As many of us do, she returned home and served as the Assistant Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in Dallas from 2006 until July, 2009. Before long, however, the faster pace found in New York beckoned her once again and she accepted the position with Hofstra University School of Law.
A published author, Villazor has published Blood Quantum Land Laws: The Race versus Political Identity Dilemma in the 2008 California Law Review; Rediscovering Oyama v. California: The Intersection of Property, Race and Citizenship in Washington University Law Review and Reading Between the (Blood) Lines: Political, Not Racial, Membership in Southern Methodist University Law Review. Currently, her writing passion has her busy with co-editing and contributing to a new book, Loving v. Virginia in a Post Radical World: Rethinking Race, Sex and Marriage. Publication by Cambridge University Press is due in early 2011 and it is a work she is extremely proud of.
Most recently, Professor Villazor received the 2011 Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Award at the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting. This award is given to a junior faculty member who pursues through a combination of activism, mentoring and teaching the contribution to a better and stronger legal education, legal system or social justice process. She will accept the award January 6, 2011 at the AALS Annual Meeting luncheon. The award is named after Professor Derrick A. Bell, who was the first tenured African American on the Harvard Law School faculty.
For now, Professor Villazor stays busy with her role at Hofstra Law School, her upcoming book and her dedication to immigration law and citizenship law. For more information on Rose Cuison Villazor, visit the Hofstra University School of Law website at Law.Hofstra.edu.