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Dr. Marianne M. Bueno
Dr. Marianne M. Bueno
MAS Program Coordinator
Associate Professor of History
Dr. Marianne M. Bueno is a "military brat" with deep familial roots in South Texas. She grew up on military bases around the world, but her early life was sprinkled with family visits to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands which fostered her curiosity in herstory. She holds a doctoral degree in history from the University of California Santa Cruz, and she has taught at the University of Minnesota and the University of North Texas. She currently teaches courses in U.S. History and Mexican American Studies.
Dr. Lisa Y. Ramos
Dr. Lisa Y. Ramos
Professor of History
Dr. Lisa Y. Ramos comes from the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) borderlands where her family has lived for centuries. Wanting to understand how people make sense of growing up in two cultures has inspired her to devote her career to teaching and research.
She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2008 and taught at Texas A&M-College Station from 2008-2015. She now teaches Texas History, U.S. History, and Mexican American History classes and served as the Mexican American Studies (MAS) Program Coordinator at San Antonio College (SAC) from 2016-2022.
She still hopes to complete her book manuscript on how notions of race and ethnicity impacted the Mexican American civil rights movements of the mid- to late twentieth century. She recommends the writings of fellow borderlanders, Gloria Anzaldua, Americo Paredes, and Cecilia Balli to anyone interested in learning about the LRGV and Mexican American history.
Dr. Michael Sanchez
Dr. Michael Sanchez
Dr. Michael Sánchez has been a member of SAC’s political science faculty since 2005 and has been with Mexican American Studies since 2016. At SAC he teaches courses in Mexican American Politics, Federal Government, and Texas Politics. Dr. Sánchez bring over 20 years of experience teaching and has taught at various community colleges and universities in TX, AZ, MA, and Puerto Rico prior to his appointment at SAC. Other courses he has taught at other institutions include: Minority Politics; Social Research; Introduction to Political Science; Parties and Party Politics; Congress and the Legislative Process; The American Founding; American-Texas Government and Politics; Principles of American Government; Federal & Arizona Constitution; Arizona Politics; State and Local Government; Introduction to the Social Sciences: Politics and Economics; Introduction to the Social Sciences and Cultural Aspects; Environmental Policy and Law; International Studies; Race and Public Policy; Puerto Rico Government and Politics.
Dr. Sánchez believes in a person’s capacity to improve their understanding of the world around them and in doing so to improve their own particular condition. Through his MAS course Mexican Politics, Dr. Sánchez strives to impart upon his students an understanding of the societal structures that work to constrain and inhibit the advancement of Latinos and to provide a perspective of how to break through these. His course examines the nature of power in society, historical treatment of the Mexican American people in the United States, trends in political participation as well as the political economy of this group.
Dr. Sandra E. Galindo
Dr. Sandra E. Galindo
Dr. Sandra Galindo is a college and distant educator who has taught face to face and online college level courses at Alamo Colleges District (SAC, PAC, and NVC), The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and California State University East Bay (CSUEB).
Dr. Galindo has a Ph.D. in Culture, Literacy, and Language, an M.A. in Bicultural-Bilingual Studies, both from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a B.A. in Communications. Her doctoral dissertation titled “Media representation of immigration in a migrant provider and migrant receptor country: A critical discourse analysis” was a semifinalist in the American Association for Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) outstanding dissertation competition in 2013.
Dr. Galindo's experience in higher education is a continuation of years of teaching in universities both in Mexico and the United States. Dr. Sandra Galindo taught, from 2008 to 2012, cultural and linguistic diversity courses at the upper level at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). In her native Mexico, Sandra Galindo taught upper-level courses in Media and Media Production in the Universidad Autonoma del Noreste (UANE).
Dr. Galindo worked for 16 years both in Mexico and the United States as a reporter and editor in Spanish language media. Currently, Dr. Galindo is working on several books and other publications while she continues with her research, teaching, and continuing her education with an M.Ed on Lifelong Learning and Adult Education Program (Global Online and Distance Education Option) at Penn State University World Campus.
Dr. Luis Xavier Rangel-Ortiz
lrangel-ortiz@alamo.edu
Dr. Rangel-Ortiz was born in Mexico City and immigrated to San Antonio in 1994. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Management and a Diploma Degree in Information Systems, both, from the Iberoamericana University in Mexico City. He pursued Language and Cultural Studies in the United States, Canada, France, Switzerland, and England. While living in Mexico City he directed an Art Import/Export Mexican-French company in the early 1990’s.
Dr. Rangel-Ortiz earned a Masters in Bicultural and Bilingual Studies (2004) and a Doctorate in Culture, Literacy, and Language (2008) both from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He has taught Social Sciences, Language, and Humanities courses at UTSA, Trinity University, and currently teaches Humanities and General Education courses at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU).
Dr. Rangel-Ortiz has been teaching Humanities and Mexican American Cultural Studies for Alamo Colleges since 2010. He has published and presented nationally and internationally on the topics of nationalism, transnationalism, transnational entrepreneurship, and immigrant social and cultural adaptation.
Traveling locally and abroad have provided Dr. Rangel-Ortiz deep insight into different worldviews, customs, and belief systems. These insights allow him to promote a broader transnational and global understanding of humanity in his students. Dr. Rangel-Ortiz embraces Alamo Colleges philosophy of education built on open mindedness, critical, analytical, and in depth thinking, and active and cooperative learning.
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