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  • David Spener, Ph.D.

    • Professor , Sociology and Anthropology
  • George M. Storch Memorial Building
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    210-999-8562
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    We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán
    Chile Canta al Mundo
    Canto de las estrellas
    Clandestine Crossings

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    • Sociology and Anthropology
    • Global Latinx Studies
    • MAS: Mexico, the Americas, and Spain
  • Professor David Spener received his doctorate in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995 and joined the Trinity faculty in 1997. He is the author of several books, including We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán: Biography of a Song of Struggle (Temple University Press, 2016), Canto de las estrellas: Un homenaje a Víctor Jara (with Moisés Chaparro and José Seves, Ceibo Ediciones, 2013), and Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border (Cornell University Press, 2009). His latest book is Canto unido, un encuentro americano: Los tiempos y las canciones de Violeta Parra, Woody Guthrie, Víctor Jara y Phil Ochs (2019, Ediciones Radio Universidad de Chile).

    In addition to being a member of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Dr. Spener participates actively in the University's Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC), Mexico, the Americas, and Spain (MAS) Programs,and First Year Experience programs. He has also taught courses in several Latin American universities, including the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City; the Universidad de Guadalajara in the Mexican state of Jalisco; and the Universidad de Santiago de Chile.

    • Ph.D., Sociology - University of Texas at Austin
    • M.S., Applied Linguistics - Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
    • B.A., Economic and Social Analysis - Beacon College, Washington, D.C.
    • Canto unido: Un encuentro americano: Los tiempos y las canciones de Violeta Parra, Woody Guthrie, Victor Jara y Phil Ochs, 2019, Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Radio Universidad de Chile.
    • “Rememorando a Violeta el día de su fuga: Identificaciones y reafirmaciones,” Izquierdas (No. 42, October 2018).
    • No nos moverán: Biografía de una canción de lucha (LOM Ediciones, 2017).
    • We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán: Biography of a Song of Struggle, 2016, Temple University Press.
    • "The Lexicon of Clandestine Migration on the Mexico-U.S. Border." Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 39, number 1 (Spring 2014).
    • Canto de las estrellas: Un homenaje a Víctor Jara (with Moisés Chaparro and José Seves), 2013, Ceibo Ediciones.
    • Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border, 2009, Cornell University Press.
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