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Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Ph.D. 2004 (Cultural Anthropology), New York University; M.A. 2000 (Anthropology), New York University; B.A. 1995 (Hispanic Studies and Anthropology), Columbia University.
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Research Interests: Latin America , religion, migration, and citizenship.
Affiliations: Latin American Studies Association: Member of professional organization; American Studies Association. Member of professional organization; American Anthropological Association; Member of professional organization; Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Member of professional organization; Society for Latin American Anthropology. Member of professional organization.
Fellowships/Honors: 2006 University Research Challenge Fund, twelve-month internal faculty research grant for initial research phase of project entitled: A Cultural Advantage? An Ethnographic Investigation of the Phenomena of the "Mexican Birth-weight Paradox" in New York City. New York University; Provost’s Summer Research Fellowship 2005 , Seton Hall University; Dean’s Travel Award from New York University for American Anthropology Association 2003, Chicago, Illinois; MacCracken Fellowship 1998, NYU; Summer Human Rights Internship Fellowship Granted by Center for the Study of Human Rights 1994, Columbia University.
Selected Works:
"'I too was an immigrant': The transformation of affinities and identity through time in a Mexican migrant devotional organization in the South Bronx", International Migration, January 2007, Volume 45(1).
"Rising Body Counts on the Border: Reflections on the Construction of Social Distance" e-misférica 3.2, edited by Ulla Berg and Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, electronic, peer-reviewed journal published by Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University, 3.2, Fall 2006. 2007.
n.d. In the Name of Guadalupe: Religion, Politics and Citizenship among Mexicans in New York. Book Manuscript under review by Duke University Press. 2006.
"La Virgen Meets Eliot Spitzer: Articulating Labor Rights for Mexican Immigrants," in "The Border Next Door: New York Migraciones", Margaret Gray and Carlos Decena, Eds., Social Text, Fall 2006 Volume 24(88). 2006.
Performing Religion in the Americas: Media, Politics, and Devotional Practices of the 21st Century, Gálvez, ed., and author of two pieces: "Introduction" and, "'She Made Us Human': The Relationship between the Virgin of Guadalupe, Popular Religiosity and Activism among Members of Mexican Devotional Organizations in New York City", November 2006, Berg (London). 2006.
Yo también fui un inmigrante. Transformación de la identidad y las afinidades a través del tiempo en una organización religiosa de inmigrantes mexicanos en el Sur del Bronx,” Revista Enfoques, Universidad Central, Santiago, Chile 1 (3), 2005.
A Walk Through the Paper Forest: Latino Prints and Drawings from El Museo del Barrio: An Education Guide, coauthored with Sandra Toro, Hamilton, NY: The Gallery Association of New York State/NYSCA, 1998.
"Africa Dream," kindergarten social studies lesson in Making a Difference, Mountain View, CA: Creative Publications, 1997.
"La Virgencita y Los Vatos Locos: Tattoos and Chicano Cultural Identity," The Journal of Latin American Affairs, Spring 1995, Vol 3(1):37-46.
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