Maiz-Pena

GREENSBORO – The North Carolina Humanities Council said Wednesday that Davidson College Spanish professor Magdalena Maiz-Peña has been named a trustee of the council.

The nonprofit organization is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. It makes grants for educational programs, sponsors discussion series and traveling exhibits, and organizes teacher education and other programs.

Dr. Maiz-Peña is the William H. Williamson Professor of Spanish at Davidson, where she chairs the Spanish department. She has received a variety of honors while at the college, including the Thomas Jefferson, Hunter-Hamilton and ODK teaching awards. In 2007 she was recognized for her work in the Latino Community with the Latin American Coalition Award.

She has authored numerous scholarly articles and books, and is currently working on a new volume to be titled “Urban Spaces, Gender, and Cultural Production in Mexico 1920-1950.” She also is co-editing the “Selected Critical Works of Elena Poniatowska.”

She serves on the board of trustees of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and on the Lake Norman regional board of Charlotte’s Arts & Science Council and is a member of the Latin American Women’s Association. She has been both president and vice-president of the Women’s Caucus of the Modern Language Association and has served on its Committee for the Status of Women in the Profession. She’s also on Woodlawn School’s board of trustees.

Dr. Maiz-Peña has participated in the N.C. Humanities Council’s Teachers Institute and Road Scholars programs. She received her B.A., M.A., and PhD degrees in Spanish from Arizona State University and also studied at Mexico’s University of Monterrey and in France’s University of Sorbonne. She joins a twenty-three member board chaired by Townsend Ludington and vice-chaired by Hephzibah Roskelly.

More information about the N.C. Humanities Council is at www.nchumanities.org.

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