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Carlos A. Tarin

Associate Professor
Communication

Office Building: Cotton Memorial
Office Room: 102
Phone: (915) 747-6202
Email: catarin@utep.edu

Expertise: See Research Profile in Expertise Connector

Bio

No info available.

Awards and Honors

Nominee, C-USA Faculty Achievement Award - UTEP College of Liberal Arts (11/01/2024-11/30/2024)
Top 4 Paper, Latina/o Communication Studies Division - National Communication Association, Latina/o Communication Studies Division (11/01/2024-11/30/2024)
2023 Anita Taylor Award for Outstanding Published Article or Book Chapter - Organization for the Study of Language, Communication, and Gender (10/05/2023)
Presidential Citation for Service to the National Communication Association - National Communication Association (11/19/2022)
Educator of the Year - Texas Intercollegiate Forensic Association (10/07/2022)
Presidential Citation for Service to WSCA - Western States Communication Association (02/17/2022)
2021 Christine L. Oravec Article Award in Environmental Communication - National Communication Association, Environmental Communication Division (11/20/2021)
2021 Córdova-Puchot Scholar of the Year Award - National Communication Association, Latina/o Communication Studies Division (11/20/2021)
2021 Daniel Rohrer Memorial Outstanding Research Award - American Forensic Association (11/20/2021)
Presidential Citation for Service - National Communication Association (11/20/2021)
Student Organization Advisor of the Year - UTEP Student Engagement and Leadership Center (05/05/2021)
Article/Book Chapter of the Year - National Communication Association, Latina/o Communication Studies Division (11/01/2020-11/30/2020)
Top Paper - Western Forensics and Argumentation Association - Western States Communication Association (02/22/2020)
Pi Kappa Delta L.E. Norton Outstanding Scholarship in Forensics Award - Pi Kappa Delta (11/16/2019)
Stephen P. Depoe Outstanding Book Chapter Award - National Communication Association, Environmental Communication Division (11/16/2019)
Texas Speech Communication Association New Collegiate Faculty Registration Award - Texas Speech Communication Association (10/05/2015)

Education

Ph D in Communication, University of Utah (2015)
MA in Communication, University of Colorado -- Boulder (2011)
BA in Communication, University of Texas at El Paso (2009)

Publications

Rare-UTEP Partnership: Educating Students Around the World to Implement Social Change in Conservation and Communities Parlor Press (2024), Stacey Sowards, Sarah M. Upton, Carlos A. Tarin.
Engaging with Melodama: A Tribute to Steve Schwarze Quarterly Journal of Speech 110 1 (2024), Carlos A. Tarin.
Healing the Open Wound of Ecofascism: Notes on Care in/from the Borderlands Environmental Communication 18 1 (2023), Carlos A. Tarin.
La Raza mentorship initiative: Creating a fortifying pathway for mentorship within the caucus. Peter Lang (2022), Amanda R. Martinez, Leandra H. Hernandez, Carlos A. Tarin, Jaime Guzman.
Communication, Race, and Outdoor Spaces Frontiers in Communication: Science and Environmental Communication. (2022), Carlos A. Tarin.
Construyendo conexiones para los niños: Environmental justice, reproductive feminicidio, and coalitional possibility in the borderlands (2022), Sarah M. Upton, Carlos A. Tarin, Leandra H. Hernández.
"We Need to be Better”: Race, Outdoor Recreation, and Corporate Social Advocacy. Frontiers in Communication | Science and Environmental Communication 6 726417 (2021), Carlos A. Tarin, Sarah M. Upton, Leandra H. Hernandez.
How to Liberate Wild Tongues: Anzaldúan Approaches to Competitive Speech and Debate The University of Arizona Press (2020), Carlos A. Tarin.
Borderland Ecocultural Identity Routledge (2020), Carlos A. Tarin, Sarah M. Upton, Stacey Sowards.
#MeToo and Forensics: A Structurational Analysis and Suggestions for Transformational Praxis The Forensic 105 1 (2020), Carlos A. Tarin, Tiffany A. Dykstra-Devette.

Presentations

State of the Field (2024), Volume Austin, TX, Carlos A. Tarin.
Violence against LGBTQ+ communities, queer worldmaking, and freedom through community-building and activism. (2023), Volume National Harbor, MD, Carlos A. Tarin.
“El Amor Ya Es Ley”: Familia and reproductive justice in Cuba’s 2022 Family Code. (2023), Volume National Harbor, MD, Fernando Cereceres, Carlos A. Tarin, Sarah M. Upton, Leandra H. Hernandez.
Environmental communication mentorship initiative. (2023), Volume National Harbor, MD, Carlos A. Tarin.
La Raza Mentorship Gathering (2023), Volume National Harbor, MD, Carlos A. Tarin.
Ethics of Care in the Borderlands (2023), Volume Harrisonburg, VA, Carlos A. Tarin, Sarah M. Upton.
Renewing a commitment to mentorship in La Raza Caucus (2021), Volume Seattle, WA, Carlos A. Tarin.
Renewing and transforming toward Latina/o/x environmental communication studies. (2021), Volume Seattle, WA, Carlos A. Tarin.
Transforming and renewing environmental communication by foregrounding race and outdoor spaces (2021), Volume Seattle, WA, Carlos A. Tarin.
“We have a lot more work to do”: Racial apologia, outdoor recreation, and corporate deflection (2021), Volume Seattle, WA, Carlos A. Tarin, Sarah M. Upton, Leandra H. Hernandez.
#ToneUpOrgComm: The time for intersectionality is now. (2020), Volume Virtual, Carlos A. Tarin.
Dolores Huerta and the crossroads of environmental communication: Labor, organizing, and social movements (2020), Volume Virtual, Carlos A. Tarin.
Primaries, presidents, and policies: A post-election environmental communication roundtable (2020), Volume Virtual , Carlos A. Tarin.
Using data visualization tools to teach speech (2020), Volume Virtual , Carlos A. Tarin.
#MeToo and forensics: A structurational analysis and suggestions for transformational praxis (2020), Volume Denver, CO, Carlos A. Tarin, Tiffany A. Dykstra-Devette.

Grants

No info available.

Current/Future Courses

Term	Course	Section	Syllabus
Summer 2025	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	33249
Summer 2025	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	30915

Past Courses

Select Term:

Term	Course	Section	Syllabus
Spring 2025	COMM 5350 - Directed Study	28305
Spring 2025	COMM 4360 - Environmental Communication	23471	Syllabus
Spring 2025	COMM 5346 - Environmental Communication	23163	Syllabus
Fall 2024	COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies	11260	Syllabus
Summer 2024	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	33958	Syllabus
Spring 2024	COMM 5350 - Directed Study	24642
Spring 2024	COMM 5350 - Directed Study	28286
Spring 2024	COMM 4360 - Environmental Communication	23983	Syllabus
Spring 2024	COMM 5346 - Environmental Communication	23589	Syllabus
Fall 2023	COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies	11484	Syllabus
Spring 2023	COMM 4360 - Environmental Communication	24495	Syllabus
Spring 2023	COMM 5346 - Environmental Communication	24009	Syllabus
Fall 2022	COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies	12683
Summer 2022	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	36383
Spring 2022	COMM 5350 - Directed Study	28083
Fall 2021	COMM 5350 - Directed Study	19866
Fall 2021	COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies	12686	Syllabus
Summer 2021	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	31650
Spring 2021	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	21578	Syllabus
Fall 2020	COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies	12875	Syllabus
Summer 2020	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	31800
Summer 2020	COMM 5398 - Thesis	36605
Spring 2020	COMM 5350 - Directed Study	27508
Spring 2020	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	21778
Fall 2019	COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies	13071
Summer 2019	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	31942
Spring 2019	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	21885
Spring 2019	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking	21046
Spring 2019	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking	24219
Spring 2019	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking	26738
Spring 2019	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking	27285
Spring 2019	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking	27286
Fall 2018	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking	11262	Syllabus
Fall 2018	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking	11263	Syllabus
Fall 2018	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking	11264	Syllabus
Fall 2018	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking	11265	Syllabus
Fall 2018	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking	11266	Syllabus
Fall 2018	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	15016
Summer 2018	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	32074
Spring 2018	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	22039
Spring 2018	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking (C)	24331
Spring 2018	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking (C)	24555
Spring 2018	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking (C)	26216
Spring 2018	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking (C)	27357
Spring 2018	COMM 1301 - Public Speaking (C)	27358

Course Evaluations

Term	Course	Section	Evaluation
Fall 2024	COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies	11260	Evaluation
Summer 2024	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	33958	Evaluation
Spring 2024	COMM 4360 - Environmental Communication	23983	Evaluation
Spring 2024	COMM 5346 - Environmental Communication	23589	Evaluation
Fall 2023	COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies	11484	Evaluation
Spring 2023	COMM 4360 - Environmental Communication	24495	Evaluation
Spring 2023	COMM 5346 - Environmental Communication	24009	Evaluation
Summer 2022	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	36383	Evaluation
Fall 2021	COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies	12686	Evaluation
Summer 2021	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	31650	Evaluation
Spring 2021	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	21578	Evaluation
Fall 2020	COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies	12875	Evaluation
Summer 2020	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	31800	Evaluation
Spring 2020	COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication	21778	Evaluation

Bio

No info available.

Awards and Honors

Nominee, C-USA Faculty Achievement Award - UTEP College of Liberal Arts (11/01/2024-11/30/2024)
Top 4 Paper, Latina/o Communication Studies Division - National Communication Association, Latina/o Communication Studies Division (11/01/2024-11/30/2024)
2023 Anita Taylor Award for Outstanding Published Article or Book Chapter - Organization for the Study of Language, Communication, and Gender (10/05/2023)
Presidential Citation for Service to the National Communication Association - National Communication Association (11/19/2022)
Educator of the Year - Texas Intercollegiate Forensic Association (10/07/2022)
Presidential Citation for Service to WSCA - Western States Communication Association (02/17/2022)
2021 Christine L. Oravec Article Award in Environmental Communication - National Communication Association, Environmental Communication Division (11/20/2021)
2021 Córdova-Puchot Scholar of the Year Award - National Communication Association, Latina/o Communication Studies Division (11/20/2021)
2021 Daniel Rohrer Memorial Outstanding Research Award - American Forensic Association (11/20/2021)
Presidential Citation for Service - National Communication Association (11/20/2021)
Student Organization Advisor of the Year - UTEP Student Engagement and Leadership Center (05/05/2021)
Article/Book Chapter of the Year - National Communication Association, Latina/o Communication Studies Division (11/01/2020-11/30/2020)
Top Paper - Western Forensics and Argumentation Association - Western States Communication Association (02/22/2020)
Pi Kappa Delta L.E. Norton Outstanding Scholarship in Forensics Award - Pi Kappa Delta (11/16/2019)
Stephen P. Depoe Outstanding Book Chapter Award - National Communication Association, Environmental Communication Division (11/16/2019)
Texas Speech Communication Association New Collegiate Faculty Registration Award - Texas Speech Communication Association (10/05/2015)

Ph D in Communication, University of Utah (2015)
MA in Communication, University of Colorado -- Boulder (2011)
BA in Communication, University of Texas at El Paso (2009)

Publications

Rare-UTEP Partnership: Educating Students Around the World to Implement Social Change in Conservation and Communities Parlor Press (2024), Stacey Sowards, Sarah M. Upton, Carlos A. Tarin.
Engaging with Melodama: A Tribute to Steve Schwarze Quarterly Journal of Speech 110 1 (2024), Carlos A. Tarin.
Healing the Open Wound of Ecofascism: Notes on Care in/from the Borderlands Environmental Communication 18 1 (2023), Carlos A. Tarin.
La Raza mentorship initiative: Creating a fortifying pathway for mentorship within the caucus. Peter Lang (2022), Amanda R. Martinez, Leandra H. Hernandez, Carlos A. Tarin, Jaime Guzman.
Communication, Race, and Outdoor Spaces Frontiers in Communication: Science and Environmental Communication. (2022), Carlos A. Tarin.

Presentations

State of the Field (2024), Volume Austin, TX, Carlos A. Tarin.
Violence against LGBTQ+ communities, queer worldmaking, and freedom through community-building and activism. (2023), Volume National Harbor, MD, Carlos A. Tarin.
“El Amor Ya Es Ley”: Familia and reproductive justice in Cuba’s 2022 Family Code. (2023), Volume National Harbor, MD, Fernando Cereceres, Carlos A. Tarin, Sarah M. Upton, Leandra H. Hernandez.
Environmental communication mentorship initiative. (2023), Volume National Harbor, MD, Carlos A. Tarin.
La Raza Mentorship Gathering (2023), Volume National Harbor, MD, Carlos A. Tarin.

No info available.

Current/Future Courses

Term

Summer 2025

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

33249

Syllabus

Term

Summer 2025

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

30915

Syllabus

Past Courses

Select Term:

Term

Spring 2025

Course

COMM 5350 - Directed Study

Section

28305

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2025

Course

COMM 4360 - Environmental Communication

Section

23471

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2025

Course

COMM 5346 - Environmental Communication

Section

23163

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2024

Course

COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies

Section

11260

Syllabus

Term

Summer 2024

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

33958

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2024

Course

COMM 5350 - Directed Study

Section

24642

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2024

Course

COMM 5350 - Directed Study

Section

28286

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2024

Course

COMM 4360 - Environmental Communication

Section

23983

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2024

Course

COMM 5346 - Environmental Communication

Section

23589

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2023

Course

COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies

Section

11484

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2023

Course

COMM 4360 - Environmental Communication

Section

24495

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2023

Course

COMM 5346 - Environmental Communication

Section

24009

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2022

Course

COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies

Section

12683

Syllabus

Term

Summer 2022

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

36383

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2022

Course

COMM 5350 - Directed Study

Section

28083

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2021

Course

COMM 5350 - Directed Study

Section

19866

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2021

Course

COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies

Section

12686

Syllabus

Term

Summer 2021

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

31650

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2021

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

21578

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2020

Course

COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies

Section

12875

Syllabus

Term

Summer 2020

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

31800

Syllabus

Term

Summer 2020

Course

COMM 5398 - Thesis

Section

36605

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2020

Course

COMM 5350 - Directed Study

Section

27508

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2020

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

21778

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2019

Course

COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies

Section

13071

Syllabus

Term

Summer 2019

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

31942

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

21885

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking

Section

21046

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking

Section

24219

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking

Section

26738

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking

Section

27285

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking

Section

27286

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2018

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking

Section

11262

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2018

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking

Section

11263

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2018

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking

Section

11264

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2018

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking

Section

11265

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2018

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking

Section

11266

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2018

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

15016

Syllabus

Term

Summer 2018

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

32074

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2018

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

22039

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2018

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking (C)

Section

24331

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2018

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking (C)

Section

24555

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2018

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking (C)

Section

26216

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2018

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking (C)

Section

27357

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2018

Course

COMM 1301 - Public Speaking (C)

Section

27358

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2024

Course

COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies

Section

11260

Evaluation

Term

Summer 2024

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

33958

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2024

Course

COMM 4360 - Environmental Communication

Section

23983

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2024

Course

COMM 5346 - Environmental Communication

Section

23589

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2023

Course

COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies

Section

11484

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2023

Course

COMM 4360 - Environmental Communication

Section

24495

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2023

Course

COMM 5346 - Environmental Communication

Section

24009

Evaluation

Term

Summer 2022

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

36383

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2021

Course

COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies

Section

12686

Evaluation

Term

Summer 2021

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

31650

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2021

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

21578

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2020

Course

COMM 5300 - Intro to Graduate Studies

Section

12875

Evaluation

Term

Summer 2020

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

31800

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2020

Course

COMM 3355 - Organizational Communication

Section

21778

Evaluation

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