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De La Garza, Ph.D.
Antonio T. De La Garza, Ph.D. (2016)
Associate Professor of Communication
Email: adelagarza@csusm.edu
Phone: (760)750-8254
Office: SBSB 2116
Antonio Tomas De La Garza holds a Ph.D in Communication from the University of Utah.
He also earned a M.A. in Communication, Graduate Certificate in Ethnic Studies and
a B.A. in Political Science from Northern Arizona University. Dr. De La Garza has
worked for both the Communication and Ethnic Studies departments. The courses he鈥檚
taught include: Argumentation, Rhetorical Criticism, the Asian American and Pacific
Islander experiences, and Gender and Communication.
Dr. De La Garza鈥檚 research interests include immigration rhetoric, ethnography, and
Critical Race Theory. He鈥檚 published on a wide variety of topics including Racial
Battle Fatigue, Immigrant Adaptation, and the Borderlands. His dissertation work combined
ethnographic fieldwork with life history interviews of undocumented immigrants in
order to understand how the undocumented deploy rhetoric to challenge and survive
racist nativism. He鈥檚 presented his research at numerous regional and national conferences
across the United States including the Rhetorical Society of America Conference, The
National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference, and the National Communication
Association Conference.
Outside of the university, Dr. De La Garza is a committed activist whose work with
social justice organization includes organization such as Cop Watch and No Mas Muertes.
He鈥檚 very proud of developing and implementing a program for 鈥渁t risk鈥 middle school
students of color to study and write poetry with undergraduate peer mentors.
Recent publications:
De La Garza, A.T. and Ono, K. (2015) 鈥淩etheorizing Adaptation: Differential Adaptation and Critical
Intercultural Communication鈥 Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.
De La Garza, A.T., DeChaine. D.R., Ono, K. (2015) 鈥淎 Border Lands Topography: The State and Future
of Rhetorical Border Studies鈥 in Rhetoric Across Borders, Anne Demo Ed.
De La Garza, A.T. (2015) 鈥淪omos Joaquin: Mindful Racial Realism as an Intervention
Against Racial Battle Fatigue鈥 in Racial Battle Fatigue: Insights from the Front Lines
of Social Justice Advocacy.