The Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies Podcast

Send a text Santiago Guerra interviewed Annette Rodríguez on April 8th, 2025, the same day Annette gave the WES (Women in the West) lecture to an audience of 70 people.

Send a text Join Dr. Santiago Guerra as he interviews In Her Bones playwright Jessica Kahkoska and play director Rebecca Martinez. In Her Bones premieres February 13, 2025 and runs through March 2, 2025 at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.  In Her Bones explores the complicated legacy of crypto-Judaism in the Southwest, illuminating an unlikely tale of secrecy, faith, fear, and how we pass on...

Send a text Claire Irigoyen, a SWS graduate (2023), interviews Chicana educators in Denver and explores what culturally responsive teaching can look like. 

Send a text Hey y'all! We know you've missed us. Here's a little update episode where Lucie and Buzz talk about some Southwest Studies events and other cool happenings in the Center. 

Send a text In Block 3, Dr. Karen Roybal and Dr. Carrie Ruiz taught a cross-listed Spanish and Southwest Studies class: New Mexican Culture and Identity through the Performative Arts (SP316/SW200). This episode highlights the voices of the professors, as well as students: Leo Fries, Diana Buda, Annette Leyva, and Ella Eskenazi.  This episode was co-produced by Buzz Katsev and Lucie Raphael. We use...

Send a text In this episode, four students from Dr. Santiago Guerra's third block class, SW252: Marijuana Movement and Cannabis Culture interview a CC alum who does work in the medical marijuana field. 

Send a text In this episode, four students from Dr. Santiago Guerra's third block class, SW252: Marijuana Movement and Cannabis Culture dive into researching the history of cannabis. This is in regards to constitutional laws surrounding marijuana and how these laws target certain ethnic groups, such as Mexican people, in the US.

Send a text In this episode, five students from Dr. Santiago Guerra's third block class, SW252: Marijuana Movement and Cannabis Culture dive into researching cannabis culture on CC campus.   

Send a text Sarah interviews Leah Davis Witherow, Curator of History for the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. They discuss the museum's past, present, and future– keeping in mind the importance of histories  that are often not included (of Indigenous people, queer people, people of color, etc.)  in spaces named after "Pioneers". Leah's email: Leah. Witherow@coloradosprings.gov...

Send a text In this episode, Dr. Santiago Guerra, Dr. Karen Roybal, and Dr. Eric Perramond update our listeners on what's new with them and with the Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies. 

Send a text On this episode, we talk with Dr. Alex Chávez about music, his work and, in particular, his recent publication, Gender, Ethnonationalism, and the Anti-Mexicanist Trope , published in the Journal of American Folklore. 

Send a text Sarah interviews Dr. Andrew Curley on the everyday incorporation of Indigenous nations into colonial economies. Dr. Curley’s publications build on ethnographic research and speak to how Indigenous communities understand coal, energy, land, water, infrastructure, and development in an era of energy transition and climate change. 

Send a text Dr. Santiago Guerra talks with Virginia Palacios, the executive director of Omission Shift, a new nonprofit organization created to reform oil and gas oversight in Texas. Before this, Virginia was the principal at VP Environmental, an environmental science and policy consulting firm. She holds a Bachelor of Science in aeronautical science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a...

Send a text On March 18th, The Hulbert Center hosted Dr. Arlene Dávila on Zoom for a Q&A on Latinx art. Her most recent book is called Latinx Art: Artists, Markets and Politics.  Arlene Dávila is a recognized public intellectual focusing on questions of cultural equity and a leader in the field of Latinx and critical race studies. She is the author of six books focusing on Latinx cultural poli...

Send a text In this episode, Sarah interviews Dr. Michael Méndez. Dr. Méndez  is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning and Policy at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Méndez’s award-winning book, “Climate Change from the Streets,” published by Yale University Press, provides an analysis of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice into global climate change...

Send a text In this episode, Dr. Santiago Guerra interviews Dr. Gabriella Sanchez, sociocultural anthropologist, current visiting senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies: Migration and Global Order Unit, and author of Human Smuggling and Border Crossings published by Routledge in 2016. In this conversation, they discuss the border as homeland, the social dynamics of bor...

Send a text In this episode, Sarah talks to Megan Kate Nelson about her book The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native peoples in the Fight for the West , which was rated as one of Smithsonian Magazine‘s Top Ten History Books of 2020 as well as one of Civil War Monitor‘s Top Civil War Books of 2020. 

Send a text Santiago  discusses the article Ambivalent Landscapes: Environmental Justice in the US-Mexico Borderlands (Springer, Human Ecology, 2008) with co-authors, Dr. Melissa Johnson and Dr. Emily Neimeyer. 

Send a text In this episode, Santiago talks with Dr.  Holly Karibo (assistant professor of history at Oklahoma State University) and Dr. George Diaz (associate professor of history at The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley) about the recent volume that they co-edited: Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America (University of Texas Press, 2020).

Send a text Sarah talks with Amy Kohout, Assistant Professor of History at Colorado College. Amy is currently working on her book  manuscript which is tentatively titled “Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers.”

Send a text In this episode, Sarah talks with Melanie Yazzie. Melanie is an assistant professor of Native American Studies and American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She also is an organizer with the Red Nation, a grassroots Native-run organization committed to the liberation of Indigenous people from colonialism and capitalism.  This is part 2 of 2 parts.  In this half, we discuss Indi...

Send a text In this episode, Sarah talks with CJ Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at University of Texas at Austin. They discuss CJ's research, living in the Southwest, and CJ's book, Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide .

Send a text In this episode, Sarah talks with Melanie Yazzie. Melanie is an assistant professor of Native American Studies and American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She also is an organizer with the Red Nation, a grassroots Native-run organization committed to the liberation of Indigenous people from colonialism and capitalism. This is part 1 of 2 parts.