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Xenobia Delgado has taught Latin American and Caribbean studies at the State University of New York and The College of Saint Rose, in upstate New York. Her fieldwork includes program development for international development agencies and nonprofit organizations in the West Indies and Latin America, as well as project management and minority community engagement across New York State, in Washington, D.C., and London, U.K. Dr. Delgado has also written chapters on the Caribbean for the Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide (Greenwood Publishers 2008) and contributed research on Sudan and Zimbabwe to the Political Handbook of the World (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2009).  Her current book project covers intersecting themes of historical folkloric counter-narratives and spiritual nation creation through an analysis of works by Trinidadian author Earl Lovelace.

Education:  Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany (2008), M.A. Carleton University – Norman Patterson School of International Affairs (2001), B.A., The University of Western Ontario (2000).

Year Joined Whitworth Faculty: 2009

Areas of Specialization / Expertise:
Latin America, Caribbean, U.S. Latino

Selected Publications / Presentations / Honors:
Zimbabwe.  In Political Handbook of the World, Congressional Quarterly Press (A Division of Sage Pub.) 2009. Sudan.  Political Handbook of the World, Congressional Quarterly Press (A Division of Sage Pub.) 2009.  Mozambique. In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide.  Ed. 1. Epstein and L. Arnston.  Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Greenwood Press, 2007.  Zimbabwe.  In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide.  Ed. 1 Epstein and L. Arnston.  Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Greenwood Press, 2007.  Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.  In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide.  Ed. 1.  Epstein and S. Lutjens.  Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Greenwood Press, 2007.

Completed Works for Publication:
Responses to HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean: Haiti & Cuba.  Ed. Dr. Marcia Sutherland. – One book chapter for publication.

Facts on File Encyclopedia of the Caribbean 2009 (Ed. Dr. John Garrigus) five bios; one health article.

Works in Progress:
Easy to Be god: Contesting History and Nation of Earl Lovelace's Literature

Walcott, Lovelace, & The Long Groan of History in Afro-Caribbean Literature

Courses Taught:

• HI 127 – Latin American Culture and Civilization
• HI 181 – History of the Atlantic World
• HI 182 – History of the U.S. in a Global Context
• HI 196 – The American West in Myth and History
• HI 325 – History of Latin America
• HI 396 – American Indian History