{"id":5083,"date":"2018-08-27T09:05:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T13:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2018-08-27T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T13:05:21","slug":"maf-welcomes-multicultural-faculty-fellow-dr-melva-trevino-pena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2018\/08\/27\/maf-welcomes-multicultural-faculty-fellow-dr-melva-trevino-pena\/","title":{"rendered":"MAF welcomes Multicultural Faculty Fellow, Dr. Melva\u00a0Trevi\u00f1o-Pe\u00f1a!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Melva-TrevinoPena.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5083]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5086\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Melva-TrevinoPena-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Melva-TrevinoPena-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Melva-TrevinoPena-768x824.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Melva-TrevinoPena-955x1024.jpg 955w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Melva-TrevinoPena-600x644.jpg 600w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Melva-TrevinoPena.jpg 2386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Marine Affairs welcomes our new Multicultural Faculty Fellow, Dr. Melva\u00a0Trevi\u00f1o-Pe\u00f1a!\u00a0These URI fellowships are intended to enrich multiculturalism in the University and the educational experience of all students, especially by bringing multicultural perspectives to the curriculum and\/or department, college, and university.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Trevi\u00f1o-Pe\u00f1a is a human geographer whose broad research interests concern the relationships between people\u2019s livelihoods and the environment. A central focus of her research is to identify how power asymmetries \u2013 such as unequal access to resources \u2013 are produced in natural spaces, and the implications of this on the physical and discursive (re)construction of nature, and on the groups whose livelihoods are tied to natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>Trevi\u00f1o-Pe\u00f1a earned her PhD in geography from Oregon State University. Funded by the Ryoichi <em>Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF), <\/em>Trevi\u00f1o-Pe\u00f1a conducted fieldwork in coastal Ecuador. For her doctoral research, she explored the people-mangrove relations of a community who has relied on mangrove resources to subsist for multiple generations. Her research analyzed the sociocultural and local economic impacts of the transformation of mangrove spaces, specifically those resulting from industrial shrimp aquaculture and state-led conservation initiatives. She plans to continue to build on this work at URI, but also on expand her research scope to exploring people-environment relations in other regions, including Northeastern coastal communities.<\/p>\n<p>Trevi\u00f1o-Pe\u00f1a is originally from a small border town along the Mexico-Texas border. Over the last 20 years she has lived in the Southwest, the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest. She looks forward to exploring her new home \u2013 the Northeast \u2013 with her husband Patrick and their three-legged dog Laika.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Department of Marine Affairs welcomes our new Multicultural Faculty Fellow, Dr. Melva\u00a0Trevi\u00f1o-Pe\u00f1a!\u00a0These URI fellowships are intended to enrich multiculturalism in the University and the educational experience of all students, especially by bringing multicultural perspectives to the curriculum and\/or department, college, and university. 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