# Angie Mejia ## Pages - [About Me](https://angiemejia.com/): Hey there! I’m Angie Mejia, Assistant Professor and Civic Engagement Scholar in the Center of Learning Innovation at the University of Minnesota – Rochester.  I specialize in crafting innovative marketing campaigns that resonate with audiences and drive tangible results. I have a knack for blending creativity with strategic thinking. I situate my research in conversation with sociological works that focus on the intersectionality of emotions, examine social processes of racialization in/of space and place, and foreground a feminist and critical sociology approach to the study of health. This conversation is enriched by theoretical and methodological insights from affect and cultural studies, U.S. […] - [Projects](https://angiemejia.com/projects/) - [Consulting](https://angiemejia.com/consulting/) - [CV](https://angiemejia.com/cv/) - [Teaching/Pedagogical](https://angiemejia.com/teaching-pedagogical/): Teaching I envision teaching as an act of nepantlerismo–a Nahuatl term used by Gloria Anzaldúa to describe someone who straddles two worlds and builds bridges between them. Her works, the works of various feminist theorists of color, and my own academic mentors have shaped my teaching practice. As an educator I want to encourage students to serve as puentes (bridges) using social theory to create a more just world. The classroom is not only a place for students to examine their daily lives but a stage to foster and nurture a healthy critique of academic disciplines and practices. In this place, and on […] - [Research](https://angiemejia.com/research/): MENTAL HEALTH INEQUITIES My book project, Las Lloronas: Depresión, Mujeres, and the Sociological Imagination, stands at the intersection of lived experience and the various discourses about depression in the lives of U.S. Latinx women of Mexican descent. I argue that depression is part of a genealogy of a complex interplay of emotional states, U.S. hegemonic femininities and other, often-contradictory, gendered impositions, collective sentiments rooted in specific socio-historical contexts, and struggles and anxieties of embodying intersectional subjectivities. This critical approach positions depression as an affective and embodied response to social dispossession, as well as a practice of continually reflecting on the source […] - [Publications](https://angiemejia.com/publications/): Refereed Asterisk(*) – indicates student author Mejia, Angie & Yuko Taniguchi. Art and Heart to Counter the One-hour-Zoom-diversity Event: Counterspaces as a response to diversity regimes in academia. Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. [Forthcoming] Mejia, Angie. “Plan for the Worst, Hope for the Best, but Realistically, Expect a Combination of Both:” Lessons and Best Practices Emerging from Community-engaged Teaching During a Health Crisis. Journal of Higher Education Outreach & Engagement. [Forthcoming] Dingel, Molly, Nichols, Marcia, Mejia, Angie, & Kristin Osiecki. (2021). “Service, Self-care, and Sacrifice: A Qualitative Exploration of the Pandemic University as a Greedy Institution.” ADVANCE Journal, 2(3).  doi: 10.5399/osu/ADVJRNL.2.3.2 Mejia, Angie, Chandi Katoch*, […] - [Contact 1](https://angiemejia.com/contact-1/): Please Make Sure Contact Form 7 Plugin is Installed & Activated. Nullam ultricies diam a justo pulvinar sodales. Aenean quis euismod erat, ut ullamcorper orci. Pellentesque vel iacul isitae euismod lorem. In rutrum, sapien eu consequat vestibulum, sapien erat posuere lorem, nec semper quam tortor umurus. Pellentesque in elit bibendum, interdum dui eget, tempor nulla. Proin fermentum nulla id lacinia auctor. - [Contact](https://angiemejia.com/contact/) - [Home](https://angiemejia.com/home/) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)