ARLENE TORRES
Curriculum Vitae (Short Version)
June 2007
CAMPUS ADDRESS:
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Latina and Latinos Studies Program
510 East Chalmers Street MC- 495
Champaign, IL 61820
217-265-0370 fax 217 244-4526
E-MAIL atorres2@uiuc.edu
CAMPUS ADDRESS:
University of Illinois
Department of Anthropology
607 S. Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
fax 217-244-3490
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 1995
A.M. Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 1987
A.B. Sociology and Anthropology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 1982
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS:
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Latina/Latino Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 2002- present (tenured)
Director, Latina and Latino Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 2004-present
Faculty Affiliate, African American Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 1995-present
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 1995-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 1995-2002
Visiting Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, UIC Spring 2002
Rockefeller Foundation Senior Scholar-in-Residence, National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. July-December 1999
Senior Scholar, National Museum of American History Senior-Junior Program for Latina/o Research, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Summer 1996
Visiting Assistant Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 1995-96 academic year
Teaching Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 1993-1994
Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate College, Office of Minority Affairs, Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 1990-1993
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS;
Socio-cultural Anthropology, Urban Anthropology
Area Specialization: Caribbean, Latin America, United States
Topical Interests: African Diaspora; Latina/Latino Diaspora, Puerto Ricans
Theories of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Nationalism; Ideology and Praxis;
Migration and Transnationalism; Representation; Class and Economic Development
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
1998a Arlene Torres and Norman E. Whitten Jr. (eds.) Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean. Volume II. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1998b Norman E. Whitten, Jr. & Arlene Torres (eds.) Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean. Volume I. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
In press Racialist Topographies: Blackness and Ethnicity in Puerto Rico Urbana: Illinois Press.
ARTICLES:
Epilogue In Rua, Merida (ed.) Spatial Reconfigurations of “The City”: The Work of Elena Padilla University of Illinois Press Under review
2006 “Collecting Puerto Ricans” In Kevin Yelvington (ed.) Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press.
2002 Puerto Ricans in the U.S. Mainland. In Carol E. Ember and Melvin Ember (eds.) Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement. Macmillian Reference and the Human Relations Area Files.
1998 “From Jíbara to Anthropologist: Puerto Rican Ethnography and the Politics of Representation” Identities Vol 5(1)107-122.
1998 "La gran familia puertorriqueña: 'ej prieta de beldá – the Great Puerto Rican family is really really black." In Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean Volume II. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1997 “Puerto Ricans.” In Levinson, David and Melvin Ember (eds.) Encyclopedia of American Immigrant Cultures. (Macmillan Library Reference) New York: Macmillan Publishing.
1998 Arlene Torres and Norman E. Whitten, Jr. "To Forge the Future in the Fires of the Past: An Interpretive Essay on Racism, Domination, Resistance and Liberation." Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean (Lead Essay in Volume I & II) Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
1998 Arlene Torres and Norman E. Whitten, Jr. "Eastern South America and the Caribbean" In Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean Volume II. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1998 Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and Arlene Torres "Central America, Northern and Western South America" In Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean Volume I. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1992 Norman E. Whitten, Jr and Arlene Torres "The Black Americas 1492-1992." In The NACLA Report. 26(4).
REVIEWS:
2007 Review of Amiri Hernandez Hiraldo Black, Puerto Rican Identities and Religious Experience In Bulletin for Latin American Research.
2001 Review of Findlay, Eileen J. Súarez Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1999 in New West Indian Guide 75 (no.1&2).
1999 Review of Jean P. Peterman Telling Their Stories: Puerto Rican Women and Abortion. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996 New West Indian Guide vol.73, no. 3&4 pp.141-143.
1993 Review of John Thornton. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. American Anthropologist Vol. 95.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:
Editorial Board, Afro-Latin American Research Association
Reviewer, Resident Scholar Fellowships of the School of American Research Santa Fe, NM
Reviewer, American Anthropologist, Latino Studies Journal, American Ethnologist, Bulletin of Latin American Research, New West Indian Guide, Anthropological Quarterly, Urban Anthropology; Qualitative Inquiry, Plantation Societies, Radical History Review, Identities.
Reviewer, University of Florida Press, Indiana University Press, Minority Rights Group, Ltd.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND INVITATIONS:
Advisory Board, Museum Project on Race, American Anthropological Association with support from the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation (Traveling Exhibit opened in January of 2007) www.smm.org
Advisory Board, National Website on Race, American Anthropological Association (The Website, Launched January 2007) www.understandingrace.org
Participant, Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Dean, Executive Officer (DEO) Seminar, March 31 – April 2, 2005
Fellow, CIC Academic Leadership Program 2004-05
Recognition, Selected as one of eight Latinas “leading the way” in higher education National Hispanic Outlook of Higher Education. February 2005
Participant, Women of Color in Higher Education, American Council of Education, Brown University, Providence, RI October 2004
President, Association of Latina/Latino Anthropologists (ALLA) of the American Anthropological Association. December 2000-2002
Vice-President, Association of Latina/Latino Anthropologists (ALLA) of the American Anthropological Association. December 1998-2000
Participated in an Advanced Research Seminar at the School of American Research Worked with a team of leading African Americanists on the theme, “From Africa to the Americas: New Directions in Afro-American Anthropology.” Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Organizer: Kevin Yelvington, University of South Florida). April 1999.
Keynote Address, Multicultural Youth Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL October, 2006
Keynote Address, Multicultural Congratulatory Ceremony, December Graduation Exercises at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, December 2005
CONSULTATIONS:
Key Consultant to Projects Understanding Race and Human Variation: A Public Education Program American Anthropological Association with support from the Ford Foundation and National Science Foundation (Exhibit and Website development) 2002-present
Key Consultant/Project and Advisory Board Member Underrepresented Minorities in the Academy: Understanding the Career Attainment Process Summer Research Opportunities Program Research Project with support from the U.S. Department of Education. 2002-2005
Consultant/Presenter “Building Our Own Legacies: Spaces of Community, Spaces of Scholarship” Social Science Research Council, Mellon Minority Fellowship Program. Dillard University, New Orleans, LA June 2002
Consultant/Presenter Mellon Recent Ph.D. Conference “Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Research” Social Science Research Council, Mellon Minority Fellowship Program Dillard University, New Orleans, LA June 2002
Consultant/Reviewer "Rhythms of Identity: Fernando Ortiz and the Howard Family Collection of Percussion Instruments” Center for Latino Initiatives, Arts and Industries Exhibit, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. September - December 1999
Consultant/Reviewer "Puerto Rico: A Collector's Vision" National Museum of American History Exhibit, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. May 1998
Consultant “Research Initiatives” American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation Washington, D.C. June 1997
Consultant "Senior Junior Program for Latina/o Research at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. June 1996
Consultant “Ways of Seeing: Mapping Ethnic Imagery in the Landscape of Commerce”, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1995
RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS:
Co-PI Wenner Gren and Fulbright Hays for Ph.D. Student Jennifer Shoaff to conduct field research in the Dominican Republic (30,000 in Grants) 2005-2006
Recipient, Rockefeller Foundation Senior in Scholar Residence Fellowship (25,000 Grant) 1999
Recipient, Grant for State of the Art Conference on The People of Puerto Rico (10,000 Grant) 1997
Recipient of Travel Grants form UIUC Research Board to conduct research and/or present findings at learned conferences 1995-present
Scholarly Conferences and Presentations (Invited):
Presenter, “Race and Immigration” Community Forum Science Museum of Minnesota, MN, March 2007
Presenter, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) Panel “The Place of Anthropology in the World Today” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL January 2007
Participant, “RACE: Are we So Different?” (Teacher Training; Talking Circle; Radio broadcast) Science Museum of Minnesota, MN January 2007
Participant, American Anthropological Association, Dialogue with AAA on RACE project. San Jose, CA November 2006
Presenter and Moderator, “Latina/os Strike Back: Social Movements in the Wake of Immigration ‘Reform’” Latina/Latino Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2006
Presenter, ‘America’ in the World: Discourses of “Americanization” and “Anti-Americanism” Roundtable on Puerto Rico’s Status University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, April 2006
Moderator, IPRH Panel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2006
Respondent, Panel: “Pa’ que te enteres: Disruptive Performances of Female Sexuality and Blackness in the Spanish Caribbean” Decentering Latin American Studies. XXVI International Conference of the Latin American Studies Association San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2006
Presenter, Panel: Latinos/as in the United States: Identity Concerns. Paper: “Challenging or Re-Inscribing Racial Divides: The Afro-Latino Diaspora in the United States. Decentering Latin American Studies. XXVI International Conference of the Latin American Studies Association San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2006
Participant, “Race and Human Variation.” American Anthropological Association, Washington. D.C., September 2005
Presenter, “State of Latina/os in Illinois.” Illinois Legislative Caucus, Institute for Government and Public Policy Springfield, Illinois, September 2005
Presenter, A Conversation with Eileen Suarez Findlay: Latina Perspectives on Gender and Race, Latina/Latino Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign March 2005
Presenter, The Future of Ethnic Studies IPRH, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2005
Presenter, The Racialized Construction of Fat: A Response to Paul Campos, IPRH, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 2005
Administrator, Exploring and Challenging Fronteras in the Midwest and Beyond, Latina/o Graduate Student Conference Latina/Latino Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL February 2005
Presenter, MALCS Washington State University, Seattle, WA August 2004
Presenter, “The Status of African-American, Latin American and Caribbean Studies” in Crisis in African/African Diaspora/Latin American and Caribbean Studies Programs Hunter College, City University of New York, NY March 2005
Respondent, Panel for Puerto Rican Studies Association New York, NY Fall 2004
Participant, Race and Human Variation American Anthropological Association, Alexandria, VA. September 2004
Teaching:
Anth 359/LLS 359, Advanced Topics in Latina(o) Studies Cultures Lecture/discussion; supervised graduate student instructor and 1 teaching assistant, Spring 2007
Anth 466/LLS 496 Class Culture and Society, Fall 2006
Anth 499/LLS 496 Afro-Latin American, the Caribbean and the U.S. Incomplete List of Teachers Rated Excellent, Fall 2005
Anth 259/LLS 259, Latina(o) Cultures Lecture/discussion; supervised two teaching assistant, Spring 2006
Instructor, Latina/o Studies 100, Fall 2004 Enrollment 89
Guest Lectures:
Seminar on Race in the Department of Anthropology at UIUC Anth 599, Spring 2006
Introduction to Latin American Studies, Spring 2005
Illinois Anthropology Graduate Seminar, Fall 2004
Museum Studies Seminar Anth 589, Spring 2005
Reconstructing Race in America History 281, Spring 2005
Students Advised and current status:
Aide Acosta, Anthropology, Prelim stage, Dissertation Co-Advisor with Dr. Alejandro Lugo
Angelina Cotler, Anthropology Dissertation Committee member Ph.D. completed May 2005
Joanne D’Alisera, Anthropology Dissertation Committee member Ph.D. completed 1997
Timothy Daniels, Anthropology Dissertation Committee member Ph.D. completed 2001
Pilar Eguez, Anthropology, 1st Year, Advisor Recipient of funding for summer field research
Venus Evans-Winters, Educational Policy Studies Dissertation Committee member Ph.D. completed 2003
Maria del Mar Gonzalez, Art History, Prelim committee member
Jennifer Hardin, Anthropology, completed preliminary exams in field, Fulbright Hays fellow M.A., Prelim Committee member, M.A. reader, Dissertation Committee member
Alyssa Garcia, Anthropology, returning from the field, Dissertation Advisor Recipient of Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Writing Fellowship 2007-08
Daniel Gutierrez, Anthropology, Prelims in Progress Prelim/Dissertation committee member; Completed Prelims (Spring 2007) Recipient of NSF Graduate Fellowship Spring 2007
Ethel Hazard, Anthropology, completed preliminary exams April 2006, Dissertation Advisor
Ricardo Herrera, Anthropology Dissertation Committee member Ph.D. completed 1999
William Hope, Anthropology, returned from Havana Cuba 3 dissertation chapters completed, Dissertation Advisor Recipient of IPRH Fellowship 2007-08
Patricia Howard, Anthropology, Dissertation Advisor Recipient of Spencer Foundation Fellowship, Ph.D. completed 2002
Gina Hunter de Bessa, Anthropology Dissertation Committee member Ph.D. completed
Sherita Johnson, English Dissertation Committee member Ph.D. completed 2005
Shanshan Lan, Anthropology, 2 dissertation chapters completed, Prelim/Dissertation committee member Recipient of 2 year Post-doctoral Fellowship at Northwestern Doctoral Defense July 2007
Jill Leonard, Anthropology Dissertation Committee member Ph.D. completed 1997
Soo Lim, Anthropology, Prelim exams completed, in the field, Prelim committee member
Isidore Lobnibe, Anthropology, 3 dissertation chapters completed, Prelim/Dissertation committee member Faculty position in Oregon Doctoral Defense June 2007
Laurel Monnig, Anthropology, Recipient of National Science Foundation Grant Dissertation Co-Advisor, Doctoral Defense June 2007
Brian Montes, Anthropology, returning from the field, Prelim/Dissertation Committee member,
Honorable mention/Alternate Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Competition
Maria Isabel Perez, Anthropology, Dissertation Committee member Ph.D. completed 1999
Rosemary Polanco, Ph.D. History of Science, University of Chicago, Dissertation Committee member, Reader Doctoral Defense June 2006
Isuara Pulido, Education Policy Studies, Dissertation Committee member, Completed Qualifiying Exams, April 2007
Maritza Quinones-Rivera, Institute of Communications Research, Prelim/Dissertation Committee member, Completed preliminary exams May 2006
Angelica Rivera, Educational Policy Studies Prelim stage, Prelim/Dissertation Committee member
Merida Rua, American Studies University of Michigan Dissertation Co-Advisor with Dr. Earl Lewis Ph.D. completed 2004
Batamaka Some, Anthropology, Prelim/dissertation Committee Member, A.M. Fall 2006; Completed Preliminary Exams February 2007
Joy Sather-Wagstaff, Anthropology, 4 dissertation chapters completed, Dissertation Advisor, Doctoral Defense April 2007
Jennifer Shoaff Schroeder, Anthropology, returning from the field, Dissertation Advisor
Nicole Tami , Anthropology, Dissertation Committee member, 4-5 chapters completed
Tierra Tivis, Curriculum and Instruction, Dissertation Committee member, Doctoral Defense April 2007
Rebecca Valdivia, Curriculum and Instruction, Dissertation Committee member, Ph.D. completed May 2005
Cristobal Valencia, Anthropology in progress, Prelim and Dissertation Committee member, Honorable mention/Alternate Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Competition
Sujey Vega, Anthropology, Completed preliminary exams in the field, Dissertation Co-Advise with Dr. Alejandro Lugo
Donna White, Anthropology, Dissertation Advisor Anthropology Prelims Completed May 2007
Julie Williams, Anthropology, Prelims in progress, Prelim/Dissertation Committee member, Prelims Completed May 2007 Alternate, Fulbright Hays Research Grant
* Ph.D. Dissertation Advisor or Co-Advisor to 10 students in 06-07
* 5 doctoral defenses completed in 06-07
* 4 Preliminary/Qualifying Exams in 06-07
Mirelsie Velazquez, M.A. Educational Policy Studies, Current Reader M.A. thesis
Batamaka Some A.M. Anthropology Reader of thesis, Fall 2006
Antonio Sotomayor, M.A. Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Accepted to University of Chicago to pursue Ph.D., Reader M.A. thesis, Spring 2006
Melissa Beck, M.A. Anthropology, Co-Director of Research, Reader M.A. thesis Spring 2000
Timothy Daniels, M.A. Anthropology, Co-Advisor of Research, Reader M.A. thesis 1999
Patricia Howard, M.A. Anthropology, Co-Advisor of Research, Reader M.A. thesis 1998
Stephanie Johnston House, M.A. Anthropology, Co-Advisor of Research, Reader M.A. thesis 1998
Angela Neller, M.A. Anthropology, Co-Advisor of Research, Reader M.A. thesis 1999
* M.A. reader 2 students in 06-07
James Scholar Honors Student LLS 259, Spring 2006, LLS 466, Fall 2006
McNair Summer Research Program for Undergraduates Mentor, 2005, 2006
Summer Research Opportunities Program Mentor, 1995-2002
UIUC Campus Committees/Service:
Anthropology Department Diversity Committee 2004-present
Anthropology Department Diversity Fellowship Committee 2005-present
Center for Advanced Study Immigration Steering Committee 2006-present
Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society Advisory Committee 2002-present
Chancellor’s Campus Conduct Committee, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access 2007-present
Chancellors’ Campus Diversity Committee 2000-2006
Chancellor’s Campus Committee, Pathways to Education, 2007
La Casa Cultural Latina Advisory Committee 2005-2006
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Advisory Committee 2005-2006
Latina Latino Studies Programming Committee ex-oficio 2004-present
Latina Latino Studies Curriculum Committee ex-oficio 2004-present
UIUC Chancellor’s Post-doctoral Fellows in Latina Latino Studies Selection Committee, ex-oficio 2004-present
UIUC Spanish Language Portal to UIUC Website Committee (Launch fall 2007) 2006-2007
Meeting External Review Committee, History Department UIUC, September 2006
Service to UIUC and Other Latina Latino Studies (LLS) Initiatives:
Office of Minority Affairs New Student Welcome, August 2006
LLS Invited Speakers Series
Tenure and Promotion Executive Officers Workshop
LLS Minors Congratulatory Ceremony
La Casa Cultural Latina Congratulatory Ceremony
Graduate Minor Concentration in LLS
Course development in LLS with faculty and Associate Director (3 courses approved)
Development of Latina/Latino Alumni Association (partnered with La Casa Cultural Latina)
Latina Latino Studies Website initiative (launch in October 2007)
Professional Affliliations:
American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Association
Association of Latina Latino Anthropologists
Association of Black Anthropologists
Latin American Studies Association
Puerto Rican Studies Association
Society for Cultural Anthropology
LANGUAGES:
High proficiency in Spanish
Low proficiency in Portuguese and French
References:
Available Upon Request
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