 Cordelia Candelaria has published over 200 titles, including 15 books and monographs, as well as numerous book chapters, essays, reviews, poems, and other writings. Her Chicano Poetry, A Critical Introduction (1986) and Seeking the Perfect Game: Baseball in American Literature (1989) were the first booklength studies published of their respective subjects. Also a first is her most recent major publication, the 2-volume Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture for which she was Executive Editor and wrote 300 pages (2004, co-edited with Arturo Aldama and Peter Garcia). Her creative writing collections are Cursing Fujimori and Other Andean Reflections (2003), Arroyos to the Heart (1993), and Ojo de la Cueva/Cave Springs (1984).
She has received over $2.5M in grants and other awards either as Principal Investigator, Co-PI, or member of the project team. These include grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Danforth Foundation, Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation, Motorola, Wells Fargo, etc. In 2006 she was recognized by her scholarly peers and named an Arizona Board of Regents' Professor for "pioneering work promoting understanding and appreciation of the rich diversity of American society through her scholarly and creative writings, teaching, academic program development, and leadership" (Regents' Award Citation). At the University of Colorado she served as Founding Director of the Center for the Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America and was one of three founders of the Faculty for Social Responsibility. At ASU she helped establish the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department (CCS) and is inaugurating the first office of academic affairs at the Downtown Phoenix campus.
A classroom teacher and student advisor, she has served on 60 dissertation and thesis committees, directing over three dozen student research projects. Her numerous awards include: the 2005 Outstanding Latina Cultural Award from the American Association for Higher Education, the 2001 Scholar of the Year Award from the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, a 1996 Fulbright Senior Scholar in American Literature appointment to Perú, 1997 Inaugural Visiting Professor to Richmond College-London, third recipient of The Americas Award (1991, first presented to writer Carlos Fuentes and then to United States Senator Daniel Inouye), etc. She is listed in the Baseball Hall of Fame for her book Seeking the Perfect Game. Currently serving as founding Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on the Tempe campus, she helped launch the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs from 2006-07. Candelaria continues as a member of the faculty of the English and the Transborder Chicana/o Latina/o Studies Departments. |
