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 Martin Guevara Urbina, Ph.D. 

 Professor, Researcher, and Author 

Martin Guevara Urbina is a Mexican American writer, professor, and researcher, who as a sociologist and criminologist, has engaged in an intensive research and publication agenda designed to provide readers evidence-based information and analysis of Latina and Latino issues in the United States.

Early Life
Martin Guevara Urbina was born in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico to Felipa Guevara and Salvador Urbina. At age of seven, he was taken to the United States, spending his childhood, with his three older brothers, in various places in Texas before settling in Ozona, Texas.

Education
Martin Urbina began his academic journey, first grade, in Carta Valley, Texas, moving to Ozona, Texas during his fourth grade year, later attending Rocksprings, Texas High School, and eventually graduated from Ozona High School in 1991.

Upon graduating from High School, Urbina attended Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas. In 1993, he relocated to Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1995. While at Sul Ross State University, he studied under Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, considered the principal scholar of the Chicano Renaissance and founder of Chicano literary history with his book Backgrounds of Mexican American Literature (1971), first study in the field. Influenced by Ortego, Urbina opted to pursue advanced studies, and he moved to New Mexico to attend New Mexico State University, where he graduated with a Master’s degree (M.C.J.) in 1997.

During his two years at New Mexico State University, Martin Urbina started researching the sociological elements of the U.S. judicial system. In the summer of 1997, he moved to Michigan to attend Western Michigan University, graduating with a Ph.D. in sociology in 2000. At Western Michigan University, he began to examine the implications, utility, and significance of various social issues in research and publication, especially in the areas of race and ethnic relations, capital punishment, law and society, and social justice. While at Western Michigan, he initiated the formulation of a theory on the scope and nature of the death penalty, “the four-threat theory of death sentence outcomes,” which was published in his first book, Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences (2003). Upon graduation, Urbina took a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, where he undertook the broad mission of developing a research agenda with a focus on ethnicity, race, gender, and related issues.

Academic Work: Writing and Research
Urbina is author/co-author of over 30 scholarly publications on a wide range of topics, including 6 books. His research has been published in national and international academic journals, to include Justice Quarterly; Critical Criminology: An International Journal; and Social Justice:  A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order.

Books:
 * Latinas y Latinos in the United States: 21st Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism (2013:  forthcoming).
 * Hispanics in the U.S. Criminal Justice System: The New American Demography (2012).  ISBN-13: 978-0398088156; ISBN-13: 978-0398088163
 * Capital Punishment in America: Race and the Death Penalty Over Time (2012).  ISBN-13: 978-1593324452
 * Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences (2011).  ISBN-13: 978-1593324940
 * A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders: Life Before, During, and After Incarceration (2008).  ISBN-13: 978-0398078119; ISBN-13: 978-0398078126
 * Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences (2003).  ISBN-13: 978-1931202602

Currently, Urbina is working on 3 new academic books. His book, Borders and Dreams: Ethnic Realities of Mexican Americans from Colonialism to 21st Century Globalization, seeks to document the often untold stories of the Mexican experience.

Considering the influence of gang behavior and policies regarding social control, Urbina is drafting a book exploring the experiences of juveniles in the juvenile (and criminal) justice system, Juveniles in the U.S. Legal System: Making Sense of Juvenile Justice.

Given the current debate regarding immigration, he is also working on a book detailing the historical dynamics of U.S. immigration policy, Immigration and the Law: From Conquest to the War on Terrorism.

Previous Faculty (Teaching) Positions

 * Associate Professor of Criminal Justice. Texas A&M University—Central Texas.  Spring 2009—Summer 2009.
 * Professor of Sociology. Howard College.  Fall 2006—Fall 2008.
 * Associate Professor of Criminal Justice. University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.  Fall 2005—Spring 2006.
 * Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice. University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.  Fall 2000—Summer 2005.
 * Instructor of Sociology. Western Michigan University.  Fall 1997–Spring 2000.
 * Instructor of Criminal Justice. New Mexico State University.  Spring 1996–Summer 1997.