RUDY V. BUSTO

Associate Professor Department of Religious Studies University of California at Santa Barbara Humanities & Social Sciences Building, 3038 Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3130 805.893.3199 [email protected] http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/faculty/busto.html

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS Religion & race in the United States; Asian American / Pacific Islander religions; Chicano/Latino religions; American religions; religion in the American West & Pacific Rim; syncretism/hybridity and religious change; Religion under colonialism; Religion & science fiction; First Amendment challenges; religious u-/anti-/dys-/heterotopias

EDUCATION 1991

1982

1979

University of California at Berkeley Ph.D. Ethnic Studies Dissertation: “Like a Mighty Rushing Wind:” The Religious Impulse in the Life and Writing of Reies López Tijerina Advisor: Margarita Melville; Readers: Alex Saragoza, David Lloyd Harvard University The Divinity School Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S.) Stanford University B.A. Religious Studies

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 7/2005–present

University of California at Santa Barbara Religious Studies Department Associate Professor Asian American/Pacific Islander & Chicano/Latino religions

1/2003–6/2005

Assistant Professor

Affiliated Faculty: Asian American Studies, Chicana/Chicano Studies, Latin American & Iberian Studies

Rudy V. Busto - 2 Courses:

Religion & Ethnicity Asian American/Pacific Islander Religious Traditions Chicano/Latino Religious Traditions Latino Religious Thought Aztec Religion Religion in the American West The American Religious Experience: Civil and Uncivil Religion Evangelical Christianity in the United States Religious Studies Senior Seminar: Religion and Science Fiction Graduate Seminar in Race & Religion • Special Topic for 2005: Buddhism and Race in North America

9/1993–12/2003

Stanford University Religious Studies Department Assistant Professor American & Ethnic Religions 9/1999–12/2000 Visiting Assistant Professor 1/1991–8/1992 James Irvine Post-doctoral Fellow for Multicultural Curriculum Development Affilated Faculty: Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CSRE); Feminist Studies; Latin American Studies; Modern Thought & Literature Courses: Religion in America Chicanos and Religion Asian American /Pacific Islander Religious Traditions American Indian Religions Approaches to Native American Traditions Religion and Ethnicity Power in the Blood: Evangelical Christianity in the United States Introduction to Chicano Life and Culture (with Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano) Religion in the American West Syncretism and Revitalization Movements Graduate Seminar in American Religions Topics in Race and Religion: • Religion and Race/Ethnicity Theory • New Texts in Chicano/Latino Religions • Authenticities, Indigeneities and Antisyncretism • Religious Strategies of Liberation for Racially Ethnic Communities • Chicano Religions from the Movimiento through the Post-Aztlán Era 8/1999–12/2000

St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California Religious Studies Department Visiting Assistant Professor

Rudy V. Busto - 3 Courses: Christianity in the United States Religion in America Religion and Ethnicity Chicanos and Religion Religious Strategies of Liberation for Racially Ethnic Communities 1988, 1989, 1990

University of California at Berkeley Ethnic Studies Program

Instructor: Racial Inequality in America: A Comparative Historical Analysis Filipino American History Religion and Ethnicity (with Margarita Melville)

PUBLICATIONS Books “King Tiger”: The Religious Vision of Reies López Tijerina (University of New Mexico, 2005) The book argues that Tijerina’s religious worldview is at the core of how he understands his life and political activism. Included is a biographical sketch; a description of Pentecostalism’s expansion along the U.S.-Mexico border; details about Tijerina’s attempt a building a utopian community in the Arizona desert; an assessment of Tijerina’s apocalyptic theology; an examination of Tijerina’s memoir, Mi lucha por la tierra; and an exploration of Tijerina’s speculative genealogy about Latinos as “Christian Israelites.” Articles, Chapters, Reviews, and Other Publications 2007

“Sacred Order, Sacred Space: Reies López Tijerina and the Valle de Paz Community” Chicano Religions: Essays in the Mexican American Experience,” Gastón Espinosa and Mario T. Garcia, eds. Duke University Press.

2005

“‘In the Outer Boundaries...’: Pentecostalism, Politics and Reies López Tijerina’s Civic Activism” Latino Religions and Social Action in the United States, Gaston Espinosa, Virgilio Elizondo and Jesse Miranda, eds. Oxford University Press.

2004

“Review of Antony William Alumkal, Asian American Evangelical Churches: Race, Ethnicity, and Assimilation in the Second Generation. New York: LFB Scholarly Pub LLC, 2003. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 72/4 (December).

2003 “The Predicament of Nepantla : Chicano(a) Religions in the Twenty-First Century” New Horizons in Hipanic/Latino(a) Theology, Benjamín Valentín, ed. Pilgrim Press. “DisOrienting Subjects: Reclaiming Pacific Islander / Asian American Religious Traditions” Revealing the Sacred in Asian America, Jane Iwamura and Paul Spickard, eds., 9-28 (Routledge).

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2001

“Report from Cuernavaca: Postcards from a Global Village” Religious Studies News, Fall.

2000

“Why Is Religion Important?” Laurie Maffly-Kipp, et al. Ideas (National Humanities Center) 7:2, 34.

1999

“The Gospel According to the Model Minority? Hazarding an Interpretation of Asian American Evangelical College Students” Spiritual Homes: Religion and Asian Americans, David Yoo, ed. (University of Hawaii), 169-187.

1998

“The Predicament of Nepantla: Chicana/o Religions in the 21st Century” Perspectivas [Hispanic Theological Initiative] 1:1 (Fall), 7-21.

1996

“The Gospel According to the Model Minority? Hazarding an Interpretation of Asian American Evangelical College Students” Amerasia Journal (Summer), 133-147. “Asian American Religious Identities: Building Spiritual Homes on Gold Mountain” Response to “Critical Reflections on Asian American Religious Identity” Amerasia Journal (Summer), 187-190.

1994

“‘It Really Resembled an Earthly Paradise’: Reading Motolinia’s Account of the Caída de nuestros primeros padres" Biblical Interpretation 2:1 (Winter), 111-137.

WORKS-IN-PROGRESS Ongoing book project The Predicaments of Nepantla: Keywords in Chican@ Religions (contract with Indiana University Press) An exploration of how the theme “between things” (nepantla) is uncovered in the history and experience of Chicano religion and religious history, and conditions a set of keywords necessary to understanding Chican@ religions. Chapter 1: Nepantla Theorizing Chicana/o Religion: The Context for Nepantla Chapter 2: Mestizaje ‘It Really Resembled an Earthly Paradise’: Reading Motolinia’s Account of the Caída de nuestros primeros padres Chapter 3: Virgen Virgins, Heroes and Saints and Scholars: The Virgin of Guadalupe and Cherrie Moraga’s “Heroes and Saints” Chapter 4: Frontera The ‘Burned-Over Border”: Religious Innovations Then and Now Chapter 5: Indio Religious Innovators en Nepantla : Souza de Canavarro, Jose Silva and Jose Argüelles

Rudy V. Busto - 5 Chapter 6: Evangélico At the Margins of Empire: Southern Baptist Missions to Mexican Americans in Arizona, 1940-1965 Chapter 7: Rasquache Latino religious Thought? The Triumph of Rasquachismo Chapter 8: Biblia Chicano Holy Writ as Oral(e) Literature Chapter 9: [Internal] Colonialismo The Legacy of the Spiritual Conquest and [Internal] Neo-Colonialism Chapter 10: Cucuy Ni de Aquí, ni de Allá: Aliens and Pentecostals in Aztlán – Some Lessons from Monster Theory New book project DisOrienting Subjects: Asian American Religions The first single-authored interdisciplinary examination of Asian American religion. The book argues for a distinct Asian American religiosity that requires a commensurate Asian American religious studies trans- and counterdisciplinary approach. The book is arranged around enduring dilemmas challenging the comprehensive understanding of religion in Asian America: Chapter 1: DisOrienting Subjects Retrieving Asian / Pacific Religions Chapter 2: Asian American Religious History A View from the Pacific Rim Chapter 3: Buddhism and “Mongolians” in America Living Buddhas, Orientalism and Racial Formation Chapter 4: The Gospel According to the Model Minority? Asian American Evangelicalism Chapter 5: Asian American Religious Intellectual History Race, Religion and Public Intellectuals Chapter 6: Asian American Theology Margins Beyond Europe / Margins Beyond Asia Chapter 7: Pinoy Angels in America Jose Garcia Villa’s The Anchored Angel Chapter 8: Asian American Spiritual Aesthetics Chiura Obata, Ruth Asawa, and Maya Lin Chapter 9: Teaching Asian American Religions Pedagogical Issues at the Intersection of East and West Articles and Reviews “A ‘Living Buddha’ in Asian America: Race, Buddhism and Mongolians in the United States” (Submitted to Journal of the American Academy of Religion) Book Review for Pacific Historical Review. Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West, Fay Botham and Sara M. Patterson, eds (Arizona, 2006)

Rudy V. Busto - 6 Book Review for Journal of Ecclesiastical History. David A. Badillo, Latinos and the New Immigrant Church (Johns Hopkins, 2006), and Paul Barton, Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists in Texas (Texas, 2006) Book Review for Religious Studies Review. Asian American Religions: The Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries, Tony Carnes and Fenggang Yang, eds. (NYU Press, 2004) Book Review for Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity: An Introduction, Craig R Prentiss, ed. (NYU Press, 2003) Editor, posthumous publication of Steffi San Buenaventura MS on Filipino/Filipino American Religion (Filipino Federation of America) Co-Editor, with Andrés Guerrero. Republication and revision of Andrés Guerrero, A Chicano Theology (Orbis, 1987)

PRESENTATIONS 2008

American Society of Church History, Washington, DC Panelist: Approaches and Problems in Latino/Latin American Religious History, January 3-5

2007

Central Eurasian Studies Society Eighth Annual Conference, Seattle, WA Paper: "Race, Buddhism and ‘Mongolians’ in the United States” October 18-21 (proposed)

2007

Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, IL “Race and/or Religion? Why Race Matters in the Study of Religion and Theology,” 24 April

2006

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Washington, DC “Internal Neo-Colonialism?” Legacies of Colonization: Comparative Religious and Theological Perspectives on “America” from the Margins Panel, Latina/o Religion, Culture and Society Group, November 20

2006

American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA Paper: “Mongols or Mongolians? …And the Strange Career of the ‘Living Buddha’ in America” 13 October

2006

Zea Speakers Series, Chicano Studies Department, UCSB “Latino Religious Thought?: The Triumph of Rasquachismo” 6 April

2006

Religion, Race and Ethnicity in the American West Conference/ Consultation. Religious Studies Department, Arizona State University

Rudy V. Busto - 7 Invited Panelist: ““Religion, Race and Dystopia in the American West, 3 March 2005

American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA Paper: “Race and Religion at the Margins of Empire: Southern Baptist Missions among Mexican Americans in Arizona” 11 January

2004

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX Panelist. Special Topics Forum: Sacred Texts and Race/Ethnic Communities. Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession, 20 November

2004

“What Color is God: The Intersection of Race, Religion and Justice” Conference Participant/Panelist: “Thinking about Race in Religion and Theology” Loyola Marymount University, 19-20 February

2003

Asian American Studies Faculty Colloquium, UCSB "The Case of the Missing 'Living Buddha': Why Asian American Studies and American Religious History Need Each Other", 2 December

2003

Religious Studies Faculty Colloquium, UCSB “Nepantla: Theorizing Chicana/o Religions” 15 October

2003

Fulbright American Studies Institute/Religious Studies Department, UCSB Lecture: “Race and the Growing Public Presence of Latinos” 3 July

2003

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Latina/o Religiosities and Spiritualities, an Interdisciplinary Symposium Invited Paper: “Latino Religious Thought?: Pujando pero llegando/Huffing and Puffing, But Getting There”, UC-Berkeley, 25 April

2002

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada Paper: “A 'Living Buddha' in Asian America: Looking for the Dilowa Gegen Khutukhtu" Asian North American Religion, Culture and Society Group, 25 November

2002

Seminar in American Religion. Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism Commentator. “Horizons of the New American Religious Studies: Tim Matovina and Gary Riebe-Estrella, Horizons of the Sacred: Mexican Traditions in U.S. Catholicism, Notre Dame University, 9 November

2002

Asian Pacific Americans and Religions Research Initiative Conference Panelist. “Convergences and Divergences: Theology and Religious Studies in Asian Pacific America”, Berkeley, 2 August

2002

Global and Local Dimensions of Asian America: An International Conference on Asian Diasporas Paper: “Does Religion Trump Race?

Rudy V. Busto - 8 Kalmyk Mongol Buddhists in Diaspora” San Francisco, 12 May 2002

First Year Convocation Speaker, Whittier College “Religion and Race: Things Are Not What They Always Seem” 18 April

2002

Asian American Studies, Cornell University Lecture: “Whose Pluribus? Whose Unum?: Asian Americans and the Limits of Religious Diversity” 5 April

2002

Religious Studies Faculty Colloquium, UCSB “Religious Diversity in the United States: Whose pluribus? Whose unum?” 16 February

2001

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Denver, CO Panelist. "Primtivism and Pragmatism as Conjoined Twins: Some Lessons from Monster Theory.” Author Meets Critics: Grant Wacker's Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture North American Religions Section, 17 November

2001

Pacific Asian North American (PANA) Religion Institute Senior Fellow Lecture. “DisOrienting Subjects: Pacific Islander & Asian American Religious Traditions” Pacific School of Religion, 16 October

2000

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN Panelist. “Teaching Latina/o Religious Studies and/or Theology: Sharing Our Resources” Hispanic American Religion, Culture and Society Group, November

2000

Hispanic Churches and American Public Life Conference Paper: "‘...In the Outer Boundaries of the Religious World...': Pentecostalism, Politics and Reies López Tijerina’s Civic Activism” Santa Barbara, September 1

1999

Latina/o Critical Legal Theory IV Conference Panelist. “We Won’t Go Back!: Re/Claiming Equal Opportunity for Latinas/os and Others in Legal Education’, Moderated Focus Group, Lake Tahoe, CA, 29 April

1999

Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference “The Religious Subject as Tertium Quid in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée, Philadelphia, PA, 31 March-4 April

1999

Asian Pacific Americans and Religions Research Initiative Conference/ Consultation Keynote Speaker. “DisOrienting Subjects: Towards the Study of Asian Pacific American Religions” UC-Santa Barbara, 4 March

1998

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL “‘...Do not be astonished, we are still nepantla’: Theorizing Chicano/a Religions”

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American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL Panelist. “What is Religion? Definitional Disruptions and Eruptions” Asian North American Religion, Culture and Society Group/Indigenous Religious Traditions Group, November

1998

Religious Studies Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN “Nepantla: The Predicament of Chicano Religions”, 26 October

1998

Latina/o Critical Legal Theory III Conference Invited plenary panelist: “Latino/a Religion and Critical Legal Theory: Convergent and Clashing Ideologies”, University of Miami Law School, Florida, 8-10 May

1998

Hispanic Theological Initiative Invited Speaker: “The Predicament of Nepantla: Chicana/o Religions into the 21st Century”, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, CA, 26 April

1998

Re-Constructing Time and Borders: Latina/o Religious/Cultural Change and Identities. A Symposium with Enrique Dussel Invited panelist: “The Predicament of Nepantla: Chicana/o Religions into the 21st Century”, Duke University, 27-28 March,

1997

Religious Diversity and Campus Life Conference Invited Panelist: “Whose Campus? Whose Diversity? Whose Religion?”, Center for the Study of American Religions, Princeton University, June

1996

American Academy of Religion/Society for Biblical Literatures Annual Meeting, New Orleans Paper: “Cruising the Net with ‘God’s Gangsters’: Evangelical Persuasion, the ‘Junkie Church’ and the World Wide Web”, The Bible and Cultural Studies Group, 23 November

1996

Latino Popular Religiosity Conference Paper: “Text Versus Image? Latino Dreaming in the Protestant Tradition”, Program for the Analysis of Religion among Latinos (PARAL) Chicago, IL, 11 October

1996

Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference Paper: “Framing Asian American Religions: Orientalism, Asiacentrism and the Sound of One Hand Clapping”, Washington, DC, 31 May

1996

New Directions in Chicano Religion Conference Paper: “Reies López Tijerina's Valle de Paz: A Chicano Utopian Community". UC-Santa Barbara, 16 February

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American National Identity/Identities Conference Convener/Panelist: “Religious Traditions Beyond the American ‘Center’” E Pluribus Unum?:, Stanford University and James Irvine Foundation, Stanford University, 9 February

1995

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA Paper: “DisOriented Subjects: The Study of Asian American Religions”, Asian American Culture and Society Consultation, 19 November

1995

Wiegand Art Gallery, College of Notre Dame “The Mexican Day of the Dead”, Belmont, CA, 21 October

1995

Stanford Taiko Symposium Paper: “North American Taiko and Asian American Religious Innovation”, Stanford University, 11 May

1995

The World Affairs Council of Northern California 49th Annual Conference Panelist: “Taking Stock of Christian Fundamentalisms in the World: “Managing World Chaos: Is America Responsible?”, Asilomar, CA, 6 May

1995

American Society of Church History Paper: “Beyond the Center: A Mexican American Pentecostal Eschatology from the 1950s”, Miami, FL, 22 April

1993

American Studies Association Annual Conference “Reies Tijerina and the Quest for the ‘Chosen People’”, Boston, MA, 7 November

1992

Religious Studies Faculty Colloquium, UC-Riverside “Mapping Aztlán's Spiritual Borderlands", December

1992

National Association for Chicano Studies Annual Conference Paper: “Chicanos and Religious Studies: The Failure of Cultural Pluralism”, San Antonio, March

1992

Chicano Faculty Qualitative Research Colloquium, Stanford University “Brown Buffaloes on the Farm: Chicano Studies-A View from the Field”, January

1991

Chicano Studies Department, UC-Berkeley “Chicano Studies: Visions and Revisions”, November

1991

Religious Studies Colloquium, Stanford University “Religion at the Margins: A Case of Chicano Pentecostalism, May

1991

Center for Chicano Research Colloquium, Stanford University “Looking for Tijerina: The Subaltern in Chicano Historiography”, March

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1990

Filipino American National Historical Society Conference “James Earl Wood and Filipino American History: Manuscripts in the Bancroft Library”, Sacramento, CA, July

1990

National Association for Chicano Studies Annual Conference Paper: “El Tigre Unchained: Reies Tijerina in Chicano History”, Albuquerque, NM, April

1986

The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse Conference “Otherness and Identity: Religious Heterodoxy in Chicano Writing”, UCBerkeley, May

1986

National Association of Ethnic Studies Conference Paper: “American Ethnic Religions: Problems and Prospects”, Fresno, CA, May

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2007

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego Convener: “Author Meets Critics: David Kyuman Kim’s Melancholic Freedom: Agency and the Spirit of Politics,” with Judith Butler, Romand Coles and Cornel West. Philosophy of Religion Section, November

2007

Office of the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, UCSB Ad Hoc Review Committee on Writing Program

2006

University of California Pacific Rim Research Grants UCSB Campus Pacific Rim Advisory Committee, December

2006

Office of Residential Life, UCSB Presentation to Housing & Residential Service Mangers, “World Religions in the U.S.” 5 December

2006-2010

Asian/Pacific Americans and Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) Co-Chair, Advisory Board

2006

Asian/Pacific Americans and Religion Research Initiative Conference, UC-Berkeley Convener: “New Research on Old Themes: Rescripting Asian American Religious History”, 5 August

2006

Religious History of the American West Project. Advisory Board member

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Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Workshop leader (with Kwok Pui Lan, Fumitaka Matsuoka, Seung Ai Yang). Workshop on Teaching and Learning for Pre-Tenure Asian and Asian/North American Faculty

2005

University of California Pacific Rim Research Grants UCSB Campus Pacific Rim Advisory Committee, December

2005

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Philadelphia Respondent. “Reformulations of Religion and Spirituality in Asian America,” Asian North American Religion, Culture and Society Group, November (response read in absentia)

2003

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta Respondent. "Replotting American Religion: The Transnational Perspective" North American Religions Section, 22 November

2003

UCSB Affiliates Spirituality and Culture Series “What Color is Your Spiriuality?: Race and Ethnicity in American Religion” Barbara, California, 12 November

Santa 2003

Women and Conflict: Historical Perspectives Conference, UCSB Respondent. Matthew Sutton, “Flappers, Fornicators and Fundamentalism: The Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson” 12 October (response read in absentia)

2002

American Society of Church History Conference, San Francisco Tour leader (with Peter Williams and Jeanne Kilde). Religious sites in San Francisco Chinatown, 5 January

2001

Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles Respondent. “Religion, Race, Ethnicity and Class in Twentieth-Century America,” April

2000=2006

Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) Editorial Board member

2000-2003

Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific Asian North American Religion (PANA Institute, PSR/GTU Advisory Board

1999

American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch, Honolulu Respondent. “Teaching Pacific Rim Perspectives on American Religious History,” August

1999

Smithsonian Institution Consultation. Asian American Studies Scholars / Smithsonian Asian Pacific

Rudy V. Busto - 13 American Initiative Strategic Planning Session. Washington, DC, 6-7 April 1999

Asian American Studies/Religious Studies, UC-Santa Barbara Consultation. Asian/Pacific American Religions, 4-5 March

1998

National Humanities Center/ Rockefeller Foundation, Durham, NC Working conference. The Changing Role of Religion in American Life, 28-30 & 1-3 October

May 1998

The Pew Charitable Trusts, Religious Studies Program Briefing paper: “Religion, ‘New Immigrants’ and Race in the United States: A Partisan View”

1997

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Francisco Respondent. “Latino/a Pentecostalism in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands” North American Religions Section/Hispanic American Religion, Culture, and Society Group, 24 November

1997

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego Respondent. “Immigrant Religious Organizations as Ethnic Advocates: Latino and Asian Case Studies,” 7 November

1996

American Studies Association Annual Conference, Kansas City Respondent. “Outsiders Again: Contemporary Versions of Asian American Masculinity,” 1 November

1996

Program for the Analysis of Religion among Latinos (PARAL) Conference, UC-Santa Barbara Respondent. “Intensified Cultural Identity and Resurgent Latino Religion: Reviewing Three Decades of Transformation,” 12 April

1995

Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Oakland Respondent. “Religious Meaning and Community--Asian American Religious Life,” 1 June

1993

Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Ithaca Respondent. “Asian American Religious Identity/Critical Reflections,” June

1992

Association for Asian American Studies Conference, San Jose Respondent. "Women of Color and Beauty Contests,” March

1991

A Teacher’s Guide to Multicultural Perspectives in Social Studies, Gary B. Nash, et al., Boston: Houghton Mifflin Consulting Author. “Filipino American History”

1990

National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Rudy V. Busto - 14 “Reies López Tijerina and New Mexican Land Reform" A report prepared for the Quincentenary Exhibition Project, American Encounters, July

Tenure review for Agustana College, University of San Francisco Manuscript reviews for Columbia University Press, Westview Press, Temple University Press, Mercer University Press, Blackwell Publishers, Social Problems, Utah State University Press, NYU Press Extramural doctoral committee member for students at Stanford (Chicano Religion, Anthropology), Graduate Theological Union (Chicano Religion, Asian American Religion); UC-Berkeley (Asian American Religion); UCLA (Asian American Religion)

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Selected Author. Seminar in American Religion. King Tiger: The Religious Vision of Reies López Tijerina. Commentators: Daniel Ramírez, Arizona State University Marc Rodríguez, University of Notre Dame. Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, 31 March 2007 Co-Investigator. Nepantla Techne Calpulli Research Working Group. UCSB Center for Chicano Studies Research Working Group. $15,000 grant with Geradro Aldana, Walter Yuen, Chela Sandoval, and Ines Talamantez, 2006-2007. Senior Fellow. Pacific Asian North American (PANA) Religion Institute / Pacific School of Religion. 2001-2002. Courses: Asian American /Pacific Islander Religious Traditions; Religion in the American West (with Randi Walker and Eldon Ernst). Spring 2002 AAR Lilly/Luce Teaching Workshop, “Teaching in the Global Village” 2000-2001. Santa Fe 29 July 2000; Claremont 20-22 October 2000; Santa Monica 3-5 March 2001; Cuernavaca June 25-July 1, 2001 Monetary award for scholarly paper on the impact of religious communities on political and civic engagement over the last 30 years. “"...In the outer boundaries of the religious world': Reies Tijerina and the Forging of Mexican American Christianity". Hispanic Churches in American Public Life Program/Pew Charitable Trusts. July 2000 Postdoctoral Fellowship/Writing grant. Hispanic Theological Initiative. 1999- 2000. Support for “The Predicament of Nepantla” manuscript 1997 Summer Research Stipend Grant. The Louisville Institute. Archival research on the history of Chicano Southern Baptist communities in Phoenix, Arizona

Rudy V. Busto - 15 James Irvine Foundation Faculty Research Grants, Stanford University. Funds for hiring student research assistant for new manuscript project. Summer 1996 William H. and Frances Green Faculty Fellow for 1994-1995. Research funding award for select junior faculty in the School of Humanities and Sciences. Stanford University Bing Teaching Initiative Grants, Stanford University. Funds for developing a course on Asian American/Pacific Islander Religious Traditions. 1993-1994 James Irvine Foundation, Stanford University. Funds for hosting a one day conference on Latino Evangelicalism in the United States, "Nuevas Fronteras/ Reconsidering Borders: U.S. Latino Evangelicalism: New Challenges for Academic Inquiry". May 1992 James Irvine Foundation for Multicultural Curriculum Development Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship. Religious Studies, Stanford University. 1991-1992 University of California President’s Dissertation-Year Writing Fellowship. University of California at Berkeley. 1990-1991 Humanities Research Grant Award. University of California at Berkeley. Archival and field work in New Mexico. April 1990 Mentorship Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley. 1988-1989 Graduate Student Fellowship/Internship. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Division of Community Life. Summer 1986

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP American Academy of Religion (AAR): Editorial Board, JAAR, 2000 - 2006 Co-Chair, Latina/o Religion, Culture and Society Group, 2001 – 2003. Steering Committee, Hispanic/Latino American Religion, Culture, and Society Group, 1997- 2001. Co-Chair, Asian North American Religion, Culture and Society Group, 1996 - 1999. Steering Committee, 1995-1996, 2000Western Region: Section Co-Chair Latino/ Latina Religions, 2001 - 2005 Latino Critical Legal Studies (LATCRIT) LATCRIT IV Planning Committee, 1998-1999 Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Smithsonian Liaison Committee, 1998 Filipino American National History Society (FANHS) Program for the Analysis of Religion among Latinos (PARAL) National Association for Chicano/Chicana Studies (NACCS) American Studies Association (ASA)

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UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE SERVICE UCSB Religious Studies Department Graduate Advisor, Winter (2007 - ) Undergraduate Advisor (2005-2006) Department Executive Committee (2005 - ) Library Committee, 2005 - ) Graduate Admissions Committee (2003, 2004, 2005) Robert Michaelson Lecture Selection Committee (2003, 2004, 2005) Library Committee (2004-2007) Affiliated Faculty member: Asian American Studies Department, Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, Chicano/a Studies UNIVERSITY Deans ad hoc Review Committee on Writing Program UCSB Pacific Rim Advisory Committee, Winter 2006, Winter 2007 Stanford University University Sub-Committee on Minority Graduate Student Admissions (1996-1998) Chicano Studies Program Committee (1996- ) Asian American Studies Curriculum Planning Committee (Spring 1995) Advisory Committee for Buddhist Studies (1995-) American Studies Administrative Committee (Spring 1994- ) Affiliated Faculty with: Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Feminist Studies, Latin American Studies, Modern Thought and Literature Program Ernesto Galarza Lecture Committee, (Spring 1994, 1995) Faculty Representative, Guiding Concilio, El Centro Chicano (1993-1995) Faculty Representative, Advisory Board, Asian American Activities Center (1996-1997) Reader, Center for the Humanities Fellowships, (1994, 1996) Coordinating Committee, James Irvine Foundation Grant for Multicultural Development (19911993) Faculty Mentor, Minority Student Summer Research Program (1992)