Mexican American and U.S. Latino Research Center

Edward Murguía, Ph.D. MALRC Director Email: murguia@tamu.edu

Dr. Edward Murguia's publications on the Mexican American experience include studies of colonialism, intermarriage, skin color and its effect on life chances, generational differences, community, drug use and religion, “whiteness” and Mexican Americans, among other studies. He served as Director of the Minority Affairs Program at the Executive Office of the American Sociological Association from 1998-2000, and directed ASA's Minority Fellowship Program during those years. In 2004, he received the Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship and Research Award from the Section on Latina and Latino Sociology of the American Sociological Association. In 2008, he was awarded the Latina/o Sociology Section Founders Award, of the American Sociological Association, for his contributions to Section relative to research, teaching and service. He was the first to receive this award from the Section. He is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University, and in January 2005 became Founding Director of the Mexican American and US Latino Research Center (MALRC) at Texas A&M University.

Marlynn L. May, Ph.D. MALRC Associate Director Email: mlmay@srph.tamhsc.edu

Dr. Marlynn May is a Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Health at the Texas A&M University System, Health Science Center's School of Rural Public Health, and an Associate Director of the Mexican American and US Latino Research Center at Texas A&M University. Dr. May’s research interests focus on community, community development, and community based participatory research – with special focus on the US-Mexico border. For eight years he has worked with Promotor(a)/CHW programs on the Texas-Mexico border, engaged with Promotor(a)s/CHWs in research, and is currently conducting research on the growth and impacts of Promotor(a)s/CHWs involvement in the health care workforce He is the team leader for the evaluation of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded “Integrated Health Outreach Services (IHOS)” project in Hidalgo County, Texas. Dr. May is creator, PI and Director of a project entitled “Building Research Capacity within Community Based Organizations – Transforming Research Capacity into Social and Organizational Change.” Funded by the Paso del Norte Foundation and Center for Border Health Research, the goal of this Project is to build and integrate research competencies within the structures of community based organizations along the border, and then use that capacity to bring about evidence-based social and organizational change.