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student researchers
Wilson Juarez
Braceros' oral history
Wilson Juarez is a senior
in the Honors College and
a McNair scholar major-
ing in history and Spanish.
He is working with Roberto
Calderon, associate professor
of history, to research and
record the oral history of the
Bracero program, a World
War II program that brought
Mexican agricultural work-
ers to the United States as a
source of cheap labor.
Juarez - who has conducted
oral interviews with the few
surviving Braceros, including
his grandfather - says that 10
percent of the workers' earned
wages was deducted for deposit
into savings funds in Mexico to
be available to them upon their
return. But the majority never
received payment from the
fund. The Braceros have sub-
mintted written forms requesting
that the Mexican government
pay them back. Two orga-nizations agreed to start a
campaign to reclaim the funds,
contending that the money was
transferred when the old banks
consolidated into a new one.
Laura Lee McCartney
Art education
Laura Lee McCartney, a
third-year doctoral student in
art education, was one of 80
women selected from more
than 800 applicants across
the country to receive a 2008-
09 Philanthropic Education
Organization Scholar Award
of $15,000 for her disserta-
tion research.
She is using feminist oral
history in the form of biogra-
phy, autobiography, personal
narrative and story to examine
the lives and teaching careers
of eight early childhood fine
arts educators at a Fort Worth
preschool. Her goal is to bet-
ter understand the issues thataffect women early childhood
art educators.
McCartney is mentored
by Christina Bain, associate
professor of art education,
and previously was awarded
a $22,000 Bill and Theresa
Daniel Scholarship. In 2008,
she was selected as one of
10 recipients of the Priddy
Charitable Trust Fellowships
in Arts Leadership at UNT in
collaboration with the North
Texas Institute for Educators
on the Visual Arts.
Shaneka Morris
Classification systems
Shaneka Morris is a master's
student in library science who
earned her bachelor's degree
in psychology at UNT and
was a member of the Honors
College and McNair program.
She works with Elizabeth
Figa, associate professor of
library and information sci-
ences, researching the practicalapplications of teaching and
using comics and graphic nov-
els in the library science field.
Her future research plans
include examining and evaluat-
ing the effects of culture on
cataloging and classification
practices in libraries. Morris
will compare categories for
religious and political works
in the catalogs of the national
libraries of Germany and the
United States.
Morris was selected to
participate in the Association
of Research Libraries
Initiative to Recruit a Diverse
Workforce program, which
provides under-represented
students with financial support
and the opportunity to work
in world-renowned research
institutions upon graduation.
As a 2008-10 ARL Diversity
Scholar, she will receive a
$10,000 stipend.34 d SPRING 2009 UNTIL RESEARCH
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