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Damián Baca, assistant professor of English at the University of Arizona, earned his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 2006. He is a recipient of the NCTE Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color scholarship, and was supported by the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program during graduate study. His research and teaching areas include Latina/o Rhetoric, Comparative Technologies of Writing, Literacy & Globalization, Rhetorics of Mesoamerica/Colonial Mexico and the U.S./Mexico Border, Digital Humanities, and Ancestral Literacy. Baca is author of Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures Series) Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. He is also lead editor of Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114BCE to 2012CE with Victor Villanueva, scheduled for publication in late 2009. In July 2009 Baca co-edited a special edition of College English, "Writing, Rhetoric, and Latinidad," featuring his article "The Chicano Codex: Writing Against Historical and Pedagogical Colonization" (Vol. 71, No. 6). Baca regularly conducts research at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation in Albuquerque, New Mexico and numerous other locations throughout the region.