CV Summary:
dr. jecoa ross is an Assistant Professor of History at San Antonio College in San Antonio, Texas, where he teaches survey courses on U.S. and Texas History. jecoa earned his PhD in Borderlands History in 2024 from the University of Texas at El Paso, where he also graduated with his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in 2013 and 2016 respectively, receiving the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis and Outstanding Graduate Thesis awards. jecoa has served as both an undergraduate and graduate teaching assistant at UTEP in U.S. and Texas History courses, an assistant for the History Tutoring Center and for the Liberal Arts Honors Program, and he has worked as the Program Director for STARTALK at UTEP, a grant-funded language immersion summer program. Before his current position, jecoa taught courses on U.S. History and on the History of Sexuality in the Borderlands at UTEP and El Paso Community College from 2018 to 2021. jecoa’s academic research deals with the history of criminalizing homosexuality in the state of Texas and he has presented papers or participated in panels at various conferences, including the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco (2024), DREAMWEEK (2022), the National Women’s Studies Association (2019), the American Historical Association (2018), and more. Outside of his roles within academia over the past few years, jecoa has participated in or helped organize marches and demonstrations against things like racism and xenophobia, sexism and misogyny, homophobia and transphobia, and other prejudice that ultimately equates to being anti-human, anti-science, or anti-love.
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