Michelle Tellez Michelle Téllez is an Assistant Professor in the Women’s Studies Program at ASU’s West Campus where she teaches transnational feminist courses such as “Gender and International Development” and “Women, Cultures and Societies”. She specializes in women of color feminist theory, globalization studies, Chicana/o Studies, social movements and border studies.
Dr. Téllez received her doctorate from Claremont Graduate University in the School of Educational Studies with a focus on Critical Community Studies in Spring 2005. In 2004-2005 she was a dissertation fellow in the department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her publications include the article Doing Research at the Borderlands: Notes from a Chicana Feminist Ethnographer, published in Chicana/Latina Studies: the Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social in Spring 2005 and; the book chapter, Generating Hope, Creating Change, Searching for Community: Stories of Resistance at the U.S./Mexico Border in Re-inventing Critical Pedagogy: Widening the Circle of Anti-Oppression Education edited by Cesar Rossatto, Ricky Lee Allen, Marc Pruyn published by Rowman and Littlefield in the Fall of 2006. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Latina/o Studies Program she will be working on her book manuscript, Transnational Community: Maclovio Rojas and the Politics of Gender in the Struggle for Autonomy. In the Spring semester 2008 she will be teaching a border studies course for the program. | 
