Ruth Trinidad GalvaÌn, an associate professor in the department of language, literacy and sociocultural studies at the University of New Mexico, has died.
Dr. Trinidad GalvaÌn joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico in 2002. She was also affiliated with the women’s studies program and the department of Chicana and Chicano studies. Her research examined global, transmigrant, and transnational issues of Latin American immigrants, Latina education in the U.S., and womanist/feminist epistemologies and pedagogies. She authored Women Who Stay Behind: Pedagogies of Survival in Rural Transmigrant Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 2015).
Dr. Trinidad GalvaÌn was a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, where she majored in economics and international relations. She earned a master’s degree in educational foundations and bilingual/bicultural teaching at California State University and a doctorate in education, culture, and society at the University of Utah.