KATHLEEN STAUDT is an award-winning Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has written or co-authored more than a dozen scholarly books on women's studies, borderlands, and political science, most recently Pledging Allegiance: Learning Nationalism at the El Paso-Juarez Border, with Susan Rippberger, and Fronteras No Mas: Toward Social Justice at the U.S.-Mexico Border, with Irasema Coronado.
