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MA Program

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Sara Grineski

Thesis: Mental Health in Westway Colonia

Post MA in Sociology

PhD Program: Yes. Ph.D. program in Sociology at Texas A&M Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é with a Diversity Fellowship (3 years). My areas of specialization are social demography and population health.

Publications:

Journal Articles

• Marquez-Velarde, Guadalupe, Sara Grineski and Kathleen Staudt. 2015. Mental Health Disparities among Low-Income US Hispanic Residents of a US-Mexico Border Colonia. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 2:445–456.
• Staudt, Kathleen, Mosi Dane’El and Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde. 2015. In the Shadow of a Steel Recycling Plant in these Neoliberal Times: Health Disparities among Hispanics in a Border Colonia. Local Environment 21(5):636-652.
• Staudt, Kathleen, Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde and Mosi Dane’El. 2013. Stories, Science, and Power in Policy Change: Environmental Health, Community-Based Research, and Community Organizing in a US-Mexico Border Colonia. Environmental Justice 6(6):191-199.

Book Chapters

• Keith, Verna M., Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde and Zinobia Benefield. In Print, 2016. “Race, Gender, SES and the Mental Status of African American and Latina Women” in Valire Carr Copeland (Editor-in-Chief), People of Color in the United States: Contemporary Issues in Education, Work, Communities, Health, and Immigration. ABC_CLIO Publishing Company.

Encyclopedia Entries

• Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde. Forthcoming, 2016/2017. “Fundamental Cause Theory.” In Bryan S. Turner (Editor-in-Chief), The Encyclopedia of Social Theory. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell.

Jobs: Graduate Assistant

How has the MA in Sociology program prepared you? The MA in Sociology helped me become a critical thinker and a better writer. It also taught me the fundamentals of conducting research. I think it provided me a solid background to further my education.

Organization memberships:

• American Sociological Association
• International Sociological Association
• Population Association of America
• Southern Demographic Association
• Southwestern Social Science Association

Future Goals: I'd like to continue working in academia.

Education

BA- Sociology minor in Communication Studies, The Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Texas at El Paso, 2010
MA- Sociology, The Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Texas at El Paso, 2013

Email: gmarquez6@tamu.edu 

Favorite Memory

Engaging coursework and the sense that our research mattered.