{"id":769,"date":"2014-06-19T14:36:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T21:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/pages\/multicultural\/?page_id=769"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:25:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:25:27","slug":"henry-lesperance-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/ethnicstudies\/henry-lesperance-alvarez\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry L&#8217;Esperance Alvarez, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies<br \/><a href=\"hlesperance@palomar.edu\">hlesperance@palomar.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>EDUCATION:<\/strong><br \/>PhD Cultural Studies concentration on Visual Studies, Claremont Graduate University.<br \/>MA Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego.<br \/>BA Philosophy, University of California, San Diego.<br \/>Minor: International Migration Studies<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOCUMENTARY &amp; FILM PRODUCTION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Cantos Des\u00e9rticos&#8221; (2025). Duties: Director. Comc\u00e1ac with English Subtitles.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPies Ligeros\u201d (2014). Duties: Producer &amp; Photography. Rarajipar with Spanish and English subtitles.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">\u201cYo Soy Teresa Castro\u201d (2010). Duties: Director and Producer. 26\u2019 Pai\u2019Pai with English subtitles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">\u201cThe American Tapes\u201d (2013). Duties: Translator, Subtitling, and Research Assistant. 134\u2019 Director Louis Hock, Professor of Visual Arts, UCSD.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">\u201cPomba Branca: Dove\u201d (2006). Duties: Director and Producer. 20\u2019 Portuguese with English subtitles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u201cTlacuitapa: Realities Behind a Migrant-Sending Community\u201d (2005). Duties: Director and Producer. 30\u2019 Spanish with English subtitles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PUBLICATIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lesperance, Henry. (2025). Sonora&#8217;s Sacred Soundscapes-Sones Sagrados Sonorenses&#8211;CGU Thesis &amp; Dissertation, 1000. https:\/\/scholarship.claremont.edu\/cgu_etd\/1000.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Lesperance, Henry. (2024).\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/folklife.si.edu\/magazine\/wesley-thomas-navajo-landscape-identity-spirituality\">A Navajo\/Anthro Perspective: Wesley Thomas on Din\u00e9 Landscape, Identity, and Spirituality.<\/a> Smithsonian Folklife Magazine.<\/li>\n<li>Lesperance, Henry (2023).<a href=\"https:\/\/festival.si.edu\/blog\/daughter-of-the-sea-film\"> Daughter of the Sea: An Intimate Portrait of Yoruba Traditions on Film.<\/a> Smithsonian Folklife Magazine.<\/li>\n<li>Cornelius, Wayne A., and Jessa M. Lewis, eds. Impacts of Border Enforcement on Mexican Migration, the View From Sending Communities. San Diego: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, 2007. Chapter 4, Impacts of U.S. Immigration Policies on Migration Behavior\u2014J. Fuentes, H. L&#8217;Esperance, R. P\u00e9rez, and C. White.<\/li>\n<li>Lesperance, Henry. (2008).\u00a0 American Hegemony And its Influence on Brazilians\u2019 Decision To Come to the United States. 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