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Interview no. | R-0804 |
Restrictions | Closed until 2020. |
Project | R.34. Special Research Projects: New Roots |
Project description | Interviews, 2007-ongoing, focus on issues related to Latin American immigration to North Carolina and the formation of Latino communities. Interviewers are conducted by undergraduate students in courses taught by Hannah Gill at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Interviewees include immigrants, United States-born second generations, professionals who work with immigrants, policy-makers, religious leaders, educators, students, and local business owners. |
Date | 10 April 2015 |
Interviewee | Castro-Schilo, Laura. |
Interviewee occupation | Professors |
Interviewee DOB | 1981 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Hispanic Americans and Latinos |
Interviewer | Gutt, Katie. |
Abstract | Laura Castro-Schilo is an assistant professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Castro-Schilo was born in Mexico, and moved to the United States when she was 18 years old. She received her PhD from the University of California, Davis in 2013. Following receipt of her PhD, she moved to North Carolina to accept a position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she has been teaching ever since. In this interview, Castro-Schilo explains her path to becoming a professor and psychology researcher by discussing her education and her mentors. She says that her greatest career accomplishment so far has been obtaining the position she has at UNC. Later, she describes the classes she teaches at UNC and how her research connects to her Mexican roots. When the interview turns to questions of identity, Castro-Schilo states that she identifies as Mexican. She says that she feels more like minority in her profession for being female, but that being Hispanic has led to her involvement in several university committees that needed more diversity. As a relatively new professor at UNC, Castro-Schilo says that she hopes to strengthen her connections with students, particularly undergraduates, in the near future. She closes the interview by musing on how she is approaching the time in which she will have spent the same number of years in the United States as she spent in Mexico, and how this might is something she will have to consider more closely in the future. |
Subject Topical Other |
Identity Higher Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Citation | Interview with Laura Castro-Schilo by Katie Gutt, 10 April 2015, R-0804, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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