Portrait of Dr. Rachel Romero

Dr. Rachel Romero

  • Regents' Teacher at Sociology, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Harris, D. A., Martinez, G. P., Romero, R., & Watt, T. T. (n.d.). Incorporating Community Voices into Data Dashboard Creation: A Case Study of the State of Texas Mental Health Dashboard. Community Mental Health Journal.
  • Romero, R. (n.d.). Fostering Empathy and Critical Engagement with Aging: Outcomes of a Sensory Simulation. Journal of Experiential Education.

2024

  • Romero, R. (2024). A pathway to self-awareness, empathy and vulnerability: exploring autoethnography as a method for undergraduate teaching. Teaching in Higher Education, 30(2), 412–426. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2024.2332269

2021

  • Romero, R. (2021). Gracious Space: Developing Community, Taking Risks, and Expanding Socio-emotional Awareness in the Classroom. Pedagogies: An International Journal.

2020

  • Romero, R. (2020). Poetic Transcription in the Sociology Classroom: Developing Empathy, Analytical Skills, Creativity, and Engagement. Teaching Sociology, 48(3), 211–219. https://doi.org/10.1177/0092055x20923703
  • Romero, R. (2020, February 1). A Wild Tongue Writes Back: Replying to Gloria Anzaldúa’s “Speaking in Tongues". Rio Grande: A Journal of the Borderlands. Retrieved from https://journals.tdl.org/rbj/index.php/rbj/issue/view/3

2019

  • Harris, D. A., & Romero, R. (2019). Race, Four Farms, and a City: Color Blindness and the Austin, TX Commercial Farm Debate. Humanity and Society, 43(3), 227–249. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597618814880
  • Romero, R. (2019). Taking Back the Boulevard: Art, Activism, and Gentrification in Los Angeles. Social Forces. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soz062
  • Romero, R., & Harris, D. A. (2019). Who Speaks For (and Feeds) the Community?: Competing Definitions of “Community” in the Austin, TX Urban Farm Debate. City & Community, 18(4), 1162–1180. https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12416

2018

  • Romero, R. (n.d.). Hen & God by Amber West: A Book Review. Journal of Research on Women and Gender. Texas State University.

2017

  • Romero, R. (n.d.). Bittersweet Ambivalence: Austin’s Street Artists Speak of Gentrification. Journal of Cultural Geography, 35(1), 1–22.

2016

  • Romero, R., & Harris, D. (n.d.). Framing History, Gentrification, and Community in the Austin, TX Urban Farm Debate.

2015

  • Romero, R. (2015, March). Lost & Found Volume I.

2013

  • Romero, R. (2013). “Iraq War.” In J. K. Golson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Lying and Deception.