selected publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Burke, N. J., Corchado, C. C., Rodriguez Espinosa, R., Vázquez, E., Goldman-Rosas, L., Woo, K. J., LeSarre, M., Gallegos-Castillo, A., Cheney, A., Hintz, R., & Brown, A. (2024). Toward decolonized fiscal relationships between universities and community organizations: Lessons learned from the California community engagement alliance against COVID-19. Critical Public Health, 34:1, 1-13, https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2024.2323715
Rodriguez Espinosa, P., Vázquez, E., AuYoung, M., Zaldivar, F., Cheney, A. M., Sorkin, D., Zender, R., Corchado, C. G., & Burke, N. J. (2024). Partnering with community health workers to address COVID-19 health inequities: Experiences of the California Alliance Against COVID-19. American Journal of Public Health, 114(S1), S45–S49. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307471
Vázquez, E., Juturu, P., Burroughs, M., Mcmullin, J., & Cheney, A. M. (2023). Continuum of trauma: Fear and mistrust of institutions in communities of color during the COVID-19 pandemic. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-023-09835-3
Cheney, A., Vázquez, E., & Chobdee, J. (2023). Creating cultures of health in the academy: Bringing together top-down and ground-up approaches. Health Education & Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1177/10901981231151628
Adkins-Jackson, P. B., Vázquez, E., & The STOP COVID-19 CA Vaccine Hesitancy Working Group. (2023). The role of anti-racist community-partnered praxis in implementing restorative circles within marginalized communities in Southern California during the COVID-19. Health Promotion Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248399221132581
Vázquez, E., Nieri, T., Fernandes, F., Cravalho, D., Ryan Shirey, F., Molina, L., Pemberton, S. M., & Cheney, A. M. (2022). Voicing student recovery: Embracing diversity in collegiate recovery programs. Journal of American College Health.https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2022.2119400
Gehlbach, D., Vázquez, E., Ortiz, G., Li, E., Sánchez, C. B., Rodríguez, S., Pozar, M., & Cheney, A. M. (2022). Perceptions of the Coronavirus and COVID-19 testing and vaccination in Latinx and Indigenous Mexican immigrant communities in the Eastern Coachella Valley. BMC public health, 22(1), 1019. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13375-7
Vázquez, E. (2022). Negative emotions, social isolation, and impostor syndrome in the pursuit of professional mastery in research universities. International Journal for Academic Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2022.2072848
Vázquez, E., Chobdee, J., Nasrollahzadeh, N., & Cheney, A. (2021). Personal freedom and social responsibility in slowing the spread of COVID-19, a rapid-qualitative study. Health Education & Behavior, 49(1) 26–34. https://doi.org/10.1177/10901981211033241
Cheney, A. M., Chobdee, J., McCullough, K., Vázquez, E., Jara, E., & Deas, D. (2020). Engaging stakeholders in the healthy campus movement. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 14(3), 299-306. https://doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2020.0035
Levin, J. S., López-Damián, A., Martin, M. C., & Morales Vázquez, E. (2018). New universities through presidential lenses. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 48(2), 20-38. https://doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.v48i2.188122
Viggiano, T; López Damián, A. I.; Morales Vázquez, E.; & Levin, J. S. (2017). The others: Equitable access, international students, and the community college. Journal of Studies in International Education, 22(1), 71–85. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315317725883
Levin, J. S., Viggiano, T., López Damián, A. I., Morales Vázquez, E, & Wolf, J. P. (2017). Polymorphic students: New descriptions and conceptions of community college students from the perspectives of administrators and faculty. Community College Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/009155211667973
Edited Book Chapters
Vázquez, E. (2024). The invisible, yet dangerous mental health crisis among historically marginalized graduate students. In Handbook of Academic Mental Health edited by Marissa Edwards, Angela Martin, and Neal Ashkanasy, and LAuren E. Cox, (pp. 78-94). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803925080.00011
Vázquez, E., Ortiz, G., & Cheney, A. (2021). Capítulo IV. Entre el miedo y la incertidumbre, migrantes mexicanos sobreviviendo la pandemia de COVID-19 en el este del Valle de Coachella, California/ Chapter IV. Between Fear and Uncertainty, Mexican Migrants Surviving the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Eastern Coachella Valley, California. Migración y Salud. Publication by the Consejo Nacional de Población (CONAPO), Secretaría de Gobernación, México.
Viggiano, T., Vázquez, E., & López Damián, A. I. (2021). From oppression to global social justice: Practitioners’ responsibility to international students in the U.S. community college. In G. F. Malveaux & B. Krishna (Eds.), International Students at US Community College Opportunities, Challenges, and Successes. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003121978
Levin, J. S., Vázquez, E., & Martin, M. C. (2020). Shared governance. In M. E. David & M. Amey (Eds.) The SAGE encyclopedia of higher education, Vol. 5. (pp. 1342-1344). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529714395.n505
Vázquez, E. M. (2018). Symbolic world, reflexivity, and intentionality in the construction of academic professional identities (APIs). In E. R. Lyle (Ed.), The Negotiated Self: Employing Reflexive Inquiry to Explore Teacher Identity. (pp. 174-182). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004388901_015
Community Reports & Policy Briefs
Rajadhyaksha, M., Ortiz, G., Scott-Williams, A., Cruz, N., Thakur, H., Jandir, S., Schill-Hendley, H., Fajardo, V., Carrillo, D., Trinidad, A., Molina, L., Lakes, K., Cheney, A., & Vázquez, E. (2024). Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Historically Marginalized Graduate and Professional Students. Facilitator Report: https://healingtheacademy.com/engaging-the-academy
Vázquez, E., Zimmer, A., Marmolejo, C., Avalos, D., Ayala Duarte, A.G., Bautista, L., Pallares Perez, M., Vergara, S., Moreira, J., Da Silva Zacarias, L., Cheney, A. M. and the Restorative Circles Project. (2023). Improving Mental Health in the Eastern Coachella Valley. Community Report: https://healingtheacademy.com/restorative-circles
Vázquez, E., Rajadhyaksha, M., Scott-Williams, A., Ortiz, G., Vera-Colon, M., Cruz, N., Hale, A., Dighero, J., Marmolejo, C., Jenks, H., Villarreal, C., Angelo Madrigal, V., Faloutsos, M., & Cheney, A. (2022). Healing the Academy: Addressing Mental Health Disparities Among Underrepresented Graduate and Professional Students. Steering Council Report:https://healingtheacademy.com/mental-health-disparities
Working Group of STOP COVID 19 Community Alliance. (2021). Californians Speak, Achieving Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination. The Share, Trust, Organize, Partner COVID-19 California Alliance (STOP COVID-19 CA). Report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17NM1ymlN0CePXo4RMEMSQJvZ-SzfJKno/view
Cheney, A., McMullin, J., Vázquez, E., Burroughs, M., Ortiz, G., Moran, A., Trehan, S., LeComte-Hinely, J., Smith, S., Stell, R. P., Pozar, M., Salgado, S., Juturu, P., Gonzalez, C., & Lo, D. (2021). The STOP COVID-19 CA Project: 2021 Qualitative Report Factors Shaping COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination in Vulnerable Communities in Inland Southern California. Qualitative Report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10-Z8ObLfQbDnrieA2JPHvvKcVw5ccl3s/view
Cheney, A. M., Vázquez, E., Ortiz, G., Moran, A., Trehan, S., Simonoski, U., and Li, E., Pozar, M. (2021). COVID-19 Testing and Outreach with Farm-Working Communities in the Eastern Coachella Valley: 2020-2021 Final Report. https://healthdisparities.ucr.edu/ECV-COVID19
Vázquez, E., Ryan-Shirey, F., Westergaard, R., Brara, B., Sodhi, A., Ogbogu, J., Toor, A., Lopez, E., Valladoid, T., La Scala, S., Fernandes, F., Nieri, T., Pemberton, S. M., Molina, L., Clark, J., Cheney, A. (2020). Voicing Collegiate Recovery Engaging the Campus Community in Students’ Recovery Needs Deliberative Democracy Forums. Facilitator Report: https://www.pcori.org/sites/default/files/Healthy-Campus-Facilitator-Report.pdf