John and Maria Jose Tenuto

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John and Maria Jose Tenuto: Maria Jose Tenuto and John Tenuto have been authors and sociology professors for 26 years. Maria Jose was named the 2019 Illinois Outstanding Adjunct Faculty of the Year by the Illinois Community College Trustee Association. John was named the 2020 Association of Community College Trustees’ Central Regional Faculty Member Award winner, recognizing him as one of the top five community college educators in the nation. The couple’s research has been featured in Wired magazine, USA Today, Chicago Sun-Times, and on CBS, Netflix, WGN, the History Channel, and the BBC. They have been invited to speak at the Official Star Trek Convention, the St. Louis Science Center, by the future birthplace of James T. Kirk, Riverside, Iowa, and the town of Vulcan, Alberta, Canada, and were consultants on the United States Postal Service Star Wars Droids stamps. After moving to Altoona, Iowa, they can each now legitimately say, “No, I’m from Iowa. I only work in outer space.” They have been married for 26 years and have a 22 year old son named Nicholas Jose Tenuto.