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= Antonia I. Castaneda =

Work and Education.
Antonia Castaneda uses the theme of race equality and gender equality in her writing. Castaneda also taught in her career. She received her PhD in US History at Stanford University. She taught women's studies and history at the UT Austin, UC Santa Barbara and at St. Marys university. She did two terms on the Board of Humanities Texas; was Chair of Mujeres Unidas in San Antonio; and has just completed her second term on the Board of Directors of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. She volunteers with the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center and is a founding member of both the Westside Preservation Alliance (WPA, 2009) and the National Latinos in Heritage Conservation organisation (2015). She is now however retired.

Awards and Recognition
Castaneda won the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Scholar of the Year Award for her "Women of Color and the Rewriting of Western History".