About

Elaine Hampton, Ph.D., is retired Associate Professor/ Department Chair of Teacher Education at The University of Texas at El Paso. She is owner of STEM Education Consultants, providing evaluation and consulting services for multiple STEM education projects in the Southwest. Her long career as educator and educational researcher involves experiences on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border:

Milken Award for Excellence in teaching middle school science in Las Cruces, NM
Researching the swell of foreign factories in several Mexican states and how that sudden social change impacted Mexican schools and children’s educational opportunities.
Teaching sixth graders in an abandoned school bus on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez
Writing and publishing the national award-winning book (Anay’s Will to Learn) with a young Mexican woman as she negotiated the complexities of poverty in her quest for education
Writing a book, (Copper Stain) along with 64 Mexican-American men who worked in El Paso’s giant ASARCO copper smelter, to document their experiences in the smelter during the last decades of its existence
Gathering stories from Mexican women who have crossed the El Paso – Cd. Juarez border, legally and illegally, to understand how these global neighbors manage their stressful environments by creating unique community collaborations. (Seekers of a Stable Sky)
Elaine and Mexican colleague, Lic. Anay Palomeque, created and direct a Mexican non-profit organization that has helped some 50 young women achieve university careers. They are currently providing abuse-prevention education programs in schools and community centers in four Mexican states. Information is available at GranosDeAmor.com and AltoAlAbuso.com.
Dr. Hampton’s research is documented in five books, five chapters in scholarly books, and she is first author of sixteen peer reviewed journal articles.

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Contact Information:

ElaineMHampton@gmail.com or

EHampton@utep.edu

ANAY'S WILL TO LEARN: A WOMAN'S EDUCATION IN THE SHADOW OF THE MAQUILADORA

Winner National Press Women’s First Place Biography 2014
Border Book Award for Literary Excellence and Enrichment of Southwest Heritage
New Mexico Press Wome’s First Place Biography

Ciudad Juárez no longer wears the title of the most violent city in the world. Things are calming down. But what was it like to be a woman living in the low income neighborhoods in the city during those violent times? Anay Carrillo, a young woman working in the foreign factories (maquiladoras), is our gracious guide to her life — just a few steps over a dry river into the vastly unfamiliar.

COPPER STAIN: ASARCO'S LEGACY IN EL PASO

Copper Stain: ASARCO’s Legacy in El Paso, based in nearly 100 interviews with ex-employees and others involved in the smelter’s demise, is filled with stories of horror, humor, courage and sorrow documenting the grim reality of laboring under giant machines and lava-spewing furnaces while turning mountains of rock into copper ingots. It exposes the political tug-of-war between industry’s demands for profit and government’s obligation to protect the health of its people and the environment. Local authors, Elaine Hampton (UTEP) and Cynthia Ontiveros (EPISD) weave the stories and archival evidence into an important and intriguing part of the area’s history.

Seekers of a Stable Sky: Stories of Altruism and Immigration on the Mexican Border.

Hiding under the heavily reinforced U.S.-Mexico borderline is a gentle counter power led by women who have been wounded, crossed the border illegally, fought for their families, and endured social and economic exploitation. These are our global neighbors managing stressful environments and creating unique community collaborations that bring stability under their restless sky.

This authentic insight into the often-misrepresented immigrant narrative highlights the personal sphere of the immigration seeker and exposes the impact of Trump-era immigration policies in the borderlands.