Curriculum Vitea
Eduction
Master of Arts in Anthropology
California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton, California
Degree Conferred 5/11/2011
Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications Management
DeVRY Institute of Technology
Pomona, California
Degree conferred 2/23/2000
Teaching Experience
Professor of Anthropology
Los Angeles Trade-Technical College
Los Angeles, California
2023 - Present
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Rio Hondo Community College
Whittier, California
2011 - Present
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Cerritos Community College
Norwalk, California
2012 - 2022
Publications
Garcia, S.A. (in press). Aztlán Archaeologies as Spirit Praxis in Disturbing and Violent Times, American Quarterly, Vol. 78, No. 3, XX-XX. N/A
Garcia, S.A. (2025). Reflections on Scholarship and Equity-Minded Teaching at Rio Hondo College and Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, in The Promise of the Humanities at Community Colleges: Reflections from the Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship Program. Edited by Carmen Carrasquillo and Brian Stipelman. New York. ACLS
Garcia, S. A., and Pricilla Yvette Hernandez (2023). Animal Artifacts and Narratives of the Mesoamerican Clay-Figurine Project, Ethnic Studies Pedagogies Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, 110-125. https://www.ethnicstudiespedagogies.org/ARCHIVES/
Márquez, C. I., and Santiago Andrés Garcia (2021). Mom’s Healing Altar and Dad’s Obsidian Blade: Building the Indigenous Xicana/o Family Healthcare Kit, in In Search of our Brown Selves: A Transdisciplinary College Reader, 2nd Ed., 231-242. Edited by E.C. Orozco, and Silvia E. Toscano. Iowa: Kendall Hunt Publishing. http://whereareyouquetzalcoatl.com/marquezandgarcia2021.pdf
Garcia, S. A., and Claudia Itzel Márquez (2021). Cultivating Positive Health, Learning, and Community Through the Return of Quetzalcoatl and the Venus Star, Genealogy, Vol. 5, No. 2, 53. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy5020053
Garcia, S.A. (2021). Contesting trauma and violence through Indigeneity and Decolonizing Pedagogy at Rio Hondo Community College, Journal of Latinos and Education, Vol. 20, No. 4, 376-396. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2019.1603749
Garcia, S.A., Arciga, M., Sanchez, E., Arredondo, R. (2018), “A medical archaeopedagogy of the human body as a trauma-informed teaching strategy for Indigenous Mexican-American Students”, AMAE Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1, 128-156. http://dx.doi.org/10.24974/amae.12.1.388
Garcia, S.A. (2014). Modeling household building sustainability (HBS) with wood, stone, and paint: Achieving spatial wellness in a West Walnut household of the San Gabriel Valley, USA, International Journal of Development and Sustainability, Vol. 3, No. 4, 865-894. http://isdsnet.com/ijds-v3n4-18.pdf
Current Projects
Proyecto Arqueologías Lago de Chapala
2026 - Present
The Anthropology Laboratory at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College
2023 - Present
The Mesomamerican Clay Figurine Project
2014 - Present
Major Awards
2024 Mellon/ACLS Community College Research Grant ($10,000) to support the ongoing development of equity-minded teaching strategies and the production of one full-length peer-reviewed publication.
2022 NEH/ACLS Sustaining Public Engagement Grant ($157,000), designed to repair the damage done to publicly engaged humanities projects and programs by the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022 HuMetricsHSS Community Fellowship awarded by the Humane Metrics Initiative ($4,500) to support digital humanities components associated with the Mesoamerican Clay-Figurine Project.
2019 Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies ($40,000) to support the Mesoamerican Clay-Figurine Project in classroom capacity building.
2015 The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award for Independent Scholars, Contingent or Community College Faculty (lifetime membership in the ASA, a lifetime electronic subscription to American Quarterly, and $500), American Studies Association.
2008 State of California Graduate Equity Fellowship Award ($2,500), California State University, Fullerton - Graduate Studies & Research.
References
Lizette “Lucha” Arevalo, Ph.D., Department of Chicana/o/x Studies, Rio Hondo Community College.
Contact: larevalo@riohondo.edu
Susy Zepeda, Ph.D., Department of Chicana/o/x Studies, University of California, Davis.
Contact: sjzepeda@ucdavis.edu
Carl John Wendt, Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton.
Contact: cwendt@fullerton.edu