Awards & Honors: 2014 National Humanities Medalist, Vicki Lynn Ruiz
Awards & Honors: 2014 National Humanities Medalist, Vicki Lynn Ruiz
- September 9, 2015
- Vicki Ruiz, Chicano/Latino studies and History Distinguished Professor, is featured by the National Endowment for the Humanities Sept. 9, 2015
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From the National Endowment for the Humanities:
White House citation: Vicki Lynn Ruiz, for her contributions as a historian. In monographs
and edited volumes, Dr. Ruiz has pioneered the history of twentieth-century Latinas
in a distinguished career that began with collecting oral testimony from Mexican immigrants
who worked in U.S. canning factories.
For the full story, please visit http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals/vicki-lynn-ruiz.
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