Faculty Profile for Dr. Anadelia Romo

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Dr. Anadelia Romo
Professor — History
TMH 202
phone: (512) 245-2123

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Romo, A. (2022). Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. Retrieved from https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/romo-selling-black-brazil
  • Romo, A. A. (2021). From the “Romance of Industry” to the “National Soul”: Promoting Travel in the Pan American Union. In The Business of Leisure: Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean (pp. 85–115). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska.
  • Romo, A., Polk, P., Gledhill, S., & Johnson, R. (2018). From Athens to Africa in the Making of Salvador’s Identity. In Axé Bahia: The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis. Los Angeles, CA: Fowler Museum at UCLA.
  • Romo, A. (2018). Writing Bahian Identity: Crafting New Narratives of Blackness in Salvador, Brazil, 1940s-50s. Journal of Latin American Studies, 50(4), 805–832. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X18000330
  • Romo, A. (2010). A Living Museum: Race, Reform and Tradition in Bahia, Brazil. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Honorable Mention: Best Book in the Humanities for 2022 (Antonio Candido Prize), Brazil section of the Latin American Studies Association. 2022 - 2023
  • Award / Honor Nominee: P. Sterling Stuckey Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora. December 2023 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Muir Mentoring Award, Liberal Arts College. May 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Departmental Award for Scholarship (departmental nominee at Liberal Arts level), Texas State Department of History. 2020 - 2021
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Award for Scholarship, Texas State University. December 2021

Selected Grants

  • Romo, Anadelia. Awarded Online Resource Grant from University Library Review Committee. Grant will bring new online research resource to campus for faculty and students: “Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969.”, Texas State University, $24500. (Funded: 2014). Grant.
  • Romo, Anadelia. Submitted grant proposal to the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Humanities, Federal, $50400. (Submitted: 2016, Funded: January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017). Grant.
  • Romo, Anadelia (Principal). Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University (REP), Texas State University, $6560. (Submitted: December 1, 2015, Funded: January 1, 2016 - May 31, 2017). Grant.
  • Romo, Anadelia (Principal). History Department Research Funds, $2270. (Submitted: March 1, 2015, Funded: April 1, 2015 - August 31, 2015). Grant.
  • Romo, Anadelia. Texas State University Department Travel and Research Grant. (Funded: 2015). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Interamerican Studies Board of Advisors
2008-Present
Member
Liberal Arts Tenure/Promotion College Review Group
August 2023-2024
Volunteer
Scouts of America
January 2021-December 2024
Chair
Merit and Performance Evaluation Committee
November 2023-August 2024
University Mentor
Mentor for new hire/tenure track faculty Alexandra Montero Peters
August 2023-August 2024