Rita Sanchez

RITA SANCHEZ Professor Emeritus

Professor Rita Sanchez graduated from Stanford University with an M.A. in English Literature in 1974. She began teaching at SDSU that year and entered the Ph.D. program at University of California at San Diego in 1976 where she was a Ford Foundation Fellow for five years.

Professor Sanchez was the first Chicana to receive a Stanford Graduate Fellowship in the Chicano Fellows Program. At Stanford she taught the first Chicana Studies course, Imagenes de la Chicana, as well as a writing course for Chicano students. She also proposed the first Chicana Journal, Imagenes de la Chicana, published at Stanford in 1973.
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Professor Sanchez taught the La Chicana course for ten years at SDSU, 1974-1984, before coming to Mesa College.
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Professor Sanchez has also published numerous research articles on women in the history of New Mexico appearing in the journal Herencia.

Rita Sanchez
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Rita Sanchez is a professor of Chicano Studies at San Diego Mesa College. She has a journalism degree from San Jose State University a Masters in literature from Stanford, as well as a Ph.D. in literature at the University of California, San Diego. She taught in the Mexican American Studies Department at San Diego State University in 1974 and, during that time, developed and edited a student journal called Visión - a celebration of Chicana Latina women. She is currently semi-retired from San Diego Mesa College, where she has been teaching since 1990.

Rita Sanchez, professor emeritus of English and Chicano Studies at San Diego Mesa College, said that it is important to highlight that it was a woman who founded Chicano Studies.

,We need to honor our founder to recognize that it was a Mexicana woman who established this department.Honoring an elder is a wonderful thing to recognize her work.,

Sanchez said that learning from Chicana leaders like Molina de Pick, Mexicans in the San Diego can overcome social challenges.

Rita Sanchez, professor of English and Chicano studies at Mesa College, co-presented with her husband, Ricardo G. del Castillo, SDSU professor of Chicano history, at the San Bernardino Valley College Bookfair in October.
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Sanchez presented her newly completed manuscript, Cochise Remembers My Great-Grandfather, which tells the story of her great-grandfather's meeting with the famous Apache chief.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Rita SanchezProfessor of English, San Diego Mesa College

Rita SanchezSanchez is a professor of Chicano Studies at San Diego Mesa College, where she teaches English and Chicano literature.She writes about making a surprising discovery while researching her family history in her book Cochise Remembers Our Great Grandfather.In it she tells the story of her Piro Indian great-grandmother who marries a German immigrant.

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Authors : Ricardo Griswold de Castillo, Armando Navarro, Mike Padilla, Luis Rodriguez and Rita Sanchez.

Rita Sánchez, Mesa College, San Diego ASU's Department of Chicana & Chicano Studies: Retracting Academic B/orders.