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Faculty receive Idaho\u2019s highest honor for history<\/h2>\n
\"Alicia
Alicia Garza (right) with Janet Gallimore, executive director of the Idaho State Historical Society. Photo provided by the Idaho State Historical Society.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alicia Garza and Mamie Oliver have received 2020 Esto Perpetua Awards from the Idaho State Historical Society. Garza is a professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages. Oliver was a professor of social work, sociology and education at Boise State from\u00a01972 to 1988. She was the university\u2019s first tenured Black professor.<\/p>\n

The award \u2013 the state\u2019s highest for history \u2013 honors those who have made significant contributions to the preservation of Idaho history through professional accomplishments, public service, volunteerism or philanthropy.<\/p>\n

The awards ceremony will take place at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a tremendous honor, gigantic and unexpected,\u201d said Garza.<\/p>\n

Garza acknowledged 2019 award recipient Ana Maria Schachtell and her work to preserve Mexican corridos, or ballads, for \u201csetting a high bar.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think of my students and the work of great Idaho Latinx artists like Alma Gomez and Bobby Gaytan (faculty and alumnus, respectively), and the exhibition\u00a0We Carry Inside Ourselves<\/a>\u00a0in the Boise State Student Union last fall. All of this inspires me to keep learning and studying. That\u2019s what I love about being at Boise State,\u201d said Garza, \u201cbeing in good company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garza received her master\u2019s degree and doctorate in Hispanic American literature at the University of Arizona. She\u2019s been at Boise State for 24 years where she founded Casita Nepantla, a space devoted to LatinX life and culture, in the Student Union Building. Her research and teaching centers on Chicana feminist theory, popular culture, gender and sexuality, and the body in Chicana literature. In 2003, she was the recipient of the the Carnegie Idaho Professor of the Year Award. Garza is special advisor to Boise State President Marlene Tromp.<\/p>\n

Alice Whitney, president of the Hispanic Business Association, nominated Garza for the award. Whitney wrote, \u201cDr. Garza has spent her life giving back to her community whether it is teaching non-Hispanic students to think and understand the differences in languages and culture, she provides the story of the Hispanic community, whether it is about the Mexican Revolution, Braceros, Cesar Chavez and his movement for equality and justice (sounds pretty familiar now), or Selena, Jennifer Lopez, Mark Anthony and countless others before them have experienced the same issues as most in our community. What comes from this new knowledge is understanding and appreciation of not only Hispanics but vice versa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamie Oliver, a native of Mississippi, received her master\u2019s degree in social work from Los Angeles State University and her doctorate in education from Washington State University. Her research areas include the history and accomplishments of Black Idahoans. Oliver has written several books, including \u201cBlacks in Idaho\u2019s White Press\u201d and \u201cIdaho Ebony: The Afro-American Presence in Idaho State History.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Boise State, Oliver taught at Boston University, Rhode Island College and Northwest Nazarene University. Oliver has worked as a therapist and now is a pastor at Mountain View Community Fellowship in Boise.<\/p>\n

Wrote Evelyn Self, who submitted Oliver\u2019s name for the award, \u201cDr. Oliver is not one to be boxed in, her interests are diverse and she has touched the lives of so many.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oliver has chaired the Martin Luther King Jr. Task Force and the Council for Families and Children. Her interests include music and historic preservation. Oliver led the effort to list St. Paul\u2019s Baptist Church, where her father was a pastor, in the National Register of Historic Places. The building is now the Idaho Black History Museum in Julia Davis Park.<\/p>\n

\"Ernie
Mamie Oliver and Boise State alumnus and donor Ernie Hoidal. Photo provided by the Idaho State Historical Society.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI have always tried to be a good citizen,\u201d said Oliver. \u201cI am grateful that people feel my contributions have warranted this recognition.\u201d<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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