Melville, Margarita B., 1929-
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Name (Latin)
Melville, Margarita B., 1929-
Other forms of name
Bradford de Melville, Margarita, 1929-
De Melville, Margarita Bradford, 1929-
Melville, Margarita Bradford de, 1929-
Date of birth
1929-08-19
Place of birth
Irapuato (Mexico)
Place of residence/headquarters
Jacaltenango (Guatemala) (1954 - 1967)
Houston (Tex.) (1976 - 1986)
Berkeley (Calif.)
(1986.
Associate group
Loreto Academy (El Paso, Tex.)
Mary Rogers College
Maryknoll Sisters
Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Guatemala)
Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Guatemala) (1966 - 1966)
Catonsville Nine
American University (Washington, D.C.)
University of Houston
University of Houston (1976 - 1976)
National Chicano Research Network (U.S.)
National Chicano Research Network (U.S.) (1980 - 1980)
Centro para Inmigrantes (Houston, Tex.)
Centro para Inmigrantes (Houston, Tex.) (1980 - 1980)
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley (1986)
Occupation
Nuns (1949 - 1967)
Ex-Nuns
(1967)
Women political activists
Latin Americanists
Anthropologists
Women editors
Women deans (Education)
College teachers
Associated Language
engspa
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Memorias de la Isla Huapi, escritas por campesinos chileno-mapuches, 1975:t.p. (Margarita Bradford de Melville)
- Notable Hispanic American women, c1993:p. 268 (Margarita B. Melville, 1929-; scholar, activist; born 19 August 1929 in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico; mixed United States Mexican ancestry; studied at the Loreto Academy of El Paso; joined the Maryknoll sisters in St. Louis, Mo. in 1949; attended Mary Rogers College in Ossining, N.Y. and graduated with a bachelor of education degree in 1954; sent by her order to Guatemala the same year where she taught literacy programs, expelled in 1967; married Thomas Melville, a former priest; together they participated in anti-war activities, burning selective service records in Baltimore, Md., became part of a group known as the Catonsville Nine; sentenced to 2 yrs. prison commuted to nine months; graduated with M.A. in Latin American studies and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the American University, Washington, D.C.; joined the University of Hoston in 1976; member of the Houston Committee for the International Women's Year Commission in 1977; activist for women's and Chicano causes, joined Board of Directors for the Centro para Inmigrantes; Board of Directors of the National Chicano Research Network (1980-1982); left University of Houston to work for University of California, Berkeley in 1986, where she has been Professor and Associate Dean; editorial board of Aztlán (1981-1985); lives in Berkeley, Calif. with her family)
- search (Melville, Margarita B., 1929-; Margarita Melville, a former Maryknoll sister known as Marian Peter; from the summer of 1954 until 1967, she was in Jacaltenango; beginning in 1966, she began to associate with members of rebel groups in Guatemala, including FAR (Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes), until 1967, when the Maryknoll Sisters supervisor expelled Melville and a few others from Guatemala for their activism ( (Social Archive, University of Virginia WWW site, Oct. 17, 2012:) )
- Twice a minority, 1980 (a.e.)t.p. (Margarita B. Melville, Ph. D., Dept. of Anthrop., Univ. of Houston) CIP data sheet (b. 8/19/29)