James D. Donnelly, Jr., C.A.S.

Principal
Dolgeville Central Middle-Senior High School
Dolgeville, New York

James D. Donnelly, Jr. is a 1982 Colgate University graduate with a Bachelor's in International Relations and Political Science with two advanced degrees from Syracuse University in (M.S.) Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation, and (C.A.S.) Educational Administration. Mr. Donnelly chose a career in education that began in the classroom as a Social Studies Teacher. Since he has served in a number of leadership roles including: Regional Education Planner for the Fort Drum Expansion working as a liaison between schools and the DoD, Congress, and the Governor's office; a District-wide Coordinator for Gifted and Talented Students; Humanities Department Chairperson; Assistant Principal; Dean of Students; Regional Summer School Principal; and the High School Principalship in the Dolgeville Central School District currently. In 1992 Mr. Donnelly was voted the first administrator in Central New York to be Rotary Outstanding Educator of the Year from New Hartford Central Schools. Mr. Donnelly serves on the SAANYS Governmental Liaison Committee meeting with the Commissioner and NYS Legislative leaders on educational issues. Mr. Donnelly was named the NYS SAANYS 2002 Secondary Principal of the Year. After being selected as one of three national finalists in 2003, Mr. Donnelly retains the honor of being named the first NYS principal in the history of the award to be the recipient of the MetLife/NASSP National Principal of the Year for 2004. Mr. Donnelly resides in Dolgeville, NY with his wife Joanne, daughter Katie who will be entering 8th grade, and son J.D. soon to be in fourth grade. The Donnellys’ have two older children out on their own, daughter Denise Renee Brown (25) who is a graduate of the University of Florida and a son Mason J. Brown (28) a graduate of Colgate University and Duke University.

María Herrera-Sobek, Ph.D.

Luis Leal Endowed Chair Associate Vice Chancellor
Diversity, Equity, and Academic Policy
University of California, Santa Barbara

María Herrera-Sobek is Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Academic Policy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCSB and holds the Luis Leal Endowed Chair . She was Chair of the Chicana/o Studies Department at UCSB (2000-2001), co-founder and Director of the Chicano/Latino Studies Program at the University of California, Irvine (1993-1996) and co-founder of the Latin American Studies Program at UC Irvine.

She taught at the University of California, Irvine, for twenty-one years (1975-96) and has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and at Stanford University. Herrera-Sobek is the author of many books including the Bracero Experience: Elitelore versus Folklore (1979); The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis (1990); and Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song (1993). In addition she is the editor or co-editor of numerous anthologies including Beyond Stereotypes: The Critical Analysis of Chicana Literature (1985); Chicana Creativity and Criticism: Charting New Frontiers in American Literature (with Helena Maria Viramonte), 1988 and 1996; Gender and Print Culture: New Perspectives on International Ballad Studies (1991); Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage: Hispanic Colonial Literature of the Southwest (1993 and 1998); Chicana (W) rites on Word and Film (with Helena Maria Viramontes) 1996, Culture Across Borders (1998) (with David Maciel); Santa Barraza: Artist from the Borderlands (2000); Chicano Renaissance: Trends in Contemporary Chicano Literature (2001) with David Maciel and Isidro Ortiz; and Latino and Latina Writers (Associate Editor) 2004.

She recently edited two special issues focusing on Chicano/a literature of the international journals: Nerter (2003) (Tenerife, Canary Islands) and Journal of American Studies, Turkey (2003).

Herrera-Sobek is Associate Editor for the forthcoming Norton Anthology of US Latino/a Literature (2005).

Herrera-Sobek has published more than 100 articles, book chapters and introductions. She is also one of three poets in the anthology Three Times a Woman, and has published her poetry in numerous journals and poetry anthologies.

She is presently working on a book on folklore and a book on narco-corridos.