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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Albert Camarillo Papers
Creator:
Camarillo, Albert M.
Identifier/Call Number: SC1433
Physical Description:
51 Linear Feet
(34 cartons)
Date (inclusive): 1960-2002
Physical Location: Special Collections
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advance of intended use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and
must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must
be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special
Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s) or assigns. Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the
original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational
purposes.
[identification of item] Albert Camarillo Papers (SC1433). Dept. of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Albert M. Camarillo, 2018-2019.
Collection is divided into three series: History Courses, Court Cases, and the University
Committee on Minority Issues (UCMI). The History Courses series contains teaching materials
from Camarillo's courses, most of which focus on race and ethnicity, urban history, and the
Mexican American and Chicano experience in the American West. The Court Cases series
contains case files from Mexican American civil rights cases in which Camarillo provided
assistance. The University Committee on Minority Issues (UCMI) contains working group files
and drafts, as well as final reports.
Al Camarillo was appointed to the faculty in the Department of History at Stanford
University in 1975 after receiving his Ph.D. from UCLA. He has published and co-edited eight
books and over three dozen articles dealing with the experiences of Mexican Americans and
other racial and immigrant groups in American cities. He is widely regarded as one of the
founders of the field of Mexican American history and Chicano Studies. Over the course of
his career, Camarillo has received many awards and fellowships. Fellowships include a
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship; he
was also a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, The
Huntington Library, and at the Stanford Humanities Center. His awards for teaching and
service at Stanford are numerous. He is the only faculty member in the history of Stanford
University to receive the six highest awards for excellence in teaching, service to
undergraduate education and Stanford alumni, and university-related public service.
In addition to teaching and research, he has served in several administrative positions:
founding Director of the Stanford Center for Chicano Research (1980-1985); founding
Executive Director of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research (1985-1988);
Associate Dean and Director of Undergraduates Studies in the School of Humanities and
Sciences (1991-1993); founding Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and
Ethnicity (1996-2002). He is a past President of the American Historical Association-Pacific
Coast Branch (2006) and of the Organization of American Historians (2012-13), the largest
association in the nation for U.S. historians.
https://history.stanford.edu/people/albert-camarillo
Subjects and Indexing Terms
United States -- History -- Study and teaching (Higher).
Mexican Americans -- Civil rights.
Mexican Americans -- Study and teaching.
Race relations.
Homelessness -- Study and teaching (Higher)
poverty -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Camarillo, Albert M.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational
Fund
Stanford University. Department of History.
Faculty