Lisa Marie Cacho

October 2004

510 E. Chalmers                                                                                               217.265.0338             

Champaign, IL 61820                                                                                       lcacho@uiuc.edu

 

Educational Background

Ph.D.   Ethnic Studies, University of California at San Diego, 2002

M.A.    Ethnic Studies, University of California at San Diego, 1998

B.A.     Ethnic Studies, University of California at San Diego, 1996

B.A.     Literature/Writing, University of California at San Diego, 1996        

 

Current Position

Assistant Professor. Programs of Latina/Latino Studies, Asian American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Department of English. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004-present

 

Professional Employment History

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, UI Urbana-Champaign, 2004

Lecturer/Reader, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley, 2003

Associate-In, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego, 2002

Research Assistant, Fair Housing Council, San Diego, 2001

Lecturer, Office of Academic Services and Instructional Support, UC San Diego, 1998-2001

Instructor, Muir Writing Program, UC San Diego, 1997-2001

Research Assistant, UC San Diego for Professor Yen Le Espiritu, 1997

Bibliographer, UC San Diego for Professor George Lipsitz, 1997

Teaching Assistant, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego, 1996-1997

High School English Teacher, Early Academic Outreach Program, UC San Diego, 1994

 

Publications

2004. ‘At First They Didn’t Realize I Was an American’: Why Latinas Are Not American Soldiers. In Latin American Studies Association Conference Proceedings, International Congress 25 (October 7-9).

 

2001. Situating Space in Local and Global Struggles: Review Essay of Spaces of Hope by David Harvey, Barrio Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture by Raúl Homero Villa, and Landscapes of Desire: Anglo Mythologies of Los Angeles by William Alexander McClung. American Quarterly 53 (June): 377-385.

 

2000. ‘The People of California Are Suffering’: The Ideology of White Injury in Discourses of Immigration. Cultural Values 4 (October): 389-418.

 

2000. Review of Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang and The Barbarians Are Coming by David Wong Louie. Journal of Asian American Studies 3 (October):378-382.

 

1998. Editor. Critical Mass 5 (Fall).

 

Awards & Fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellow, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003-2004

 

Dissertation Fellow, University of California President’s Dissertation Fellowship, University of California at San Diego, 2000-2001

 

Invited Lectures & Invited Conference Presentations

2003. Memories for the Future: ‘Undocumented’ Connections across Latina/o and
Asian Immigrations. Lecture. Asian American Studies Program and Latina/Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

 

2003. (En)gendering the Racialized Ranks of Freedom Fighters: Recruiting, Repressing, and Representing Woman Warriors in Iraq. Panelist. Gender, Migration, and Global Change: Feminist Perspectives on the Political and Cultural Economy of Immigration sponsored by the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies Summer Institute at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

 

2002. Likely Alliances between Mexicans and Filipinos in the United Farm Workers: Historicizing Coalition Building through Culture Crossing. Panelist. César Chávez Conference at the University of California, San Diego.

 

2001. Suburbia under Siege, Ghettoes under Lockdown: The Spatialization of Race in California Fiction and Memoir. Lecture. English Department at the University of California, Riverside.

           

2000. Wrecking Chaos in the Lives of Immigrants. Panelist. European Union Center of California and the Scripps College Humanities Institute at Scripps College in Claremont, California.

 

2000. Gender and Transnational Capitalism in the Philippines. Lecture. Center for World Democracy at the University of California, San Diego.

 

Guest Lectures & Conference Participation

2004. Alien Others: Asian and Latina/o Relational Racializations in Discourses of Immigration. Panelist. (Sponsored by the American Studies Association Committee on Ethnic Studies) American Studies Association. Atlanta, Georgia

 

2004. Death and Reproduction in the ‘War on Terror’: Naturalizing the Dead, Neglecting the Living. Guest Lecture. Feminist Scholarship Series. Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

2004. ‘At First They Didn’t Realize I Was an American’: Why American Soldiers Are Not Latina. Presenter. Migration Studies Group, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

2004. ‘At First They Didn’t Realize I Was an American’: Why American Soldiers Are Not Latina. Panelist. Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, Nevada

 

2004. Violent Reproductions: Race, Gender, and Military Citizenship. Panelist. Critical Legal Conference, School of Law, University of Westminster. London, UK

 

2004. Violence and the ‘Other.’ Panelist. Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

2004. Becoming Filipino-American through Mexican-American Masculinity. Guest Lecture for Martin Manalansan, Anthropology 398M: Filipino/Americans: Beyond Empire and Diaspora, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

2004. When Chicanas Speak to Chinese Ghosts: Connecting Asian American and Latina/o Studies in Literature. Panelist. Organizer of Panel: American Ambivalences: Asian American Uncertainties and the Limits of the U.S. Nation State. Association for Asian American Studies. Boston, Massachusetts

 

2004. Asian American / Latina/o Studies Caucus Roundtable. Roundtable Discussion Presenter. Association for Asian American Studies. Boston, Massachusetts

 

2004. E(racing) Trauma. Respondent. Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States.
San Antonio, Texas

 

2003. The other Other’s Historical Hauntings: Reading Latino/a Ghost Stories in Asian American Fiction. Panelist. American Studies Association. Hartford, Connecticut

 

2003. Scripted As Worth-Less: The Violence of Value in Cultural Narratives. Guest Lecture for Robert Allen, Ethnic Studies 141: Racial Politics in America, University of California, Berkeley

 

2002. Racial Cross-Dressing in American Son: Rethinking Racial Identity Formation through Racial Ambiguity. Panelist. Multiethnic Student Outreach, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

2002. Disciplinary Fictions: ‘Crazy’ as a Critical Space. Guest Lecture for Denise Ferreira da Silva, Ethnic Studies 100: Theories and Methods, University of California, San Diego       

 

2002. Her/stories of Possibility. Discussion Facilitator. Women of Color Conference, University of California, San Diego 

 

2001. Who We Are and Where We Live: Communities and Identities. Discussion Facilitator. Asian-Pacific Student Alliance’s High School Conference, University of California, San Diego

 

1999. Discourses of Civil Rights/Affirmative Action. Roundtable Discussion Presenter. American Studies Association/Canadian Association of American Studies, Montreal, Quebec

 

1997. Bringing the Community to Campus: High School Conferences as a Site of Student Activism. Panelist. Asian and Pacific Americans in Higher Education, San Diego, California

 

1998. Selling Safety: Balanced-Budget Conservatism and the Prison Industrial Complex. Guest Lecture for Jonathon Holloway, Ethnic Studies 1C: Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States, University of California, San Diego

 

1998. Analyzing Inequality in Your High School Experience. Closing Keynote Speaker. Kaibigang Pilipino’s High School Conference, University of California, San Diego 

 

1997. Reconstructing Difference, Reconstituting Community. Co-panelist, presented with Antonio T. Tiongson. Third Annual Pilipino Studies Conference, University of California at Los Angeles

 

1996. Affirmative Action and Pilipinos. Discussion Facilitator. Kaibigang Pilipino’s High School Conference, University of California at San Diego

 

Professional Organizations    

American Studies Association 1998-1999, 2003-2005

Association of Asian American Studies, 2004-2005

Co-Chairperson of Asian/Latino Caucus, 2003-2005

Latin American Studies Association, 2004-2005

Gender and Feminist Studies Section, 2004-2005

Latino Studies Section, 2004-2005

Modern Language Association, 1999-2002

Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States, 2004-2006

 

Dissertation Committees

Jin-hee Lee, “Competing Narratives of Collective Violence: Earthquake, Rumors, and Massacre of Koreans in the Japanese Empire,” East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, PhD granted October 2004 (member of committee)

 

References

George Lipsitz  (advisor)                                              Yen Le Espiritu

American Studies, UC Santa Cruz                                Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego  

                         

Lisa Lowe                                                                    Denise Ferreira da Silva

Literature, UC  San Diego                                            Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego

 

Cecilia Ubilla                                                                Patrick Velásquez

Office of Academic Services                                         Office of Academic Services

and Instructional Support  (OASIS)                              and Instructional Support (OASIS)

UC San Diego                                                              UC San Diego