 The LLSP Fellowship was an extraordinary opportunity for me after graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2002. Faced with the prospect of immediately getting on the job market upon the completion of my dissertation, it was a great privilege to learn that I would have an additional year with which to transform my graduate research into publishable form. The academic resources available at the UIUC are world-class and the additional time made all the difference in me being able to have two journal submissions under review by 2003, and a book contract with the University of Arizona Press by early 2004. In fall 2003, I began my current position as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Vermont in Burlington.
Mestizo in AmericaCurriculum Vitae:ACADEMIC POSITIONS Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Vermont, August 2003-present Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Latina/o Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2002-August 2003.
DEGREES Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 2002. Dissertation (supported by a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant). Assimilation in Mexican American Life? Integration and Hesitation beyond the Second Generation
M.A. in Sociology, University of New Mexico, January 1997. Master’s Thesis. Environmental Conflict between Hispanos and Environmentalists in Northern New Mexico: Implications for an Understanding of Ethnic Group Support of Environmental Campaigns
B.A. in Marketing, Arizona State University, May 1990.
PUBLICATIONS Mestizo in America: Generations of Mexican Ethnicity in the Suburban Southwest, 2006, Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
“Conflict over Forest Resources in Northern New Mexico: Rethinking Cultural Activism as a Strategy for Environmental Justice.” Forthcoming in The Social Science Journal.
“Imaginandose Mexicano: The Symbolic Context of Mexican American Ethnicity beyond the Second Generation.” Qualitative Sociology, Fall 2004, v. 27, pp. 299-315.
“The Changing Structure of Structural Assimilation: Organizational Participation among Third-plus Generation Mexican Americans,” Social Science Quarterly, December 2003, vol. 84, pp. 946-957.
“Immigration’s Impact on the American Economy.” 2001. In The Encyclopedia of American Immigration, eds. James Ciment and Immanuel Ness. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe.
Book Review: The Borderlands of Culture: Americo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary, by Ramón Saldivar. Forthcoming in The Journal of American Ethnic History.
Book Review: “Economy and Society in Brazil: Cardoso's Presidency and Its Possibilities.” 1998. co-authored with Miguel Korzeniewicz. In Latin American Research Review, 1998, vol. 33, pp. 226-38.
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Local Food and the Ties that Bind.” May 2006. Presented at the 44th International Making Cities Livable Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“Life at Work and the Legacy of Chicanismo.” November 2004. Presented at the International Conference on Social Science Research, New Orleans.
“Imagining Mexican American Culture: Cultural Institutions, Spanish Language Media and the Persistence of Mexican-origin Identity beyond the Second Generation.” Presented at the April 2003 Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Pasadena, California.
“American Mestizaje: Mexican American Intermarriage during Ongoing Mexican Immigration in the 1990s.” August 2002. Regular session in the Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago.
“Assimilation in Mexican American Life?: Asserted and Assigned Mexican-origin Identities beyond the Second Generation.” April 2002. Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Vancouver, Canada.
“Working Towards a Just, Equitable and Local Food System: Community-based Agriculture in Burlington, Vermont.” Under review at Agriculture and Human Values.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE Panel Organizer, “Emerging Identities: Human Migration, Social Policy and the Formation of Race and Ethnicity in American Society, March 8, 2007
Committee on Undergraduate Study, Department of Sociology, 2006-2007
Nominations Committee for the College of Arts and Science, 2006-2007
Advisory committee for the College of Arts and Science for the selection of department chair in the Department of Philosophy, Fall 2006
Diversity Recruitment Representative for the Department of Sociology, Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, 2006
Lectures on Environmental Justice in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Vermont, 2005
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Environmental Justice Consumer Society
RESEARCH POSITIONS Research Assistant, Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, University of New Mexico, 1997-98.
Volunteer, Small Business Development, United States Peace Corps, Costa Rica, 1991-93, and Argentina, 1993-94.
Economic Researcher, Deloitte and Touche, Phoenix, Arizona, 1990-91.
Lecturer, Sociology 134: Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 2002.
Teaching Assistant, Sociology 134: Race, Ethnicity and Poverty in the United States, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2001.
Teaching Assistant, Sociology 134: American Racial and Ethnic Minorities, University of Wisconsin, 1999-2000.
Instructor, Sociology 216: The Dynamics of Prejudice, University of New Mexico, 1998.
AWARDS AND HONORS National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2001. Vilas Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001. Advanced Opportunity Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998-99, 2000-01. Ford Foundation Predoctoral Minority Fellowship Program, Honorable Mention, 1996-97. Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, University of New Mexico, 1995-97.
Professor Gary Sandefur, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706. (608) 262-0037. sandefur@ssc.wisc.edu
Professor Pamela Oliver, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706. (608) 262-6829. oliver@ssc.wisc.edu
Professor Mitchell Duneier, Wallace Hall, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (805) 705-1010. mduneier@princeton.edu
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