Department of Communication and Journalism
Texas A&M University
Research
Selected Publications
Villanueva, G. (2024). Multimodal autoethnographic sincerity. Communication Studies. 1–18. In Special Issue, A. Heuman & A. Mudambi, (eds.). “Expanding upon critical methodologies and perspectives in communication studies.” Online First: https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2024.2345934
Baginski, AJ., Cudjoe, I., Hurtado-Montaño, A., Lawo-Sukam, A., Mills, R. and Villanueva, G. (2024) Introduction: Landscapes of Belonging. Latin@ Literatures. Retrieve from: https://lob.latinoliteratures.org/
Villanueva, G. (2024). No Justice, No Streets! Black radical placemaking and its political aesthetics in George Floyd Square. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 21(1), 116-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2023.2297973
Villanueva, G. (2022). Storytelling networks that build community power: Urban equity advocacy from a communication infrastructure lens. Management Communication Quarterly, 36(4), 637-663. https://doi.org/10.1177/08933189221090491
Villanueva, G. (2022). Promoting Urban Social Justice through Engaged Communication Scholarship: Reimagining Place. Social Justice and Communication Activism Series. New York: Routledge. *2023 Jane Jacobs Book Award, Urban Communication Foundation.
Villanueva, G. (2022). You must learn: Sampling critical hip hop pedagogy in communication education spaces. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 30(4), 435-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2020.1801814
Villanueva, G. (2021). Designing a Chinatown anti-displacement map and walking tour with communication asset mapping. Journal of Urban Design, 26(1), 14-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2020.1782182
Villanueva, G. (2020). Making place for my space/making space for our displacement: an embodied autoethnography of a reflexive communicative urban planner. Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies, 20(2), 157-166. In Special Issue, R. Silverman & D. Rowe, (eds.). "Blurring the body and the page: The theory, style, and practice of autoethnography". https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708619879197
Poon, O. and G. Villanueva. (2019) Reenergizing and renewing the call for Asian American and Pacific Islander university community research partnerships. AAPI Nexus Journal: Policy, Practice, and Community, 16(1-2), xix-xxvi.
Villanueva, G. (2019). Chitown loves you: Hip hop’s alternative spatializing narratives and activism to Trump’s hateful campaign rhetoric about Chicago. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 31(2), 127–146. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2019.312011
Villanueva, G. & A. Wenzel. (2018). The Engaged Communication Scholar: Designing CIT-Informed Engaged Research in Diverse Communities, 167–186. In Y.C. Kim, M. Matsaganis, H. Wilkin, & J.Y. Jung (Eds.), The Communication Ecology of 21st Century Urban Communities. New York: Peter Lang.
Villanueva, G., Gonzalez, C., Son, M., Moreno, E., Liu, W., and Ball-Rokeach, S.J. (2017). Bringing local voices into community revitalization: Engaged communication research in urban planning. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 45(5), 474–494. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2017.1382711
Villanueva, G. (2017). Engaged media scholarship: Making place with community organizers. Anthropology Now, 9(2), 102–114. https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2017.1337973
Villanueva, G. (2017) Embodying Democratic Spaces: Community Organizer Alternative Narratives that Challenge the Mainstream Negative Stigma of South Los Angeles, 73–98. In J. Banh & M. King (Eds.), Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Villanueva, G. (2016). Filipinos for Garcetti: Ethnic political organizing and Asian American civic engagement in cities. Asian American Policy Review, 26, 10–19. Retrieve from: https://aapr.hkspublications.org/2016/06/13/filipinosforgarcetti/
Villanueva, G., Broad, G., Gonzalez, C., Ball-Rokeach, S., & Murphy, S. (2016). Communication asset mapping: An ecological field application toward building healthy communities. International Journal of Communication, 10, 2704–2724. Retrieve from: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/5335
Stokes, B., Villanueva, G., Bar, F., and Ball-Rokeach, S.J. (2015). Mobile Design as Neighborhood Acupuncture: Activating the Storytelling Networks of South L.A. Journal of Urban Technology, 22(3), 55–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2015.1040292
Broad, G., Ball-Rokeach, S.J., Ognyanova, K., Stokes, B., Picasso, T., and Villanueva, G. (2013). Understanding Communication Ecologies to Bridge Communication Research and Community Action. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 41(3), 325–345.