PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & SERVICE
Current
- Co-Facilitator, Active Learning Academy (Classrooms), Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Student Success (CETLSS) (2018-present)
- Facilitator, Introduction to SoTL Learning Community, CETLSS (2022-present)
- Member, North Carolina Professors of Social Studies Education (2016-present)
- Member, Professional Education Council, ASU Reich College of Education (2015-present)
- Member, Undergraduate Teacher Education Directors Committee, ASU College of Arts & Sciences (2015-present)
- Member, Undergraduate Directors Committee, ASU Reich College of Education (2015-present)
- Member, Periodic Comprehensive Review Committee, ASU Department of History (2017-present)
- Member, Assessment Committee, ASU Department of History (2019-present)
- Member, Graduate Committee, ASU Department of History (2017-present)
- Member (Founding), APP Unidos Hispanic/Latinx Faculty & Staff Association (2017-present)
- Faculty Advisor, Destino, ASU (2019-present)
- Steering Committee, Faculty & Staff Christian Fellowship, ASU (2019-present)
- Contributor & Member, Football Scholars Forum (2011-present)
Previous Institutional / Professional Services
- Member, Search Committee, CETLSS (fall 2022)
- Webmaster, App Unidos Hispanic/Latinx Faculty & Staff Association (2015-2021)
- Chair, Job search committee – History Education (2018-2019)
- Faculty Advisor, Hispanic Student Association, ASU (2016-2019)
- Member, ASU Partnership Social Studies Professional Learning Community (2015-2019)
- Member, Steering Committee, ASU Department of History (2016-2017)
- Member, Online Course Committee, ASU Department of History (2016-2017)
- Member, Recruitment Committee, Reich College of Education (2015-2017)
- Interviewer, Reich College of Education Scholars Day (2017-2018)
- Member, UMBC Hispanic/Latino Faculty Association (2013-2015)
- Member, UMBC Faculty Development Center, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Discussion Group (2013-2014)
Service to the Profession
- Panel Chair, “Making Sport History Relevant to Students: Re-examining Course Design to Meet Student and Faculty Needs,” North American Society for Sports History Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., May 26-29, 2023.
- Panel Moderator, “Developing National Identities: Personal, Communal, and National Progress Narratives in Sport,” North American Society for Sports History Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA, May 28-29, 2016.
- Panel Chair, Moderator & Commentator, “Visualizing Gender in Argentine and Mexican Sports Magazines and Newspapers,” North American Society for Sports History Annual Convention, Glenwood Springs, CO, May 30-June 2, 2014.
- Moderator, “Professionalism and Fanaticism in the Development of Modern Football,” Soccer as the Beautiful Game International Soccer Conference, Hofstra University, NY, April 9-12, 2014.
- Center Affiliate Member, The Center for the Study of Sport and Leisure, School of Recreation-Health-and Tourism, George Mason University (2012-2014).
- Editor-At-Large, Journal, Digital Humanities Now (Oct 5-11, Nov 9-15, and Dec 14-20, 2013).
- Panel Chair & Moderator, “Measuring ‘Success’ and Defining a ‘Crisis’ in Argentine and Brazilian Football,” Latin American Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C., May 29-June 1, 2013.
Referee for these journals: Bulletin of Latin American Research, International Journal of the History of Sport, and Journal of Sport History.
PUBLIC SERVICE
Press Interviews
- Marshall, Alexis. “How Schools Are Using the Trump Impeachment Inquiry as a Teachable Moment.” NPR – Education. November 12, 2019. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/12/777783039/how-schools-are-using-the-trump-impeachment-inquiry-as-a-teachable-moment
- Smith, Matt J. “June 2, 1979: The Day Diego Maradona Announced His Arrival as the Greatest Player in the World.” The National. October 16, 2018, Online edition, sec. Sport. https://www.thenational.ae/sport/football/june-2-1979-the-day-diego-maradona-announced-his-arrival-as-the-greatest-player-in-the-world-1.781057.
- National Public Radio. “FIFA Reform After Sepp Blatter’s Resignation.” NPR – Source of the Week. Online Audio Recording, 2014. https://soundcloud.com/sourceoftheweek2/rwany-sibaja.
Lectures, Presentations, and College Board
- Invited Panelist, “Sports as Resistance, Resistance in Sports,” Council for Latin American History Roundtable, Chile/Rio de La Plata Section, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2022.
- Keynote Speaker, Appalachian Community of Education Scholars (ACES) Program, Appalachian State University (ASU), August 28, 2019.
- Invited Presenter, “An Introduction to Costa Rica,” for students in SW3531 Cultural Humility and Human Service Practice in Costa Rica, Summer 2018 and 2019
- “Sports and the Making of the Americas: Immigration, Athletes, and the Construction of Identities,” NC State University Summer Teacher Institute: The Long History of Immigration in the United States, Raleigh, NC, June 22-23, 2017.
- Invited Speaker, “Life as an Educator,” presented to the Appalachian State University ACES program (Feb 19, 2016)
- Invited Speaker, Latino Faculty Series, Hispanic Student Association, Appalachian State (Nov 19, 2015)
- Guest Lecture, “Reflective Planning in Social Studies Education,” Catholic University, Washington D.C., October 1, 2014.
- Guest Lecture, “Teaching Latin American History,” presented to educators in grades 6-12, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Maryland (Feb 2014)
- Presenter, “Teaching with Digital Tools: World History Matters and Other CHNM Projects,” presented at the AP World History Summer Institute, Fairfax, VA (July 13, 2011)
- Reader, Advanced Placement European History, College Board (2005-2011)
Community Service
- Member, Advisory Board, Immigrant Connection of the High Country (2022-present)
- Board Member, Manos Latinas Unidas, Boone, NC (2017-2019)
- Instructor, adult conversational English Classes for non-native speakers, Perkinsville Baptist Church, Boone, NC (2015-2019)
- Website Judge – Middle Grades Category, National History Day, Fairfax, VA (2010)
Professional Memberships – CURRENT
- North American Society for Sports History, NASSH
- North Carolina Council for the Social Studies, NCCSS
- International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, ISSOTL
- American Historical Association
- Conference for Latin American Historians