Martin Guevara Urbina

Martin Guevara Urbina, PhD, a native of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, is a Mexican American author, writer, researcher, professor, and speaker who, as a sociologist and criminologist, has engaged in an intensive academic research, publication, and discourse agenda designed to provide readers with evidence-based information of ethnic and racial minorities in the United States, with an emphasis on the exploration of the Latino experience and a focus on the Mexican American experience. Dr. Urbina is Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Natural & Behavioral Sciences at Sul Ross State University, Del Rio, Texas. Professor Urbina has taught at New Mexico State University, Western Michigan University, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, Howard College, Southwest Texas Junior College, and Texas A&M University—Central Texas. Professor Urbina was awarded a Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Teaching by Western Michigan University in 1999, and he was nominated for the 2002-2003 UWM Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award by the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. Professor Urbina is author, coauthor, or editor of over 70 scholarly publications on a wide range of topics, including several academic books: Chronicles of Mexican Immigrants: Their Lives, Struggles, and the Dream of Dignity (forthcoming); Immigration and the Law: Race, Citizenship, and Social Control (2018); Hispanics in the U.S. Criminal Justice System: Ethnicity, Ideology, and Social Control (2018); Ethnicity and Criminal Justice in the Era of Mass Incarceration: A Critical Reader on the Latino Experience (2017); Latino Access to Higher Education: Ethnic Realities and New Directions for the Twenty-First Century (2016); Latino Police Officers in the United States: An Examination of Emerging Trends and Issues (2015); Twenty-First Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-Racial America (2014); Ethnic Realities of Mexican Americans: From Colonialism to 21st Century Globalization (2014); Capital Punishment in America: Race and the Death Penalty Over Time (2012); Hispanics in the U.S. Criminal Justice System: The New American Demography (2012); A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders: Life Before, During, and After Incarceration (2008); and Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences (2003, 2011). Currently, Urbina is working on three new academic books: Latinos and the U.S. Legal System: Laws that Wound—A Call for a Balanced System; The Color of Justice—The Price of Injustice: Racism in the Age of Colorblindness; and Hispanic Soldiers: The Latino Legacy in the U.S. Armed Forces. His work has been published in national and international academic journals, to include Justice Quarterly; Critical Criminology; Social Justice; Latino Studies; and Criminal Law Bulletin. Urbina’s work has been cited (and/or contributed) in the popular media (newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and online news), including EFE News Agency (EFE is Spain’s International News Agency, the largest newswire service in Spain, Latin America, and the Hispanic Media in the U.S. and the 4th largest newswire service worldwide); El Periodico de Mexico; El Pais; El Universal (UN1ÓN); Diario Las Americas; San Diego Union Tribune; El Nuevo Diario; El Nuevo Herald; La Prensa Latina; Viva Noticias; LA Times; Terra; and Yahoo News. Urbina has made appearances in radio and television, including Zona Franca TV, Imagen Radio (air live to the entire country of Mexico and live stream worldwide), and Radio Bilingue (Línea Abierta, the first and only national live talk and call-in program in public broadcasting interconnecting Spanish-speaking audiences and newsmakers throughout the U.S. and Mexico). In the United States, Professor Urbina appears frequently in primetime evening news for Telemundo, where he has discussed historical, existing, and emerging social, economic, political issues—like immigration, deportations, excessive/deadly force in policing, imprisonment of children, the school-to-prison pipeline, and national security. For a complete list of Urbina’s research and publications, visit his website: http://www.martinguevaraurbina.com Contact Information: urbina.martin@yahoo.com contact@martinguevaraurbina.com murbina@sulross.edu