses taught at TCU: 1. POSC Introduction to Political Theory 2. POSC 32003: Alternative/Comparative Political Theory Courses taught at other institutions: 1. PSCI 327 Democratic Theory 2. PSCI 120 History of Political Thought 3. PSCI 140 Introduction to Comparative Politics

2 4. PSCI 229 Theories of Justice 5. PSCI 337 Latin American Politics 6. PSCI 377 Political Theory and Collective Action after Death 7. PSCI 270 Individual Liberty & Government Authority 8. PSCI 240 Comparative Government 9. PSCI 100 Introduction to Political Science Publications: Invited Talks Book manuscript in preparation: Undying Protests: A Political History of Anti-feminicide Activism in Ciudad Juarez. Refereed Feminicide and the Funeralization of the City: On Thing Agency and Protest Politics, Theory and Event, Issue 20.2., April, Protest Objects: Gender Violence and the Politics of Memory Ku ltu r ve Siyasette Feminist Yaklaşımlar (English and Turkish translation). Issue 28. February, Maternal Activism, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Edited by Nancy Naples. (Oxford: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. May; 2016). Las Madres de Chihuahua Invited Talk, Villanova University, February, Transforming Violence: Art as a Witness (Transformando la Violencia: El arte como testigo), Public talk and Art Exhibit. Fleisher Art Memorial. Philadelphia, PA. September 16, Protest and Women s Movements in Ciudad Juarez, Latin@ and Latin American Studies. Hampshire College. Amherst, MA. November 8, Conference presentations Elva F. Orozco This is What Protest Looks Like! Undoing Spaces of Violence through the materiality of protest. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 1-4, 2016 Elva F. Orozco, Disposable State(s): Interrupting State Power in the Americas. Poderes Interrumpidos working group. Hemispheric Institute, Xº Encuentro ex-céntrico: Dissidence, sovereignties, performance, Santiago de Chile, July

3 17-23, Elva F. Orozco, Punitive Dispossession: Neoliberalism and the Road to Mass Incarceration, Latin American Studies Association, Annual Meeting, New York, NY.May 27-June 1, Elva F. Orozco, Behind Bars: The rise of Mass Incarceration in Mexico. Western Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. April 2-4, Elva F. Orozco, Exporting Terror: The War on Drugs, Mass Incarceration, and the Politics of Migration in the Global South, Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas, Migrations and Diaspora, Tepoztlan, Mexico, July 22 29, Elva F. Orozco, Las Madres de Chihuahua: Self-Disclosure and the Politics of Visibility, Latin American Studies Association, Annual Meeting, San Juan, PR. May Elva F. Orozco, Agency, Voice, and Movements for Life: Black Lives Matter and Ayotzinapa in comparative perspective, co-authored with Martha Balaguera (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Western Political Science Association, WPSA, Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. April Elva F. Orozco, Vivos los Queremos: On Youth Activism and the Politics of Disappearance in Ayotzinapa, co-authored with Martha Balaguera (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Lozano Long Conference Nuevas Disidencias: Youth Culture, Transnational Flows, and the Remaking of Politics in the Americas, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. February 19 20, Elva F. Orozco, On the Agency of the Non-Human World: A View from Latin America, co- authored with Angelica Bernal (University of Massachusetts Amherst) American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. August 28, Elva F. Orozco, Feminicide and the Funeralization of the City, Western Political Science Association, Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. April 17 19, Elva F. Orozco, Protest Objects, Society for Applied Anthropology, SFAA, Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. March 18 22, Elva F. Orozco, On Material Agency in Ciudad Juarez, On Protest, Graduate Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA. October 25,

4 2013. Elva F. Orozco, Undying Protests: Practices of Resistance against Feminicide in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua, On Protest: A Research Symposium, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA. April 6-8, Elva F. Orozco, Human Rights Discourses in favor of feminicide victims in Ciudad Juarez, Western Political Science Association, Annual Meeting. Hollywood, CA. March 28-30, Elva F. Orozco, Protest Movements in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua, Midwest Political Science Association, MPSA, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. April 12 15, Elva F. Orozco, Another way to be Free: Freedom, Action and the Motherist Movements of Ciudad Juarez, University College Dublin. Dublin, Ireland. July 10-16, Elva F. Orozco, One is not Born Free: Thinking Freedom with Hannah Arendt and the American Revolutionaries, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. March 31-April 3, Elva F. Orozco, Hitting the Streets: Hannah Arendt, Women Action and Public Appearance in Ciudad Juarez, Northeastern Political Science Association, NPSA, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. November 11 13, Silent Voices, International Studies Association-Northeast, ISA-NE, Annual Conference, Baltimore, MA. October 3 4, Borderlands Theory, Virginia Humanities Conference Voices and Visions, Humanities in the Third World. Radford, VA. April 4 5, Memberships in professional organizations American Political Science Association Latin American Studies Association Western Political Science Association Professionally related Honors and Awards Best article prize by the Gender Section of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA Joyce Berkman Award for Outstanding Graduate Feminist Scholarship.

5 Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst Film Festival, Co-organizer 2009 Dictators and Authoritarianism in Latin American and the Caribbean The Political History of Haiti Through Film Race and Sexuality in Latin American and Caribbean Cinema Films Made by Women about Women s agencies in the South The Politics of Immigration Seen Through Cinema (Spring semester) Years After Chile s Dictatorship (Fall semester) Latin American Queer Film Festival.