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CURRICULUM VITAE (January 2015)
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Current Position
Professor, Dept. of Sociology
Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1059
(213) 740-3606
[email protected]
Education
1990
Ph.D. in Sociology. University of California, Berkeley.
1984
M.A. in Latin American Studies. University of California, Berkeley.
1979
B.A. in Sociology. University of California, San Diego.
Areas of Specialization
International Migration; Latino/a Sociology; Gender and Migration; Informal Sector
Work and Occupations; Qualitative Methods; Religion and Social Movements; Sociology
of Gardens;
Awards, Grants, Honors
2013
Feminist Scholar Activist Award, American Sociological Association, Sex and
Gender Section
2011
“Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Scholarship” awarded to an undergraduate student
by USC Latino Alumni Association
2010
USC-Del Amo Research Grant, for research in Spain
2009
Best Special Issue Award, from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, for
“Nation and Migration,” special issue of American Quarterly, co-edited.
2009
¡Adelante California! Award (awarded by LA-based community organization)
2007
Provost’s Initiative on Immigration and Integration, Research
Grant to study economic integration of Mexican immigrant gardeners
2006
Mellon Excellence in Mentoring Award (for mentoring graduate students)
Invitation as Visiting Professor, Program on Women, Gender and Sexualities,
Harvard University (declined)
2005
Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowship in the Humanities, “Becoming and
Belonging: the Alchemy of Identity in the Multiethnic Metropolis” CSU Los
Angeles, for 2005-06.
2001-03 7 book awards for Domestica (listed on CV, under books)
2002-07 PEW-sponsored Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Research Grants to
study religion, immigration and social justice
2001
USC College Grant for Research with Undergraduates on Post-9/11 Backlash
Ernest A. Lynton Award for Faculty Professional Service and Academic
Outreach (national), Honorable Mention
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College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, General Education Teaching Award
American Sociological Association Spivak Grant, for Applied Research,
“Clergy Advocacy for Immigrant Workers”
College Award for Research, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, USC, for
preparation of edited book on Gender and Contemporary U.S. Immigration.
Raubenheimer Young Faculty Award, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
USC.
Jesse Bernard Award, Honorable Mention, for Gendered Transitions.
Institute of American Cultures, UCLA, Research grant, "Paid domestic work in
Los Angeles."
Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar at UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, fall.
Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the
Humanities, "Perspectives on Los Angeles: Narratives, Images, History," spring
1997.
Zumberge Fund for Interdisciplinary Research and Scholarship Grant, new
approaches to the study of Latino L.A., with Professor Laura Pulido.
Southern California Studies Center, USC, Research grant, "Domestic
employment agencies in L.A."
C. Wright Mills Award Semi-finalist (national, Society for the Study of Social
Problems); Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Awards (USC), Honorable
Mention for Gendered Transitions.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Grant to develop new interdisciplinary
G.E. course "La Frontera: the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," with Laura Pulido.
Social Science Research Council Inter-University Program for Latino Research;
Research Grant for "Structuring and Negotiating Paid Domestic Work."
Nominated for Fellowship at Center for the Advanced Study in Behavioral
Sciences, Stanford University.
Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fund Grant, "Social Networks of
Domestic Workers' Employers"
Irvine Foundation Curriculum Diversity Development Grant, to develop new
course on Mexican immigration.
Visiting Research Fellowship, 1989-1990. Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies,
University of California San Diego.
Sally Butler Memorial Award for Latina Research, Business and Professional
Women's Foundation.
U.C. Berkeley Department of Sociology, Dissertation Research Grant.
Tinker Foundation Grant for research travel costs to the Dominican Republic.
Associated Students of the U.C., Mini-grant to develop
innovative undergraduate education.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
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Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2014. Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making
of California Gardens. University of California Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2011. Domestica: Trabajadoras Inmigrantes a Cargo de la
Limpieza y el Cuidado en la Sombra de la Abundancia. (Spanish language translation of
Domestica), Mexico, DF: Instituto National de Migracion, Editorial Porrua.
David Gutierrez and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, editors. 2009. Migration and Nation:
Past and Future. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2008. God’s Heart Has No Borders: How Religious
Activists Are Working for Immigrant Rights. University of California Press.
(Audiobook version, Barnes and Noble, with University of California Press, 2009)
*Reprinted Chapter 2, “Muslim American Immigrants after 9/11: The Struggle
for Civil Rights,” in Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life,
Edition 7, edited by Jodi A. O’Brien and David M. Newman. Sage, 2011.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, editor. 2007. Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants.
Rutgers University Press.
Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A. Messner, editors, 2010.
(1rst Edition,1997; 2nd Edition, 2000; 3rd Edition 2005; 4th Edition 2010) Gender
Through the Prism of Difference. Oxford University Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, editor. 2003. Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary
Trends. University of California Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2001. Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and
Caring in the Shadows of Affluence. University of California Press.
(New edition, with new preface “The Domestic Goes Global,” 2007)
2003Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, University of Southern California
2002 Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association
2002 Max Weber Award, Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work, ASA
2002 Distinguished Contribution to Research Award, Latina/o Section, ASA
2002 Distinguished Book Award, Sex and Gender Section, ASA
2002 Honorable Mention, International Migration Section, ASA
2001 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
*Reprinted and excerpted in Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sherron De Hart, Cornelia
H. Dayton and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, editors, Women’s America: Refocusing the
Past, 8th edition, Oxford University Press, 2015.
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*Reprinted “New World Domestic Order: Immigrant Workers in Affluent
America,” in Nancy A. Hewitt and Kirstin Delegard, editors, Women, Families
and Communities, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 2008.
*Reprinted Chapter 5, “Blowups and Other Unhappy Endings,” Pp. 55-69 in
Arlie Hochschild and Barbara Ehrenreich, editors, Global Woman: Nannies,
Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, New York: Metropolitan
Books, 2003.
*Reprinted Chapter 2, “Maid in L.A.” in the following anthologies:
Pp. 268-276 in Ron Matson, editor, The Spirit of Sociology: A Reader, 2nd
edition. Allyn & Bacon, 2008.
*In Verta Taylor and Nancy Whittier, editors, Feminist Frontiers, 3rd edition,
2003.
*In Peter Kivisto and Elizabeth Hartung, editors, Intersecting Inequalities:
Class, Race, Sex and Sexualities. Prentice Hall, 2007.
*In Amy S. Wharton, editor, Working in America: Continuity, Conflict and
Change, 3rd edition, McGraw Hill, 2006.
*In Dennis J. Bixler-Martinez, Ortega, Solorzano, and Lorenzo, editors,
Chicano Studies: Survey and Analysis, 3rd edition, Kendall Hunt Publishing,
2008.
*In Margaret Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins, editors, Race, Class & Gender:
An Anthology, Wadsworth Publishing, 7th edition, 2009.
*Reprinted Ch 6, “Tell Me What to Do, But Don’t Tell Me How,” in Maxine
Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Michael Messner, editors, Gender
Through the Prism of Difference. Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2005.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, 1994. Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of
Immigration. University of California Press (4th printing).
1995 Finalist for C. Wright Mills Award, SSSP
1995 Honorable Mention, Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Awards (USC)
1997 Honorable Mention, Jesse Bernard Award, ASA
*Reprinted Chapter 7, "Gendered Immigration," pp. 186-206, in Norman R.
Yetman, Majority and Minority: The Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity in
American Life. Allyn & Bacon, sixth edition, 1999.
*Reprinted Chapter 2, "The History of Mexican Undocumented Settlement in
the United States, pp. 19-33, in Mary Romero et. al., editors, Challenging
Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. Routledge, 1997.
*Reprinted Chapter 2, "The History of Mexican Undocumented Settlement in
the United States, pp. 19-33, in Garcia, editor, Introduction to Chicano Studies,
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 2000.
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Mary Romero, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Vilma Ortiz, editors, 1997. Challenging
Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. Routledge.
Book Series Co-Editor
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Victor Rios, General Series Editors.
Latino/a Sociology. NYU Press, 2013-.
Articles and Chapters
Kopinak, Katharine, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Rosa Soriano, Antonio Trinidad, and
Jenna Hennebry. Forthcoming 2015, “A Comparison of Family Cultures Among
Migrants with Work Experience in Export Processing Industry in Mexico and Morocco,”
in Marlene Solis, editor, Gender Transition Along Borders: The Northern Borderlands of
Mexico and Morocco. London: Ashgate.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2014. “Paradise Transplanted, Paradise Lost?” Boom: A
Journal of California, 4(3):86-94.
Flores, Glenda Marisol and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, 2014. “The Social Dynamics
Channeling Latina College Graduates into the Teaching Profession.” Gender, Work and
Organization, 21(6):491-515.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette and Jose Miguel Ruiz. 2014. “Illegality and Spaces of
Sanctuary: Belonging and Homeland-making in Urban Community Gardens,” Pp. 246271 in Cecilia Menjivar and Daniel Kanstroom, editors, Constructing Illegality.
Cambridge University Press.
Hennebry, Jenna, Kathryn Kopinak, Rosa Ma. Soriano Miras, Antonio Trinidad Requena,
and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2014. “From ‘Khadema’ to ‘Zemegria’: Morocco as a
‘Migration Hub’ for the EU,” Pp. 65-81 in M. Walton-Roberts and J. Hennebry, editors,
Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighborhood: Spilling over the Wall,
International Perspectives on Migration 5. New York and London: Springer.
Edward Orozco Flores and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2013. “Chicano Gang Members
in Recovery: The Public Talk of Negotiating Chicano Masculinities.” Social Problems,
60 (4):476-490.
Golash-Boza, Tanya and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2013. “Latino Immigrant Men and
the Deportation Crisis: A Gendered Racial Removal Program,” Latino Studies 11
(3):271-292.
*Honorable mention for Best Paper Award from ASA Latina/o Sociology
Section, 2014.
Ramirez, Hernan, and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2013. “Mexican Gardeners in the
U.S.,” Pp. 122-148 in Majella Kilkey, Diane Perrons, and Ania Plomien, with Pierrette
Hondagneu-Sotelo and Hernan Ramirez, Gender, Migration and Domestic Work:
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Masculinities, Male Labour and Fathering in the UK and USA. London: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2013. “New Directions in Gender and Immigration
Research,” Pp. 233-245 in Laura Oso Casas and Natalia Riba-Mateos, editors, The
International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism: Global and
Development Perspectives, Edward Elgar Publishers.
Estrada, Emir and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2013. “Living the Third Shift: Latina
Adolescent Street Vendors in Los Angeles,” Pp. 144-163 in Flores-Gonzalez, Nilda,
Anna Romina Guevarra, Maura Toro-Morn, and Grace Chang. Immigrant Women
Workers in the Neoliberal Age. Irbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2012. “New Directions in Gender and Immigration
Research,” Pp. 180-188 in Steve Gold and Stephanie Nawyn, editors, The Routledge
International Handbook of Migration Studies. London and New York: Routledge.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, Emir Estrada, and Hernan Ramirez. 2011. “Mas alla de la
Domesticidad: Un analisis de genero de los trabajos inmigrantes del sector informal,”
(Beyond Domesticity: A gendered analysis of immigrant informal sector work,” in
Papers: Revista de Sociologia (Spain), special issue on Inmigracion e integracion
sociolaboral en Espana y Estados Unidos. 96(3):805-824.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette (2011), “La Posada Sin Fronteras: Disputando Fronteras a
Traves de la Espiritualidad Politica,” pp. 609-624 in Natalia Ribas Mateos, ed., El Rio
Bravo Meditarraneo: Las Regiones Fronterizas en la Epoca de la Globalizacion.
Barcelona: Ediciones Bellaterra, SGU.
Estrada, Emir, and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2011), “Intersectional Dignities: Latina
Immigrant Adolescent Street Vendors in Los Angeles.” Journal of Contemporary
Ethnography 40(1): 102-131.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette (2010), “Cultivating Questions for a Sociology of Gardens,”
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 39:102-131.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2009), “Ten Things You Need to Know about Mexican
Immigration,” Pp. 51-62 in David Coates and Peter Siavelis, editors, Getting
Immigration Right: What Every American Needs to Know. Washington, D.C.: Potomac
Books.
Hernan Ramirez and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2009), “Mexican Immigrant Gardeners
in Los Angeles: Entrepreneurs or Exploited Workers?” Social Problems 56(1):70-88.
*Reprinted in Peter and Patti Adler, editors, Sociological Odyssey:
Contemporary Readings in Introductory Sociology Wadsworth Cengage, 2013.
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Gul Ozyegin and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2008), “Migrant Women, Domestic Work,
and the New Gender Order: Comments on the European Case,” Pp. 195-208 in Helma
Lutz, editor, Migration and Domestic Work: A European Perspective on a Global Theme.
Ashgate Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Angelica Salas, (2008) “What Explains the Immigrant
Rights Marches of 2006? Xenophobia and Organizing with Democracy Technology,”
Pp. 209-225 in Rachel Ida Buff, editor, Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship.
New York University Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2007), “La incorporacion del genero a la migracion: no
‘solo para feministas’—y no solo en la familia,” Pp. 423-452 in Marina Ariza y
Alejandro Portes, coordinadores, El Pais Transnacional: Migracion mexicana y cambio
social a traves de la frontera. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de
Investigaciones Sociales.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Genelle Gaudinez and Hector Lara. (2007). “A Genealogy
of the Posada Sin Fronteras,” Pp. 122-138 in Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, editor,
Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants.
Kim Huisman and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2005), “Dress Matters: Change and
Continuity in the Dress Practices of Bosnian Muslim Refugee Women,” Gender &
Society, 19 (1):44-65.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Genelle Gaudinez, Hector Lara and Billie C. Ortiz (2004),
“’There’s a Spirit that Transcends the Border’: Faith, Ritual and Postnational Protest at
the U.S.-Mexico Border,” Sociological Perspectives, 47(2):133-159.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2004), "Gender and the Latino Experience in LateTwentieth-Century America," Pp. 281-302 in David Gutierrez, editor, Columbia History
of Latinos in the United States, 1960 to the Present, New York: Columbia University
Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2002), "Families on the Frontier: From Braceros in the
Fields to Braceras in the Home," Pp. 259-273 in Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, editor, Latinos:
Remaking America, Cambridge, MA and Berkeley: David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies, Harvard University Press, and University of California Press.
*Reprinted in Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, edited
by Elizabeth Higgenbotham and Margaret L. Andersen, editors. Cengage
Learning, 2012.
*Reprinted in Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class: Dimensions of
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Inequality, edited by Susan J. Ferguson, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications,
2013.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2001), “Latina Immigrant Domestic Workers: Pathways for
Upgrading Cleaning and Caring Jobs,” Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 26 (2):169177.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2000), "Feminism and Migration Scholarship,"
THE ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, special issue
on "The Social Sciences: A Feminist View," guest editor, Christine Williams, vol.
571:107-120.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2000), "The International Division of Caring and Cleaning
Work: Transnational Connections or Apartheid Exclusions?" in Madonna Harrington
Myer, editor, Care Work: Gender, Labor and the Welfare State. New York and London:
Routledge.
Jerome Straughan and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2000), "From
Immigrants in the City, to Immigrant City," in Michael Dear, editor, From Chicago to
Los Angeles: Re-visioning the Urban Process. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Cynthia Cranford (1999), "Gender and Migration," Pp.
105-126 in Janet Saltzman Chaffetz, editor, Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. New
York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1998), "Women and Migration," Pp. 202-209 in
Encyclopedia of Third World Women. Nelly P. Stromquist, editor. New York and
London: Garland Press.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila (1997), "'I'm Here, But I'm There': The
Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood," Gender & Society, 11:548-571.
*Reprinted in Mary Zimmerman, Christine Bose, Jacqueline Litt, editors,
Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework. Stanford University Press, 2006.
*Reprinted in Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A.
Messner, editors, 2nd edition. Through the Prism of Difference: Readings on
Sex and Gender. Allyn & Bacon (2nd Edition), 2000.
*Reprinted in Naomi Gerstel, Dan Clawson, and Robert Zussman, editors,
Families at Work: Expanding the Boundaries. Vanderbilt University Press,
2002.
*Reprinted in Kate Willis and Brenda Yeoh, Editors,
Gender and Migration. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.
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*Reprinted in Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, editor, Gender & U.S. Immigration:
Contemporary Trends. University of California Press, 2003.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Cristina Riegos (1997), "Sin Organizacion, No Hay
Solucion,": Latina Domestic Workers and Non-traditional Labor Organizing," Latino
Studies Journal, 8: 54-81.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1997), "Affluent Players in the Informal Economy:
Employers of Paid Domestic Workers," International Journal of Sociology and Social
Policy, 17 (3/4):131-159.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1997) "Working 'without papers' in the U.S.: Toward the
Integration of Legal Status in Frameworks of Race, Class and Gender," Pp. 101-125, in
Elizabeth Higginbotham and Mary Romero, eds., Women and Work: Race, Class and
Ethnicity. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
*Reprinted in Esperanza Tunon Pablos, Editor, Mujeres en las Fronteras:
Migracion, Trabajo y Salud (Women in the Borderlands: Migration, Work and
Health). Mexico: Editorial Plaza y Valdes con Ecosur, Colef y Colson, 2000.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1996) "Divisions of Class, Race and Legal Status:
Domestic Workers and their Employers." in Kathryn M. Borman and Paula Dubeck,
eds., Women and Work: A Handbook. New York, NY: Garland Publishing Inc.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1996) "Immigrant Women and Paid Domestic Work:
Research, Theory and Activism," Pp. 105-122 in Heidi Gottfried, ed., Feminism and
Social Change: Bridging Theory and Practice. University of Illinois.
*Reprinted in Judith R. Blau, Editor, The Blackwell Companion to Sociology.
Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1995) "Women and Children First: New Directions in AntiImmigrant Politics." Socialist Review, 25:169-190.
*Reprinted (1996) as "Mujeres y ninos primeros: Nuevos rumbos en las
politicas anti-inmigrantes," in Debate Feminista (an academic feminist journal
published in Mexico City, Ano 7, vol. 13:160-180)
*Reprinted (1998) in Stephanie Coontz, editor, American Families: A
Multicultural Reader, Routledge.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1995) "Beyond 'The Longer they Stay' (and Say They Will
Stay): Women and Mexican Immigrant Settlement," Qualitative Sociology, 18: 21-43.
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Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1994) "Regulating the Unregulated: Domestic Workers'
Social Networks," Social Problems, 41:201-215.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Sally Raskoff (1994) "Community Service-Learning:
Promises and Problems," Teaching Sociology, 22:248-254.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1994) "Latina Immigrant Women and Paid Domestic Work:
Upgrading the Occupation," Clinical Sociology Review, 12:257-270.
*Reprinted (1998) in Nancy A. Naples, editor, Community Activism and
Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender. Routledge.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1994) "Mexican Immigrant Women's Kin and Community
Ties," in Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos, eds., Ethnic Women: A Multiple
Status Reality. General Hall Publishers.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A. Messner (1994) "Gender Displays and
Men's Power: The 'New Man' and the Mexican Immigrant Man." In Harry Brod and
Michael Kaufman, eds., Theorizing Masculinities. Sage Publications.
*Reprinted in M. M. Gergen and S. N. Davis, editors (1997), Toward a New
Psychology of Gender: A Reader. New York: Routledge.
*Reprinted in M. B. Zinn, P. Hondagneu-Sotelo and M. A. Messner, editors,
(1997), Through the Prism of Difference: Readings on Sex and Gender. Allyn
& Bacon.
*Reprinted in Stephanie Coontz, editor (1998), American Families: A
Multicultural Reader. Routledge.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1993) "Dignidad Para las Domesticas." In Juan Manuel
Sandoval, ed., Las Fronteras Nacionales en el Umbral de Dos Siglos (National Borders
on the Threshold of Two Centuries), Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e
Historia.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1993) "Why Advocacy Research? Reflections on Research
and Activism with Immigrant Women" The American Sociologist, 24:56-68.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1992) "Overcoming Patriarchal Constraints: The
Reconstruction of Gender Relations Among Mexican Immigrant Women and Men,"
Gender & Society, 6:393-415.
*Reprinted, Pp. 184-205 in Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Doris Wilkinson, and
Maxine Baca Zinn, editors (1996), Common Bonds, Different Voices: Race,
Class, and Gender, Newburby Park, CA: Sage.
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*Reprinted in Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A.
Messner, editors, Through the Prism of Difference: Readings on Sex and
Gender, forthcoming 1997, Allyn & Bacon.
Journals
David Gutierrez and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, special issue editors, of “Migration and
Nation, Past and Future,” American Quarterly, (fall 2008).
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Special Issue editor. (January 1999). "Gender and
Contemporary U.S. Immigration." American Behavioral Scientist, Volume 42, Number
4.
Review Essays
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1996), Review Essay of Terry Repak, Waiting on
Washington: Central American Workers in the Nation's Capital (Temple University
Press, 1995), and Jacqueline Maria Hagan, Deciding to be Legal: A Maya Community in
Houston, (Temple University Press, 1995). Gender & Society, 10 (4): 480-482.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1996), Review essay of Building with Our Hands: New
Directions in Chicana Studies, Adela de la Torre and Beatriz M. Pesquera, editors
(University of California Press, 1993); Across the Boundaries of Race and Class, Bonnie
Thornton Dill (New York: Garland Publishing, 1994): Mexican Lives, Judith Adler
Hellman (New York: The New Press, 1994). Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and
Society, 21(3):735-738, spring.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1993) "New Perspectives on Latina Women," Review of
Maid in the U.S.A., Mary Romero; No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on
an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940, Sarah Deutsch;
Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley,
Patricia Zavella. Feminist Studies, 19:193-205.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1988) "Gender and Fieldwork," Review of Women in the
Field, Peggy Golde (Ed.); Children in the Field, Joan Cassells (Ed.); Self, Sex, and
Gender in Cross-Cultural Fieldwork, Tony Whitehead and Mary Ellen Conaway, (Eds.);
Gender Issues In Field Research, Carol A. B. Warren. Women's Studies International
Forum, 11:611-618.
Book Reviews
Garden of the World: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California’s
Santa Clara Valley. By Cecilia M. Tsu. Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2015 in
Environmental History.
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Symposium Commentator on Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of
Care: Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life, edited by Loretta Baldassar
and Laura Merla. New York and London: Routledge, 2014. Papers (Spain), forthcoming
2015.
Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community. By Tamara
Mose Brown. New York and London: New York University Press, 2011. Sociological
Forum, 28(3):319-321, 2012.
Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration: Engendering Transnational Ties.
By Luz Maria Gordillo. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. Gender & Society,
February 26:138-140, 2012.
Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, Edited
by RichardAlba, Albert J. Raboteau, and Josh DeWind. New York and London: New
York University Press, 2009. Contemporary Sociology, 2010.
God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape.
Peggy Levitt (The New Press 2008). Social Forces September, 2009.
Convictions of the Soul: Religion, Culture, and Agency in the Central America Solidarity
Movement. Sharon Erickson Nepstad. (Oxford University Press 2004). Contemporary
Sociology 2005.
How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor. Roger
Waldinger and Michael I. Lichter. (University of California Press 2003). Contexts, 2
(4):65-66, 2003.
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration.
Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand, and Nolan J. Malone. (New York: Russell Sage
Foundation, 2002) in Contemporary Sociology, 32 (6):677-678, 2003.
Review co-authored with undergraduate student Sharene Irsane.
E Pluribus Unum?: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political
Incorporation. Gary Gerstle and John Mollenkopt, editors. (New York: Russell Sage
Foundation, 2001) in Contemporary Sociology, 32(1):79, 2003.
High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar
Identities in the Caribbean. Carla Freeman. (Durham, NC and London: Duke University
Press 2000), in Gender & Society, 15(2): 320-321, 2001.
Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Marcelo M.
Suarez-Orozco. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), Contemporary
Sociology.
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Ethnic Los Angeles. Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr, editors. (New York:
Russell Sage Foundation, 1996), Journal of American Ethnic History. 17 (4): 107-109,
1998.
Workers' Dilemmas: Recruitment, Reliability and Repeated Exchange. Margaret Grieco.
(Routledge, 1996), Contemporary Sociology.
American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins. Sarah J. Mahler. (Princeton
University Press, 1996), American Journal of Sociology, 102:631-633, 1996.
The Resources of Poverty: Women and Survival in a Mexican City. Mercedes Gonzalez
de la Rocha. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994). Contemporary Sociology, 24:781-782, 1995.
Miami Now! Immigration, Ethnicity, and Social Change. Edited by Guillermo J.
Grenier and Alex Stepick III. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992).
Contemporary Sociology, 22:479-480, 1993.
Songs My Mother Sang To Me: An Oral History of Mexican-American Women. Patricia
Preciado Martin. (Tuscon and London: University of Arizona Press, 1992).
Masculinities, 1:57-58. 1993.
Where North Meets South: Cities, Space, and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Border,
Lawrence A. Herzog, (Austin: Center for Mexican American Studies, University of
Texas, 1990). International Migration Review, 26:175-176, 1992.
No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class and Gender on the Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the
American Southwest, 1880-1940, Sarah Deutsch (New York and Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1987). International Migration Review, 23:340-341, 1989.
Latinos in the United States: The Sacred and the Political, David T. Abalos, (University
of Notre Dame Press). International Migration Review, Vol. 22, Spring 1988.
Citizenship, Gender and Work, Robert J. Thomas, (Berkeley: University of California,
1985). The Social Science Journal, 24:352-353, 1987.
Immigrants on the Hill, Gary Ross Mormino, (Urbana and Chicago: University of
Illinois). International Migration Review, 21:869-870, 1987.
Working Papers Series and Published Conference Proceedings
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, "Narrating the New World Domestic Order" (May 2006).
IIIS Discussion Paper No. 150 Available at SSRN (Social Science Research Network):
http://ssrn.com/abstract=925656
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Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (2000) "Disturbing Jobs, Disturbing Gender: Latina
Immigrant Domestic Workers and Articulations of Femininities." Center for Migration &
Development Working Paper Series, Princeton University.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1996) Domestic Employment Agencies in Los Angeles,
Report prepared for and published by the Southern California Studies Center, USC.
September.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1996) "Unpacking 187: Targetting Mejicanas," in Refugio I.
Rochin, editor, Immigration and Ethnic Communities: A Focus on Latinos, East
Lansing, MI: Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1993) "Domestic Workers' Social Networks." Institute for
the Study of Women and Men in Society Working Paper Series.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1992) "Using Ethnography to Develop Policy for Immigrant
Women Domestic Workers." Proceedings of the Third Women's Policy Research
Conference, Institute for Women's Policy Research and American University,
Washington D.C..
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (1991) "Overcoming Patriarchal Constraints: The
Reconstruction of Gender Relations Among Mexican Immigrant Women and Men."
Institute for the Study of Women and Men in Society Working Paper Series.
Non-refereed, Short Publications and Op-Eds
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette and Manuel Pastor. 2013. “California, Unlike the Federal
Government, Leads on Immigration Reform.” Sacramento Bee, Oct 17.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2013. “The Immigrant Economic Stimulus: Nannies and
Gardeners,” Huffington Post, May 15.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2011. “Gender and Migration Scholarship: An Overview
from a 21st Century Perspective,” Migraciones Internacionales Colegio de la Frontera
Norte (Colef), Mexico. January, No. 20: 219-233.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2011. “Cultivating Immigrant Communities and Plants in
Los Angeles Urban Gardens,” Lo Squaderno, no. 20:19-23, on-line (Italy):
losquaderno.professionaldreamers.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/losquaderno20.pdf
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2002. “The Plight of Illegal Children,” Op-Ed in Los
Angeles Times, October (reprinted in numerous U.S. newspapers)
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Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 2001. “Is Domestic Work a Real Job?: The Linda Chavez
Saga,” Sex & Gender Newsletter, Quarterly newsletter of Sex & Gender Section of
ASA.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 1997. "Transnational Motherhood," Network News,
(Quarterly newsletter of National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights), fall.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 1996. "Moving the Chase from the Border to Cyberspace
Verification," World on the Move, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Newsletter of ASA Section on
International Migration).
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 1996. "Featured Work in Progress," Work and
Organizations, newsletter of SSSP Labor Studies section.
Berta Gomez and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 1995. "Organizing Domestic Workers:
Cleaning up a Dirty Business," Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles
Bulletin, April-May.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 1994. "Hearings in Assembly Committee Challenge
Common Stereotypes About Immigrant Women," Coalition for Humane Immigrant
Rights in Los Angeles Bulletin, August.
*reprinted in NOTAS, (Newsletter of the ASA Latina/o Sociology Section),
Vol. II, Num. IV, 1994.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 1993. "Silent Witnesses in the Zoe Baird Case,"
Sociologists for Women in Society Network News, 10:3, March.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 1988. "California's Immigrant Rights Advocates Prepare for
the New Immigration Law's Impact." Migration World, Vol. 14, No. 4.
Invited Talks and Conference Presentations
2015
“Autonomy and Sanctuary in Community Gardens,” Session on Immigrant Illegality,
Latin American Studies Association Meetings, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27-30.
“Paradise Transplanted,” Dinner lecture at the California Studies Association, Berkeley,
May 13.
“Urban Community Gardens in the Immigrant City” (invited), at the Alternative Feminist
Economies Workshop, University of Barcelona, Spain, April 7-12.
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“Author Meets the Critics” sessions for Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the
Making of California Gardens at the Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meetings
in Long Beach, California, April 1-5, and at the Southern Sociological Society Annual
Meetings, New Orelans, LA, March 25-28.
“Studying Immigrant Life through Gardens,” (invited), Sociology Colloquium,
University of California, Merced. March 4.
“Social Justice and California Gardening,” panel on Environmental Social Justice at the
California Native Plants Society Conservation Conference, San Jose, California, January
15-17.
2014
“Migration and the Making of California Gardens,” (Invited talk), Department of
Sociology Colloquium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October 22.
Keynote address at the “Migrant Mothers Caring for the Future: Creative Interventions in
Making New Citizens” Conference, sponsored by the Arts Humanities Research Council,
The Clarence Centre for Enterprise and Innovation, London South Bank University,
London, September 18-19.
“La Crisis de la ilegalidad y la búsqueda de espacios de cotidianidad santuario,” (Invited
lecture) SemMig, Seminar de Migracion, COLEF (Colegio de la Frontera Norte),
broadcasted to academic institutions in Mexico and Spain, August 22.
“Immigrant Homeland Re-creation and Belonging in Urban Community Gardens of Los
Angeles,” Section on Community and Urban Sociology Paper Session, American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 18.
Discussant at “Sexuality in Migration: Complicating Economic Migration Theory,”
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 18.
“Contested Haven: Immigrant Urban Community Gardens as Contested Domestic
Sphere,” Session on Home-Making Practices and the Domestic Spaces of Migrant and
Ethnic Minorities at the XVIII International Sociological Association World Congress of
Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July 13-19.
“Multiple Inequalities in the Age of Transnationalization,” International Summer School,
(Invited lecture) Goethe-University Frankfurt, Institute for Sociology, June 24.
Invited Critic, at “Author Meets the Critics” session, for Leisy Abrego’s book,
Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor and Love Across Borders (SUP 2014),
UCLA, May 16.
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“U.S. Immigration Policy: Historical Legacies and Current Challenges,” (Invited lecture)
Japanese Immigration Conference, USC, April 25.
“Conquest and Migration in the Making of California Gardens,” (Invited lecture) at
Pushing Borders: Extending Mexican, U.S. and Chicano Historiographies symposium,
Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, February 28.
2013
Keynote address for “Gender and Migration” Conference sponsored by the Gender
Research Centre, HKIAPS, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 10-11.
Invited discussant for “A Better Life” film screening, shown at the Cine Debate
Inmigracion Mexicana a E.U.A. en el Imaginario Cinematografico, Filmoteca,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, October 19.
Invited lecture on “Gender in Contemporary Mexican Society,” to “Road Scholar”
program participants at the International House, UC Berkeley, June 17.
“Urban Community Gardens and Migration,” Invited lecture in Gender Working Group,
Department of Sociology, UCLA, May 3.
Panelist (invited) in “The Border Security, Economic Opportunity & Immigration
Modernization Act Forum,” including Senators John McCain, Michael Bennet, President
Vicente Fox, Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez and Professor Dowell Myers, at USC
Schwarzenegger Institute, USC Price School of Public Policy. April 30.
“Gardens of Migration,” (Invited lecture), Department of Sociology Colloquium, Rice
University, April 4.
“Religion and Immigration Politics,” Panelist in the Religion and Public Life Program,
Rice University, April 5.
“Gardens of Migration,” (Invited lecture) the Department of Sociology Colloquium,
University of Pennsylvania, February 27.
2012
Chair (invited) at the Families in International Migration session, at “Comparative and
Multi-sited Approaches to International Migration” conference, at Institut National
d’Etudes Demographiques, Paris, December 12-14.
“Immigrant Community and Autonomy in Urban Community Gardens,” (Invited lecture)
Department of Chicano Studies, UCSB, November 28.
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“Gendered Migration from Mexico to the U.S. and Gendered Labor Markets,” (Invited
lecture), the Center for Mexican American Studies 40th Anniversary Speaker Series,
University of Houston, October 18.
“Immigrant Spaces of Sanctuary: Belonging and Homeland-making in Urban Community
Gardens” at regular session, American Sociological Association annual meetings,
Denver, Colorado, August 17-20.
Panelist and book critic for “Author Meets the Critics” session on Good Jobs, Bad Jobs:
The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s to
2000s by Arne L. Kalleberg, at American Sociological Association annual meetings,
Denver, Colorado, August 17-20.
“Desigualdad Social, Genero y Migracion,” (Invited public lecture), the Department of
Sociology, Universidad de Alberto Hurtdado, Santiago, Chile, June 26.
“Apuntes metodologicos para estudiar mercados laborales de migrantes,” (a workshop
on methodological issues in studying immigrant labor markets), Department of
Sociology, Universidad de Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile, June 25.
“Women, Migration and Export Industry Labor: Social Organizations Softening the
Borderlands of Globalization in Tangiers,” Latin American Studies Association annual
meeting, San Francisco, May 23-26.
Panelist, “Immigration in the Wake of the Great Recession” conference, sponsored by
USC Tomas Rivera Policy Institute and Immigration Studies at NYU. Tutor Center,
USC, March 5.
“Tending to Life in Los Angeles: Paid Domestic Workers, Gardeners and Community
Gardeners, (Invited lecture), Luskin School of Public Affairs, Department of Urban
Planning colloquium on the “Informal City,” UCLA, February 9.
Keynote lecture to “Transforming Gender Orders: Intersections of Care, Family and
Migration” conference, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, January 18.
2011
“Illegality and Spaces of Sanctuary: Belonging and Homeland-making in Urban
Community Gardens,” presented with Jose Miguel Ruiz at the Politics of Race,
Immigration and Ethnicity Consortium, USC, October 14.
“Religion, Spirituality and the Migrant Journey from Africa to Europe: Preliminary
Reflections,” (Invited lecture) with Daniel G. Groody and Jacqueline Hagan,
“Spirituality, Migration and the Human Person” conference, sponsored by the Kroc
Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame University, London, July 8-10.
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“Connecting the Local with the Global: Immigration, the Global City, and Global
Gardens,” (Invited lecture), Pitzer College, March 24.
“The Religious Presence in the Immigrant Rights Movement,” Keynote address to the
American Academy of Religion, Western region conference, Whittier, California March
27.
2010
Organizer and Presenter in Thematic Session, “Spiritual and Religious Challenges to
State Citizenship in the Age of Migration,” and presentation on God’s Heart Has No
Borders. Atlanta Marriot Marquis and Hilton, August 14-17.
Discussant in Thematic Session, “Family Citizenship: What Rights Do or Should
American Families Have?” organized by Barbara Risman and Myra Marx Ferree.
Atlanta Marriot Marquis and Hilton, August 14-17.
“There’s a Spirit that Transcends the Border: Religious Intersections in the Immigrant
Rights Social Movement,” Annual Distinguished Lecture, sponsored by the Department
of Sociology, Michigan State University, April 23.
“There’s a Spirit that Transcends the Border: Religious Intersections in the Immigrant
Rights Social Movement,” Bauma Distinguished Lecture, Calvin College, Grand Rapids,
Michigan, April 22.
“A Retrospective of Christine L. Williams’ Scholarship,” Organizer, Presider and
Discussant, Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, Oakland, California, April 9.
“From Crossing Borders, to Challenging Borders: New Research and Policy Possibilities
in Gender and Migration,” Keynote lecture at the “Left Coast Feminisms: Reimagining
Borders, Bodies and the Law” SWS winter meetings, UCSB, forthcoming February 5.
2009
“Migrant Labor and Elites through the Prism of Gardens,” Workshop lecture at Centre
on Migration, Policy and Society,” University of Oxford, UK, December 4.
“A View from the United States: Immigrant Rights, Religion and Reform,” Invited
lecture in the Gender, Migration and Citizenship series, Centre on Migration, Policy and
Society, University of Oxford, UK, December 3.
Discussant at “Gender Ratios and Global Migration” Paper Session, Social Science
History Association Conference, Long Beach, California, November 12.
“New Directions in Gender and Migration Research,” Invited presentation at Congreso
Nacional sobre las Migraciones en Espana, Universidad de A. Coruna, Coruna, Spain,
September 17-19.
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“Eden and the Promise of Renewal: Caring for Self and Community through
Gardening,” American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 8-11.
“Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants,” American Sociological Association, San
Francisco, August 8-11.
Presider and participant in “IRB/Human subjects for migration research” and
“Immigrants, collective action and political engagement” roundtable sessions,
International Migration Section Mini-Conference, University of California, Berkeley,
August 7, 2009.
Panelist in “Author Meets the Critics” Session for Peggy Levitt’s God Needs No
Passport, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 8-11.
“Still Women and Children First? : The New Era of Expanded Exclusions,” Invited talk
at the “Between the Dream and the Nightmare: Immigration, the ‘Bulimic Society,’ and
the Criminal Justice System” Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY, May
15.
“God’s Heart Has No Borders,” in Sociology Colloquia, and 2009 New York
Immigration Series, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, May 12.
“Gardening Matters,” Invited talk in Sociology Department Colloquia, UC Santa
Barbara, April 29.
God’s Heart Has No Borders focus of “Author Meets the Critics” session at annual
Pacific Sociological Association meetings, San Diego, April 8-11.
Panelist in “Author Meets the Critics” session for Edward Telles and Vilma Ortiz,
Generations of Exclusion, Pacific Sociological Association meetings, San Diego, April 811.
“Methodological Challenges in Sociologically Studying the Seemingly Un-sociological
Terrain of Gardens,” Participant in panel organized by Jody O’Brien at Pacific
Sociological Association meetings, San Diego, April 8-11.
“Gendered Streetwise: Streetvending Girls in East L.A.,” with Emir Loy, at Pacific
Sociological Association meetings, San Diego, April 8-11.
God’s Heart Has No Borders focus of “Author Meets the Critics” session at annual
Southern Sociological Association meetings, New Orleans, April 2-4.
“Religion and the Politics of Immigration,” Invited lecture in Latin American Studies
Colloquium at Emory University, Atlanta, April 1.
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“Religion and the Politics of Immigration,” Invited lecture at California Lutheran
University, Moorpark, California, March 18.
“Religion and the Politics of Immigration,” Invited lecture in Sociology Colloquia at San
Diego State University, March 13.
“Covering Immigrant Politics,” Invited talk to Annenberg School of Communications
Journalists-in-Residence Program, USC, March 5.
“Immigration, Religion and Immigration Reform,” Invited talk at “Immigration and
Religion” panel, sponsored by Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration, USC,
March 4.
2008
“Religious Activism for Immigrant Rights,” Invited lecture, Seminar at the Center for
Comparative Immigration Studies, UCSD, December 9.
“Religious Activism in the City of Angels,” Invited talk for undergraduate students in
Globalization Studies, Asuza Pacific University, December 5.
“De Braceros a Braceras: Mujueres Migrantes Domesticas y la Globalizacion” Invited
talk, at Seminario Internacional, “El Fenomeno de la Inmigracion en Chile, Aspectos
Multidimensionales en el Proceso de Integracion,” Universidad Alberto Hurtado,
Santiago, Chile, November 6-7.
“Religious Activism for Immigrant Rights,” Clark Lecture, Hall Center Research
Seminar, University of Kansas, Lawrence, October 10.
Session Organizer and Presider. Thematic Session on “Gendered Bodies at Work.”
American Sociological Association annual meeting, Boston, August 1-4.
“Strategies for Upgrading Domestic Work Jobs,” in Thematic Session, “Upgrading Low
Wage Work, American Sociological Association, annual meeting, Boston, August 1-4.
“La Nueva Economia de Plantacion: Domesticas y Jardineros en Los Angeles,”
Invited talk presented at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM (Universidad
Autonoma de Mexico), Mexico City, May 8.
“10 Myths about Mexican Immigration,” Invited talk presented at Pomona College,
Claremont, California, April 24.
“Gendered Contradictions and Personalism in Paid Domestic Work,” Invited talk in the
Program on Gender, Sexualities and Queer Studies, Harvard University, April 3.
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“Mexican Immigrant Gardeners in Los Angeles: Cultivating Nature, Time and Work
Discipline,” Presented in the session “Working in Nature,” British
Sociological
Association “Nature and Society” conference, University of Warwick, U.K., March 2830.
“New World Domestic Order,” Invited talk presented at the I Seminario Internacional
Sobre Inmigracion e Integracion Sociolaboral at the University of Granada, Granada,
Spain, March 5-6.
2007
“Ten Myths about Mexican Immigration,” Invited talk presented at the Immigration
Control in the Land of Immigrants conference, at Wake Forest University, North
Carolina, October 3-5.
“Domestic Work Demands as Shaped by Trophy Cultures in Employer Households:
From Stepford Wives to Stepford Children,” Invited talk presented at Gender, Migration
and Householdsworkshop, University of Aegean, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece, March 30
-31.
2006
“Transgressing Borders and Boundaries: Faith-Based Activists and Immigrant Rights,”
Thematic Session at Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association,
Montreal, August 11-14.
“Mobilizing Faith to Transform America,” at the Los Angeles as Trans-National
Crossroads conference, Rockefeller Humanities Residency Program, California State
University Los Angeles, June 2-3.
“Religion and the ‘New’ Immigrant Rights Movement,” Sociology Department
Colloquium, University of California, Riverside, May 9.
“Religious Mobilizations for Immigrant Rights,” Invited talk at Center for Migration and
Development, Princeton University, April 27.
Distinguished Annual Lecture, “Religious Re-enactments and Border Rights
Mobilizations,” Invited talk at Center for Mexican American Studies, University of
Texas, Arlington, April 10.
Keynote address at “Voices of the Voiceless” Conference, Interdisciplinary Graduate
Student Conference, CSU Northridge, February 24.
Keynote address at the “Dimensions of Immigration: Race, labor, global migration, and
political conflict in Southern California,” symposium, sponsored by the New Racial
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Studies Paradigm Project, UC Santa Barbara, January 19-20.
“Muslim American Immigrants’ Struggle for Civil Rights after 9/11,” Sociology
Department Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, January 18.
2005
“Immigrant Women, Social Networks and Global Paid Domestic Work,” at “Alternative
narratives of globalisation? New theorisations of migrant women’s
global
networks,”
Invited talk at Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College, Dublin,
Ireland, December 12-13.
“New Regional Circuits of Global Paid Domestic Work,” Invited talk at United Nations
University, Tokyo, Japan, October 19-20.
“New World Domestic Order: Cleaning up in the New Regional Economies,”
Keynote address for “Migration and Domestic Work in Global Perspectives Conference,”
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, May 26-29.
“Implications of an Old Migration in New Destinations,” Presidential Lecture on
Civic Culture, Boise State University, May 6.
“Faith on the Line for Immigrant Rights,” first annual Scalabrini Lecture, Catholic
Theological Union, Chicago, IL, March 10.
“Faith-Based Immigrant Rights Advocacy,” in the Bacardi Lecture Series on
Immigration, Politics, and Religion in the Americas, Center for Latin American Studies,
University of Florida, Gainesville, March 8.
“Religion and Politics at the Border: The Posada Sin Fronteras,” Sociology Colloquium,
University of California Berkeley, February 10.
“A Genealogy of the Posada Sin Fronteras,” at the “Religion and Social Justice for
Immigrants Conference,” Sponsored by the Working Group on Religion and
Immigration, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC, February 4-5.
“Gender and Migration: It’s Not All in the Family, and it’s Not for Feminists
Only,” at the “Mexican and U.S. Perpectives on Immigration Conference,” Sponsored by
Princeton University and Instituto de Estudios Sociales UNAM, Taxco, Mexico, January
26-30.
2004
“Making Ethnographies Public,” at “Ethnografeast II: The Manufacturing of
Ethnography” Conference, Ecole normale superieure, Paris, France, September 15-18.
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“Notes on Researching Faith and Immigration Politics,” in Producing Public
Ethnographies: On the Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork Thematic Session, American
Sociological Association, San Francisco Hilton, August 17.
“Bastions of Love and Sweat,” in Globalization of Love Plenary Panel,
American Sociological Association, San Francisco Hilton, August 14.
“Fe y la politica de protesta post-nacional en la frontera de San Ysidro-Tijuana,”
Invited talk at Seminario sobre Migracion Internacional, at Colegio De la Frontera Norte
(COLEF), July 9.
“There’s a Spirit that Transcends the Border: Faith, Ritual and Postnational Protest at the
U.S.-Mexico Border,” Cas/Miller Comm Lecture, Center for Advanced Study, and
Keynote for “Gender, Immigration and Human Security” conference sponsored by
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, March 17.
“Religion and Immigrant Rights Mobilization: Reflections on Two Case Studies,” Invited
talk to Migration Studies Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 17.
Invited Keynote for “Abriendo Brecha/Opening a Path: Activist Scholarship in the
Humanities and Social Sciences” Workshop, sponsored by Center for Mexican American
Studies, University of Texas, Austin. February 27.
2003
“How to publish a monograph with a university press,” Sponsored by editors of
Contemporary Sociology, JoAnn Miller and Robert Perucci, American Sociological
Association, Atlanta, August 14-17.
Domestica focus of “Author Meets the Critic” sessions at 3 annual meetings:
Pacific Sociological Association (Pasadena, April 3-6); American
Sociological Association (Atlanta, August 14-17), and Society for the Study
of Social Problems (Atlanta, August 12-15).
Invited speaker at “Towards a Critical Globalization Studies: Continued Debates, New
Directions, Neglected Topics” conference, sponsored by University of California, Santa
Barbara, May 1-4.
Invited speaker at “Race and Gender in Global Perspective” conference,
Sponsored by Women’s Studies at Duke University, Feb 7-8.
“Political Incorporation of Arab and Muslim American Immigrants: Ethnoreligious or
Post-National Identities?” Co-authored with Sharene Irsane, presented at Pacific
Sociological Association Meetings, Pasadena Hilton, April 3-6.
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Invited speaker at “Immigrant Psychology: Rethinking Culture, Race, Class and Gender”
conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 11-12.
2002
“Three Efforts at Contesting Immigrant Ascription: Domestic Workers, Service Union
Workers and Arab and Muslim Immigrant Communities,” Plenary Session, American
Sociological Association annual meetings, Chicago, Illinois, August 16-19.
“Advocacy Responses to the Post September 11 Backlash Directed at Muslim
Americans, Arab Americans and Immigrants,” with undergraduate co-researchers
Sharene Irsane and Margaret Clark, American Sociological Association annual meetings,
Chicago, Illinois, August 16-19.
“Fearing (Terrorist?) Others: Rethinking Immigration, Movement, and Exclusion”
presenter in featured roundtable session, at Law and Society Association annual
meetings, Vancouver, Canada, May 30-June 1.
2001
“Clergy Advocacy for Immigrants: A Comparison of the Sanctuary
Movement and Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice,” presented
with co-researcher Kara Lemma, at American Sociological Association
annual meetings, Anaheim, California, August 18-21.
“Families on the Frontier: Domestic Work and The Challenges of Transnational
Families,” Presidential Plenary Speaker at American Family Therapy Academy, Miami,
Florida, June 30-July 3.
“Puzzles of Racial Formation in Los Angeles: Clergy Advocates and the Unions,” First
Annual UCLA Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Ethnicity and Immigration,
Sociology Department, UCLA, May 22.
“Domestic Labor Demands and Immigration,” Invited talk at Center for the Comparative
Study of Immigration, UCSD, May 18.
“Clergy Participation in Labor and Immigrant Rights Advocacy,” presented with coresearcher Kara Lemma, at the Pacific Sociological Association meetings, San
Francisco, April 7-10.
2000
“Migration, Citizenship and Intersectionality,” in Thematic Session ‘Beyond Triple
Jeopardy: Women of Color, Public Policy, and the Limits of Citizenship,” American
Sociological Association annual meetings, Hilton Washington D.C., August 12-16.
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“Latina Immigrant Domestics: Changes in Employer-Employee Relations,”in Special
Session, “Latinos: Citizens and Immigrants,” American Sociological Association annual
meetings, Hilton Washington D.C., August 12-16.
"Mexican and Central American Families: Straddling Borders and Time," at "Latinos in
the 21st Century: The Research Agenda" Conference, David Rockefellar Center for Latin
American Studies, Harvard University, April 6-8.
"Disturbing Jobs, Disturbing Gender: Latina Immigrant Domestic Workers and the
Articulations of Femininities," at "Migration Trends in the 21st Century" Conference,
Sponsored by the Institute for Migration Studies, Princeton University, May 4-5.
Plenary speaker at "Work and Family: Expanding the Horizons" Conference, Sponsored
by the Business and Professional Women's Foundation; The Center for Working
Families, UC Berkeley; and the Sloan Foundation. Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco,
March 3-4.
1999
Organizer, Presider and Commentator of "Gender, Generation and Migration," Thematic
Session, American Sociological Association, Hilton Towers and Hilton Palmer House
Hotels, Chicago, Illinois, August 6-10.
"Racialized Immigrant Women and Narratives of Family Belonging: Local
Exclusion, Transnational Connection," at Society for the Study of Social
Problems, Suissehotel, Chicago, August 4-7.
"Notes Toward the Next Stage," at "Engendering Theories of Transnational
Migration Conference," Sponsored by Social Science Research Council, Feb 5-6, Yale
University.
1998
"The New Urban Inequality: Immigrant Families and Transnational Separations," Latin
American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 24-26.
"Gender Meets Immigration Scholarship," at American Sociological Association, San
Francisco, August 21-24.
1997
"Immigration and Caring by Domestic Workers," at Gender, Citizenship and the Work of
Caring Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
November 14-16.
"From Braceros to Transnational Mothers: The New International Division of
Reproductive Labor," at Global Migration Conference, sponsored by UC-Mexus, UC
Riverside. October 24-25.
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"Organizing in a Seemingly Unorganizable Industry: Paid Domestic Work," Southern
Labor Studies Conference, at College of William and Mary, Virginia. September 25-28.
"'I'm Here, But I'm There': The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood,"
authored and presented with Ernestine Avila, American Sociological Association,
Toronto, Canada, August 9-13.
"Structuring Paid Domestic Work in a Restructured Economy," presented at Plenary
Session on Urban Ethnic Labor Markets, at International Sociological Association
Research Committee 21 Conference, "Cities in Transition," Humboldt University, Berlin.
July 20-22.
Commentator for Young Scholars Institute on "Immigration, Incorporation, and
Citizenship in the Advanced Industrial Societies," Sponsored by the German-American
Academic Council (GAAC), Rathaus Schoenberg, Berlin. July 15-18.
"Sin Organizacion, No Hay Solucion: Latina Domestic Workers and Non- traditional
Labor Organizing," authored and presented with Cristina Riegos; Discussant for panel
on "Gender and Organizing Immigrant Labor," Pacific
Sociological Association
Meetings, San Diego, April 17-19.
"Moving Up Through Cleaning Up: Latina Paid Domestic Workers in Los
Angeles," Latin American Studies Association, 20th International Congress,
Guadalajara, Mexico, April 17-19.
1996
"Cleaning up a Dirty Business," at Redescubriendo Nuestra Historia: Mexican Los
Angeles, 1781-1996," public history conference sponsored by El Pueblo de Los Angeles
Historical Monument and The Mexican Cultural Institute, November 9.
"Transnational Motherhood: Spatial and Temporal Separations," paper prepared for the
"Latino Immigration and Transnationalism" Conference, University of California,
Riverside, June 28.
1995
"The 'Known Employer': Perceptions and Hiring Strategies in Paid Domestic Work,"
American Sociological Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., August 19-23.
Discussant for panel entitled "Immigrants and New Urban Social Movements," Society
for the Study of Social Problems, Washington, D.C., August 18-20.
"Unpacking 187: Targeting Mejicanas," paper prepared for the "Immigration and Ethnic
Communities: A Focus on Latinos" Conference, sponsored by Julian Samora Research
Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, April 28.
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1994
"Beyond 'The Longer They Stay' (and Say): No Settling-In Without the Women," paper
presented at session "The Settlement of Latino Immigrants in the United States, at the
"Perspectives on Migration: North America After NAFTA" conference, University of
California, Berkeley, February 25.
1993
"Collectivizing in the Informal Sector: Domestic Workers and Their Social Networks,"
paper presented in Regular Session, "Sociology of Work," at American Sociological
Association Meetings, Miami, Florida, August 13-17.
"Working 'without papers' in the U.S.: Toward the Integration of Legal Status into
Frameworks of Race, Class and Gender," paper presented in Immigration panel at
Society for the Study of Social Problems meetings, Miami, Florida, August 11-13.
1992
Chair and Discussant for panel entitled "The U.S.-Mexico Border: Dependency and
Interdependence." International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association,
Los Angeles, California, September 24-27.
Discussant for panel entitled "Restructuring of Class and Gender Relations Among
Latino Immigrants in the United States." International Congress of the Latin American
Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, September 24-27.
"Using Ethnography to Develop Policy for Immigrant Women Domestic Workers."
Paper presented at the Third Women's Policy Research Conference, Institute for
Women's Policy Research and American University, Washington D.C., May 14-16.
1991
"Mexican Undocumented Immigrant Women and Domestic Work." Paper
presented at Women's Studies series, Huntington Library, San Marino, California,
November 23.
"Overcoming Patriarchal Constraints: The Reconstitution of Gender Relations Among
Mexican Immigrant Women and Men." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Sociological Association, Cincinnati, Ohio. August 23-27.
"Advocacy Research for Immigrant Women Domestic Workers." Paper presented at the
Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Cincinnati, Ohio.
August 21-23.
"Dignidad Para las Domesticas." Paper presented at the Foro Internacional: La
Fronteras Nacionales en el Umbral de Dos Siglos (International Forum: National
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Borders on the Threshold of Two Centuries), sponsored by the Instituto Nacional de
Antropologia e Historia, Mexico City, July 24-28.
"Conceptual Challenges Posed by the New Immigration." Invited presenter at featured
session at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Irvine, California.
April 11-14.
"Beyond 'the longer they stay...': Women and Undocumented Settlement." Paper
presented at the Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington D.C.
April 4-6.
1990
Commentator on papers presented by Evelyn Nakano Glenn and Judith Rollins at
Domestic Workers: Feminist Perspectives. UCLA Center for the Study of
Women and the Program on Gender and Politics. May.
"Gender and the Politics of Mexican Undocumented Immigrant Settlement." Research
Seminar at Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UC San Diego. May 14.
1989
"Reagan's Ironic Legacy: IRCA and the Immigrant Rights Movement," Annual
Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Oakland, California. August.
"Undocumented Mexican Immigrant Women: Family Decision Making and Women's
Community Networks," National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference.
Towson, Maryland. June.
1988
"Community Advocacy for the Undocumented," California State-wide Strategizing
Conference on Immigration Reform and Control Act. Monterey, California. February.
1987
"What's Missing in Resource Mobilization Theory?: Notes Based on Participant
Observation in an Immigrant Rights Grassroots Group," The Second Annual Graduate
Student Conference, Dept. of Sociology, U.C. Berkeley. June 15.
"Community Response to IRCA (Simpson-Rodino)," Annual Conference of the Western
Social Science Association, El Paso, Texas. April 22-25.
1984
Participant in "2nd Seminar on the Situation of Black, Chicano, Cuban, Native American
Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Asian Communities in the United States", Havana, Cuba.
Dec. 14-17.
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"Pa'l Otro Lado: Employment and Immigrant Social Networks," Annual Conference of
National Association for Chicano Studies, Austin, Texas.
"Social Networks Among Mexican Immigrants in the S.F. Bay Area," Regional Meetings
of National Association for Chicano Studies, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara,
California.
1983
"Salsa Music and Dance: Counter-Hegemonic Legacies and Contemporary Culture,"
Annual Spring Conference of SLABS (Students of Latin American Studies at Berkeley
and Stanford), Berkeley, California.
Invited Talks
UC Berkeley; UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Riverside, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Santa
Barbara, CSU Northridge, CSU Dominguez Hills, San Diego State University, California
Lutheran University, College of William and Mary, Arizona State University, Asuza
Pacific University, University of Oregon, Cornell University, Duke University, East Los
Angeles Community College, Emory University, Gettysburg College, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, University of Florida, University of Houston, University
of Kansas, Harvard University, Social Science Research Council Minority Dissertation
workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Pepperdine University diversity workshop, Rice
University, Social Science Research Council workshop in Berlin, El Colegio de
Michoacan, Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales en
UNAM (the three latter are Mexican graduate schools and research institutes located in
respectively, Zamora, Michoacan; Tijuana, Baja California and Mexico City), University
of Granada Spain; Pitzer College; Whittier College; The Netherlands Institute for
Advanced Studies, Wassenaar; United Nations University in Tokyo; Trinity College
Dubin, Ireland; University of Aegean, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece; Ecole normale
superieure, Paris, France; Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile; Goethe
University, Frankfurt, Germany.
Teaching Experience
Undergraduate Courses
Graduate Seminars
Introduction to Sociology
Women in Global Persp.
Changing Family Forms
Qualitative Methods
Mexican Immigrants in Sociological Perspective
Sociology of Immigration
Immigrant America
Special Topics: International Migration
Borderlands/La Frontera
Race Relations
Chicana and Latina Experiences
Social and Political Development in the Caribbean (at UC Berkeley)
Women's Studies (at CSU San Bernardino)
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Sociology Honors Seminar
PhD Students Chaired
Emir Estrada
Glenda Marisol Flores
Hernan Ramirez
Banu Nirdal
Lata Murti
Edward Flores
Stephanie Nawyn
Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez
Cynthia Cranford
Kim Huisman
Tracy Tolbert
Ernestine Avila
Current Chair for:
Jazmin Muro
Stephanie Canizales
Robert Chlala
Assistant Professor, Sociology, CSULB
Assistant Professor, Chicano-Latino Std, UC Irvine
Assistant Professor, Florida State University
Post-doctoral Fellow at Bogazici University 2010
Assistant Professor at Kemerburgaz U, Istanbul
Assistant Professor, Brandman Univ (co-chair ASE)
Assistant Professor, UC Merced
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Associate Professor, University of Maine
Lecturer, CSU Dominguez Hills and Long Beach
Lecturer, CSU San Bernardino and UC Riverside
(co-chair with Jody Agius Vallejo)
(co-chair with Jody Agius Vallejo)
Committee member for approximately 50 PhDs completed and/or concurrent in
departments of Sociology, Critical Studies in the School of Cinema, American Studies
and Ethnicities, English, School of Education, Geography, History, Anthropology,
School of Policy Planning and Development, Political Science, and Occupational Science
Pre-dissertation and Post-doctoral Fellowship Mentor
Veronica Montes, Post-doctoral fellow in residence at USC Center for the Study of
Immigrant Integration, 2013-2015; Assistant Professor of Sociology, Bryn Mawr 2015-.
Angel Serrano Sanchez, Post-doctoral fellow in residence at Department of Sociology,
Canada/Mexico, 2013-2015
Karin Krifors, Fulbright Doctoral fellow in residence at USC Department of Sociology,
Sweden, F 2014.
Victoria Volodko, Fulbright Post-doctoral fellow in residence at USC Department of
Sociology, Ukraine, December 2014-August 2015.
Jessica Vasquez, Ford Post-doctoral fellow in resident at USC Sociology Dept, F 2012.
Assistant, then Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Oregon, 2012-present.
Joseph Palacios, Post-doctoral fellow in residence at USC Center for Religion and Civic
Culture, 2006.
Invited Guest speaker to Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Pre-dissertation
immigration fellowship minority graduate students, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
June 20-22, 1996; UC Irvine, July 7-8, 1998; UC Irvine, Aug 2, 1999; UCLA, 2000,
2001 and 2002.
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Previous Positions
Full Professor, Department of Sociology, USC, May 2003-present.
Director of Graduate Studies, July 2006-2011.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California, May
1998 to May 2003.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California.
January 1992 to May 1998; and at Department of Sociology, California State University,
San Bernardino, September 1990 to June 1991.
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, California State University, San Bernardino and
Cypress Community College, September 1988-June 1989; Program for Peace and
Conflict Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 1985.
Teaching Assistant, Departments of Sociology, Chicano Studies, Afro-American Studies
and Mass Communications at University of California, Berkeley, January 1983December 1987.
Professional Service:
Manuscript referee for professional journals:
American Journal of Sociology
American Sociological Review
Aztlan
Clinical Sociology Review
Community, Work & Family
Demography
Environment and Planning A
Ethnography
Frontiers
Gender & Society
International Migration
International Migration Review
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
Journal of Marriage and the Family
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Journal of Social Policy and Society
Latino Studies Journal
Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
Men and Masculinities
Qualitative Sociology
SIGNS,
Social Forces,
Social Problems,
Social Science Quarterly
Sociology Compass
Sociology of Sport Journal
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Sociological Inquiry
Sociological Forum,
Sociological Perspectives
Teaching Sociology
Urban Affairs Review
Women’s Studies International Forum
Manuscript referee for book publishers:
MacMillan College Publishing Co. (now Allyn & Bacon)
Routledge
Blackwell Publishers
Harvard University Press
MIT Press
New York University Press
Temple University Press
University of California Press
Oxford University Press
Stanford University Press
University of Texas Press
Vanderbilt University Press
Editorial board member:
Social Forces, 2014-2017
Latino Studies, 2011-present
Ethnography 2009-present
Aztlan 2000-2003
Contemporary Sociology 2000-2003; 2004
ASA Rose Monograph Series 2005-2008
Social Problems 1999-2002; 2003-2005
Sociological Perspectives 1999-2002
Gender & Society 1994-1998; 2005-2007
Sociological Inquiry 1993-1996
American Sociological Association
Distinguished Book Award Committee, ASA, 2013-2016
Executive Council 2008-2011 (elected to three year term)
Nominations Committee Chair, International Migration Section 2012-2013
Founders Award Committee, Latina/o Sociology, 2012-2013
Fund for Advancement of the Discipline Committee 2009-2011
Career Award Committee, Latina/o Sociology Section, 2011
Committee on Nominations, ASA, 2005-2006
Executive Council, Section on International Migration, 2004-2007
Executive Council, Section on Sex and Gender, 2001-2003
Executive Council, Latina/o Sociology Section, 1997-2000
Book Award Committee, Section on International Migration, 2006
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Jesse Bernard Award Committee, American Sociological Association, 2002-2005
Distinguished Article Award Committee, Sex and Gender Section, ASA, 2002; Chair,
2003
Nominations Committee, Sex and Gender Section, ASA 2002
Organizer and Presider of Thematic Session, “Religious and Spiritual Challenges to the
State in the Age of Migration, “ ASA meetings, Atlanta, GA, Aug 14-17, 2010.
Organizer and Presider of Thematic Session, “Gendered Bodies at Work,” ASA
meetings, Boston, MA, Aug 1-4, 2008
Organizer and Presider of Thematic Session, "Gender, Generation and Migration," ASA
meetings, Chicago, IL, Aug 6-10, 1999
Organizer of Open Sessions on Immigration, ASA annual meetings, 2003
Chair of Student Paper Prize, Latino Studies Section, 1998-1999
Invited Guest Speaker to ASA MOST fellowship undergraduates, Dept. of Sociology,
UC
Santa Barbara, July 8, 1996
Co-organizer of Sex and Gender Sessions for Annual ASA Meetings, 1994
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Board of Directors, 2004-2007
C. Wright Mills Book Award Committee, 1996-97; 2003-04
Committee on Committees, 2000-2003
Organizer, Presider, and Discussant of "Transnational Workers and Citizenship" panel,
SSSP meetings, Suissehotel, Chicago, IL, Aug 5-7 1999
Labor Studies Section, Harry Braverman Student Paper Award Committee, 1996
Pacific Sociological Association
Social Conscience Award Committee, 2002-2005; Chair 2003
Distinguished Sociological Perspectives Article Awards Committee, 2003-2005
Distinguished Publication Awards Committee, 2003-2004
Distinguished Student Paper Awards Committee, 2003
Ad-hoc Committee on Applied and Activist Sociology, 1994
Program Planning Committee for 1998 Annual Meetings, 1997-1998
Organizer of “Author Meets the Critic” session for Contentious Curricula, 2004
Co-organizer with PhD student Ernestine Avila of “Transnational Families in a Global
Economy,” and “Immigration and Gender Reconstructions,” Annual PSA
Meetings, April 2003
Co-organizer with Professor H. Delgado, of "Immigrants and Labor Organizing: Does
Gender Matter?" Annual PSA Meetings, April 17-19, 1997
Organizer of "Households, Children and Child Care: Paid Reproductive Labor," for
Annual PSA Meetings, April 14-17, 1994
International Latina/o Studies Conference
Program Committee 2013-14
Sociologists for Women in Society
Cheryl Miller Student Paper Award Committee, 2001
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Latin American Studies Association
Organizer of panel, "Recent Trends in Mexican Migration to California."
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington D.C. April 4-6, 1991
Review Panels
California Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, sponsored by University of California, Office
of the President and Humanities Research Institute. Oakland, March 1999
Social Science Research Council, Pre-doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in International
Migration. New York, March 1999.
Funds for Advancement of the Discipline (FAD), sponsored by the American
Sociological Association, Washington, DC, 2009-2011.
New Opportunities for Research Funding and Agency Cooperation in Europe
(NORFACE), Finland, March 2009.
Tenure and Promotions Reviews
Amherst College, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Boston University,
CUNY Graduate Center, Denison College, Montana State University, University of
Illinois, Smith College, UC Berkeley, UCSD, UCSC, UCLA, UC Merced, Oregon State
University, University of Oregon, University of Georgia, University of Kansas,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Massachusetts Boston, Pitzer
College, Pomona College, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Rutgers
University, Southern Methodist University, Tufts University, University of WisconsinMadison.
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science
Raubenheimer Prize Selection Committee, 2007-2008
College Graduate Advisory Committee, 2006-2007; 2007-2008; 2010-11
Tenure & Promotions Personnel Committee 2004-2005; 2008-2009; 2010-11; 2011-2012
GE Committee 2002-2005
Chair, Social Sciences GE Review Committee 2004-2005
Deans Search Committee, spring 2005
Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Executive Committee, 2003-2007
Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Convener of Working Group on religion and
immigration, 2002-2007
USC University
Faculty Chair of Provost’s Initiative on Immigration and Integration, 2006-2007
Convener of Provost’s Initiative on Immigration and Integration Speakers Series, 20072008
Graduate School Faculty Advisory Council, 2011-12
Graduate School, Provost’s Fellowship Selection Committee, 2011-12
Graduate School, Task Force on Graduate Student Stress, 2011-12
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USC Department of Sociology
Director of Graduate Studies (2006-2011)
Colloquium Committee (various times, from early 1990s-2005)
Awards Committee (1999-2001)
Search Committee Chair (2002-2003; 2004-2005; 2007-2008)
USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture
Director, of Faculty Working Group on Religion and Immigration, PEW-sponsored
Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC, 2002-2005
Executive Advisory Committee member, 2005-2007
Convener of Research Cluster on Religion and Immigration, PEW-sponsored CRCC,
USC, 2005-2007
Public Sociology and Advocacy on Domestic Work Reform
Author of Foreward for USC PERE report, “Model and Measures of Transformation for
Movement Building: Lessons from the SOL Initiative, 2011-13” April 2014.
Advisory Committee member for NDWA (National Domestic Workers Alliance),
research resulting in the publication, Home Economics: The Invisible and Unregulated
World of Domestic Work, 2012.
Consultant on “Maid in America” documentary, by Anayansi Prado, Impacto Films 2005.
Presented invited expert testimony on immigrant women to California State Assembly
Select Committee on Statewide Immigration Impact and the California Elected Women's
Association for Education and Research (CEWAER), Sacramento, July 19, 1994.
Participant, co-founder of DWA (Domestic Workers Alliance_ of CHIRLA (Coalition for
Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles) 1990-2002.
Developed research-based fotonovela outreach materials for the DWA 1997.
Interviewed and quoted on domestic work issues in both English and Spanish-language
media, including Los Angeles Times, La Opinion, USC Chronicle, New York Times,
Issues Quarterly, Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, and appearances and interviews
on KCET, KCRW, KPCC, KPFA, KPFC, CNN, CNN en espanol, Univision, and KNBC.
Other Professional Service
Board of Advisors, El Centro Chicano, USC, 1999-2001.
Faculty Research Associate, Population Research Laboratory, USC. Spring, 1992-2000.
Faculty Fellow, Southern California Studies Center, USC. Spring 1996.
Faculty Advisory Board, Center for Multiethnic Transnational Studies, Spring 19961998.
Co-organizer of Annual Spring Conference of Graduate Students of Latin American
Studies at Berkeley and Stanford (SLABS), Berkeley, California. Spring, 1983.
Community and Public Service
Member, Los Angeles Food Policy Council, 2013.
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Participant in Dialogo de la Esperanza, Guatemalan youth group, and Women’s
Empowerment workshops, held at L.A. urban community gardens, 2010-present.
Consultant, PBS series, “California: Beyond the Dream,” 2001-2005
Faculty Advisor for Nuestra Alma Latina USC student group, 1999-2005.
Faculty Advisor for SCALE, Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation, USC, 20012004.
Board of Directors, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles, 1999-2001.
Advisory Group for National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, "Women
2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-First Century," (Beijing
+ 5), spring 2000.
Professional Affiliations
American Sociological Association
Pacific Sociological Association
Latin American Studies Association
Sociologists for Women in Society
Society for the Study of Social Problems
References Available on Request
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