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DENISE A. SEGURA
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
(805) 893-4761
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Sociology, 1986, University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation: "Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women in the Labor Market: A Study of
Occupational Mobility and Stratification." Chair: Arlie Russell Hochschild
M.A. Sociology, 1978, University of California, Berkeley
B.A. Sociology, 1976, University of California, Santa Cruz
RESEARCH & TEACHING AREAS
Gender & Feminist Studies, Race-ethnicity, Latina/o Studies, and Diversity in Higher Education: my primary
research interests include women, work, and family, Latina political consciousness and activism, Latina/o
immigrant communities, and diversity in higher education. Specific topics such as labor market segmentation,
race/gender discrimination in employment and education, race-ethnic diversity in higher education, the
intersection of family/work and Latina femininities and masculinities are major themes in my field research.
My teaching areas include: Latina/o Sociology, Chicanas in Contemporary Society, Latina Activism, Women
and Work, Education, Field Research Methods, and Race and Ethnic Relations.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2000- Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, and
present Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, the Department of Feminist
Studies and the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program
2013-2015 Chair, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
2008- Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, University of California,
2012 Santa Barbara
2004-05 Faculty Mentor, University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Dr. Julie
Dowling
1993-00 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
1994-99 Acting Director & Director, Center for Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
1990, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1996, 1998 Faculty Mentor, Summer Academic Research Internship Program
(SARI), UCSB
1993-94 Associate Director, Center for Chicano Studies, and Intern to the Dean of Social Sciences,
Management Fellowship Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
1987-93 Assistant Professor, Departments of Sociology and Chicano Studies. UCSB
1991-92 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ford Foundation. In residence at the University of California,
Los Angeles, Chicano Studies Research Center.
1989-91, 2001-03 Faculty Mentor, Graduate Research Mentorship Program (GRMP), UCSB
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HONORS AND AWARDS
2015 Feminist Mentor of the Year Award, Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS)
2011-12 Vice President, Pacific Sociological Association (PSA)
2009-10 President, Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS)
2008-09 Outstanding Latino/a Faculty in Higher Education (Research Institutions) Award, American
Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE), March 2009.
2007 Lifetime Distinguished Contributions to Research, Teaching and Service. American Sociological
Association, Latina/o Sociology Section. August 2007.
1993-95 University of California, Management Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, Center
for Chicano Studies
1991-92 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ford Foundation
1991-92 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, Institute of the Americas
(declined)
1990 Commencement Speaker, University of California, Santa Barbara, Social Sciences II,
June 17, 1990
1988 Renato Rosaldo Lecturer, University of Arizona, Tucson, Mexican American Center
1986-87 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University California President’s Fellowship
Program, University of California, Berkeley
1985-86 University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
1985-86 National Hispanic Scholarship Fund Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
1983-84 National Institute of Mental Health Graduate Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, Institute
for the Study of Social Change
1976-81 Ford Foundation Graduate Fellow, Ford Foundation
ADMINISTRATION/SHARED GOVERNANCE
2013-15 UC Santa Barbara, Chair, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
2005-06 University of California Systemwide, Academic Council Member
The Academic Council is the executive and coordinating committee of the University’s
system-wide Academic Senate, which under the terms of shared governance advises the
President on all policies and procedures governing the University.
2004-05 Vice Chair and 2005-06 Chair, University of California Systemwide Committee on Educational
Policy, (UCEP)
The University of California Committee on Educational Policy advises the Office of the President
on all aspects of undergraduate education policy at the ten campuses of the University.
2002-04 UC Santa Barbara, Undergraduate Council, Chair
The Undergraduate Council, comprised of 3 standing committees: the Committee on Admissions,
Enrollment and Relations with Schools (CAERS), the Committee on Undergraduate Academic
Programs and Policy (CUAPP), and the Committee on Undergraduate Student Affairs (CUSA),
reviews and recommends policy on undergraduate educational policy issues and programs,
participates in departmental program reviews, and reviews undergraduate education course
proposals and general education initiatives.
2002-04 UC Santa Barbara, Academic Senate Executive Committee Member
The Academic Senate Executive Committee coordinates the activities of all standing
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committees, formulates campus response to system-wide initiatives and mandates, responds
to campus concerns, and determines the agenda for meetings of the Faculty Legislature.
1994-96 UC Santa Barbara, Acting Director & Director (1996-1999), Center for Chicano Studies
The Center for Chicano Studies is one of 13 Organized Research Units (ORUs) at UC Santa
Barbara. The Center’s mission is to undertake, promote and disseminate research on Chicanas/os
and Latinas/os in California and the United States. The Center sponsors grant development in
Chicana/o and Latina/o research areas among faculty, graduate and undergraduate students.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2008-10 P.I.. Institute for Social, Behavioral & Economic Research (ISBER), “Dilemmas of Diversity:
Inclusion and Exclusion of Racial-Ethnic Minority Graduate Students in Sociology,” $6,000 with a
$6,000 matching grant from the American Sociological Association.
2007-08 (Co-P.I. with Victor Rios and Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky). UCSB Instructional Development Grant,
“Chicana/o and Latina/o Sociology,” $10,000.
2007-08 (Co-P.I. with Richard Duran, Juan Palerm, Laura Romo and Carolyn Turnovksy) UCSB Center for
Chicano Studies, “Immigrant Communities and Families." $15,000.
2004-06 (P.I. Coordinator) UC Office of the President, Committee on Latino Research, “Laboring Toward
the 21st Century: Rethinking Interdisciplinary Research on the Latino/a Working Poor.”
$47,000/year.
2002-04 (Co-P.I. with Richard Duran) UCSB/Chancellor’s Outreach Advisory Board, Faculty
Outreach Grant, “Expanding Academic Support to Isla Vista School.” $76,785.
2001-05 (Coordinator and Co-P.I. with J. Manuel Casas and Richard Duran) W.K.K. Kellogg Foundation
Implementation Grant, “ENLACE y Avance: Students and Families Empowered for Success.”
$1.5 million.
2002-03 (P.I.) UC MEXUS, “Chicanas in the Academy: Navigating Two Social Worlds.” $14, 490.
2002-03 (P.I.) UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Research, “Chicanas in the Academy:
Navigating Two Social Worlds.” $6,500.
2001-02 Faculty Outreach Grant, UCSB. $65,000.
2000 (Co-P.I. with with María Eugénia de la O Martínez (CIESAS Guadalajara), Christian Zlolniski
(COLEF Tijuana) and Patricia Zavella (UC Santa Cruz). UC MEXUS-CONACYT, “Migrantes
Mexicanas en Contextos Transnacionales: Trabajo, Familia y Actividades Políticos-Comunitarias."
1999-00 (Co-P.I. with J. Manuel Casas) W.K.K. Kellogg Foundation Planning Grant, “ENLACE y Avance:
Students and Families Empowered for Success.” $100,000.
1999 (Co-P.I. with Patricia Zavella) UCMEXUS, "Mexican Women in Transnational Context: Labor,
Family and Migration. $15,000.
1998-00 (P.I. and Coordinator) UC Office of the President, Committee on Latino Research,
and “Laboring Toward the 21st Century: Rethinking Interdisciplinary Research on the
2003-05 Latino/a Working Poor.” Other project investigators include: J. Manuel Casas, Carl
Gutierrez-Jones, Maria Herrera- Sobek, Raymond Huerta, Francisco Lomeli,
Fernando Lopez-Alves, Juan-Vicente Palerm, Stephen Trejo. $47,000 each year.
1997-98 (Co-P.I. with Carl Gutierrez-Jones) UC Santa Barbara, Interdisciplinary Humanities
Center, “The Routes of Culture: Chicana/o Arts in an Age of Displacements.” $3,000.
1997-98 (Co-P.I. with Maria Herrera-Sobek and Teofilo Gonzalez) UC Santa Barbara, Office
of Research, “The West-East Chicano Institute.” $7,500
1997-98 (Co-P.I. with Claudine Michel, Gerard Pigeon, Francisco Lomeli, Paul Spickard) UC Santa Barbara,
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, “Culture, Community and Research in the UC System: A
Dialogue among Ethnic Studies Faculty.” $5,000
1995-98 (P.I. and Coordinator) UC Office of the President, Committee on Latino Research,
“Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of the Chicana/o and Latina/o Working
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Poor.” Other project investigators include: J. Manuel Casas, Carl Gutierrez-Jones,
Raymond Huerta, Francisco Lomeli, Fernando Lopez-Alves, Juan-Vicente Palerm,
Josefina Saldaña, and Stephen Trejo. $45,000 per year
1994-95 (P.I.) UC Office of the President, Committee on Latino Research, “Socio-cultural
Constructions within Changing Chicana/o and Latina/o Communities: Rural and
Urban Community Life.” $20,000
1994-95 (P.I. and Coordinator) UC Office of the President, Committee on Latino Research,
“Socio-cultural Constructions within Changing Chicana/o and Latina/o Communities:
Policy Implications for the Working Poor.” Other project investigator include:
J. Manuel Casas, Carl Gutierrez-Jones, Raymond Huerta, Francisco Lomeli, Fernando
Lopez-Alves, Juan-Vicente Palerm, and Stephen Trejo. $30,000
1993-94 (P.I.) UC Santa Barbara Academic Senate Committee on Research Award, “The
North American Free Trade Agreement: Implications for Chicana/Latina
Employment.” $2,500
1992-93 (Co-P.I. with Juan-Vicente Palerm, J. Manuel Casas, Francisco Lomeli, Raymond
Huerta, and Fernando Lopez-Alves) UC Office of the President, SCR 43 Funding,
“Socio-cultural Constructions within Changing Chicana/o and Latina/o Communities:
Policy Implications for the Working Poor.” $105,000 funded for 1993-94
1993 (P.I.) UC Santa Barbara Summer Academic Research Internship program (SARI)
Award, “Chicano Media Representations; An Examination of Chicano/Mexicano/
Latino Images and Issues in the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Uprisings.” $2,000
1991-92 (Co-P.I. with Juan-Vicente Palerm, J. Manuel Casas, Francisco Lomeli, Raymond
Huerta and Fernando Lopez-Alves) UC Office of the President, SCR 43 Funding,
“Chicana/o and Latina/o Public Policy and Research Program.” $33,000
1991-92 Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship, “Chicana Political Consciousness and Feminist
Discourse.” One year paid leave.
1991-92 UC Santa Barbara Faculty Career Development Award. One quarter release time
used to supplement the Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship.
1990-91 (P.I.) UC Santa Barbara Academic Senate Committee on Research Award,
“Ethnicity, Gender Ideology and Latina Workers’ Political Consciousness.” $3,460
1990 (P.I.) UC Santa Barbara Summer Academic Research Internship Program (SARI)
Award, “Ethnicity, Gender Ideology, and Feminism among Chicana/Latina
Workers.” $2,000
1989-90 (Co-P.I. with Beatriz Pesquera, UC Davis) UC MEXUS Award, “The Chicano
Movement, the Women’s Movement, and Chicana Feminism: Historical and
Contemporary Dimensions.” $8,000
1989-90 (P.I.) UC Santa Barbara Special Opportunity Fund, the Academic Senate, “The
Chicano Movement, the Women’s Movement, and Chicana Feminism: Historical
and Contemporary Dimensions.” $6,000
1989-90 (P.I.) UC Santa Barbara, Center for Chicano Studies, “Ethnicity, Gender and
Ideology, and Chicana Workers’ Consciousness.”
1989-90 UC Santa Barbara Graduate Research Mentorship program Award, “The Chicano
Movement, the Women’s Movement, and Chicana Feminism: Historical and
Contemporary Dimensions.”
1989 UC Santa Barbara Faculty Career Development Award
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS & EDITED VOLUMES
Segura, Denise A., and Patricia Zavella, (editors). Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A
Reader. Duke University Press, 2007.
Segura, Denise A. and Patricia Zavella (editors). Gender & Society, Special Issue: “Gendered Borderlands.
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October 2008: 22:5.
Zavella, Patricia and Ramon A. Gutiérrez (editors) with Denise A. Segura, Dolores Treviso and Juan-
Vicente Palerm, Mexicans in California: Emergent Challenges and Transformations,
University of Illinois Press, 2009. John Moore, Senior Editor, with Associate Editors Russell Adams, Patricia Hill Collins, Allan Goodman, Len
Lieberman, and Denise A. Segura, Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, Macmillan/Gale/Thomson
Publishers, 2007.
Award: Outstanding Reference Sources for 2008 - American Library Association's Reference
and User Services Association (RUSA)
PUBLICATIONS: RESEARCH REPORTS
Segura, Denise A. and Laura Romo. “2011 Report of the American Sociological Association Committee on the
Status of Racial-Ethnic Minorities in Sociology,” July 31, 2011.
http://www.asanet.org/Final_ASA_SREM_Committee_Report_2011.pdf
Segura, Denise A. “Latinos and Education in Ventura County.” Education Resources Information Center
(ERIC), ED479362. (2002).
Segura, Denise A,. Latinos in Isla Vista: A Report on the Quality of Life Among Latino Immigrants. Research
Report, Center for Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, August 1999.
PUBLICATIONS: PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Segura, Denise A., "Labor Market Stratification: The Chicana Experience," Berkeley Journal of Sociology,
29:57-91, 1984.
---Reprinted in Ronald Takaki (ed.), From Different Shores Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in
America, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Segura, Denise A. "Chicanas and Triple Oppression in the Labor Market." Pp. 47-65 in Chicana Voices:
Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender, Selected Proceedings, National Association for Chicano
Studies. Austin, TX: Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas, 1986.
---Reprinted in Mario T. Garcia (ed.), Bridging Cultures, An Introduction to Chicano/Latino Studies.
Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 2000.
Segura, Denise A. "Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women at Work: The Impact of Class, Race, and Gender
on Occupational Mobility," Gender and Society, 3:37-52, March 1989.
---Reprinted in Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, Doris Wilkinson and Maxine Baca Zinn (eds.), Race, Class,
and Gender: Common Bonds, Different Voices. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996.
Delgado-Gaitan, Concha and Denise A. Segura, "The Social Context of Chicana Women's Role in Their
Children's Schooling," Educational Foundations Journal, 3:1, 1989, pp. 77-92.
Segura, Denise A., "Conflict in Social Relations at Work: A Chicana Perspective." In Romero, M. and C.
Candelaria (eds.) Estudios Chicanos and the Politics of Community, Selected Proceedings, National
Association for Chicano Studies (NACS). Boulder, CO: NACS, 1989, pp. 110-131.
Segura, Denise A., "Chicanas in White Collar Jobs: ‘You have to prove yourself more.’ " Sociological
Perspectives 35:163-182, 1992.
---Reprinted in Louise Lamphere, Helena Ragoní and Patricia Zavella (eds.), Situated Lives, Gender and
Culture in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge, 1997.
---Reprinted in Christopher G. Ellison and W. Allen Martin (eds.) Race and Ethnic Relations in the
United States: Readings for the 21st Century. Roxbury, 1998.
---Reprinted in Nijole V. Benokraitis (ed.) Contemporary Ethnic Families in the United States. Prentice
Hall, 2001.
Segura, Denise A. and Beatriz M. Pesquera., "Beyond Indifference and Antipathy: The Chicana Movement and
Chicana Feminist Discourse." Aztlán, A Journal of Chicano Studies 19:69-92, 1992.
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---Reprinted in Chon Noriega, et al. (editors), The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlan,
1970-2000. Los Angeles, CA: University of California, 2001.
--Reprinted in Anna Ochoa O’Leary (ed.), Chicano Studies: The Discipline and The Journey. Kendall-
Hunt Publishing, 2007.
Segura, Denise A. and Jennifer L. Pierce, "Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality: Chodorow,
Familism, and Psychoanalytic Sociology Revisited." SIGNS, Journal of Women in Culture and Society
19 (Autumn):62-91, 1993.
---Reprinted in Karen V. Hansen and Anita Ilta Garey, Families in the U.S., Kinship and Domestic
Politics. Philadelphia: Temple, 1998.
---Reprinted in E. Schroeder (ed.), Taking Sides: Family and Personal Relationships, 5th Edition.
McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2002.
Segura, Denise A., "Ambivalence or Continuity: Motherhood and Employment Among Chicanas and Mexican
Immigrant Women." Aztlán, A Journal of Chicano Studies 20:1 & 2 (Spring & Fall 1991):119-150,
1993.
Segura, Denise A. and Beatriz M. Pesquera, "Chicana Political Consciousness: Renegotiating Culture, Class and
Gender with Oppositional Practices.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 24:1 (Spring 1999):1-32.
Segura, Denise A., “REVIEW ESSAY: Challenging the Chicano Text: Toward a More Inclusive Contemporary
Causa.” SIGNS, Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Winter 2001.
Segura, Denise A., “Navigating Between Two Worlds”: The Labyrinth of Chicana Intellectual Production in the
Academy.” Journal of Black Studies 34:28-51, 2003.
García-Lopez, Gladys and Denise A. Segura. “They are testing you all the time’: Negotiating Dual Femininity
among Chicana Attorneys.” Feminist Studies 1-2, 2008.
--Reprinted in Elizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret Andersen (eds.), Race and Ethnicity in Society:
The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition. Wadsworth, 2012.
Segura, Denise A., “Aztlan and the Quest for Social Justice in the Borderlands.” Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano
Studies 35,1, 165-67 (Spring 2010).
Romo, Laura and Denise A. Segura. “Enhancing the Resilience of Young, Single Mothers of Color: A Review
of Programs & Services,”Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk (JESPAR) 15:173-185, 2010.
Schneider, Beth, and Denise A., “Affirmative Action to Diversity: Critical Reflections on Graduate Education in
Sociology.” Sociology Compass 8/2: 157-171 (2014).
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS
Segura, Denise A. "Familism and Employment Among Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Women." Pp. 24-32
in Mexicanas at Work in the United States, Mexican American Studies Monograph No. 5. edited by
Margarita B. Melville. Houston, TX: University of Houston, 1988.
Segura, Denise A., "The Interplay of Familism and Patriarchy on the Employment of Chicana and Mexican
Immigrant Women." Pp. 35-53 in the Renato Rosaldo Lecture Series Monograph No. 5, Tucson, AZ:
University of Arizona, 1989.
Segura, Denise A., "Chicanas y mexicanas en el mundo laboral: barreras para el empleo y la movilidad social."
Pp. 145-156 in Culturas hispanas en los Estados Unidos edited by Maria Jesús Buxó Rey and Tomas
Calvo Buezas. Madrid: Instituto de Cooperaci¢n Iberamericana, 1990.
Segura, Denise A.,"Walking on Eggshells: Chicanas in the Labor Force." Pp. 173-193 in Hispanics in the
Workplace edited by Knouse, Stephen, Paul Rosenfeld, and Amy Culbertson. Newbury Park, CA:
SAGE Publications, 1992.
Segura, Denise A., "Slipping Through the Cracks: Dilemmas in Chicana Education." Pp. 199-216 in Building
With Our Hands: New Directions in Chicana Scholarship edited by De la Torre, Adela and Beatriz M.
Pesquera. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Pesquera, Beatriz M. and Denise A. Segura, "'There is no going back': Chicanas and Feminism." Pp. 95-115
Chicana Critical Issues, Series in Chicana/Latina Studies, edited by the MALCS Editorial Board.
Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 1993.
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---Reprinted in Alma M. Garcia (ed.), Chicana Feminist Thought, the Basic Historical Writings. New
York: Routledge, 1997.
--Reprinted in Rosalia Solorzano and Francisca James Hernandez (editors), Chicana Studies: An
Introduction, Volume 1. Kendall-Hunt, 2010.
Segura, Denise A., "Inside the Work Worlds of Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women." Pp. 95-111 in
Women of Color in American Society edited by Baca Zinn, Maxine, and Bonnie Thornton Dill. New
York: Temple University Press, 1994.
---Reprinted in Karen V. Hansen and Anita Ilta Garey, Families in the U.S., Kinship and Domestic
Politics. Philadelphia: Temple, 1998.
Segura, Denise A., "Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Mothers and Employment." Pp.
211-233 in Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency edited by Nakano Glenn, Evelyn, Grace
Change, and Linda Rennie Forcey. New York: Routledge, 1994.
---Reprinted in Laurel Richardson, Verta Taylor and Nancy Whittier (eds.), Feminist Frontiers. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1997, 2004, 2007, 2009.
---Reprinted in Denise A. Segura and Patricia Zavella (eds.), Women and Migration in the U.S-Mexico
Borderlands: A Reader. Duke University Press, 2007.
Segura, Denise A. and Beatriz M. Pesquera, "Chicana Feminisms: Their Political Context and Contemporary
Expressions.” Pp. 617-631 in Women, A Feminist Perspective, Fifth Edition, edited by Freeman, Jo.
Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1995.
---Reprinted in Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres (eds.), The Latino Studies Reader.
Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1998.
Segura, Denise A., "Chicanas in White Collar Occupations: Work and the Gendered Construction of Race-
Ethnicity." Pp. 36-52 in Color, Class, and Country: Experiences of Gender, edited by Gay Young and
Bette Dickerson. London: ZED Books, 1994.
Pesquera, Beatriz M. and Denise A. Segura, "With Quill and Torch: A Chicana Perspective on the American
Women's Movement and Feminist Theories." Pp. 231-247 in Chicanos/Chicanas at the Crossroads.
Edited by David Maciel and Isidro Ortiz. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995.
--Reprinted as "A Chicana Perspective on Feminism," in The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader.
Edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanic. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Segura, Denise A. “What is Needed? More Interdisciplinary Work Drawing on the Humanities.” Pp. 118-119 in
Immigration and Ethnic Communities: A Focus on Latinos. Edited by Refugio Rochin. Michigan State
University: Julian Samora Research Institute, 1996.
Pesquera, Beatriz M., and Denise A. Segura, " ‘Es Su Cuerpo, Definitivamente Es Su Derecho,’
Chicanas/Latinas and Abortion." VOCES: A Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies, 2:1 (Spring). Davis:
University of California, Chicana/Latina Research Center, 1998.
Segura, Denise A. and Adela de la Torre, “La Sufrida: Contradictions of Acculturation and Gender in Latina
Health Research." Pp. 155-165 in Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural and
Technoscience Perspectives. Edited by Adele E. Clark and Virginia L. Oleson. New York: Routledge,
1999.
Segura, Denise A. and Elisa Facio, “Adelante Mujer: Latina Activism, Feminism and Empowerment.” Pp. 294-
307 in Latinas/os in the United States: Changing the Face of América. Edited by Havidan Rodriguez,
Rogelio Saenz, and Cecilia Menjivar. New York: Springer, 2008.
Segura, Denise A., “The Researcher as a Borderlands Feminist.” Pp. 191-205 in Sociologists Backstage:
Answers to 10 Questions About What They Do.” Edited by Sarah Fenstermaker and Nikki Jones. New
York & London: Routledge, 2011.
Facio, Elisa and Denise A. Segura. “Chicana Feminist Sociology in the Borderlands.” Pp. 175-181, in Bridging:
How and Why Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa's Life and Work Transformed Our Own edited by
AnaLouise Keating and Gloria Gonzalez-López, University of Texas Press, 2011.
Segura, Denise A. and Patricia Zavella, “Gender in the Borderlands.” In Feminist Frontiers 9th Edition, edited
by Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, and Leila J. Rupp. New York: McGraw Hill, 2012.
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PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS & NEWSLETTER ARTICLES
Segura, Denise A., Review of: The Mexican American Family, Tradition and Change, Norma E. Williams.
New York: General Hall, Inc, 1990. In Rural Sociology 56 (Summer 1991):321-322.
Segura, Denise A. and Pesquera, Beatriz M., Review of: Unequal Sisters, A Multicultural Reader in U.S.
Women's History Ellen Carol DuBois and Vicki L. Ruiz (eds.). New York: Routledge (1990); and
Making Face, Making Soul: Haciendo Caras, Gloria Anzaldua (ed.). San Francisco: Aunt Lute
Foundation, 1990. In Gender and Society, (September 1992):519-522.
Segura, Denise A. and K. Sue Jewell, “Unique Barriers Women of Color Encounter in the Academy: Equity Issues for Women Faculty in Sociology Departments,” Report for the ASA Committee on the
Status of Women, Washington D.C., Footnotes (Newsletter of the American Sociological Assoc.), pp.
20-24, 1992. Segura, Denise A., “My Turn: ‘No, we don’t have the same dress’ and Other Observations by a
Chicana Sociologist” SWS Network News, The Newsletter for Sociologists for Women in
Society, Summer 2004, pp. 25-28. Segura, Denise A. Review of: Latino Los Angeles: Transformations, Communities, and Activism, Enrique C.
Ochoa and Gilda L. Ochoa (eds.), University of Arizona Press, 2005. In Contemporary Sociology36:6
(November 2007): 566-567.
Segura, Denise A., “Reflections on my SWS Presidency,” SWS Network News, The Newsletter for Sociologists
for Women in Society, Fall 2010.
PUBLICATIONS: ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Arce, Eric and Denise A. Segura, “Stratification in the Labor Market.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race,
Ethnicity and Nationality. In press.
Segura, Denise A. and Patricia Zavella, “Borderlands,” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and
Sexuality Studies. In Press.
IN PROGRESS
Francisco A. Lomelí, Segura, Denise A and Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe, “Handbook in Chicana/o Studies.”
Routledge
PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
“Perceptions of Inequality among Sociology PhD Students,” (with Laura Romo). American Association for the
Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, February 14-18, 2013.
"Diversity and Its Discontents in Graduate Programs Nationwide: A Report of the American
Sociological Association Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities (SREM).”
Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), Denver, CO, August 2012.
“Diversity and its Discontents: Analyzing perceived racial privileging in sociology graduate programs,” (with
Scott Brooks), Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, CA, April 2012.
“Building Networks, Negotiating Legitimacy: Faculty women of color,” Pacific Sociological Association, San
Diego, CA, April 2012.
“The Challenge of Diversity: Results from a National Survey of 22 PhD Programs in Sociology,” National
Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Chicago, IL, March 2012.
“Review of Patricia Zavella’s “I’m Neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and
Poverty” Author Meets Critic Session at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
(NACCS), Chicago, IL, March 2012.
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“’Diversity is the Key’: Inclusion & Exclusion of Racial-Ethnic Minorities in Sociology.” Pacific
Sociological Association, Seattle, WA, March 2011. “Dilemmas of Diversity: Inclusion and Exclusion of Racial-Ethnic Minority Graduate Students in Sociology.”
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2010.
“ ‘Back on Track’: Latina/o Educational Engagement and Empowerment.” American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. August 2008.
“The Contributions to Feminist Studies of This Bridge Called My Back,” Pacific Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, April 2008.
“They are testing you all the time’: Negotiating Appropriate Femininities among Chicana Attorneys,” (with
Gladys Garcia-Lopez). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, August 2007.
“Mujeres Adelante: Latina-Community Partnerships for Educational Empowerment in the Borderlands.”
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, April 4-7, 2007.
“Voz sin Voto: Latina Agency and Empowerment in the Borderlands.” Frontiers in Qualitative Sociology
Conference. University of California, Berkeley, October 26-28, 2006.
“Education for Empowerment: Strengthening Chicano/Latino Pathways to Higher Education.” American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, PA, August 2006.
“The Sociological Contributions of Norma Williams.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,
Montreal, Canada, PA, August 2006.
“Education for Empowerment: Supporting Chicana/o and Latina/o Undergraduates’ Ways of Knowing” (with
Rosita Ramirez), National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Meeting, Guadalajara,
Mexico, June 28-July 1, 2006.
“The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology: A Borderlands Feminist Response,” American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
“Malinche Speaks: Chicana Feminisms in Sociology” (with Elisa Facio), American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
“Educational Challenges and Latino Community Empowerment,” American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2004.
“Critique of Leslie Salzinger’s Genders in Production, Making Workers in Mexico’s Global Factories,” Author
Meets Critic Session, Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, April 16, 2004.
“Chicana Faculty: Crafting Empowered Spaces in the Academy,” University of California Committee on
Latino Research Conference, Latinos in California II. University of California, Riverside,
September 11-13, 2003. “Education for Empowerment: Bridging the Institutional Divide between Latino Families and Schools,”
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2003.
“ENLACE y Avance: Policies and Practices for Chicano/Latino Educational Success.” Kellogg Foundation
ENLACE Project Directors Retreat on Educational Policy. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
August 28-30, 2002.
“Chicanas in the Academy: Narratives of Resistance and Empowerment.” III Congreso Internacional de
Literatura Chicana. Universidad de Malaga, Spain, May 21-23, 2002.
“Latinos and Education in Ventura County.” Immigration and Changing Face of Rural California Conference,
Oxnard, California, April 4-6, 2002.
“Navigating Between Two Worlds”: The Labyrinth of Chicana Intellectual Production in the Academy.”
Beyond Diversity: People of Color in Predominantly-White Institutions, A Spencer Foundation-Funded
Conference, Indiana University, October 26-28, 2001.
“All I Can Do is the Best I can’: Grand-motherhood and Chicana Intellectual Production.” The Sisterhood of
Work: A Collaborative Symposium on the Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of
Women of Color, University of Maryland, College Park, June 22, 2001.
“Chicanas in Higher Education: La Lucha Sigue.” Mujeres Migrantes Mexicanas en Contextos
Transnacionales: Trabajo, Familia y Actividades Politico-Comunitarias, Seminario de Investigacion.” ,
Guadalajara, Mexico, March 22-24, 2001.
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"Chicana Political Consciousness: Renegotiating Culture, Class and Gender with Oppositional Practices” (with
Pesquera, B.M.). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 1999.
"Mexican Women and Transnational Dilemmas." The Future of Chicano Studies Conference. UC San Diego,
May 8, 1999.
“Empowering Chicano and African-American Youth for the Future: Bringing Technology to Rural and Urban
Homes” (with M.T. Brown), American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 1997.
“Quality of Life Among Latino Residents in Isla Vista.” Conference on Housing and Community
Empowerment, University of California, Santa Barbara. October 24-26, 1996.
“La Sufrida: Contradictions of Acculturation and Gender in Latina Health Research,” with De La Torre, A.).
Conference on Re-visioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience
Perspectives, University of California, San Francisco. October 6-7, 1995.
“What is Needed? More Interdisciplinary Work Drawing on the Humanities.” Conference on Immigration and
Ethnic Communities: A Focus on Latinos, Michigan State University. April 28-29, 1995.
“Critique of Barrie Thorne’s Gender Play.” Author Meets Critic Session, Pacific Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, April 16, 1994.
California Lutheran University’s Eleventh Annual Pulitzer Symposium and Lecture Series, Thousand oaks,
California. February 28, 1994.
"Chicana White Collar Workers and Feminism." UC Council of Women's Studies Programs Conference, Lake
Arrowhead Conference Center, November 19-21, 1993.
"Chicanas in White Collar Jobs: Gender/Race-ethnic Dilemmas and Affirmations." American Sociological
Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, August 17, 1993.
"Chicana Political Consciousness: Cultural Good Girls, Ambivalent Wannabees, and Soldaderas" (with
Pesquera, B.M.). Conference on Issues in Chicana Scholarship, U.C. Irvine, May 14, 1993.
“Chicana Feminisms,” Sixth European Conference on Latino Cultures in the United States," University Michel
de Montaigne-Bordeaux III," Bordeaux, France, July 7-9, 1994.
"Doing Chicana: An Ethnomethodological Approach to Chicana Studies," National Association for Chicano
Studies (NACS), San Jose, California, April 1993.
" ‘It's her body, it's her right’: Chicanas’Attitudes towards Abortion," (with Pesquera, B.M.). National
Association for Chicano Studies (NACS), San Antonio, TX, March 26-28, 1992. --Revised version
presented at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
August 23, 1992.
"Working at Motherhood: Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Mothers and Employment." American Sociological
Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 23, 1992.
"Latinas and the Reproductive Rights Debate: An Exploration of Gender and Cultural Politics." Pacific
Sociological Association, Oakland, California, April 1992.
"The Church Pontificates, Society Assumes, But No One Ever Asks. Chicanas/Latinas and Choice," (with
Pesquera, B. M.). American Sociological Association (ASA), Cincinnati, Ohio. August 26, 1991.
"Chicanas' Attitudes Toward Abortion: A Preliminary Analysis," (with Pesquera, B. M.). National Association
for Chicano Studies (NACS). Hermosillo, Mexico. April 25-27, 1991.
"Chicanas in White Collar Jobs: 'You have to work twice as hard.’” Pacific Sociological Association (PSA).
Irvine, California. April 13, 1991.
"Challenging Patriarchy: The Chicana Movement and Chicana Feminist Discourse." (with Pesquera, B.M.)
International Conference on Hispanic Cultures of the U.S.A., Universitat Mainz, Germersheim,
Germany, July 6, 1990.
“Beyond Indifference and Antipathy: The Chicana Movement and Chicana Feminist Discourse.” American
Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. August 14, 1990.
"Feminism in the Ranks: Chicana/Latina Workers' Political Consciousness." National Association for Chicano
Studies (NACS). Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 28-31, 1990.
“Chicana/Latina White Collar Feminisms.” Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) Annual Meeting, Spokane,
Washington, April 5-8, 1990.
"Ambivalence or Continuity?: Motherhood and Employment Among Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant
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Women." Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), Berkeley, CA, August 7-11, 1989.
“Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Mothers: Reconciling Competing Urgencies.” International Sociological
Association (ISA), Madrid, Spain, July 11, 1990.
"Chicana Feminism: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Dimensions," (with Pesquera, B.M.). Western
Social Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 18, 1989.
“Chicana Feminism Yesterday and Today.” Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), Berkeley, CA, August
7-11, 1989.
" 'There's too many pressures! ': Motherhood and Employment Among Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant
Women." Pacific Sociological Association (PSA), Reno, Nevada, April 14, 1989.
"The Movement Has Failed to Adequately Address Classism and Racism: Chicanas and the Women's
Movement," (with Pesquera, B.M.). National Association for Chicano Studies, Los Angeles, CA,
March 29 - April 1, 1989.
"Conflict in Social Relations at Work: A Chicana Perspective." American Sociological Association (ASA)
Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 24-28, 1988.
"The Women's Movement: Towards a Chicana Perspective," (with Pesquera, B.M.). American Sociological
Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 24-28, 1988.
"Chicanas and Mexicanas in the Labor Market: Barriers to Occupational Mobility." I International Conference
on Hispanic Cultures of the USA, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, June 7-10, 1988.
"The Impact of Class, Race, and Gender Differences on Social Relationships at Work--The Chicana/
Mexicana Experience." National Association for Chicano Studies, Boulder, Colorado, April 1988.
"I Had to Step In: The Role of Chicana Women in Their Children's Schooling," (with Delgado-Gaitan, C.).
Second all-U.C. Conference on the Comparative Study of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class,
University of California, Davis, December 11-12, 1987.
"Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women at Work: The Impact of Class, Race, and Gender on Occupational
Mobility." American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill., August 1987.
"Chicana/Mexicana Employment: A Qualitative Analysis of Barriers to Advancement." Inaugural Conference
of the University of California Council of Women's Programs, University of California, Los Angeles,
February 12-13, 1987.
"Familism and Employment among Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Women." Northern Regional Conference
of the National Association for Chicano Studies, University of Santa Clara, November 10, 1986.
"Occupational Mobility and Stratification among Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women: A Case Study."
American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., August 1985.
"Chicanas and Triple Oppression in the Labor Market." National Association for Chicano Studies, University of
Texas, Austin, March 1984.
"Chicanos and Vocational Education: The Case of Adelante." Northern Regional Conference of the National
Association for Chicano Studies, University of Santa Clara, November 1983.
"A Critique of The Reproduction of Mothering and Implications for Chicano Family Research." National
Association for Chicano Studies, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, March 1983.
INVITED PAPERS, TALKS, AND COLLOQUIA
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” FOR “One Book; One
Campus,” Oxnard College, February 7, 2014.
“Challenging Patriarchal Eagles: Chicana Feminisms Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” Keynote
Lecture. Center for Mexican American Studies 40th Anniversary Series, University of Houston, Texas,
September 18, 2012.
“Dilemmas of Diversity: Differences in Professional Socialization among Graduate Students in Sociology,”
University of Michigan, March 23, 2010.
“Dilemmas of Diversity: Inclusion and Exclusion of Racial-Ethnic Minority Graduate Students in Sociology,”
National Science Foundation 3RD Annual Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Alliance
Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, April 21-23, 2008.
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“Voz sin Voto: UC-Latino Partnerships for Educational Empowerment in the Borderlands.” Colloquium.
University of California, San Diego, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, May 16, 2007.
“Education in the Borderlands: ENLACE y Avance.” Brown Bag Lecture, University of California, Santa
Barbara, Center for Chicano Studies, May 8, 2007.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Building Partnerships, Building Trust: Strengthening Pathways to the University.”
Symposium on Bringing U to the University, California State University, San Marcos, April 20, 2007.
“Educational Challenges in the Borderlands: Building Diversity, Leadership and Civic Engagement.”
Conference on Tirando Paredes/Bringing Down Walls, Minnesota State University, Mankato, March
10, 2006.
“Civic Engagement and Latino Student Empowerment: The ENLACE Undergraduate Research and Mentorship
Program at UCSB.” Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies Program & Department of Education Distinguished
Speaker Series, University of California, Irvine, March 1, 2006.
“Civic Engagement in Sociology: The ENLACE Undergraduate Research and Mentorship Program at UCSB.”
All UC Symposium on Civic and Academic Engagement in the Multiversity, University of California
Office of the President, Academic Affairs, June 10, 2005.
“Building Partnerships, Building Trust: UC and Latino Community Empowerment in Education,” Chancellor’s
Symposium on California Cultures in Comparative Perspective,” University of California, San Diego,
May 5-6, 2005.
“Educational Challenges and Latino Community Empowerment: ENLACE y Avance,” Lecture. University of
California, Santa Cruz, Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, April 20, 2005.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Women’s Studies in the Borderlands: Building Diversity, Leadership and Civic
Engagement,” Inauguration of the Department of Women’s Studies, University of Houston-Clear Lake,
March 8, 2005.
“Retos educacionales para impulsar a la comunidad Latina,” Lecture. Future Leaders of America Conference,
University of California, Santa Barbara, January 29, 2005.
“The Status of Latino Education Locally and in the State,” LULAC Conference, Santa Barbara City College,
May 2003.
“ENLACE y Avance: Developing a Pipeline for Educational Success.” (with Richard Duran). Outreach
Conference for California Educators. University of California, Santa Barbara. September 13, 2002.
“ENLACE y Avance: Students and Families Empowered for Success.” (with J. Manuel Casas). A Presentation
to the University of California Regents. University of California, Santa Barbara. June 14, 2001.
“Navigating Between Two Worlds”: Chicana Faculty in Higher Education.” Sociology Colloquium. University
of California, Los Angeles. May 23, 2000.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Community Teaching in Mathematics and Science.”Annual Community Teaching
Fellowship in Mathematics and Science Symposium. UC Santa Barbara. May 20, 2000.
“Navigating Between Two Worlds”: Chicana Faculty and the Subtext of Opportunity in Higher Education.”
Sociology Colloquium. University of California, Santa Cruz. May 8, 2000.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Cinco de Mayo.” Santa Barbara City College. May 5, 2000.
“Chicanas and Mexicanas in Transnational Context: Reworking Gender and Culture." Seminar on Mexican
Women in Transnational Contest: Labor, Family and Migration, University of California, Santa Cruz,
April 23-24, 1999.
"It's not always clear": Chicanas' Political Consciousness in a Postmodern World." Women's Studies
Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, March 9, 1999.
“Undergraduate Research in Chicano Studies.” Puente Conference. University of California, Santa Barbara,
October 18, 1998.
“Researching for Empowerment: Uncovering Mexican Immigrant Community Life in Isla Vista.”
Chicano/Latino Policy Project Colloquium Series. University of California, Berkeley, April 1998.
“Mexican Immigrant Women: Renegotiating Community and Culture in the U.S.” Arts & Lectures. California
State University, San Marcos, April 1998.
“Doing Research in the Local Community.” Puente Conference. University of California, Santa Barbara,
October 1997
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"Chicana Political Consciousness: Culturally Gendered, Race-ethnic, Class and Dissident Influences." Lecture.
University of Houston. February 23, 1996.
"Chicanas and Abortion." Lecture. Professional Women’s Association. University of California, Santa Barbara.
January 3, 1996.
“Address to the UC Regents.” University of California, San Francisco. January 18, 1996.
“Immigrant Dilemmas.” Lecture. Anacapa School, Santa Barbara, November 26, 1995.
"La Sufrida: Revisioning Research on Chicanas and Health" (with De La Torre, Adela). Lecture. University
of California, San Francisco, Colloquium on Re/Visioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist,
Cultural and Technoscience Studies and Perspectives." October 6, 1995.
"Chicanas, Education, and Employment: Creating a New Destiny," Lecture. California State University Long
Beach, Chicano Studies Colloquium, March 22, 1995.
"Red Queens and Twinkletoes: Merging Family and a University Career," Lecture. Ford Foundation Fellows
Conference, Irvine, CA, October 14-16, 1994.
"Chicanas/Latinas and Abortion," Center for Chicano Studies Colloquium Series on the Working Poor,
University of California, Santa Barbara, June 2, 1994.
"Women of Color in the University: Interethnic and Intraethnic Conflict and Coalition-building," UCSB
Graduate Women's Network Lecture Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 8, 1994.
"Mexican Women and Political Consciousness: Entre Cultural Good Girls and Soldaderas," Lecture, Latina/o
Research Institute Colloquium Series, University of California, Santa Cruz, February 10, 1994.
"Chicana Political Consciousness: Feminism and Activism Revisited." Lecture. Santa Barbara City College
Ethnic Studies Series. May 5, 1993.
"You have to prove yourself more: Women and Discrimination." Lecture. Women and Leadership Series.
University of California, Santa Barbara. January 27, 1993.
"Chicanas, Mexicanas, and Motherhood." Lecture. Santa Barbara City College. May 1992.
"Chicana and Latina Women: Attitudes Toward Work and Opportunity." Conference "Experiences of Gender,
Color, Class, and Country." American University. Washington, D.C. April 19-20, 1991.
"Chicanas and Feminism: A Preliminary Exploration." Colloquium. Women's Studies Committee. University
of California, Santa Cruz. February 14, 1991.
"Feminism and Its Discontents: A Chicana Perspective." Colloquium. Departments of Ethnic Studies and
Women's Studies. University of Washington, Seattle. October 15, 1990.
“Walking on Eggshells: La Mujer Chicana en el mercado laboral." Encuentro Chicano/Mexico 1990.
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico, August 29, 1990.
"Commencement Address," Social Sciences II, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 17, 1990.
"Chicanas and Feminism: There is No Going Back." Lecture. University of California, Davis, April 30, 1990.
“Divergent Voices: Chicanas and Feminism,” Interrnational Conference on Chicano Society and Culture.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for Chicano Studies, April 29-May 4, 1990.
"With Quill and Torch: Chicana Feminism and the Chicana Movement." (with Pesquera, B.M.). Colloquium,
Sociology Department, University of California, Davis, Nov. 7, 1989.
--Revised version presented at a Colloquium, Institute for the Study of Women and Men, University of
Southern California, March 22, 1990.
"Job Mobility and Labor Market Stratification: The Chicana/Mexicana Experience." Colloquium, Sociology
Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 31, 1989.
"Our Work Never Ends: Labor Market Stratification, Patriarchy, and Occupational Mobility Among
Chicana/Mexicana Workers." Colloquium, Sociology Dept., Arizona State University, Tempe, 1989.
" ‘I'm not a racist, but . . .’: Racism in Contemporary American Society," Anacapa High School Lecture Series,
Santa Barbara, CA, Nov. 22, 1988.
"The Women's Movement: A Chicana Critique." Chicana Research Institute, University of California, Davis,
July 24, 1988.
"Beyond Machismo: The Interplay of Familism, Patriarchy, and Employment Among Chicana and Mexican
Immigrant Women." Colloquium, Sociology Dept., University of California, Santa Barbara, May 1988.
"Occupational Segregation and Mobility Among Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Women." Research Seminar
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of the Project on Equal Education Rights (PEER) of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund,
Washington, D.C., March 30-31, 1988.
"Familism, Patriarchy, and Employment among Chicana and Mexicana Immigrant Women." Renato Rosaldo
Lecture Series, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Mexican American Studies Center, March 24, 1988.
"Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Women in the Labor Force: An Analysis of Social Relationships at Work."
Chicana Summer Research Institute, University of California, Davis, July 22-25, 1987.
"Pathway through the University of California and Beyond." Presented to the Regents of the University of
California, University of California, San Diego, June 18, 1987.
"Occupational Mobility and Stratification Among Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women." Colloquium,
Sociology Department, University of California, San Diego, May 1987.
"Chicano Families: Employment and Economic Thresholds." An invited lecture for the National Organization
for Women (NOW) Yolo County Chapter, Davis, CA, November 8, 1986.
"Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Women in the Labor Market: A Study of Occupational Mobility and
Stratification." Colloquium, Sociology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, January
31, 1986.
"The Chicana--Past, Present, and Future." Symposium on the Chicano/Latino Community, Feminist Institute,
Berkeley, CA. April 1985.
"The Quest for a Better Life: Exploring the Life Chances of Mexican Immigrant Women." Ethnic Studies
Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, April 1985.
"Comparable Worth and Chicanas: A Critique." Conference on Options for Women, University of California,
Berkeley, April 1984.
"Chicanas in the California Labor Force: An Historical Overview." Summer Institute on Teaching,
Researching and Writing about Women of Color, Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, June
1983.
Other Professional/Service Presentations:
"Chicanas in the California Labor Force." A slide show presentation in English/Spanish produced by C. Duron,
G. Friaz, and D. A. Segura.
CONFERENCE CHAIR/ORGANIZER
Co-Organizer, Conference on “Development of UCSB as a Hispanic Serving Intensive Research Institution.”
University of California, Santa Barbara, May 13, 2014.
President and Conference Organizer, Sociologists for Women in Society, Winter Meetings “Left Coast
Feminisms: Re-imagining Borders, Bodies, and the Law,” Santa Barbara, CA, February 2009.
Organizer and Presider, Regular Session on “Race, Class and Gender.” American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, August 2008.
Co-Organizer, University of California Committee on Latino Research, Conference on Latinos in California II,
Riverside, CA, September 11-13, 2003.
Co-Chair & Organizer, Kellogg Foundation ENLACE Project Directors Retreat on Educational Policy.
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, August 28-30, 2002.
Co-Chair & Organizer, Mujeres Migrantes Mexicanas en Contextos Transnacionales: Trabajo, Familia y
Actividades Politico-Comunitarias, Seminario de Investigacion.” Guadalajara, Mexico, March 2001.
Co-Chair & Organizer, Faculty Seminar on "Mexican Women in Transnational Context: Labor, Family and
Migration." UC Santa Cruz, April 23-24, 1999.
Co-Chair, Conference on “Immigration and Welfare Reform: Impact on Families and Children.” UC Santa
Barbara, October 10, 1997.
Co-chair, Conference on "Las condiciones de la vivienda y la mobilizacion comunitaria" (Housing Conditions
and Community Options." UC Santa Barbara, October 24-26,1996.
Co-chair, Conference on “La Communidad/The Community.” Southern California Region of Mujeres Activas
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en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) Chicana/Latina Summer Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara,
August 14-17, 1994.
Co-organizer, Conference on “Chicano/Latino Rural Studies.” Center for Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara,
May 10-12, 1993.
WORKSHOPS
“The Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships.” Workshop co-sponsored by UC Santa
Barbara’s Graduate Division, Chicano Studies Institute, and Department of Chicana and Chicano
Studies, October 23, 2013.
“ASA Director of Graduate Studies Conference: Race-ethnicity and Mentoring in Graduate School and the
Early Career, (With Scott Brooks, UC Riverside). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,
Denver, CO, August 2012.
“Graduate Students of Color in the Academy.” Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Diego,
CA April 2012.
“Mentoring and Latino Access to Higher Education” (With Miguel Carranza and Richard Duran). American
Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Conference, Costa Mesa, CA, March 2007.
“Working Towards Tenure at a Research One University.” Ford Foundation Fellows Conference, Washington,
D.C., September 30-October 1, 2005.
“Mentoring at the UC.” University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Orientation,
Oakland, CA. September 23, 2005.
“Teaching Gender and Work: Observations from the Last Twenty Years” (With Sarah Fenstermaker). American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
“Reconciling the Competing Urgencies of Family and Work as a UC Faculty.” University of California
President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Orientation. October 1, 2004.
“The Faculty Role in Outreach to the Community,” University of California Systemwide Outreach Conference,
Oakland, CA, November 27, 2003.
"Chicanas in the Labor Market," Chicana Research Institute (MALCS), University of California, Los Angeles,
August 1990.
"Curriculum Development in Chicana Studies," Chicana Research Institute (MALCS), Santa Clara University,
August 1989.
ORGANIZER, PANELIST, OR DISCUSSANT
Organizer & Presider, “Race, Class, and Gender at Work,” American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2015.
Organizer, Open Refereed Roundtables, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco,
CA, August 16-18, 2014.
Panelist, “The Chicano Studies Institute: A Community and University Resource.” Conference: “Development
of UCSB as a Hispanic Serving Intensive Research Institution.” University of California, Santa Barbara,
May 13, 2014.
Discussant, “Including Graduate Students in the Vision of Becoming an HSI.” Conference: “Development
of UCSB as a Hispanic Serving Intensive Research Institution.” University of California, Santa Barbara,
May 13, 2014.
Organizer, “Predoctoral Workshop Fellows in the Social & Behavioral Sciences and the Humanities” Ford
Foundation Fellows Conference, Washington DC, September 23, 2013.
“Working with Underprepared Students.” Panelist, Faculty Forum, University of California, Santa Barbara,
April 16, 2007.
“Contributions of the Institute for the Study of Social Change to Graduate Education.” Panelist, Conference:
30th Anniversary of the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley,
October 19-20, 2006.
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“Structural Inequality and Schools.” Discussant, Graduate Student Conference, 'Activist Scholarship:
Documenting Undocumented Border Space.' University of California, Santa Barbara, October 5, 2006.
“Dick Flacks & Changing the University.” Panelist, Conference on 45 Years of Democratic Activism: Legacies
and Learning, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 5-6, 2006
“Educational Policy Goals and Research Regarding Latino English Learners in the State of California.” Panel
Chair, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Montreal, Canada,
April 11-15, 2005.
“Women Leaders in Santa Barbara.” Panelist, Santa Barbara City College, March 16, 2005.
Co-Organizer and Presider, Refereed Roundtables, Section on Sex and Gender. American Sociological
Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, California, August 14-17, 2004.
“The Continuing Significance of Race: Social Science Evidence.” Discussant, Conference on Colorblind
Racism? The Politics of Controlling Racial and Ethnic Data,” Stanford University, October 2-4, 2003.
“Women of Color and Work.” Panelist, Seminar on the Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of
Women of Color. University of Maryland. January 25-26, 2002.
Organizer/Presider: “Equity and Academic Preparation.” UC Santa Barbara Conference on Rethinking the
SAT: The future of standardized testing in university admissions.” November 17, 2001.
“Affirmative Action at the University of California.” Panelist, UC Santa Barbara. March 13, 2001.
“Women of Color and Work.” Panelist, Seminar on the Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of
Women of Color. Arizona State University. January 26-27, 2001.
Organizer/Presider: Regular Session on “Feminist Theory." American Sociological Association, Annual
Meeting, Washington D.C., August 12-16, 2000.
Presider/Discussant: "El Norte." Struggle For Equality Film and Lecture Series. University of California,
Santa Barbara, November 15, 1995.
Organizer/Presenter: "Faculty Mentoring of UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows." UC President's
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Orientation, October 30, 1995.
Organizer/Presider: "Latinos and Employment in California." Committee on Latino Research Conference on
the State of Latina/o Research in California, University of California, Riverside. October 20-21, 1995.
"Teaching at UCSB." Panelist, October 10, 1995.
Organizer/Presider: "The Intellectual Contributions of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies." University of
California Santa Barbara Conference in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Campus, October 9, 1995.
Chair/Participant: "Mentoring in the University of California." UC President's Fellowship Program Fall
Orientation, Berkeley, October 17, 1994.
Chair/Moderator: UCSB Annual Colloquium on Undergraduate Research. University of California, Santa
Barbara, May 13, 1994.
Participant/Critic: "Author Meets Critic Session on Barrie Thorne's Gender Play." Pacific Sociological
Association Annual Meeting, April 16, 1994.
Panelist/Discussant: California Lutheran University's Eleventh Annual Pulitzer Symposium and Lecture Series.
Thousand Oaks, California, February 28, 1994.
Presider: Session on “Border Culture,” Conference on L.A. City of Exiles. Interdisciplinary Humanities Center,
University of California, Santa Barbara, February 25, 1994.
Co-Organizer with Lionel Maldonado, for the Regular Sessions on “Race-Ethnic Relations.” American
Sociological Association, for the Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, August 13-18, 1993.
Section on “Sex and Gender” Refereed Roundtables Presider & Discussant. American Sociological
Association, Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, August 17, 1993.
Presider: Regular Session on “Race-Ethnic Relations: Identity." American Sociological Association, Annual
Meeting, Miami, Florida, August 16, 1993.
"Challenges of the 1990's for University Faculty, Staff and Students." Panelist, University Leadership Network
Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 9, 1993.
"The First Three Years as a UC Faculty Member." Panelist, UC President's Fellowship Program Spring Retreat,
Lake Arrowhead, June 1993.
“Multiculturalism and Institutional Racism." Discussant, Conference on Translating Cultures: The Future of
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Multiculturalism? University of California, Santa Barbara, November 11-14, 1992.
"Faculty Mentoring." Panelist, UC President's Fellowship Program Fall Retreat. University of California,
Berkeley, October 12, 1992.
Commentator on: Aida Moreno Valenzuela and Elsa Cheney, "La lucha para la subsistencia y el dificil camino
a la organizacion: trabajadoras del hogar." Conference on Learning from Latin American Women's
Struggles, University of California, Los Angeles, February 28, 1992.
Organizer: Thematic Sessions on: "Reexamining the Commonly Used Concepts in Race/Ethnic Relations,"
"Public Policy and Racial/Ethnic Groups, "Racial-Ethnic Dynamics in the Classroom," and "Face-to-
Face Ethnic Relations." American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio,
August 23-27, 1991.
Presider: Regular Session on “Kinship and Social Networks." American Sociological Association (ASA)
Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio. August 23-27, 1991.
"Race, Class, and Gender," Discussant, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San
Francisco, California, August, 1989.
"Women and Progressive Social Movements," Panelist, Cinco de Mayo celebration at La Casa de la Raza, Santa
Barbara, California, May 5, 1989.
"The Tenure Process at U.C." Panelist, President's Fellowship Program Retreat, Lake Arrowhead, California,
April 30, 1989.
CONSULTATION AND PROGRAM REVIEW Consultant: “Voices from the Kitchen: A radio documentary project.” Pedro Arroyo, KCBX Public Radio,
Agust 2010-2012.
Program Reviewer: Latina/o Studies Program, University of Michigan, March 2010.
Program Reviewer: Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, Claremont Colleges, October 2008.
Consultant: National Latino Survey. Co-PI’s Luis Fraga (Stanford University), John A. Garcia (University of
Arizona, Tucson), Valerie Martinez-Ebers (Texas Christian University), and Gary Segura (University of
Washington), 2004-2009.
Consultant: “Latina Mothers Entering Higher Education: Bridging Two Social Worlds.” University of
California, Irvine. Dr. Francesca Cancian, P.I. 2001-2003.
Program Reviewer Co-Chair: Raza Studies, California State University, San Francisco. April 2003.
Program Reviewer Chair: Program in Latin American and Latino Studies. University of California, Santa Cruz,
October 1998.
Consultant/Presenter for Teacher In-Service: "Racial-Ethnic Families and Multiculturalism in the Nineties." St.
Raphael School, Goleta, California, September 10, 1993.
Consultant: "Women of Color: Work and Family Project." Center for Women Policy Studies, Washington,
D.C., 1993.
Consultant: "Chicana/Latina Workers," Chicana/Latina Grantswriting Workshop, Chicana/Latina Research
Institute, University of California, Davis, July 5-14, 1993.
Program Reviewer: Mexican American Studies & Research Center, University of Tucson, Arizona, 1992.
Expert Witness, Mexican/Chicano Cultural Tradition, Santa Barbara District Court, November 20, 1990.
Consultant: "Ninety in the Nineties," A Film Study of Women Through the 20th Century”, by Judith Montell
and Gail Dolgin, Berkeley, California, 1990-91.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Sociological Association (ASA)
Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS)
Pacific Sociological Association (PSA)
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS)
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Santa Barbara Latina Leaders Network
SERVICE TO SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Editorial Boards
Contemporary Sociology, 2012-2015
Gender & Society, Associate Editor 2009-2011 & 2006-2008, Board Member 1991-1994
ASA Rose Monograph Series, 2000-2003 AZTLAN: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2000-2003.
American Sociological Association Publications Committee, Section on Race-Ethnic Minorities, 2014-17
Jessie Bernard Award Committee, 2013-16
Chair, Committee on the Status of Race and Ethnic Minorities in Sociology (SREM), 2006-11
Latina/o Sociology Section Founders Award Committee, (2010-12)
Cox-Frazier-Johnson Award, (2010-12)
Committee on Nominations (2008-2010)
Chair, Section on Sex and Gender, Chair (2003-04),
Council Member, Section on Sex and Gender (1991-94) and (1999-2002),
Chair, Distinguished Book Award Committee, Section on Sex and Gender (2002-3)
Jessie Bernard Award Committee, (1997-2000)
Chair, Section on Latina/o Sociology, (1996-97)
Committee on Committees, (1993-95)
Organizer for the Sessions on Racial-Ethnic Minorities, (1992-93)
Annual Conference Program Committee Member, (1990-1991).
Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology (CSWS), (1988-91)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Frank Bonilla Intellectual Award Committee, 2011-12
Pacific Sociological Association Vice-President Elect, 2010-11, Vice-President, 2011-2012, Past Vice-President 2012-13
Program Committee, 2010-11
Council, 2010-11
Nominations Committee (Chair), 2011-12
Committee on the Status of Racial/Ethnic Minorities, 1989-90 (Chair), 1992-93.
Annual Conference Program Committee Member, 1989-1990, 1994-95, 1995-96, 2000-01.
Sociologists for Women in Society
President-Elect 2008-09, President 2009-10, Past-President 2010-11
Chair, Nominations Committee, 2010-11
Co-Chair, Program Committee, 1993-94
Program Committee, 1988-89, 2008-09
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
C. Wright Mills Book Award, 1994-95
Chicano/Latino Faculty Association of the University of California, Steering Committee Member, 1989-92.
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Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS), Co-Chair, Organizing Committee for the Annual
Research Institute of Chicana/Latina Studies, 1993-94 and 2011-12
Sixth European Conference on Latino Cultures in the United States at the University of Bordeaux, France
Organizing Committee Member (U.S.), 1993-94
GRANT/FELLOWSHIP REFEREE National Science Foundation, (2007)
University of California Consortium on U.S.-Mexico Relations (UC MEXUS), (1990, 1991)
California Policy Seminar – Projects on the Latino Population (1992-1999)
UC Committee on Latino Research (1994-97)
University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute (2000-2002)
University of California, President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (1991, 1993, 1994)
Ford Foundation Chair of the Social Science Fellowship Division (1994-96), (1998-99)
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Referee (1993-99), 2012, 2015
JOURNAL REFEREE (Selected)
Contemporary Sociology, Sociological Perspectives, Social Problems, Qualitative Sociology, SIGNS:
Journal of Women in Culture & Society, Meridians, Gender & Society, Feminist Studies, Urban
Education, Sociological Forum, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, AZTLAN: A Journal of
Chicano Studies, Journal of Family Issues, Sociological Quarterly. American Journal of Sociology
MANUSCRIPT REFEREE (Selected) University of California Press, University of Texas Press, New York University Press, Duke
University Press, University of Arizona Press, University of Minnesota Press, Routledge, Sage,
Mc-Graw Hill.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: External Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion
University of California-Davis, University of California-Santa Cruz, University of California-Los
Angeles, University of California, Riverside, Arizona State University, Florida State University, Duke
University, American University, University of Illinois-Chicago, University of Utah, San Francisco
State University, University of Washington-Seattle, University of Texas-Arlington, University of
Texas-San Antonio, University of Texas-Austin, Texas A&M University, University of New Mexico
UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
2013-2015 Chair, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies [Medical Leave Fall 2013]
Department of Chicana/o Studies: Curriculum Committee, Graduate Program Committee ex oficio, Search
Committee ex oficio
Campus: Search Committee, Associate Vice Provost & Dean of Undergraduate Education 2015
2012-13 Sabbatical Fall 2012 and Spring 2013
2011-12
Department: Graduate Program & Admissions Committee Chair, Curriculum Committee, Space &
Community Committee
Campus: Chicano Studies Institute Advisory Committee
UCSB Academic Senate: Graduate Council, Recruitment Fellowship Subcommittee
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2010-11
Department: Graduate Program & Admissions Committee Chair, Executive Committee, Curriculum
Committee, Space & Community Committee.
Campus: UC DIGSSS Advisory Committee, Chicano Studies Institute Advisory Committee
2009-10
Department: Graduate Program & Admissions Committee Chair, Executive Committee, Curriculum
Committee.
Campus: UC DIGSSS Advisory Committee
UC Systemwide: UC-wide Size & Shape Workgroup
2008-09
Department: Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Graduate Program & Admissions
Committee Chair, Curriculum Committee.
Campus: Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Campus Steering Committee, Chicano
Studies Institute Advisory Board
2006-07
Sabbatical Leave
2005-06
Department: Executive Committee, Faculty Search Committee Chair (Latina/o Sociology)
Campus: Center for Chicano Studies Advisory Committee, Campus Coordinating Committee for Budget
Strategy, Isla Vista Commission
UC Systemwide: Chair, University of California Committee on Educational Policy (UCEP), UC Academic
Council, UC Academic Planning Council, UC Academic Assembly, Intersegmental Council of Academic
Senates (ICAS)
2004-05 Department: Executive Committee, Faculty Search Committee Chair (Latina/o Sociology)
Campus: Center for Chicano Studies Advisory Committee, Latin American and Iberian Studies Program
Committee, Campus Coordinating Committee for Budget Strategy, Isla Vista Commission, UC Washington
Center Advisory Committee, Search Committee – Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel
UC Systemwide: Vice Chair, University of California Committee on Educational Policy (UCEP),
Ad Hoc Personnel Evaluation Committees
Local Community: League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Educational Committee
2003-04 Department: Undergraduate Program Committee, MOST (Minority Opportunity Through School
Transformation) Program Committee
Campus: Latin American and Iberian Studies Program Committee, Campus Coordinating Committee for
Budget Strategy, Center for Chicano Studies, Center-Campus Liaison Committee, Rockefeller Humanities
Program Advisory Committee, Isla Vista Action Workgroup
UCSB Academic Senate: Chair, Undergraduate Council, General Education Workgroup, Senate Executive
Committee, Faculty Legislature, Ex Oficio
UC Systemwide: University of California Consortium on U.S.-Mexico (UCMEXUS) Advisory Committee,
University of California Educational Policy (UCEP),
Local Community: County of Santa Barbara Supervisorial Appointment -- Human Relations Committee Vice
Chair , League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Educational Committee, Isla Vista Youth
Taskforce
2002-2003 Department: Executive Committee,
Campus: Women’s Studies Program Advisory & Governance Committee, Center for Chicano Studies
Advisory Committee, Campus Coordinating Committee for Budget Strategy
UC Systemwide: University of California Consortium on U.S.-Mexico (UCMEXUS) Advisory Committee,
University of California Educational Policy (UCEP)
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UCSB Academic Senate: Chair, Undergraduate Council, General Education Workgroup, Senate Executive
Committee. Faculty Legislature, Ex Oficio, Isla Vista Action Workgroup
Local Community: County of Santa Barbara Supervisorial Appointment -- Human Relations Committee,
Isla Vista Youth Taskforce
2001-2002 Department: Affirmative Action/Diversity (Sociology)
Campus: Center for Chicano Studies Advisory Committee, Center for Chicano Studies – Department of
Chicano Studies Liaison Committee, UCDC Advisory Committee, Campus Outreach Advisory Committee and
Workgroup, Women’s Studies Pogram Advisory & Governance Committee, Vice Chancellor for Budget Search
Committee, Strategic Communication Taskforce, Graduate Dean Review Committee
UC Systemwide: University of California Consortium on U.S.-Mexico (UCMEXUS) Advisory Committee
UCSB Academic Senate: Conference Committee – “Rethinking the SAT: The Future of Standarized Testing in
University Admissions” (November 16-18, 2001)
Local Community: County of Santa Barbara Supervisorial Appointment -- Human Relations Committee,
Isla Vista Youth Taskforce
2000-2001 Department: Search Committee-Globalization (Sociology)
Campus: Center for Chicano Studies Advisory Committee, Center for Chicano Studies – Department of
Chicano Studies Liaison Committee, Rockefeller Program Development & Steering Committee, UCDC,
Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Search Committee, Center for Chicano Studies Director Search
Committee, Tanner Lecture Committee
UC Systemwide: University of California Consortium on U.S.-Mexico (UCMEXUS) Advisory Committee
UCSB Academic Senate: Director, Special Projects of the Academic Senate Search Committee, Conference
Committee – “Rethinking the SAT: The Future of Standarized Testing in University Admissions”
Local Community: County of Santa Barbara Supervisorial Appointment -- Human Relations Committee
1999-2000 Department: Graduate Admissions, MOST (Minority Opportunity Sociology Traineeship Program)
Campus: Center for Chicano Studies Advisory Committee, UCDC, Women’s Studies Hull Endowed Chair
Search Committee
UC Systemwide: University of California Consortium on U.S.-Mexico (UCMEXUS) Advisory Committee
1998-99 [On Sabbatical Leave] Campus: UCSB Diversity Advisory Committee of the Executive Vice Chancellor, UC Linguistic Minority
Research Institute Advisory Committee
UC Systemwide: University of California Consortium on U.S.-Mexico (UCMEXUS) Advisory Committee,
California Policy Seminar, Section on Latino Research Advisory Committee
1997-98 [On Leave Winter 1998] Department: MOST (Minority Opportunity Sociology Traineeship Program) , Chair, Faculty Search
Committee for Race-Ethnicity and Nation (REN)
Campus: Diversity Advisory Committee of the Executive Vice Chancellor, UCDC (University of California
Program in Washington, D.C.), Isla Vista Policy Committee, Chancellor’s Advisory Task Force on Diversity &
Proposition 209, Executive Vice Chancellor Search Committee
UCSB Academic Senate: Committee on Admissions and Enrollment
UC Systemwide: University of California Consortium on U.S.-Mexico (UCMEXUS) Advisory Committee,
California Policy Seminar Section on Latino Research
1996-97 Department: MOST (Minority Opportunity Sociology Traineeship Program)
UCSB Academic Senate: Affirmative Action Committee, Committee on Educational Planning and Policy
(CEPAP)
Campus: Diversity Advisory Committee of the Executive Vice Chancellor, UCDC (University of California
Program in Washington, D.C.), Global and International Studies Program Advisory Committee, Isla Vista
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Policy Committee, Community & Organization Research Institute (CORI) Advisory Committee, Division of
Student Affairs, Project Crossroads
UC Systemwide: University of California Consortium on U.S.-Mexico (UCMEXUS) Advisory Committee,
California Policy Seminar Section on Latino Research, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowships for Women and
Minorities Advisory Committee
1995-96 Department: MOST (Minority Opportunity Sociology Traineeship Program), Planning and Recruitment
Committee
UCSB Academic Senate: Affirmative Action, Committee on Educational Planning and Policy (CEPAP)
Campus: Diversity Advisory Committee of the Executive Vice Chancellor, UCDC (University of California
Program in Washington, D.C.), Education Abroad Program (EAP), Global and International Studies Program,
Isla Vista Policy Committee, Luis Leal Endowed Chair in Chicano Studies Search Committee, Undergraduate
Merit Scholarships Committee
UC Systemwide: University of California Consortium on U.S.-Mexico (UCMEXUS) Advisory Committee,
Committee on Latino Research Steering Committee, California Policy Seminar Section on Latino Research, UC
President's Postdoctoral Fellowships for Women and Minorities Advisory Committee
1994-95 Department: Graduate Admissions
UCSB Academic Senate: Affirmative Action, Committee on Educational Planning and Policy (CEPAP), Ad
Hoc Committee Task Force to Study Minority Faculty Recruitment/Retention,
Campus: Council of Senior (Tenured) Women Faculty, Diversity Advisory Committee of the Executive Vice
Chancellor, Asian American Studies Program Advisory Committee, Education Abroad Program (EAP), Isla
Vista Policy Committee
UC Systemwide: University of California Consortium on U.S.-Mexico (UCMEXUS) Advisory Committee,
UC Committee on Latino Research Steering Committee, California Policy Seminar Section on Latino Research,
U.C. President's Postdoctoral Fellowships for Women and Minorities Advisory Committee
1993-1994 Department: Planning and Recruitment, Cressey Dissertation Award
Campus: Center for Chicano Studies Advisory Committee, Women's Studies Program Committee, Asian
American Studies Advisory Committee, Council of Senior (Tenured) Women Faculty, University of California,
Santa Barbara, Search Committee for the Provost of the College of Letters & Sciences
UCSB Academic Senate: Task Force to Study Minority Faculty Recruitment/Retention
UC Systemwide: UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowships for Women and Minorities Advisory Committee
1992-1993 Department: Recruitment and Planning, Affirmative Action-Diversity, Graduate Awards for Continuing
Students, Economy and Society Faculty Search Committee
Campus: Chair, Center for Chicano Studies Advisory Committee, Women's Studies Program Advisory
Committee, Referee: Graduate Minority Fellowships, University of California, Santa Barbara
UC Systemwide: Advisory Board, Chicana/Latina Research Project, University of California, Davis
1991-1992 [on Postdoctoral Leave at UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center]
Department: Economy and Society Faculty Search Committee
Campus: Center for Chicano Studies Advisory Committee
1990-1991 Department: Women's Studies Program Target of Opportunity Search Committee, Chicano Studies
Department Social Science Faculty Search Committee
Campus: Center for Chicano Studies Advisory Committee, Program for Intensive English (PIE) Advisory
Committee, College of Letters & Sciences Honors Faculty Advisory Committee
1989-1990 Department: Women's Studies Program Curriculum Committee, Sociology Dept. Recruitment
Diversity/Affirmative Action, Sociology Dept. Graduate Admissions, Sociology Dept. Feminist Studies Faculty
Search Committee, Sociology Dept. Feminist Studies Colloquium Committee, Chicano Studies Dept. Social
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Science Faculty Search Committee, Chicano Studies Dept. Teaching Assistants’ Awards Committee, Chicano
Studies Dept. Honors Advisor
Campus: California Humanities Project, Humanities Institute, University of California, Davis
Center for Chicano Studies Advisory Committee, Linguistic Minority Research Project Advisory Committee,
Program of Intensive English (PIE) Advisory Committee
UC Systemwide: Chicana Policy Issues Committee on Senate Concurrent Resolution 43, University of
California
1988-1989 Department: Women's Studies Program Curriculum Committee, Sociology Dept. Faculty/Graduate Affirmative
Action Committee (Chair), Sociology Dept. Recruitment Diversity Committee, Chicano Studies Dept. Chicana
Dissertation Fellowship Committee (Chair), Chicano Studies Dept. Curriculum Committee, Chicano Studies
Dept. Teaching Assistants’ Awards Committee, Chicano Studies Dept. Affirmative Action Committee
Campus: California Humanities Project, Humanities Institute, Center for Chicano Studies Advisory Committee,
Linguistic Minority Research Project Advisory Committee, Program of Intensive English (PIE) Advisory
Committee
1987-1988
Department: Women's Studies Curriculum Committee, Sociology Dept. Colloquium Committee,
Sociology Dept. Affirmative Action Committee, Chicano Studies Social Science Faculty Search Committee,
Chicana Dissertation Fellowship Committee
Campus: California Humanities Project, Humanities Institute, Center for Chicano Studies Advisory Committee,
Linguistic Minority Research Project Advisory Committee, Program of Intensive English (PIE) Advisory
Committee, Critical Issues Program
UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS DIRECTED (Selected) April Calderon, Sociology (2014-15), “The Experience of Latina/o Students in Alternative Education
Programs.”
Maira Areguin, Dept. of Chicana/o Studies Honors Thesis (2014), “Latinas in Agriculture.”
Billi Jo Starr, Sociology Honors Thesis (co-director), (2013), “The “Lost Boys” Narrative: How the Power of
Story Can Change Lives.”
Karina Manzo, Sociology Independent Study, (2013) “Latino Parents of “At Risk” Sons.”
Nicole Perez, Dept. of Chicana/o Studies Honors Thesis (2012), “Empowering Students: The Relationship
Between Multicultural Curricula and Academic Achievement”
Olga Martinez, Center for Chicano Studies (2005), ““Creating www.potre.com: A website on the history,
tradition and cultural practices of Potrerillos, Jalisco,” Research Project and grant proposal to the Center for
Chicano Studies (Funded).
Beatriz Marmolejo, Sociology MOST Program (2004), “Religious Affiliation and its Effects on the Academic
Performance of Young Latino Students.”
Ana Soltero, Sociology (2005), “Latino Family Leadership & Empowerment.” Research Project and Strauss
Grant Proposal (Funded).
Miriam Maya, Sociology (2004), ENLACE: A Case Study.”
Monique Rodriguez, Sociology (2004), “School Finance Litigation & Educational Opportunity.”
Ramon Miramontes, Dept. of Chicana/o Studies (1998-1999), “Latina/o Youth in Isla Vista.” Research Project
and grant proposal to Santa Barbara County (funded)
Adrianna Saenz, Sociology (1996), “Isla Vista Housing Survey.” Summer Research Opportunity Program
Student. Center for Chicano Studies Research Project.
DISSERTATION COMMITTEES (CURRENT STATUS) Member: Ester Trujillo, (PhD 2016, Department of Chicana & Chicano Studies), Assistant Professor of
Latina/o Studies at DePauw University
Chair: Melissa Guzman (PhD 2014), Assistant Professor of Latino Studies, San Francisco State University
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Member, Daisy Gonzales, Associate Director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)
Chair: Janette Diaz (PhD 2015), Assistant Professor, Grossmont College
Co-Chair (with Dr. Nikki Jones): Jerry Flores (PhD 2014), Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of
Toronto & University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Francisco
Co-Chair (with Dr. George Lipsitz): Monica Lomeli (PhD 2014), Senior Human Relations Consultant, Los
Angeles County Senior & Community Services
Member: Ali Hendley (PhD 2013), Assistant Professor of Sociology, Murray State
Member, Veronica Montes (PhD 2013), Postdoctoral Fellow, USC Center for the Study of Immigrant
Integration & Assistant Professor of Sociology, Bryn Mawr College
Co-Chair (with Dr. Victor Rios): Rachel Sarabia (PhD 2013), Grants & Contracts Manager in the Office of the
Attorney General, Wyoming
Chair: Xuan Santos, (PhD 2012), Associate Professor, California State University-San Marcos
Co-Chair (with Dr. Reginald Daniel): Josef Castaneda-Liles (PhD 2012), Development Researcher, Santa Clara
University
Member: Rufina Cortez (PhD 2012, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Educational Policy Studies)
Co-Chair (with Dr. Wade Clark Roof): Maria del Socorro Castaneda-Liles (PhD 2011), Assistant Professor of
Religious Studies, Santa Clara University
Chair: Brianne Davila, (PhD 2011), Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University, Pomona
Co-Chair (with Dr. Reginald Daniel): Rebecca Romo (2011), Assistant Professor, Santa Monica City College
Co-Chair (with Dr. Laury Oaks): Oscar Gil-Garcia (PhD 2010), UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow,
Anthropology Department and Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development, SUNY Binghamton
Member, Zeynep Korkman (PhD 2010), Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Women’s Studies
Chair: Lorena Garcia, (PhD 2006), Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois-Chicago
Co-Chair (with Dr. Avery Gordon): Sylvanna Falcon (PhD 2006), Associate Professor of Latin American &
Latino Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz
Member: Dula Espinosa (PhD 2001), Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Houston, Clear Lake
Chair: Shirley Jackson, (PhD 2000), Associate Professor, Southern Connecticut State University
Member: Marisela Marquez, (PhD Political Science), Executive Director Associated Students, UC Santa
Barbara
PHD’S ON THE MARKET Member: Danny Armanino (PhD 2016)
DISSERTATION COMMITTEES IN PROGRESS Co-Chair, Alexandra Ornelas
Chair: Gladys García-Lopez (On medical leave)
Member: Sarah Rios
Member: Alyssa Newman
Chair, Marisa Salinas
PH.D QUALIFYING EXAM COMMITTEES IN PROGRESS
Chair, Fatima Suarez
M.A. THESIS COMMITTEES (CURRENT STATUS) Member: Eric Arce (completed Summer 2017)
Member: Kenly Brown (completed Winter 2015)
Chair: Liliana Rodriguez, (completed Spring 2015)
MENTOR, SALLY CASANOVA SCHOLAR
Marisa Salinas, CSU San Diego MA Scholar