Portrait of Dr. Louie Dean Valencia

Dr. Louie Dean Valencia

  • Associate Professor at History, College of Liberal Arts

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Member, Personnel Committee. 2022 - Present.
  • Faculty-In-Residence, Honors Living-Learning Community, Honors College/Housing and Residence Life. August 2019 - Present.
  • Member, European History Committee. January 2018 - Present.
  • Member, Public History Committee. August 25, 2017 - Present.
  • Scientific and Editorial Committee Member, Archivo de la Frontera (Centro Europeo para la Difusión de las Ciencias Sociales). 2013 - Present.
  • Member, University Performing Arts Committee. August 2024 - Present.
  • Organizer, Outreach and Publicity Coordinator. August 2024 - Present.
  • Director, Texas Center for Public History. January 2024 - Present.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, A Modern History of Politics and Violence Series (Bloomsbury Academic). January 2024 - Present.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Popular Culture Review. January 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Texas State Fulbright Committee. 2023 - Present.
  • Member, Merit Performance Advisory Committee. December 2023 - Present.
  • Member, Texas State Fulbright Committee. 2022 - Present.
  • Member, Undergraduate Program Committee. 2022 - Present.
  • Member, Faculty Classroom Technology Advisory Committee. 2022 - Present.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Revista Internacional de Estudios sobre Terrorismo (International Journal of Terrorism Studies). September 28, 2020 - Present.
  • Member, Liberal Arts Graduate College Scholarship Selection Committee. 2019 - Present.
  • Organizer, Weekly Honors Family Dinners. 2019 - Present.
  • University Mentor, Undergraduate Research, Honors College. August 25, 2017 - Present.

2025

  • Member, Isis de la O Award for Outstanding Achievement in International Education Committee. 2023 - November 2025.

2024

  • Organizer, How to Talk to a Professor. 2024.
  • Member, Rob Coffin Education Abroad Scholarship for Cultural Exchange Committee. 2023 - 2024.
  • Member, Underhill-Kens Study Abroad Scholarship Committee. April 2019 - December 2024.
  • Organizer, Troublesome Women: A History of Witches, Dr. Jessica Pliley. 2024 - October 2024.
  • Organizer, Bitcoin, China, and Authoritarianism. October 24, 2024.
  • Organizer, Phi Kappa Phi. August 2022 - May 2024.
  • Co-Chair, Between Fame & Infamy: an International Film Festival, Symposium, and Art Exhibition on Celebrity. February 2024 - March 2024.
  • Co-Chair, Between Fame and Infamy International Film Festival and Symposium. February 19, 2024 - March 7, 2024.

2023

  • Reviewer / Referee, Routledge. 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Right-Wing Studies. 2023.
  • Organizer, How to Talk to a Professor. 2023.
  • Organizer, Phi Beta Kappa Site Visit Committee. 2022 - 2023.
  • Chair, Outreach Committee. August 2019 - 2023.
  • Member, Speaker Committee. 2018 - 2023.
  • Organizer, Honors Course Fair. 2017 - 2023.
  • Organizer, Troublesome Women: A History of Witches, Dr. Jessica Pliley. 2023 - October 2023.
  • Organizer, Troublesome Women: A History of Witches, Dr. Jessica Pliley. 2023 - October 2023.
  • Organizer, Honors Awards Prom. April 28, 2023 - April 2023.
  • Organizer, Fulbright Information Session w/ Dr. Lisa Haegele. February 2023.
  • Organizer, Veronica Cantú: Making the Moody Center into Harry's House. February 27, 2023.
  • Organizer, How to Study Abroad. January 2023.

2022

  • Senior Fellow, Centre for Analysis of Radical Right. October 26, 2018 - 2022.
  • Organizer, How to Talk to a Professor. 2022.
  • Organizer/Participant, Ukraine, Russia, the EU and the US in Crisis. 2022.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 2022.
  • Organizer, Honors Awards Ceremony and Prom. April 28, 2022 - 2022.
  • Organizer, How to Talk Politics. 2019 - 2022.
  • Chair, Library Committee. August 25, 2019 - 2022.
  • Member, Common Experience Committee. 2018 - 2022.
  • Organizer, International Planning, Institutional Collaboration, and Interpretation to University Provost Eugene Bourgeois for trip to Spain. December 2022.
  • Participant, The World Cup and the Liberal Arts. A Forum. 2022 - November 2022.
  • Organizer, Stelos Scholarship Session. November 9, 2022.
  • Organizer, My Policeman Screen and Discussion. November 4, 2022.
  • Organizer, Troublesome Women: A History of Witches, Dr. Jessica Pliley. 2022 - October 2022.
  • Organizer, Taylor Swift Midnights Listening Party. October 20, 2022.
  • Organizer, From TXST to NPR: Conversations with Executive Producer Erika Aguilar. October 6, 2022 - October 7, 2022.
  • Organizer, Lost River Film Festival. October 3, 2022.
  • Participant, College of Liberal Arts Salon Series: Celebrity, Harry Styles, and the College Classroom. September 2022.
  • Organizer, Spun Full Circle: Contemplating the Rise of Vinyl in a Digital World. September 20, 2022.
  • Member, International Film Festival & Symposium on Consent: An Albertine Cinémathèque Selection. April 2, 2022 - April 15, 2022.
  • Organizer, Stelos Scholarship Session. March 1, 2022.
  • Organizer, How to Research with a Professor. February 24, 2022.
  • Organizer, Fulbright Information Session w/ Dr. Lisa Haegele. February 10, 2022.

2021

  • Co-Chair, Critical European Studies Research Network (Council for European Studies at Columbia University). June 2019 - July 2021.
  • Organizer, How to Talk to a Professor. 2021.
  • Organizer, How to Talk Politics. 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Women’s History. 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Contemporary European Studies. 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of the History of Sexuality. 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Manchester University Press. 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. 2021.
  • Member, Nomination Committee. 2020 - 2021.
  • Organizer, Sippin' and Spilling: Weekly open hours to chat with honor students. 2020 - 2021.
  • Organizer, How to Talk Politics. 2020 - 2021.
  • Organizer, Troublesome Women: A History of Witches, Dr. Jessica Pliley. 2021 - October 2021.
  • Organizer, Internet, freedom of expression, and private governance: How to protect human rights in horizontal relations?, Dr. Adam Krzywon. October 25, 2021.
  • Organizer, Honors College Black Lives Matter Book Club. July 2020 - August 2021.
  • Organizer, Forensic Science in the Subjunctive Mood: Mass Graves and Historical Memory in Contemporary Spain, Dr. Lee Douglas. April 27, 2021.

2020

  • Research Editorial Committee member, EuropeNow. September 1, 2016 - October 2020.
  • Organizer, How to Talk to a Professor. 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Contemporary History. 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Democracy and Security. 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. 2020.
  • Organizer, Troublesome Women: A History of Witches, Dr. Jessica Pliley. October 2020.
  • Member, Search and Hiring Committee for Russian History position. April 2019 - April 2020.
  • Organizer, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Dr. Geraldine Heng. February 2020.
  • Organizer, Diana Molina: From First Year to Thesis to Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. February 2020.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Poetry of the Transition conference. February 2020.

2019

  • Organizer, How to Talk to a Professor. 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, European Journal of Cultural Studies. 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, The European Legacy. 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, European Journal of Cultural Studies. 2019.
  • Member, Museum Studies Professor of Practice Search Committee. August 2018 - 2019.
  • Member, Museum Studies Search Committee. August 2018 - 2019.
  • Member, Library Committee. August 25, 2017 - 2019.
  • Organizer, Kara Holsinger: From First Year to the Attorney General’s Office. November 2019.
  • Organizer, The History of New Orleans Cemeteries with Peter Dedek. October 2019.
  • Consultant, UPPS and University Guidelines for Student Demonstrations and Protests. June 2019 - July 2019.
  • Organizer, International Planning, Institutional Collaboration, and Interpretation to University Provost Eugene Bourgeois for trip to Spain. January 2019 - May 2019.
  • Organizer, María Elena Soliño: Forging History: War, Remembrance, and Femininity in the Spanish Film Industry of the 1940s. April 2019.
  • Chair, Library Committee. August 25, 2018 - January 15, 2019.

2018

  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. 2018.
  • Organizer, In Remembrance of Kristallnacht. November 9, 2018.
  • Director and Faculty, LEDA Summer Institute at Princeton University. June 2018 - July 2018.
  • Undergraduate Marshal, Liberal Arts 2018 Graduation Ceremony. May 10, 2018.

2017

  • Reviewer / Referee, Council on Library and Information Resources. 2017.
  • Thesis Grader, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard. 2017.
  • Tutorial Board, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard. 2017.
  • Participant, Center for Communication, Collaboration and Creativity, College of Fine Arts & Communication. August 25, 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Archivo de La Frontera, Multidisciplinary Research Group in Cultural Studies at the European Centre for the Dissemination of Social Sciences at Alcalá de Henares. March 2017.

2016

  • Political Engagement and Racial Injustice Today Interdisciplinary Lab, Fordham. 2016.
  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, New York City History Day. 2016.
  • Coordinator of Social Media for Fordham’s Department of History. 2013 - 2016.

2015

  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, You Did It To Me: An Ash Wednesday Meditation on Human Rights and Human Dignity. 2015.
  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Harlem Swing: Black History Month Family Day. 2015.
  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, “In Our Son’s Name” Film Viewing: The Search for Peace & Justice in a Post-9/11 World. 2015.
  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Fordham University History Day. 2012 - 2015.
  • History Graduate Student Executive Council, Fordham. 2009 - 2015.

2014

  • McCloskey Summer Fellowship Committee, Fordham. 2014.
  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Poetas por Km². 2014.

2012

  • Planning and implementation committee, LittleCareBoxes.com. 2012.

2011

  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Cities in History: Urban Identities Reconsidered Conference. 2011.

2010

  • Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee, Fordham. 2010.

2007

  • Honors Program Director Search Committee, Texas State. 2007.
  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Protest and Dissent: Juilliard Joins Texas State for A Common Experience in the Arts. 2007.
  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Fast for Darfur. 2007.
  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Isabel Allende. 2007.
  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Erin Brockovich-Ellis. 2007.
  • Honors Program Committee, Texas State. 2005 - 2007.

2006

  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Gilbert Tuhabony: Escaping Genocide. 2006.
  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Spike Lee. 2006.
  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Translating Clarice Lispector: The Stylistics of Love. 2006.
  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Luis Valdez: Zoot Suit. 2006.
  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Nozuko Ngcaweni: Dignity and Courage in the Time of AIDS. 2006.
  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Hettie Jones. 2006.

2004

  • Select Lectures & Events Organized, Texas Special Olympics Summer Games. 2003 - 2004.

2003

  • Special Olympics of Texas Summer Games Press committee. 2002 - 2003.