Journal of the Southwest Radio

A chat with Dr. David Seibert, watersheds restoration manager and co-founder of the Borderlands Restoration Network in Patagonia, Arizona. A cultural anthropologist, David has worked on ecological conservation and education for more than 20 years. He has collaborated with Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, and Southern Paiute partners to restore sacred springs and wetlands, with ranchers across Southern Arizona...

After sharing the experience of growing in small-town Texas and the realization of the chicanx and queer realities of her time and place, Dr. Pérez discusses objectivity, race, gender and the challenges of Academia in the current social and political climate.

A conversation with professor Emma Perez, a research social scientist in the Southwest Center and professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. Perez's first novel, "Gulf Dreams," was published in 1996 and is considered one of th first Chicana lesbian novels in print. Her second novel, "Forgetting the Alamo, or Blood Memory" (2009) won the Christopher Isherwood Writing Gran...

An introductory message from professor Jeff Banister, director of the Southwest Center and publisher of the Journal of the Southwest