Cecilia N. Sánchez Hill

Cecilia N. Sánchez Hill

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Cecilia N. Sánchez Hill is a Ph.D. candidate at Texas Christian University focusing on Mexican American history and education in Fort Worth with a graduate certificate in Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES). She is the winner of the first Diversity in Research Award from the TCU’s AddRan College of Liberal Arts for her master’s thesis, “¿Mi Tierra, También? Mexican American Civil Rights in Fort Worth, Texas, 1940-1990s.” She served as member of the CRES contract team that worked with Fort Worth ISD in creating the now published Latinx Studies Curriculum in K-12 School: A Practical Guide. Cecilia also published the article, “Disrupting the Master Narrative: Mexican Americans in the Borderlands,” in the Journal of Social Studies and History Education where she described the power of erasing the culture and contributions of Mexicans and Mexican Americans to the development of the Southwestern United States. Prior to school at TCU, Hill taught US History and AP World History for Fort Worth ISD, served as social studies middle school specialist, and helped write the curriculum for the Latina/o Studies Elective course. After she completes her Ph.D. program, Hill hopes to continue to help secondary history teachers move beyond the traditional narrative used in history classrooms and assist these teachers in creating lessons that nurture critical-thinking skills.